The Future champions

Before they became Formula 1 world champions.  Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel were battling it out in Formula 3 in 2005.  Some fantastic moves between two great racers.  Can't for the 2013 season to start.

USGP 2012, Austin, Texas

 Years later, they still continue to battle for supremacy.

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T belts

Simple work until your back tells you otherwise the next day.

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The trailer

PRIVATEER: Taka Aono + The Flying 86 [Official Trailer] from Flying Boy Films on Vimeo.

A trailer by Jonny M. about Taka and his Flying 86. Enjoy, can't to see the rest of it.

A/C redux

When I first got the grey goose, one of the many things i enjoyed was a working air conditioning system.  Eventually it broke down and needed to fix.  Since R12 is not readily available and quite expensive, thanks tree huggers, conversion to R134a was the only available option.  But after a couple summers of getting marginal results, it needed to change.  Due to the system being 25 years old and not up to the task of the latest freon.  Anyone who tells you R134a in their corolla blows ice cold is smoking crack or lives in the land of Palin.  I could try and ghetto rig a larger condenser, to work around R134a's shortcomings, but i've decided to try a hydrocarbon based type of gas which is questionable, but it works better than what is in there currently.  Will update shortly with a review, unless I blow up.

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A restored DMC

I think it's time to visit universal studios again.

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Boro seven

When I think of a ugly car, i think borohachi.  But leave it to someone who kinda looks like jesus to build a boro RX7

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A t shirt I would like to get

with the greatest racing quote so far.

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N2 Madness

In car video of last years N2 races.  Still want to go.

Snow drift with AE86

Something california will probably never have until climate change Armageddon.

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Hover board isn't ready

But welcome to the present Marty

Taking own advice

I'm always open to share my thoughts if I'm asked.  Though one question they do ask frequently, if they are getting taken in by shops that tell them they'll be needing brakes done, when they're only in for an oil change.   Some places are like that but most just want to keep their customers informed.  Just like air in the tires who is going to check it? Even when I do a bit of service on cars i'd always try tell them the condition of the brakes.

 Unfortuantely, I didn't follow my own advice.  After a month from doing my oil change, my brakes are done, at least one side.

 Luckily for me there was something in the back.  Though a bit rusty, nothing the a wire brush can't fix.

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Cerakote

Dark flat earth above, Tungsten below.

Never heard of this stuff called Cerakote, until recently.  Really popular with the firearms crowd for coating their frames for a fraction of a type 3 hard anodizing, which is very tough, not that cheap anodizing you see in AN fittings and stuff..  It's similar to powder coating since it needs to sprayed on and baked.  But it's much more durable and resists nicks and pitting and work well in high temps.  Got me thinking into using this stuff on wheels and various other parts.

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Monsoon projects

During these rare monsoon seasons  weekends in california.  All work on the 4 wheeled beasts are put on hold.  But at least it gives me a chance to try out some small projects.  Especially since I have lots of spare metal and an itty bitty welder to have a little fun with.
 

Return to sin city

It's time to say good bye to ol blue.   It's been interesting but now you must return to your busy master.

Singer Porsche

A wolf in sheeps clothing?  Perhaps, but if you like the Rauh Welt Porsches, I think you'll thoroughly enjoy the re imagined Porsche built by Singer.  And no it's not powered by a sewing machine.

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Red Panda Hatch

Too bad it's Rong Wheel Drive

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Mega whaa..

 For quite sometime, i've been thinking about using a megasquirt standalone computer.  Most elitist would probably turn their noses, preferring to stick with names like ___tec or ___tech but I've tinkered with a quite few standalones.  Compared the best and worst of each of them.  But I'm a simple person with simple needs.  So the megasquirt fits the quite nicely.  Being that the price was good and it has great flexibility in options, I thought I should give it a try.

AE86 Tech #86-29: Keep dirt out

Those who are either too cheap, or just plain starving students, but still want to add extra camber without paying for a longer control arm.  Adding negative roll center adjusters, NRCA for short, is as cheap as you can be.  Being a suspension component that is subjected to all kinds of environments, i've noticed on some customer's cars, that removing the bolt can, at times, be difficult.  But in some rare cases the blocks threads tend to strip.  I suspect it's all the water and dirt that tend to accumulate in the are shown above.

To combat this, I just add a bit of tape over the holes to seal.  Simple yet effective, though probably some better is more appropriate but I was too cheap at the time to buy it.

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How do you maintain?

 

One thing that the end of the year means, is the maintenance on all the cars.  Since maintaining a bunch of cars is a bit of choir, especially when it comes to keeping track of mileage.  What I prefer to do is split the maintenance in trimesters.  Regardless of mileage, the oil is changed every 4 months.  Other things i'll do on a bi-yearly and yearly basis.  This way I can easily keep track of the needed requirements of all the vehicles.  I also hate keeping maintenance log books.  Besides it getting all dirty and tore up.  I'm just lazy at taking down notes.

 

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A cure for the New Year

For those of you that are just waking up, here's a nice cure from the gents at Epic Meal Time



 Only the adventurous should attempt this recipe of epic proportions.  Happy New Year.

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