This weekend was very productive when it came to things not related to Albert 🙁 First off, bulk trash day is nearing so I spent a few hours on Saturday after working OT so get everything I wanted out to the Curb. This turned into a complete cleaning of the “Parts Warehouse”: Most of the […]
Author: doogie
Mechanique' Extraordinaire
News and Blog for Friday, March 26th 2010
Well, we received a ton of snow here and along with it came blinks in the power. There was no actual power interruption at my house but there was enough that it reset my server continuously and blew every capacitor inside! I wasn’t aware of the events for quite some time, when I received the […]
Blog for Thursday, March 18th 2010
It’s been warm out so I have been busy! I have gotten more of the much needed body work / paint prep on the driver’s side. This last week has shown some significant progress in the way of obtaining a reasonably flat surface to paint onto, among a few other things with the Van. We […]
Blog for Wednesday, March 10th 2010
Got some more stuff! Things have been a little slower moving around here because of work-related reasons and the nice weather we’ve been getting doesn’t seem to want to align with the weekends I have off. Nevertheless, here is what I managed to get done… The postman brought me a package containing 2 hella boxes: […]
Blog and news for Thursday, March 4th 2010
Progress is starting to pick up! South African lower grill and lights have arrived! This is a big turning point for me and this project, this completely changed the looks of the Van, actually I was quite in shock standing in front of it for the first time as looking at it in person is […]
Blog Entry for Wednesday, February 17th 2010
Got more done today! I pressure washed the JDM block and tore it down a little more. There were many wiring loom pieces, as well as random old leaves and a cigarette butt. I blew all of that out and gave the block a good look over for cracks: It was interesting studying the markings […]
Blog Entry for Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Not much in the way of progress. The garage is cleaned and the transmission and parts get dropped off tomorrow so everything can be sent out to be cryo treated. I have made some progress on my digital instrument cluster. Now that the final batch of LED matrices has arrived I can begin basic construction […]
Blog for Friday, February 5th 2010
Finished the beginning of the transmission page for the EG33 swapped vanagon. (click on the image below) I have had some setbacks in programming my pic microcontrollers, but that’s okay it’s just the learning process. I think I have acquired the next server that I would like to host everything from and am still working […]
News and Blog for Monday February 1st, 2010
NEWS: – The DoogieLabs Vanagon page has been updated, JDM engine section has been added – The downloads section was officially moved over from Area51 – Added a poll BLOG: Disassembly of the JDM engine has commenced while I wait for my 3rd and 4th gears to come in from weddle industries. The engine has […]
Blog Entry for Sunday, January 27th 2010
After 9,000 miles of trouble free driving I had my first problem! Actually, I was already aware of the issues with 3rd gear because just after I first put together the Van I was “locked out of 3rd” for a while but it eventually fixed itself and it held for 8,500 miles. There is a […]
Blog Entry for Sunday, January 24th 2010
Many things are happening around DoogieLabs. Once Project that has been in the works for over a year now is my own custom digital instrument cluster that will replace the factory aging cluster currently in the van. (Corrado will be getting one as well but it will be full color) I have been searching for […]
Blog Entry for Friday January 15th, 2010
I haven’t had much in the way of extra time, between work, spending my days off wiring a project car, and tending to the usual social agenda that leaves me little free time to advance my personal knowledge, so things have been a little slow lately. I don’t really mind any progress is progress, I […]
News for Sunday January 3rd, 2010
Happy New Year! I didn’t finish the Vanagon page last month, however I did make significant progress! It is actually a lot of work proofreading and making sure everything looks as it should, and it hasn’t helped that I spent 2 weeks out of last month without my main computer as I had sent it […]
News for Wednesday December 9th, 2009
3/4/2012 update: This post marks the opening of the original DoogieLabs site, which was based on the e107 CMS. All original blog entries and published pages have been recovered. The years of work and extra notes however, have not. Welcome to the DoogieLabs site, this site is under construction currently and will see some […]