| when I talk to people that sold their Jeep CJ way back when, " I should have never sold the Jeep, funnest vehicle I ever owned". The problem here is the Z is like an addiction. I'm always tweaking this and that for looks or performance. This morning when I went to start the car and I felt that familiar misfire that I had fixed last week I knew it was another injector failure. As I was confirming that with the meter under the hood my wife walked out with my daughter in her arms, it was right then that I knew the $900 set of Nismos I was about to order was our vacation money next month. We've both been looking forward to taking a break and I felt very selfish in that it was "my" car again that was cleaning out the bank account. It didn't matter that I could explain the injectors had given me 130k miles of faithful service. To her it was just another expensive part for the Z at an inopportune time. I felt that way too. So I did some thinking and this is where I'm at.

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