Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
So.
Again, in a Panera parking lot. God bless them! Talked to the guy with the Chevelle, but not about money, and not much about the car. It's an original, umolested '67, which I think is the sweetest of the Chevelles. Shouldn't need a TON of work, so that's cool. This guy is building a jetboat with a Corvair engine my pal TopTruck Tom pulled out of a car in the ravine near his house.
Looked at a sweet house in Hawk Run PA, outside of State College, and while the house is supersweet (it's an old hotel, full of character), it's also unheated, uninsulated, and on a weird, smallish lot, so no way am I going back east. Got to TopTruck Tom's, and took a ride to look at trailers and motorcycles, in his stupid SCCA Viper. Looks like neither of us can afford to do Silver State this year, but oh well. That car is so wicked fast it's not even funny. The OD on it has got to be enormous though, as we were loping along in 6th at about 1600rpm or something. Stupid car! But fun.
Took a ride on a Kawasaki 200-something enduro deal, it was ok, but dogged hard on the road. That's no good. Took a much less permissive ride on an older DRZ400, which was better, but the forks sucked.... and then sat on a Honda 650, which was much smaller than I would have thought, and should do the trick. So it's between the Honda, a KLR650 w/the huge gas tank, or the Suzuki DRZ for it's smallness. Bah.
Got the truck sorted out. Had a couple problems. Coolant sensor was jacked, but had no effect on driveability, and I lacked time. So I had to take some time, after backfiring left and right and having no power whatsoever. Turns out that 3 of the plug wires just sucked, and had a ton of cooked wire inside. So I trimmed the sheath, (shut up, Meat), and remade the wires, and the truck runs better. I will get new wires Wednesday, when I can stop and breathe again for a second. 20hr days RULE!!! The other problem was that the remote start, which has been acting hinky lately anyway, was keeping the ECM in open-loop startup mode, and also keeping the fuel pump running, but intermittently. So I disconnected the whole thing, since it didnt' work anyway. Looks like a decent setup, but I'll have to look at it and figure out what the hell is wrong with it. *shrug* and whether it will work with diesels or what.
Tomorrow I will be in Gettysburg around noon, and should actually have some time to take a look around this time, at least I HOPE I do. It's ridiculous how many places I go but how little time I have to see anything, and it makes me a little blue, I must say.
TopTruck Tom showed me how he's got his Bridgeport in the gun shed. His dad used to make small, working replica cannon in there, and reproduction revolvers too. He's got a sweet old drill press that spins as slow as 150rpm, and can deal with a 1.5" bit(biggest that has been put in it yet, and it's BIG). It's got a.... T-96?? transmission rigged up to it, and it's supersweet. Anyway the Bridgeport has another head on it that is apparently pretty rare, for concave/convex milling, and it's awesome. Definitely has me thinking of stuff for him to make for me, like maybe the brackets I need for my other big block.... ? And we messed around with the screw-cutting deal on the lathe, man is THAT cool to watch. I found out that aluminum has better heat-retention qualities than I would have ascribed to it, but suffered no lasting harm.
This Friday I hope to be in Philadelphia, and the Friday after that I hope to be just south of the NY border, which would mean that I would have a mere 3 days to go after THAT.... and then I could collect a 60 or two, and hightail it home. So we'll see. I am definitely feeling the last two weeks of ridiculous hours but oh well.
Again, in a Panera parking lot. God bless them! Talked to the guy with the Chevelle, but not about money, and not much about the car. It's an original, umolested '67, which I think is the sweetest of the Chevelles. Shouldn't need a TON of work, so that's cool. This guy is building a jetboat with a Corvair engine my pal TopTruck Tom pulled out of a car in the ravine near his house.
Looked at a sweet house in Hawk Run PA, outside of State College, and while the house is supersweet (it's an old hotel, full of character), it's also unheated, uninsulated, and on a weird, smallish lot, so no way am I going back east. Got to TopTruck Tom's, and took a ride to look at trailers and motorcycles, in his stupid SCCA Viper. Looks like neither of us can afford to do Silver State this year, but oh well. That car is so wicked fast it's not even funny. The OD on it has got to be enormous though, as we were loping along in 6th at about 1600rpm or something. Stupid car! But fun.
Took a ride on a Kawasaki 200-something enduro deal, it was ok, but dogged hard on the road. That's no good. Took a much less permissive ride on an older DRZ400, which was better, but the forks sucked.... and then sat on a Honda 650, which was much smaller than I would have thought, and should do the trick. So it's between the Honda, a KLR650 w/the huge gas tank, or the Suzuki DRZ for it's smallness. Bah.
Got the truck sorted out. Had a couple problems. Coolant sensor was jacked, but had no effect on driveability, and I lacked time. So I had to take some time, after backfiring left and right and having no power whatsoever. Turns out that 3 of the plug wires just sucked, and had a ton of cooked wire inside. So I trimmed the sheath, (shut up, Meat), and remade the wires, and the truck runs better. I will get new wires Wednesday, when I can stop and breathe again for a second. 20hr days RULE!!! The other problem was that the remote start, which has been acting hinky lately anyway, was keeping the ECM in open-loop startup mode, and also keeping the fuel pump running, but intermittently. So I disconnected the whole thing, since it didnt' work anyway. Looks like a decent setup, but I'll have to look at it and figure out what the hell is wrong with it. *shrug* and whether it will work with diesels or what.
Tomorrow I will be in Gettysburg around noon, and should actually have some time to take a look around this time, at least I HOPE I do. It's ridiculous how many places I go but how little time I have to see anything, and it makes me a little blue, I must say.
TopTruck Tom showed me how he's got his Bridgeport in the gun shed. His dad used to make small, working replica cannon in there, and reproduction revolvers too. He's got a sweet old drill press that spins as slow as 150rpm, and can deal with a 1.5" bit(biggest that has been put in it yet, and it's BIG). It's got a.... T-96?? transmission rigged up to it, and it's supersweet. Anyway the Bridgeport has another head on it that is apparently pretty rare, for concave/convex milling, and it's awesome. Definitely has me thinking of stuff for him to make for me, like maybe the brackets I need for my other big block.... ? And we messed around with the screw-cutting deal on the lathe, man is THAT cool to watch. I found out that aluminum has better heat-retention qualities than I would have ascribed to it, but suffered no lasting harm.
This Friday I hope to be in Philadelphia, and the Friday after that I hope to be just south of the NY border, which would mean that I would have a mere 3 days to go after THAT.... and then I could collect a 60 or two, and hightail it home. So we'll see. I am definitely feeling the last two weeks of ridiculous hours but oh well.