Resurrection of the Red Turd, Bob's '86 SVO Mustang

[SuperBuickGuy]

Happy birthday.

Your weekend sounds about like mine (except I didn't get older). Still, my parents were up here and my dad's done a Mustang II conversion in his Sunbeam (in like 1982) - so I wanted/needed his advice on the Spider thus I actually got quite a bit accomplished. It's great working with my pops.

[Bob Holmes]

That's cool. My Mom and Dad will be stopping next week during their annual migration from Seattle to Bullhead City Arizona. I'm hoping to get him to the EMC dyno test session.

[TheSilverBuick]

Happy Birthday! And at the end of the day it's just a hobby, but damn I know the feeling!

[langleylad]

Not to be a downer but we're all getting older each and every day ! but no one said we had to grow up .

[Bob Holmes]

I have no intention of growing up, in fact, with the kids moving out on their own, I intend to regress!!

Flying to Minnesota tomorrow to attend a seminar with David Vizard. Life is good!!

[Beagle]

Happy belated Bob, I just saw this. The "new posts" feature is not working the way I expect it to. Guess I'll start having to subscribe.

Enjoy the Vizard seminar, that should be a treat!

it's tough to watch the kids do the work. I know now why my dad would point me at things and then walk away until I asked for help. I tend to say things like "you sure you want to use that particular wrench?" and then shutup. My tongue gets sore from clamping it down. It's the right thing to do if your kids learn like I did... do it wrong three times then figure out how to do it right made me think about what I was actually doing. In the end, it got done and I felt somehow dumber and smarter...

October 1? Sounds doable. In your world maybe. In mine, I would have to say sure 10/1 ... but change the year! ha. Hang in there, it's making good progress!!

[Bob Holmes]

It was indeed a treat. My good buddy DG made it all possible, with some help from my family. It was held at Myron Cottrell's marvelous shop in Chaska Minnesota. While it was eye-opening and challenged some of the "hallowed truths" in the engine building game, like most times I go to one of these things, the personal interaction with other participants and the speaker are every bit as valuable.

I need to hurry up and get the engine in the Turd so that I can start building another one!!!

[SuperBuickGuy]

I hate those seminars because whenever I go, I come back and realize most of what I'm doing isn't optimal - not bad, just not optimal, because if it were bad I'd just start over...

[Bob Holmes]

I hate going to them because it helps me realize that I don't know shit!! I find that the more I know, the more I realize that I don't know enough. Maddening. In the race with the grim reaper, I'm finding that I have to run harder to actually have the time to learn the things that I thought I knew.

Does any of that make sense?

If it doesn't you probably aren't old enough or know enough. That's not a dig at anyone, just life.

[mike343sharpstick]

That makes all to much sense. I have said a thousand times, "the more I know, the more I know what I don't know".
I also work in the IT industry and the same realization happens at work too, thereby making me stupider every day.
People look at me funny ;)

[SuperBuickGuy]

I hate going to them because it helps me realize that I don't know shit!! I find that the more I know, the more I realize that I don't know enough. Maddening. In the race with the grim reaper, I'm finding that I have to run harder to actually have the time to learn the things that I thought I knew.

Does any of that make sense?

If it doesn't you probably aren't old enough or know enough. That's not a dig at anyone, just life.

makes sense, but ouch...

[Beagle]

That makes all to much sense. I have said a thousand times, "the more I know, the more I know what I don't know".
I also work in the IT industry and the same realization happens at work too, thereby making me stupider every day.
People look at me funny ;)

it doesn't help any that when I started in IT Windows shipped on a few floppies and now it ships on a DVD. My first support job, the product we sold would run on two HD 5.25's. DOS, runtime version of Windows, and the Application. A few mb v. few gb... there's a lot more to know.

Bob, did y'all get into the cranking compression stuff? My biggest lament in life was dropping out of school so many times when I was a brat... woefully inadequate in math, physics, chemistry. These guys are using math, I'm using guess. I've gotten so slow at learning any more it hurts. At least the boy kid is rocking through it.

[Bob Holmes]

Beagle, its pretty much all in his "how to build horsewpower" book. If you buy it and comprehend what's in it, you got 98%. The other 2% was the interaction with David and the rest of the participants. There was also a great presentation by David Woodruff on computational fluid dynamics and its use in port design. He's working on a program that might be able to bring that technology to normal people.

[mike343sharpstick]

We have had CFD folks here at work, (well, there is one remaining) that uses this software. It's waaaay cool.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Beagle, its pretty much all in his "how to build horsewpower" book. If you buy it and comprehend what's in it, you got 98%. The other 2% was the interaction with David and the rest of the participants. There was also a great presentation by David Woodruff on computational fluid dynamics and its use in port design. He's working on a program that might be able to bring that technology to normal people.

my wife works with fluid modelling software at her work - they're developing an inhaler for people with lung disease that doesn't use an accellerant -it's amazing stuff to see, it's also cool that there's such a wide variety of uses for the technology because the trickle down happens faster