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btw. Tim is the Chevy/Corvette mechanic Supreme from Cormier Chevrolet ... who helped us with Karen's Vette last year. :thumbup: Awe shucks, Mako... :oops: Thanks, the Corbeaus look to be in my price range, Swmbo is getting her saddle fitted to her new horse, so I have some bargaining power :mrgree...

My car (68 Porsche) has the stock lowback vinyl bucket seats...not optimal for a/x I found. What is a good budget seat, who sells them, anything else I should know? Thanks

Also what about a crossbar for 5pt harness, using a Simpson lapbelt now, the 40 year old stockers just didn't look safe...

Thanks, CST it is.
I was hoping I would be in a class with just one other guy, so I could at least get second place...

Another newb from last weekend's class at El Toro...how about this one. 68 Porsche 912, 1850 big bore kit fairly mild cam, Webers, aftermarket dist and msd, poly/bronze suspension bushings, bilsteins, lowered, bump steer spacers, aftermarket front sway bar, street tires. And what runs in the same cl...

Remove the staked part of the nut. You can use chisel as mentioned above or a cutoff wheel if you're careful. Removing the nut without removing the staked part is a good way to screw up the starting threads on the axle. I removed staked nuts pretty much every week on old Datsun stub axles. No offen...

If you are doing both sides you could reuse the nuts if you had to, just swap them side to side. I never bothered to unstake the nuts, the staked area will shear off when the nut starts to loosen.

Mako, the staking isn't the problem, the nuts are really tight from the factory, and they haven't been off in... Back in the day when I worked for Mazda, we used a good 1/2" impact with a lot of air behind it. Sometimes you had to hit it with the impact for a while to get it started. Tim Haines...

Hmmm, more food for thought.

Already have a big bore kit, webers, cam and exhaust, so stock is probably out of the question...

I guess more research is in order.
Thanks, Tim

I have a 68 Porsche 912, looking to start racing it after I finish with the suspension. Next project is rear bushings, I have a set of rubber bushings that I was going to use, because at the time this was going to be a street daily driver, would polygraphite bushings be that much better? The car has...

and everybody else we met last Saturday at the practice session at El Toro. We had a lot of fun, and after a little more work on the 912, we will be back to try driving ourselves. Glad Mako's Vette didn't act up