News and Blog for Wednesday, May 26th 2010

Much more progress on the engine, I cleaned the heads which will also get jet-washed again at the machine shop. They were pretty cruddy before but they did come out nice and clean: Overall very clean: I had a whole bunch of these green jars laying around the house, so I decided to use 24 of them to contain all the valve train components: Then the valves, I am being

News and Blog for Wednesday, May 19th 2010

Was going to post over the weekend but just ended up busy at work (busier than most Mondays) and I was too burned out after I got off to really deal with much else. Actually, they changed my schedule around for the week so that makes things harder still to find time between everything to post. First off, the car show on Sunday was great, I was only able to

Blog for Tuesday, May 11th 2010

I don't like the weather this week, it's delaying my project. Its supposed to snow on Wednesday, my day off and the transmission for the Van on gets built that same day. That will roughly translate into a muddy, messy car :( Over the last few days I have been helping friends with their projects more than my own agenda but I did manage to pick up a few things

Blog for Monday, May 3rd 2010

Another busy and not busy week in the books. I haven't been posting as often as I like but I haven't had too much extra to show for it either. Okay, well maybe a little. I have finally be able to pick up on few things I haven't worked on in what seems like Months. The transmission parts are back in town and it sounds like I will end up