My room is full of intakes. Oh and I didn't even get the Kawasaki throttle bodies because they were up on a shelf.

Bye Bye Chester! First car I ever worked on, and while I obviously never did much with it, I'm glad I got it to a point where it drove to it's new home.

Lots of clarity today

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

A strong start to my mental health day

Proud to share a birthday with Jaws, and to a lesser extent, my sister.

Early lurker I guess.

I did this as a test piece, and tell me that isn't the fastest power strip you've seen.

I am always fighting the urge to call into work so I can stay home and do nerd things.

Accidentally made a section view.

Got my stuff back from the machine shop! Obviously was required to lay it all out and get pictures assisted by @ncglasgow.bsky.social. The last pic is the overly complicated stand I made to balance my rods, which I'm also lightening because I live dangerously. Getting close to assembly. #weirdcarbs

I have created a finger print issue for my car with rusty floor pans and no engine. The velocity stacks are a rough draft 3d printed in PLA, I plan to dyno a few variations and the final versions will be done in carbon fiber nylon. Engine and custom air box coming soon (eventually)!

The 2005 Honda Civic is objectively the best car, and mine is objectively the best 2005 Honda Civic.

Some neat cars in the garage I was getting my porting in. Also there was a tractor when I first came in. #weirdcarbs

Got set up with an example head, a die grinder, and some pointers and began my head porting today. No work in the ports was done actually but I'll get there.

Out with the old in with the new. Still needs connectors and some sort of back to protect and strain relieve the wires. Also will be drawing a diagram to help any future troubleshooters.

Going back next week with my head and he's going to help me get my valve seats cut hopefully and maybe line me out on porting.

Went to the British "clinic" hosted by Kieth Ansel (foreign parts positively is the name of his business.) Turned out the lights in his store room had just stopped working so I put my tools on and earned a bit of good will. Apparently Kieth actually created the D9 cam profile @jeffbatt.bsky.social.

My new harness will include advanced technologies like relays, fuses (invented in 1972), and permanent splices (instead of crimping or soldering wires together where they needed to come off of something but not plug into anything they had little loops with very reliable bullet connectors).

So all the Multnomah County offices are closed today. Forecast is for temps below freezing and freezing rain all day. But as best I can tell they're not reopening any warming centers. They are actively trying to kill people.

Draining cold 20w-50 is a blast, left it dripping all night. Is it wrong that I'm disappointed it's not sparkly? I feel like if I'm going to blow up a motor I should get some sparkly oil out of it.

Returning with honor. #weirdcarbs

Cool cars at the autocross 2/2 The Miata is always around its splitter always scrapes and shoots sparks. The Volvo might have been my favorite car of the day.

Cool cars at the autocross 1/2

After a late Friday (and Thursday) complete with leaking gas, leaking vacuum, and a dead battery, I got my payoff. Some action shots of some of my favorite attendees to follow.

Escalations have escalated.

My car wasn't running right and things have escalated. I think it might be starving for fuel because of the giant flakes of rust in the float bowls. Just a thought. #weirdcars #weirdcarbs

Ventured into the strange world of the MG club last night. Decidedly a strange scene, they have a whole club bureaucracy and I'm pretty sure I was the only person under 50 (50 was young). Did learn a few things, and there was a very nice MGB GT in the parking lot.

@guffyfish.bsky.social doing arcane carburetor rituals.

No more coolant on the distributor!

Been working just a couple of hours a week on extending all of the wiring on my 3d printer so I can move it into an enclosure. Today I plugged in all the motors and it works! Sort of. A couple are running reverse of the normal direction but that's going to be a firmware issue.

Witnessed the entire spectrum of light fixtures today between picking up a can from the fancy light place in lake O (accent lighting if you're looking to drop a few grand on light fixtures) and pulling down some old fixtures while replacing knob and tube wiring.

I recovered my car. It took quite a while to find the little terminal that worked it's way loose. On the bright side my top seems to keep water out pretty well.

I broke down and it wasn't even cooling related.

I cleverly made this my only way to get to school tomorrow. (No cats were allowed to drink antifreeze)

Short video of my son autocrossing his 1971 MGB. Hear its mighty roar! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3z_...

Images from My MGB's first autocross at PIR.