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[JME]

I am new here to this Forum so I will give just a little information about myself. I have been active in the ZR-1 community for several years. I first got interested in them in 1993 when I purchased my first ZR-1. This got me onto the Vettenet and later the ZR-1 Net was formed which I am a founding member. As membership grew I was introduced to Geoff Jeal, the calibration engineer on the ZR-1 project with Lotus. We conversed over the internet as well as by phone and eventually I went to England to learn how to work on the LT5 engines. Under Geoff I learned a great deal not only about the engine itself but also about the entire program. I got to know many of the engineers at Lotus (rather like being in a Monty Python movie) as well as many from TWR, Benetton, and Williams and I have made many trips over to the Oxfordshire region since. I have been working on ZR-1's as a part time business for the past three years. To be absolutely honest with you I never made a dime on the business. I did it more or less as a favor to the ZR-1 community and the cars I built were for friends of mine.

I was a member of the Corvette Forum until the format changed and I can no longer access it due to my machine being a Unix based system. I did many pictorials there, everything from how to port and polish intakes, coil over installs, all the way to an entire build of a 415 ci LT5 motor that has 700 hp. I'm in the process of road testing it now.

Due to my impending layoff at my current employeer in December I am going to have to go full time in the car business as JME, Jim Milstead Engineering. As advertising is strictly prohibited and this really isn't my purpose here anyway, I won't say anything else about my business. However, I do have a bit of knowledge about Corvettes and how to work on them if you ned some help. I will be doing a 427 twin turbo motor next year and may be able to post the build pictures on that. It will be a prototype of course so the build time my be all year long. Hopefully I can contribute something worthwhile here.