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    Happy Holidays!

    I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy & healthy New Year at CAC. :beer As an aside. Hey Rob I now have 15,706 on my toy. Boy thease cars are great!:D Tom
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    ZR1 Tires...which are the best

    My mistake Sorry guys, Bob & DC, et al, I did mean to say the supercar G/Y's instead of just F1's. Yes I would get the supercar's if rain wasn't so much of an issue to me. I live in an area where a good deal of roads have drainage problems. Some just flood but most are old enough to have...
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    ZR1 Tires...which are the best

    Hey DC :upthumbs I would get the F1's if rain isn't the issue. I still have my OEM tires on the salad shooters & I may put a set of F1's on there when the D3's get close to being toast. The one thing that occured to me is that the D3's may get very scary if the tread depth gets to less than...
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    ZR1 Tires...which are the best

    Just two cents more... ...on the D3's. I have them & they are great in the rain...if that's important for you. It was for me & I'm not sorry at all that I bought them. The wet grip & directional control and the resistance to hydroplainning is very satisfying. If you don't plan on rain use...
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    " how to adjust throttle position sensor?"

    Hi Glen, The reading is in volts, on a 90 LT5 the reading at the factory idle speed is .46 volt to .62 volts up to about 5 volts @ WOT. On mine there three leads, but I have an LT5 so I'm not sure if the L98 is the same. 452 black = sensor ground one VOM lead here? 417 dark blue = TPS signal...
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    Looking through some pictures & found this -->

    You are both smart! and you both have good taste!! Have a safe trip & a great time!
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    Looking through some pictures & found this -->

    Thanks for sharing, Lance! Great thought & great memory! Thank you for sharing that with us. I have to agree if I were the cat I'd take up nesting in that car also. My black cat likes my black ZR-1 also, maybe cats are smart?! :beer Lance!
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    The Love of the Corvette vs. The Pain In the Wallet at Fuel Up

    Hi everyone, I can honestly say that my Z does get better overall milage than my DD...provided I stay off the secondaries. The price is the price & if it means I have to pick my spots to use my Z then that's the way it has to be. It didn't stop me from crusing with other vette owners on runs. I...
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    Clutch Leaks

    Hi John, I just saw this and you have a ZF6 in your vette, right? Well there is a site that may throw some light on your situation. zfdoc.com, it's Bill Boudreau's site and he is just about the last word in zf6's if you include zf themselves. Just a suggestion as I'm not a mechanic and have...
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    Sputters & misses

    Hi Aurora40, Yes & no. I was there and no we didn't do the secondaries. The reason was that if it was his opinion that it was the injectors I already had the full set of RC's & they were going in anyway. It was his opinion that the coils were shorting as the condition got worse as the car...
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    Sputters & misses

    Hi Aurora40, I used a couple bottles of techron & no soap. The shop I brought it to checked the ohms after the motor was hot, thru the ECM harness and the results were not good. The readings were 12 ohms but the tech said it should have been higher since the test was done thru the ECM harness...
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    Sputters & misses

    Hi Junk, Thank you for your thought! I thought about the converters but on a ZR-1 they are part of exhaust manifold...welded to it. I don't know how I could check them without cutting them off of the exhaust manifolds. The fac made them that way, that isn't some mod that was done later. Kinda...
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    Sputters & misses

    Just a conclusion for this Hi all, As I'm a rookie Z owner and a rookie to electronic FI I thought it would be good to put a period on this tale. Just in case there are others that might run into this with their cars. If I knew more I would have figured this out but I'm learning. If I had a...
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    Service Today

    The interval on changing is in the book but I went to zfdoc.com and did some reading. They tested a ZF6 using different fluids and they give the resultant loss in viscossity over milage. I came to my own conclusion about what interval I'm going to use based on their results. Every year for me...
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    Service Today

    Yea I don't get that part about not changing the trans & rear fluids either. To me it maybe a slight waste of money but I do both as part of get ready for each summer. Okay, as I just got my Z in Dec 04 let me say I will do both each year. It's just about $50 worth of fluids and if you do the...
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