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Hope this didn't spoil someones holiday plans (shame).
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ZR1cliff said:
Got my ZR-1 through its MOT. THen something was bugging me so I dropped the gearbox out and am putting it all back together now.
Brill how you say "you dropped the gearbox out" in the same way I would say I've just filled up the washer bottle fluid..... 
Wish I had your skill.
We are moving house at the moment, plus the dog died last week after cancer which took up a lot of time with vet visits etc. plus we only got back from the UK on June 21st, plus I had to drive to Norfolk, VA to trailer my C5 Z06 back to Illinois so that took 3 days and nearly 2000 miles.
So all in all I don't have time to think right now what with all this plus work and trying to have a life - local Corvette meeting tonight
So no time to type aimless ramblings for you lot!
P.S. Going to Mid-Ohio next weekend for the ALMS race and then 2 weeks later the other ex-pat is coming over from Sedona for the weekend to go to Road America for the ALMS.
Some day I will get time to start taking my C5 Z06 apart so I can put it back together again
So all in all I don't have time to think right now what with all this plus work and trying to have a life - local Corvette meeting tonight
So no time to type aimless ramblings for you lot!
P.S. Going to Mid-Ohio next weekend for the ALMS race and then 2 weeks later the other ex-pat is coming over from Sedona for the weekend to go to Road America for the ALMS.
Some day I will get time to start taking my C5 Z06 apart so I can put it back together again
We are moving house at the moment, plus the dog died last week after cancer which took up a lot of time with vet visits etc. plus we only got back from the UK on June 21st, plus I had to drive to Norfolk, VA to trailer my C5 Z06 back to Illinois so that took 3 days and nearly 2000 miles.
So all in all I don't have time to think right now what with all this plus work and trying to have a life - local Corvette meeting tonight
So no time to type aimless ramblings for you lot!
P.S. Going to Mid-Ohio next weekend for the ALMS race and then 2 weeks later the other ex-pat is coming over from Sedona for the weekend to go to Road America for the ALMS.
Some day I will get time to start taking my C5 Z06 apart so I can put it back together again
So all in all I don't have time to think right now what with all this plus work and trying to have a life - local Corvette meeting tonight
So no time to type aimless ramblings for you lot!
P.S. Going to Mid-Ohio next weekend for the ALMS race and then 2 weeks later the other ex-pat is coming over from Sedona for the weekend to go to Road America for the ALMS.
Some day I will get time to start taking my C5 Z06 apart so I can put it back together again
while we're all being bankrupted by the government over here.K2MDL said:
I think you'll find they have had their share too but I am totally in agreement with you.
Exactly right Martin."Land of the free" my arse they have ways of taxing you in the USA the UK Gov't can only dream of!
For example:
I pay Village Tax, County Tax, State Tax, Federal Tax, Sales Tax, Car Tax, Property Tax.
I have to pay $60 per year to the Village to park up to 6 vehicles at my own house, they also charge $75 per month sewerage as they sold the s
t collection service to a private company. Where I current live it's run by the village and is very cheap, not so where we are moving. Also the village want me to pay them a $175 "security deposit" ( all utilities / services seem to charge this to new immigrants) just about $5k due back from various institutions in the next couple of months Property Tax is the absolute killer here in Illinois. For example we just bought a tiny house for $90k and we paid $4,345 property tax on it this year, so at that rate you pay for your house again every 20 years in tax! You also pay sales tax (6.75% in Illinois) on ALL car purchases, so you buy a secondhand car you pay tax on it, despite the original owner having paid tax on it.
Also the "freeway" here is not "free" it's a tollway, parking in Chicago if you want to take your car is approx $20 per hour in off streat parking.
The property tax is such a killer because it pays for schooling (great I don't have any kids). For example I am paying $1300 for one school and $1500 for another.
Would I return back to the UK vs US?
Nope. Love living here, despite the taxes.
Weather is fantastic compared with the UK, you can park places, open your door and get out of your vehicle without hitting the car next to you. So much more to do for a petrolhead, there are cruise events pretty much every day of the week during the summer and the weekends have massive choice of events.
Will I be coming back soon? Hopefully not
K2MDL said:
Brill how you say "you dropped the gearbox out" in the same way I would say I've just filled up the washer bottle fluid.....
Wish I had your skill.
Thankyou. Lucky enough I've had the car apart enough times to know where it all goes. The ZR-1 gearbox is the easiest one to take out once you've cleared everything around it, plus you just line it up and it normally goes back in first time.Wish I had your skill.
The worst thing is the knuckle rash and the broken finger nails. Oo-er matron!
Have a great trip you lucky lucky bxxxxrd! So who not using the Z06? Already bored? Surely not?!
Okay on the US Nigel. I read it all but if I was to list all the crap our government taxes us with hidden taxes it would far outweigh your list. And the weather is still crap here too!
Cliff, I've seen your images of your engine out and what it looked like when it went back in. Twice I got "invloved" with getting a gearbox out of a Ford Cortina and an engine out of another - yep, was a bleedin' long time ago but there again I am bleedin' old....! Can't say the experience was enjoyable and preferred to use a soldering iron instead which was my profession and indeed hobby.
Any one going to the Wilton Classics & Supercar Show this coming Saturday & Sunday in Salisbury? If the weather is going to be like this it will be very good.
Okay on the US Nigel. I read it all but if I was to list all the crap our government taxes us with hidden taxes it would far outweigh your list. And the weather is still crap here too!
Cliff, I've seen your images of your engine out and what it looked like when it went back in. Twice I got "invloved" with getting a gearbox out of a Ford Cortina and an engine out of another - yep, was a bleedin' long time ago but there again I am bleedin' old....! Can't say the experience was enjoyable and preferred to use a soldering iron instead which was my profession and indeed hobby.
Any one going to the Wilton Classics & Supercar Show this coming Saturday & Sunday in Salisbury? If the weather is going to be like this it will be very good.
Edited by K2MDL on Monday 30th July 15:09
It's even better now that Cliff has moved to Kent. Between us there's not much we haven't pulled apart on a ZR1 and we each have various special tools that you need for certain Jobs and the odd spare part.
I remember a few years back while at Cliffs house sorting a high idle issue we had to pull his plenum. Kerensa had helped me so many times that she was in there with Cliff removing bits and pieces and there wasn't room for me so I was 'bolt boy'!! The plenum was off and on again in minutes.
Btw Cliff Tom called me yesterday about a ZR1 he has in. I won't post about it on here but remind me to tell you about it next time I see you
I remember a few years back while at Cliffs house sorting a high idle issue we had to pull his plenum. Kerensa had helped me so many times that she was in there with Cliff removing bits and pieces and there wasn't room for me so I was 'bolt boy'!! The plenum was off and on again in minutes.
Btw Cliff Tom called me yesterday about a ZR1 he has in. I won't post about it on here but remind me to tell you about it next time I see you
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