attacking a monojet

[Barry Donovan]

the cold day

this post will monitor the coldest day of this build. almost a year now since it began. As it is a year apart every winter , of course..
triggers come back a strong memory. I can smell the houses beams, checked on dewpoint...

11pm.
3.9F
humidity dropped 30% in one hour to 38 from 60. Dewpoint is now a -14F. this means the air mass is colder than the area its in..just taking awhile to cool down. that is why I do not like forecasts. The hot pig raises it up by quite a bit. that is human and the planet to witness. grotesque to me.

tomorrow attempting a ride in the morning. I wanted to record the whole thing, but will wait..the camera will die fast. I have a dc to ac convertor to go back to dc to power the panasonic. I worked it like that in my dads rig. Tough little camera. sdr s10. military shockproof certified, water resistant.

if i do not post in the morning, I'll get to it in the afternoon. As of right now, its still claiming a high below zero.
the cold start should have about 15 hours in the single digits or less, teens for a day or two. Cold little sube. My meals during this time.. I go a bit animal. Munching on pork tenderloin, boneless chicken, hamburg, 1 pound of each..and a fancy stir fry mixed it all in..I don't even know half the veggies in it. good stuff anyway. Any salt at all is teeth and head aching for days. primitive pile of food.

noon.
bangor just hit 3, temp bouncing around 1 to 4. the town I want to go to has a high of -9F. This is about as cold as it gets here. the low could have been awesome, but this past fall was a pig roast from the south..its not just new jersey that suffers.
Alot of cars out and about, I would just be going for a joy ride. Must not be hard going today. I am perturbed about some problem I am having two years in a row...right in this time of january. I have to wait for gas pennies. ridiculous. I won't say more, its personal, but there is some of it in the national news.. I am caught up in it a little I guess.
anyway, could be this afternoon. hoping.
The humidity is near 50% even in the -9F town. the fall dump was a big one. When this cold hits 10-15%. Wow. Engineering gets put in its place. More than a gimmick to build what i did. This is the warmest cold I don't recall. Temps are there..but not the real hardship.

all in good fun.


symmetrical forecast. my bday is among it. It is actually a nice year this year. Being primitive to be here in the cold , I call it pig. Not a city person at all EVER...all while living in the most fibbed northern one with a population.
Still thousands upon thousands of cars a day on my street, and its not even the main road. I have yet to figure out what demented moron guides the people..its not even a shortcut to anyplace.

weird phenomena. crazier than a straight six mounted sideways, then called a super car.

Am avoiding the buggy. last check its been almost two days in single digts or less. Will get 72 hours in at least. The steel was a big weld this past summer..this is its only time to get the tourist hertz of thundering earthquake away from it..and the streets are still too busy. I'll leave it alone until saturday. Beyond childish fun today, getting a cold start in on an old carb...I must be getting old. Now there is no playing.
just count on it to go.
anyway.
been 3 below since dusk, now at 8pm it is bouncing off 5 below. the thermometer lookslike its battery is dying while in the house, got some 1000 mah ni mh batteries charging..coincidentally ordered through the mail. odd triple A ni mh arrived today..

[Barry Donovan]

onward video onward

back to leaving the buggy alone.

6 years since my first vid...
6 years later I am finding replicas from a younger crowd.

That means something.

I went some places no one had gone yet. I am one that uploaded to google video before you tube began. I do need this little click to the head sometimes. I was going to stop video entirely. just six years internet time is like dogs years in real life. I started with animation in 2000. Very simple stuff, even used mspaint.
I recently found a vid where the car is newer than the video I made..yet exactly the same. it is fun finding things. Just when I think its all a market driven abyss run on video counts.(I am aware of my own..it does not match my channel by a long shot). I guess this makes me anonymous.

Already finding some things to remake. I did have some silly popular. No music, nothing but action, no talking. I am still there. What little I talked to evolve, was advice about adding music and transitions. I am going back to my origin I guess. Even more basic than todays basic. That is my most popular.

Starting with the 6 year old ones, they were mpeg 1..mono sound. phones have it just as bad, but that's a free option for , well, a phone. imagine buying a gadget just for the mpeg 1 thinking it was "amazing" digital.

I can admit to getting old.

staying patient in this cold. humoring the net is easy in the winter...where I want to go with it needs some diggin up of the past.

I have a ton of video.
I just deleted one last night. only two years old.
me and my dad, middle of the night passing through new haven ct area. His truck was a western star we were trading in. very mucha robust let it rip logger type truck. The turbo sound alone would hurt sensitive ears. Going at night was his call.

anyway, the sound of the knobby tread, the lights of the highway going by..big ol turbo. right to the hammer was 70 something. priceless stuff.

I do not want to share like I used to. I give the crap to the internet..and it still gets liked sometimes.The path is more abuse than friendly. I don't forget.

one thing I found, aside from recycling (relapsing internet)..
they do delete stuff, or if it does not show up on your end..the viewj ust stops, like its stagnite..all while its real busy someplace. That is part of networking, new nodes, onto its own children.
that makes youtube an ass.
one thing I learned with others in the beginning. if you make something on your own..it may not compute with the dweebs plugging and playing the hd standard untouched. I can't even count how many times my stuff made from scratch was a problem for someone at you tube, all while being a standard.
I have walked away 3 times. I do wonder what the actual history and view count is sometimes. I went as far as treating my life as public, had to watch out for weirdness of challenged people...all through simple net videos gaining a count.

That is why I start over.It loses a whole lot of trouble. Some things are still not replicated, what I have done and made. I'll keep hiding.

even my damn little rice car is not in a stampede. bangshift has been great.
not being a journalist..
inspiration is a bit different.
national archives is one..and what gets put in there.
this means all history is events right now. if prophetically minded..recording is something that might be changing or to become rare.
cars is my first subject.
actually my dads rigs were.
another reason bangshift is awesome. projects right now..

yep. I'll go back to what seems my age. I am happiest there.
a strange oddity about video..if it is something that is outgrown, and made by you...some people get stuck on that, and it is kinda spooky sometimes years down the line. Most anything I made silly or imaginative is deleted. Safer to stay factually boring. I actually learned that via my own family. its a bit parkinsons if to be truthful. My mom was dynamical..I'll just leave it at that.
if you ever wonder how an actor goes crazy.. it happens to anyone in the film making realm the same.

[Barry Donovan]

first frigid start

I ought to be proud.
this thread should be wrapping up soon, a whole year climbing up fast.
I am hoping to finish with a HD vid.
I can't even count how many times an hd camera gets backshelfed.(I refuse to buy crap brand)

the big barrel surged, but it does have enough fuel anyway.
intake heater..wow.
I can go anywhere on planet earth.
the battery is the smallest available for a passenger car....4 years old this month.
550 cca? 525? very small. Even the car counter guy tried to change my mind when I bought it.

amazing little engine.

2 hours after vid..
wind is wailing the devil and zero degrees. dropping fast.
a better camera would record what seems another planet, dust devils flying.

I ponder a low deeper than their claims. the wind slowing down will give me a heads up.

for now, 5 pounds of chicken in the oven.

I left in the comments of the vid..mentioning the accel timing dialing in as if to find its own feedback. this is excellent. As a blower surges like a tall gear set for too much air at idle. this car gets it in the ignition side because of two belts. it is truly bizarre to learn it.. the surge is not air, it is ignition in two worlds. The accel notices it. It very well could be the only engine on earth that does this. Am glad the accel does it in nice. if that should mismatch on a very static day like today, it is a lightning strike. A big fuel pump etc.. I'd be worried like an old airplane crew chief. Excellent stuff.

I remember starting off on the net, even the weather subject seemed I had an obsession. Trying to explain maine, a state on the lower 48 connected to every other got easy with scripting and weather sites allowing info.

the trick to this place is not the high or low..it is the hours in the same high or low as many other places. Maine stays there for days versus hours. Weeks versus days. #2 in the coldest state in the nation. montana is #1 by 1F



the ignition finding something in the video? that is metal so dead it can't find the other end of itself. You should hear a -20 something cold start, after a week or more of below zero. Cryogenics is not even the word for it. This is the first test for the accel, and it is even smarter than I thought. It has more brains than a typical modern car ECU...and it ought to be as stand alone box just for ignition.
I still recommend any of the boxes that specialize. MSD, jacobs, bosch..I mention that alot, because I mean it.

a real interesting thing about this first frigid. it proved without a doubt, it is the ignition with no feedback for some seconds after starting from dead cold. the carb is a needle and seat, about as rock as fuel delivery can get. No bouncing from the carb. Today proved my thoughts on ignition, and that was a difficult thing to prove. most would have targetted carb (I did for a long time). I did take 16 years to get where I am at with this engine. It does indeed have a stand alone trait, like no other..very rare to decipher.

another trick with this one..the starter sound being even. this means all cylinders are getting treated equal in lube/cam time/fire time/ and air fuel.

That was not easy for some of these little subes. This one is more than lucky..but that does have something to do with it.
with this little obsession coming to an end.. I am wandering around to what next.

I was just reading of a trooper that retired after 27 years. A simple last talk on the radio, and its all done. only ten years older than me. pondering every day of the job driving around this place in a hot rod with lights. It is one of those memory filled brains that could not even begin to remember. I like reading stuff like that. I only went six years formal before physically pulverized. Helps me put into perspective a matchbox from an abyss getting too large when it comes to cars. Step back and respect something bigger.

The term "snapper head" is one I learned in maine. the path is indeed that tough. Easily deciphered by low income and the second coldest state in the lower 48. I could not imagine being a state cop..until I think of my dads trucking. it is funny what some claim as strong...actually needing strength and living every day is not even close to a marketed ad.

With that said..not sure where I want to go next. I do have a desire to hide this tin can...but I do hve a desire to get into the crankcase blocks by gm. very generalized thing to say, that leaves many doors open. Will hurt myself deciphering value of the sube, and where to get the most for it. This place and builders is beaten so bad..it makes the tin can in this thread "unbelievable". That is a difficulty to get over. A slight helping of whatever sold transverse AWD as spectacular would sell this sube in a second. Truth and sales is always cheaper isn't it.

I look at this sube at a certain angle and see a photo as rallying.This silently got tenth place in the original safari rally. The little runt that could. I would giggle at any of the past 23 years of subaru trying it with an EJ engine. I'll stay real..thanks. A hot rod forum is just right
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on an uplifting mathematical note, I was just checking in on the times of the fr-s at nurburgring. not impressive, even an electric vehicle has it beat. But it is in the hp screaming racer more than a torque line to achieve 8 40 something. I bet an american or euro compnay kicks the little buggy in the butt as usual.

what got me going today with a smile was finding the fastest nurburgring lap ever...
a 2.65L flat six turbo porsche called a 956.
this year marks the 30th year of the fastest lap time in nurburgring history, and the record is still not broken.
may 28 1983.. 6 min.11 sec.13

the funny part of this, is mathing the sube 1.8 into a proportion of a 2.7 liter flat six. Been doing that for years as a goal..before learning how successful any of their versions really are.

my own still needs to be 152hp as natural to be in the fuel realm of the rs 2.7 liter porsche of 1973. I choose the oldest to compare for the draft timing, no computers. Closest to the little sube. That is where I am at. Never to be the fastest..but that runtime is nothing shy of exotic if to get it.

I joked of the 1.8 staying full, it loves the given fuel. Tearing down my first big engine we noticed it was only sterilizing a third of its cylinder. A v8. wondering what engine, and bore and stroke, burned it full on normal fuel was finally answered...only to know for sure some years later.
1.8L, and an engine that rids every fire.

it is nerdly cool to see that 2.65 at the top.

here is a vid of the 956. An awesome trait even the little engines do...take a big leap for the same sound and rpm one associates with a racer. Tall legs and liking it.

that is a real boxer as i know them.

I turned 40 today, now I am old. my dad stopped by to say happy birthday, and reminded me, my grandfathers birthday was today as well. He would have been 89. I wonder what the three of us would do today. if to talk of cars..granpda would be yelling about some flaming blue six, my dad a hemi, and me silently passing the whole thing with a balanced boxer.

it did make up my mind, the quick chat. Car to continue to gather dust, I am going to get more video with a better camera, and possibly a gigantic workstation. Building my own for more than ten years..that cost stays way down too, just for a non-paying hobby. You never know when something is going to end.

[Barry Donovan]

the last post ran out of buffer..

this is just this past month in weather. I make this with a scripting language called TCL. been a hobby for years. I like to think I am an american pioneer with that. I bought the first edition book as it was announced, 1998. You should here my story of the chat netwroks and my scripting. (I revealed a monster still running today). If to be called a hacker, I would probably be one with a police badge.

 
December 26th 2012 to january 26th 2013
 
List of high temperature 
1 . 2012-12-26: 28F 
2 . 2012-12-27: 28F 
3 . 2012-12-28: 30F 
4 . 2012-12-29: 24F 
5 . 2012-12-30: 24F 
6 . 2012-12-31: 29F 
7 . 2013-1-1 : 29F 
8 . 2013-1-2 : 13F 
9 . 2013-1-3 : 17F 
10 . 2013-1-4 : 29F 
11 . 2013-1-5 : 32F 
12 . 2013-1-6 : 22F 
13 . 2013-1-7 : 17F 
14 . 2013-1-8 : 37F 
15 . 2013-1-9 : 37F 
16 . 2013-1-10 : 40F 
17 . 2013-1-11 : 34F 
18 . 2013-1-12 : 39F 
19 . 2013-1-13 : 42F 
20 . 2013-1-14 : 51F 
21 . 2013-1-15 : 34F 
22 . 2013-1-16 : 32F 
23 . 2013-1-17 : 36F 
24 . 2013-1-18 : 11F 
25 . 2013-1-19 : 30F 
26 . 2013-1-20 : 44F 
27 . 2013-1-21 : 19F 
28 . 2013-1-22 : 13F 
29 . 2013-1-23 : 4F 
30 . 2013-1-24 : 8F 
31 . 2013-1-25 : 17F 
32 . 2013-1-26 : 16F 
 
average high temperature: 26 F
 
List of low temperatures 
1 . 2012-12-26: 10F 
2 . 2012-12-27: 20F 
3 . 2012-12-28: 15F 
4 . 2012-12-29: 1F 
5 . 2012-12-30: 11F 
6 . 2012-12-31: 11F 
7 . 2013-1-1 : 7F 
8 . 2013-1-2 : -7F 
9 . 2013-1-3 : -3F 
10 . 2013-1-4 : -5F 
11 . 2013-1-5 : 1F 
12 . 2013-1-6 : 4F 
13 . 2013-1-7 : -5F 
14 . 2013-1-8 : 1F 
15 . 2013-1-9 : 4F 
16 . 2013-1-10 : 26F 
17 . 2013-1-11 : 14F 
18 . 2013-1-12 : 31F 
19 . 2013-1-13 : 34F 
20 . 2013-1-14 : 33F 
21 . 2013-1-15 : 24F 
22 . 2013-1-16 : 24F 
23 . 2013-1-17 : 7F 
24 . 2013-1-18 : -2F 
25 . 2013-1-19 : 1F 
26 . 2013-1-20 : 19F 
27 . 2013-1-21 : 8F 
28 . 2013-1-22 : 3F 
29 . 2013-1-23 : -6F 
30 . 2013-1-24 : -8F 
31 . 2013-1-25 : 0F 
32 . 2013-1-26 : 3F 
 
average low temp: 8 F
 
List of low temperatures below 10F 
1 . 2012-12-29: 1F 
2 . 2013-1-1 : 7F 
3 . 2013-1-2 : -7F 
4 . 2013-1-3 : -3F 
5 . 2013-1-4 : -5F 
6 . 2013-1-5 : 1F 
7 . 2013-1-6 : 4F 
8 . 2013-1-7 : -5F 
9 . 2013-1-8 : 1F 
10 . 2013-1-9 : 4F 
11 . 2013-1-17 : 7F 
12 . 2013-1-18 : -2F 
13 . 2013-1-19 : 1F 
14 . 2013-1-21 : 8F 
15 . 2013-1-22 : 3F 
16 . 2013-1-23 : -6F 
17 . 2013-1-24 : -8F 
18 . 2013-1-25 : 0F 
19 . 2013-1-26 : 3F 
 
average low temp: 0 F
 
19 of 32 days below 10F for a low temp
 
high temperature below 32 
1 . 2012-12-26: 28F 
2 . 2012-12-27: 28F 
3 . 2012-12-28: 30F 
4 . 2012-12-29: 24F 
5 . 2012-12-30: 24F 
6 . 2012-12-31: 29F 
7 . 2013-1-1 : 29F 
8 . 2013-1-2 : 13F 
9 . 2013-1-3 : 17F 
10 . 2013-1-4 : 29F 
11 . 2013-1-5 : 32F 
12 . 2013-1-6 : 22F 
13 . 2013-1-7 : 17F 
14 . 2013-1-16 : 32F 
15 . 2013-1-18 : 11F 
16 . 2013-1-19 : 30F 
17 . 2013-1-21 : 19F 
18 . 2013-1-22 : 13F 
19 . 2013-1-23 : 4F 
20 . 2013-1-24 : 8F 
21 . 2013-1-25 : 17F 
22 . 2013-1-26 : 16F 
 
average high temperature: 20 F
 
22 of 32 days below freezing for a high temp

its a hot sloppy year. I could only guess long running ice storms are next. I have counted beyond 40 days below freezing for a high. that is not going to happen this year by a long shot.

it did get cold enough for the accel igntion to climb up through some metal memory. some know what that means..if not, I don't want to explain. To sum it up, the combo is kicking some old stubborn butt.

8f right now, zero forecast..this is good. Not all that extreme for warm or cold..just a sun driven yo yo as expected with the sun cycle. I was hoping for more drama. oh well.
its not over yet I guess. I always look at the end of january as days already longer, so cold is not all that cold.

[Barry Donovan]

I come to my sensors

Be it finally got comfortable enough for an 8 hour sleep...

one last nerdy decision for the old sube with my pile of pennies gathered.
The air fuel gauge is a must. the digital one is only two years of human history,(quite a new concept) and down to 157 bucks delivered.

I must be a touch of insane thinking I did not need it. I am not just swpping four barrels on an old v8 here. I went back 4 years or more to remember my questions about the afr meter, and even generalizations of the subaru (which ended up being boxers in general). The cost was the silly killer of alot more people getting one. Even some turbo people avoided it for that reason.

so, air fuel meter it is. Middle of february install, but so was my carb a year ago.

Subaru shipped the little ea82 with a very short exit on the passenger side, and a long one on the drivers. I blew the engine out the passenger side...I bet its fuel.

I simply have to cringe at the few times of use to tune this completely custom air/fuel/exhaust and even ignition. The vacuum reading on such a tiny intake...nowhere near enough to justify a diagnosis of rich or lean. Again, not like an old v8 with afour barrel.

I found one sube, the guy installed two gauges. the left bank was a lean one. possibly subarus reasoning for the insane y-pipe, but I know better.

I also learned not to install on just one pipe it would drive me insane.

the collector being a fat one I made, at the end of an equal headering.. has a spot that can center right after the pressure of a venturi in the exhaust, this stables the gauge and gathers an average.

the final indication something is truly needed... I blew the needle out of a short jet somemonths back, so this let the carb gain full open jet fuel. the little basturd damn near popped a wheelie and bellowed to 90mph like an old quadrajet.

I may embarass myself at what level of miser I crammed the fuel to...will find out in coming days.

part of my decision those few years ago to inevitbaly get an AFR..
this engine is 31 pounds per horsepower on the hitachi carb. Does not seem mid 30s mpg is real enough for the hard work. Cramming back to mid 30s on more air today, I gotta get a real number.

to gain a final tune,i needed a drill bit set that started at 2.05 mm..
holy crap.
found one.

the .080 jet is a 2.032 mm.
I am not going to be surprised at my final number.. will grab at the whole drill bit set to get it done. The long jet is a rare one, and need to be careful to drill it. maybe by hand with a handle. the short jet and monojet thrashes the needle right out of it. boxer related or not...not sure. two timing belts must be a perfect shudder at the centered carb sometimes. long jet needed.

edit:
the ride for today, ten minute warm up. The cold spell was indeed a deep one for this past week. Numbers on a thermometer isonly part of it. A 0F at sundown, the thermistor at the hottest wall of the house...sun blazing, is an indicator of 30 degrees colder if the same spell was at night. This place plays tricks like that. must be the ocean sucking at the cold. Defies the sun..keeps moving the cold mass. A -5F forecast for tonight seems to be marking the end of it. This place is very dead at this time of year sometimes. the loudest thing I have heard is my own car. The intake heater left on in this cold .. wow. if it is not heard for a square mile, it is probably further than that. Hardly annoying, its all its own. Fattening the fuel up into a custom 14 to 1 ratio curve is deserving. I will throw the car out there at a higher price as a result. proof is right in the gauge for anyone.

[Barry Donovan]

the rare 300 cfm

I got to looking around ebay for 300cfm, ususally a dead section there.

some guy built a four barrel, restricted to 300cfm.

too much money for me.

the 1 barrel for this little one revolves around an original injection, also one barrel.
43mm is a monster low end anyway. that is how the AFR stuff stay elusive. Getting this correct is going to be an eye opener. I unintentionally gave it a dump with needle falling out of jet already. A bit fat of course, but it fired full speed ahead. the bellowing noise even with a cap on the carb is hell on earth.

I am only going to half that level, for long term driving and preservation. I will not be surpised if the 2.032 jet goes all the way to 2.25 or something near there. Remembering this is a different engine than where the carb began ... full hydraulic seems to have a will to take in a bit more.

the other interesting 300cfm went on some fords. Two barrel carbs. I like those. No need to complicate if I don't need to, but it does seem nice in the specs written. The classic 40+ mm 1 barrels are as classic as heck. One almost always knows when there is a big barrel running, even a novice...without ever popping the hood to show.

on a little vacation from the project, looking around at other stuff. The AFR reading on first startup has got my imagination...
in coming weeks i'll know.

if you are into the mtx-l digital AFR..the 3845 part number is the shorter cable, the 3844 is the long one. Digital being fast, that is how I am certain that not even subaru got their own engine correct. Nothing was fast enough to read it, only make a generalization back then.

hence the monojet made by the first of computers with a real cfm number, and todays AFR reading...this should be very nice when done, modern know how.

I remember afr getting called the dweeb gauge..

my little story is pretending I did not need one, even after mentioning I did. within a month of the mention, blown engine. I can see how subaru shipped with a half need in the air fuel..exactly half. this engine is that freaking tricky. the tiny strokes especially. No more messing around for me. the dweeb meter is getting installed.

the location picked out is exactly correct. the fat collector, up beyond halfway by a little bit. that gets all four pressured at a merge. I do have an option of mounting this right on the cylinder head...That may be the very ingredient that tricked subaru themselves. I said it a hundred times out here in the web..

the ea82 is 100% runted.
my own is just coming around...I may just prove it is indeed halfed.
proving things. I seem to do that on occasion, my will to sit and watch the cars go by on the screen. Work is limited like most of us.

hennessey has a record claimed of 0 to 300 in 15 seconds? something close to that. If I recall correctly...the maserati mc 12 went street legal for 2013.

0 to 200 in 6.4...300 is only another 30% to go. Anyway, I like that people step up. the past comes out the champ that never got announced. Part of what I do.

a reminder every year for me, is looking at the 2.65 liter still at the top of the nurburgring...the rolex 24 hour times? 2009 was the first year they matched and bettered times from 1972. That is a long time.

intelligence is coming around, every year is amazing to me.

when injection catches the flow of old real draft...yeah, that is a great day.

my own amazement this year, is seeing what a crystal (the clock for digital computing) does to an old alloy. My own engine repeated the past like rings on a tree during a cold start...and then climaxed to the current tune. Now that is a pun to an ecu having a brain no doubt. (engineers do not design for that). alot to learn if to stick to it.

it is easier to play with videos that have no meaning. I was just looking at my hacked you tube count on the videos (hello, I know I went into the millions)..
to be anonymized is a good thing I guess, the odd thing is my most popular video being 25 seconds long.
non stop 10 views a day for almost two years. I know I am buried on you tube land..I am done telling it off, just going with the silented flow.

A boxer engine animation. funny enough, that is where I started..2004 was my first attempt at sharing, it was a boxer engine animation. This net is truly a freak. Always has been. Statistics mean nothing now that I am at peace sharing stuff...but seeing 47 countries with ten or more views..that is amazing stuff, for regular people like me anyway.

my only internet war is car related. believe it or not, that is enough to get hidden over...(for real)

come to think of it, this current edit. the title of this post could very well be the biggest definition of where I am doing what I am doing...

add to that the only self balanced engine with an otto cycle on planet earth. May as well make it big...only live once.

I have a comedy folder in my favorites.. being in pain alot, the feeling I can laugh feels good.
within the site, oddly, was stuff about a hollywood actor I won't mention. Very hard path out loud, nothing self induced to make life terrible.

At the end of the extraordinary sad list of personal events :

"you have to be happy to live, I don't"

I seek analogy, many times a day. What survives goes unnoticed...alot bigger than most can't even comprehend. Generalizing is a bad thing, as every day can't be summed up as all days.

33F at 2am..temp is climbing so fast my head hurts.

I went about looking at auto meter gauges, and they do have some fancy ones for about 15 bucks more than the mtx-l I am getting. I opted for the digital simplifying for the speed of reading to keep up with a tiny stroke, and on regular fuel it goes beyond the ten on the low side and 17 on the high for a 7 to 22. The mtx-l is the first I saw on a motorcycle...auto meter has digital as well, either one is very good today. I am not sure why that is not emphasized by auto meter. ..that there are indeed digital versions within their long list of products.

[Barry Donovan]

50f in january

this contrast of the past week till now, has cold ground fog from snow swirling on the ground with no wind on the warmed pavements.
the engine being mechanically clean, this weather gets right into the nooks and crannies only god could. Took it for a short ride to full warm.

being this is a very young setup, even installing engine and driving is very few miles. This cold dampness has allowed me to decipher lean condition. This is how it was done in the old days. It is almost exact in this weather. the dampness must be keeping it fat.

Looking forward to the gauge, I am guessing as of now a 2.10 main jet stepped open from a 2.032 (#80 holley), all else is exotic.

if you have ever heard a gt3 taking off from its pit lane with the barbara wah wah noise..that is how tight my ea82 is, buzzing bees included. imagine if this had a 20 pound flywheel. the shreak would be scarier than a testarossa on straight pipes.

getting this fuel correct with 30+ year old stuff gives me goose bumps. I am that nerd over this stuff...
the self balance theory is just coming into performance. the tiniest super car engine of all time.

there is good news about my air fuel done the old way. My version is 3/4 of need versus subarus less than half. Neither one of those goals is race engine. That is simply acheiving stoich as a goal. the next step is a bit racier..but never to be some competitor...except a formal mile run. There is a whiff of champion there. near 3000 pounds and a long throw truck like AWD ten speed.It is still quite addictive.

1230 am

I am at the weather quicker than record keepers..
but as of right now, at 52F , 1230 in the morning and still climbing...
all time record broken for this day.

47F in 1974...

setting up my tcl script to dial in a year at a time.

45.4 F was the average temp for this past year january 31 to 31. I have never seen it that high. 41-42 is the normal, or colder.

as past records are showing, summer, as warm as it gets, is in some all time average peacefully. the record breakers are happening from january to march over the past...maybe 4- 5 years. japans spew, and sunstorms..there is going to be more records climbing out of the hot ocean.

in fact..late december 2010, in the 50s...that is when I popped a headgasket violently, on my last engine.

this lean fuel stuff gets rather serious, if you have not guessed. looking at dynos time and cost..it just does not compare to having a maeasure of your own in realtime, at all times...with a digital version that reads deeper and faster than any gauge of all time. priceless to hang onto old if you like it..it only gets better today.

I also found a trick with accels tach output..I may be able to data log accel output for tach in correlation with the air fuel reading. I'd share that here for tuners..on my own with it. if one is familar with four barrels and tuning, the monojet is simply a 1 barrel version of an old quadra jet.

this should be fun. Feels like I am a firster at something that never got done, yet should have.

5 am

I slept an hour.
53F, wind is the most fierce elongated wind I have heard here, 5 years.
I am waiting to see the airport reading..must be in the 60s mph. The crazy part is how steady it is screaming along.
anther oddity..the poles that usually sway are frozen, even in this wild stab of 50s F.
4pm

the monster storm went through..reward is sun in the high 40s, now 40, probably 30 by the time I typed this. Sleepless even when a room is comfortable... I could conclude i do not belong here where I am staying..but that is depressing. Like a subaru in maine pretending tough.
Focusing on a tune, by ear..obviously my own have been ripped to shreds by jake brakes and jet engines. I am 40..i can admit my important loss. the broken engine of lastyear is an epiphany. I don't have what I used to computing through my brain. Glad there is gadgets to make up for it.
I was just listening to an f1 engine warmup (GUMBAL you tube). I have determined lean yet again with my own little engine after focusing on the warm up sounds of the f1. The bellowing sound of full cylinders gets louder with the f1..my own gets quieter. This means leaning out for my own. This is going to be quite loud. Seriously. Glad I got the antique stuff registered in to avoid trouble...
and the water pump spewed, being so young, I will give the fatter tune a chance to gain the spring loaded seat back into shape. my rear brakes hate that pump dripping even tiny drops. I proabaly got jipped on rear brake pad materials. Will go for full metallic next time.

[Barry Donovan]

o2 sensor spot

Sensor must be mounted between the engine and the catalytic converters (in application where they are used). If no catalytic converters are used, then the sensor should be close to the hedder collector, where the exhaust is hot and each cylinder is represented.

The O2 sensor must be installed in the side or top of the exhaust pipe. The installation angle of the Bosch wideband O2 sensor should be inclined at least 10 degrees towards horizontal (electrical connection upwards). Thus preventing the collection of liquids between sensor housing and sensor element during the cold start phase.

I guess this spot is good as any.

playing with drill, I thought I could make my own jet out of a mig welding tip, same thread.
got discouraged, but would try on a drill press.

the new jet size made out of the one in the carb now is going to a size unknown to carb sales, after planning it out.
first attempt is
0.0826772inch = 2.10mm
then 2.15 if that is not enough.
as of right now it is .080 reamed into an unknown number with a nail. not exactly smooth..but that does not matter in its spot. they gain a surface all their own. I knew it was too small back when I did that..and found accel pump and full throttle could carry a lean anyway.

I am glad to have waited a whole year. I remember my chevelle was quite shrunken from sitting, drying out. the monojet only took a couple of weeks with the 250ci, this little engine gives it a cushy balanced throne in comparison. Took a very long time to know it was still and gettng through thermals as a routine predictable.

now ready for a precise fuel. needle worn in content, everything content. An easy way to determine the carb shrinking or growing..the float will need adjustment seeming once a week. When that is calm, the carb is ready for dialing in. Better to keep it rich during that time. That was my only mistake...too lean.

I do not know of any other but the monojet to be that weird.

now at 32F, headed for what should be another cold spell.
summary of metallurgy is already predicted to be a hard gem. fresh brass copper radiator on a freaky aluminum engine. Age like wine..just need to set it forth and forget it. Nordic gold something through electrical means.

meanwhile ...
the 3845 mtx-l ordered is some water resistant version, I may just make it to plug in and leave in the back of the hood while driving, then when tuned up, take it in the house. I don't need it at all times.
the price seemed outrageous not all that long ago. picked one up for 163, and got 3.26 in ebay bucks (laugh, but I actually like that adding up). so its really a $159. Those things have never been that cheap. the labor for losing an engine not tunable by regular means is embarrassing. This is money well spent.

fuel related tuning on the tenth anniversary of the columbia disaster. seems fitting. That one was lost to some foam insulation...but I guess its always a flying gas tank, it gets the final say.

[Barry Donovan]

some tuning notes

I was just looking at a 1 off build by a carb guru, an edelbrock four barrel restricted to 300cfm. with an accurate o2 reading, I could dial in anything.

anyway, with an unbalanced air fuel, as this boxer sucks at 22inches hiding all mistakes until failure...

reading o2 at a merge, I will be aiming for 13.5. One bank must have more than the other,beyond guessing. to average a reading of 14, one bank would be lean, one rich. I'll keep it all fat for this preservation.

as the main jet gets bigger, idle and partial is still perfectly acheived by dialing in the screw..which I made just right for little engine.

that does lead to being slightly embarrassed again. I leaned the monojet out with no measure..it is harder to keep fuel out for these than dump it. In fact GM let the 43mm dump with a fat jet, they did not tune it for the 250ci, or wherever they stuck it.

They did modify for the late 70s fuel crunch by sharing main well with idle circuit and accel pump. Very hard to dump a bad mix in shots. Once tuned in, it is really tuned in to a real curve of sane function.

driving around 15 degrees..this cold is a serious cold. february has a cool ground for the arctic air arriving. the intake heater at 250 watts wrapping the steel duct still gives me just under a half temp gauge. the heater inside the cabin is nice. First time ever for me and an ea82. I could have taken my jacket off.
the brake squalking, right rear.. I forgot about fue pump swap. vapors make a beeline to the kamikaze brake materials. they work with every chemistry but a cars. (sick joke, I know). Seriously, it hates gas vapors, coolant vapors, and exhaust vapors. WTF?!

anyhow, with intake temp up to par, and even cold. I can tell it is lean by alot. time to let this get some fuel..as I pump the 4 bucks a gallon in.
at the rate shipping is going, by next weekend it should all come together.

the weather stuff...

54 degrees at 0953 on the 31st.
exactly 36 hours later it is 11.5F..headed for 3F.
this cold has a pwer, comes through the wall...and this is a very nice building. r19, old 6 inch studs, not todays 5.5/5.25

in less than 48 hours a 50 degree change or more. I love it...because I am crazy. the above freezing to frigid, big changes. These changes are so fast, I need hydrogen peroxide based rinse to keep my mouth clean...and I am a nut about my teeth. previous meals embeds in the shrinking human skin of the mouth.I like crest rinse personally..smartest stuff yet. The extreme to this, aviators can relate, is shattering teeth. (I have done that too). My fascinations with alloy goes on. Hard thick iron just gets through this simply. Us humans are weak. god should just wipe us out and start over.

where was I..
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like that time I got free crazy glue.

1230 am... 8.5F
37 hours ago it was 54F.


broke a record.

the welds this past summer, around gas tank, while removed..
I did not even think to listen to the chassis when I went for errands earlier this evening. it is quite content a brick already, to all my other welds. This past summer was simply getting things that were still good.

I was watching a video of a mustang that bolted a IRS right to its original rails. for a 60 something convertible, that is confidence. I feel I could do the same to this old wagon..japanese no less. I welded over everything. cold hard down low is a rally car. I add to it with a chance.

1am, just pounced off 7.9F

brrr.

this is the real cold. untouched. the direction of wind, hudson bay origin...nothing but there to here. I live for this very short time here. my old pig car has never had an organic sickness..now is why.

11am
19F, birds chirping... winter is a silly past. looking forward to some simple outside welding chores already. This summer may be the hottest freak ever.

tuning note for this post #2:

To Jet my Strombergs I soldered the jets up and redrilled them with varying sizes from a numbered drill set. If it was wrong I'd just resolder and drill.

the jet I plucked from a chevette monojet is a long jet with the metering at the bottom, not the top like a jet extension. Very rare. I found this advice at another forum.

meanhile, here is another "biggest monojet" going for cheap. I noticed there is a subtle difference above fuel inlet in that there is a long screw, and what looks like a punchable cap above float bowl meter. It is a 1977 carb. I also must have progressive port, which is in photo. That tells me something about the carb. The non-progressive, I am not sure where those went, as gm actually did not use progressive ports for anything. the progressive version is more a mystery. Remember these were untuned for all and every engine..they only tried on the midget versions, the vega and chevette. Everything else got the jumbo jet slob...and even a relief acknowledging carb was too small for the 250ci.

me and my little sube was the first to truly utilize progressive for an ignition time that I know of.I even had to make gasket correct to ensure a good passage..and it is a long precise one.

[Barry Donovan]

2.25mm or .0885

Got the tiny drill bit set..in .05 increments from 2.05 to 3mm. I quickly plucked the rare long jet out of carb, cold fingers..

Found the last drill bit to fit and stepped it up by 1 size. I put a 2.25mm bit through and got the car going. something much smoother at 2k rpm, just beyond the part throttle helper..so I am in the right direction. Awaiting a/f gauge to finish it off. for now, I feel it is rich enough to drive around. I also noticed the more it tries to climb, the more the direct fan holds it back. Definitely in the right direction.. that is static pressure. I also trimmed up the gasket at air bleeds. I could not leave the little nub the replacement gaskets have in them. Maybe I found another silly error shipped to the world. Anyway, I do not know if throttle coming down alittle slower is the bleed getting a little more or not.. the jet is bigger, and that can do the same thing. The gasket cracked external to the carb in the frigid, but the hdpe loved wherever there was agas vapor. it islike new as a seal. That was an interesting find. As if the outside world is more a pig than a 26 year old gas line.

safe by ear ball again..just have to wait out the finale.
I also noticed a #79 by jegs is actually a .82...hmmm.
nd the #80 in the car was very close to an actual 80.

looking over needle, I noticed it was bent and thought "oh shit."

I forgot I did that on purpose to gain a straight shot into the long jet. this monojet and the main jet hole to needle are angled.

this also keeps the needle from bouncing off the hanger.

the last thing to notice was a little more bellow in the carb and a quieter exhaust. I thought I was headed for loud..but it may just be the opposite. bonus.

so now on the highway nominal riding themain jet, fuel should be near 35, not much beyond it. I may have set that up right on the money..as quick as I went before dark, these things do happen occasionally. sometimes.

awaiting gauge for now. I was impatient until realizing how freaking cold that fuel gets. damn. The gauge can take its time now.

5pm.
a bit longer run around town, a little bit of highway. It seems the intake heater has less imprtance now..that is ok. it is a balmy 21F anyway. I need it typically around 7F and below. Part of the restomod with this is building its arctic existence to where a human was comfortable. the origin leaves owners like me kinda scary to think about. No comforts at all.. a motorcycle with a windshield gave more heat. Anyway, it is peppy..and the exhaust did indeed get louder as full warm approached. I'll remind myself the antique plate protects this little heathen.

it just might be going to one step bigger..which is even louder. The gauge will tell. I have not had this anticipation since I sparked up the accel digital ignition (first digital control for me in a car). An actual fuel reading on the other error of the 70s and 80s...really looking forward to it.

I was just watching an opinion gathering thing about a guy who went 31 days depending on other people, pertending to have nothing. All while there is an expensive camera to record it, and an expensive gadget to talk with. The net is just going to reveal a few more explosive events with people getting killed over this kindergarten grade personal life attempt at fame.

I am staying with machines to babble on the net about. Today in the paper, they found a guy on the river shore who had been missing since october..lived right down the road from me. looking at his picture in the paper..a peculiar mark on his neck. I confessed on the net about people approaching me for no reason..instantly assuming my babbling rambles over 1 car nearly every day attracted such things. It turned out , that guy stopped and talked to me, last summer. the mark on the neck was the give away. Asked me if I had a light, yet he did not have a cigarette. I rudely said no. At the angle of looking at him, from my car, to across the street behind him...one year prior to that a guy died right outside my window.

The point.. people pretending to have it rough riding some hippy freeloving world is going to get a rude slap from someone who really lived a hard time. I foresaw a suicide or two as a result of young social netwroks some years ago, and they happened...as I retreated to nicknames and no pictures of me anywhere. I am still quite compassionate about that stuff. Faking to be a russian as an actor is one thing...faking a real badtime is another. Can't stay out here to be real...you might get lost...after someone tells you to.

[Barry Donovan]

1 year today

Found the date of first post to be a february 2nd.
I was hoping to show a 14.7 on a guage and a ride with an upgraded camera...

oh well.
gauge is on the way, and I am not upgrading my camera.

I will make it so it is my last post, it has been fun.

I learned a long time ago, major welds, and carb changes...they need a year of thier own locale to dial in.

Well... I lived it. It is for real. My anger and youthful frustration about the lack of classics driving around is even more learned today.

The freak show about my learnings is the yo-yo two belted boxer with compression beyond todays 87 octane being the nerd that kept running. one mistake in air fuel and it could grenade..a fragile gigantic monster..all at once.

I look forward to a gm product as a project again, the crankcase v8. I say that often. I am beyond hoping the final tune with a gauge for any potential buyer to witness will give a little more leverage. this is a car that needs to sit next to other projects...it truly is classic. I learned to stoop down to get under the hood..ambiguously.

now a little bit of luck and a few more days to wrap this thread up.

looking at any 1999 or later truck in my local craigslist..one can witness the dementia. This sube needs to be worked to a 4k minimum value to get a 13 year old chevy with the ls engine.Alot of insanity with vehicles here. in contrast, you've got ej series subarus sitting in the same yard with an outrageously lied fantastic opinion.

it is very sad.
I may go classic again, just for the guru that knows his shit... will see how things turn out.

a 2wd 5 speed shortbox seems to drop the value a bit. that not only gaurantees they hauled nothing with it..the biggest error is rear gears and bald tires and at least one of those gears grinding from horsing around too much. I am 40 in maine.. I do know the routines that never changed.

[Barry Donovan]

lessons learned

I just put in a diode on an old two wire heating thermostat, the house has a bunch of thermostats...

I learned this from my subaru.

• Looking up typical wiring diagram for the old red and white style thermostats, the red is supposed to be the feed, 24v.. finding I had no control, but that thermostat sure as heck is lit up. I made it so in with red, out with white..and no coming back...all with a diode. I just heard the heat kick on with my test and creak to a cool down.

looks like idiots with electricity span america for 50 years...in every subject known to electricity.

• the static pressure of closing lid on the same base board..also derived from my subaru. increase heat to reduce flow.

• the last one is how things pump. A return line really gets one going...regulate from there.

analogy gone to facts. To the literal stuff. Today, I just went for a normal routine to pick up meats at the meat market. I like the direct source..I got 20 pounds. normally the car never has heat in february, and I am cursing out loud successfully across the ocean to the source of hopeless midget pipsqueak pretending a world standard the typical size of an american male...forgetting 90% of the country sees 20F and below..we get their stuff anyway, with a smile.

that has changed. no more voodoo. For the first time in 16 years I lowered the fan speed of heater motor. Nice and clean air to boot. the previous engine could melt brains and attack teeth like a kc135.

anyway.. I learned that pre o2 sensor years, no car is exactly in tune. The v8 has always been the easiest As engines get smaller, the stoich is very difficult to guess. that is why american stuff stayed giant for the first hundred year of automotives. Analyzing the fact of the 3 main boxer..no way in heck I was going to let it go to a stoich problem. This one wa sindeed extreme. 75% or more wrong in the air flow. this means air corrected, stoich is still in a higher miles per gallon with 100+ % more power. Now that is as dumb as it gets.

this has a nice runtime. modern know how can dial in anything. The very cold for maine is in now. the temps are useless on a gauge. this is the damn cold. The water pump, unrelated to this thread, only in that changing stoich triggers the spring loaded gasket.. I cannot change that util a 50s F in the sun. I maybe feeding the radiator to make up for some drops of fluid. the good news on this go around with that pump is the antifreeze is truly a world of pleasant in comparision to the 80s versions of gut muncher. I can put a finger in it today...
optimistically, I am hoping the first warm days in the real stoich will rumble the pump gasket back in. i know its a young one.
still waiting for gauge. I will slap that in cold out or not, I'll just warm the pipes first to drill the bung.
edit:
with a due date during this week of frigid. single digits possible for a high temp. I can feel that front before it is here. 11F right now and still moving in.

I'll attempt this weekend, I see a 31F for a high. I'll also attempt to leave this thread alone for those days. I do have alot of video to make realistically organized. I hate throwing stuff out even if its silly...ends up art or something if to keep the useless stuff.

I may have a dozen or more cold starts. maybe organize in that way. The air fuel changes...more than a dozen. that should keep me busy for awhile.

[Barry Donovan]

intermission: weather babble


a screenshot of the script I made. I get data from weather underground.

looking up highs and lows...holy crap. this past year has been one to remember. Not for the low temps. there was even a heatwave in march in the 80s. I wonder what blew my engine?

anyway, looking up welding temps, greater than 55F and less than 102 (maine does not write that official very often)

197 days fit the request in the script. this has been one hot year. In fact this past january is the coldest its been (and still warm) for a couple of years.

only 7 days of the last year have had lows below zero...and all warmer than -10F. Not like this place at all. the next 14 days look promising, but a storm is going to intervene with the cold wave.

only two days saw highs in the single digits, and that was just a week ago or so...

155 days saw a low of 32 or less.

52 days less than 32F as a high. (That is warm for this place)



feb 5 2012 to feb 5 2013

I am still amazed at some of the metallurgy. The rochester is 35 years old, the car is 26, the engine is 22..and the tranny is some new implant without a record (may have been a warranty job - not a chance in freaking hell that tight tranny is original)

the stuff still gets exceeded yearly, but only trivial. I got rid of everything that was too japanese to keep. (the plastic side radiator comes to mind everytime I think of this subject- now brass copper). in teens and below, after a cold start.. I still get a clicking axles until warm, and they are near new. Big difference between a bad click and a warming one.. but you may get the idea. the extremes literally shrink and grow tolerances, even in places that do not have combustion as a thermal (as all engines shrink and grow)

[Barry Donovan]

back to fuel

1.8 liters is just under a half gallon.
I found a coffee pot claiming 1.8 liters, and I just statred at the photo for a minute.

1.8/4 = .45
coincidentally that is near the .47 gallons for the whole engine.

.45 liters = 1.9 cups per cylinder.
being a fahrenheit upbringing, cups goes along with it.

1.8L is not even a small engine.
1.9 cups per each and every fire stroke.

this goes back to my 22mpg fuel accident. I thought there is no way a 1.8 liter can use that much fuel and not be rich. Well it did..in fact it was very powerful.

I may be way way off..
maybe make the goal to be no more than 30mpg or high twenties cruising. part of fuel and self balance is the weight of car directly, the work getting done.


3k pounds and awd... it must be near 30, and that is pushing into the hypermiling realm for this one.

live and learn. trial and error is not always fun..but it does bring some answers.

so, I need to drop by 10mpg. that is a big jet change indeed. The gauge wil help me finalize my decision.
with one big barrel to curve right..this should be easy with an afr reading. this will also tell me the real size of cfm getting to the cylinders. The max jet for the given cfm to acheive 14.7 to 1 (I will be going a bit fatter, but you get the idea)

quite complicated. I am not fooling myself again.
fighting for my own integrity at all times..

subaru shipped this with a tune of 1 cylinder, and then multiplied by four. there is no doubt about my theory at this point.

starting from a clean slate, 1 barrel..being bigger than any hitachi subaru shipped with. I'd say I am doing alright. The first engine fail went along with some advice never to rebuild it. I don't go about destructive by accident in other words. Very much planned to lose that engine entirely. in fact I gave it to a metal scrapper. The block was sintered that badly. the crank gained a cold wobble in november, and stayed there until hitting near 220F. That is a sad life wherever it came from..the crank even tweaked. Anyway..moving on. Enthused.
this engine in it now is the beautiful I remember about the ea82. Not all that common to have an untweaked one. I'll treat it as good as I can.
****
on a rare attempt at spam, the smoking tire on you tube is looking for subscribers to fulfill an all expense trip to drive around in supercars. Be it the net was strangely small, I remember garage 419, and ending up on the same forum. (My internet was crazy for real). I mentioned liking cars in 1999, thrashed around strangely guided for years..not knowing I was in with some people really standing up for internet media. no clue at all. I am as elusive as this matt farah (he still has no bio on the net to find). I like the shows, where they end up...a net climb that succeeded.
good subscription. they now have reviews in "one take", which is funny. Real bunch.

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where was I..lubing the choke linkage.



popping the lid off for the jet change bothered the choke, and my little piece that keeps it from sticking. Added some lube, car started. I may have bent linkage on the throttle side leaning the cover up to get to jet. The cold weather...more action than think. if its a problem, popping hood to shut an automatic choke all the way is alright for now.Cold start, took it to full warm..there is a big change in fuel. I am tempted to hook up a fuel heater again just to get this to dial in quicker...patience.



today at over 34F, everything stays frozen. We are 5 above the 29 claimed to be the high for today. Very cold. engine takes awhile to warm, intake heater full on. One would have to be living this to know..
a february thermometer is useless.
clicking photo gets one that is legible

****
the last engine and just chatting with my dad.

Reading old history, the beginning of the end of my first engine was the smell of diesel. could not figure out where it came from..
At my dads after some welding chore, I put gas in the tank, 2010, from a red tank. he said it was gas.
3 years later... my dad lately with his snowblower, one heck of a time. Taking the snowblower to the shop, the guy who fixed it told him he put kerosene and gas mix instead of fuel.

that is what blew my engine...and it took two years to do it. Mislabeled gas tanks...it literally haunted for years.

it also explains the chemical that broke the gas tank in the car, ate all the engine seals, took out the water pump, fuel pump, and headgasket, stripped out all plug holes, burnt an igntion coil, strained the switch with a run on problem randomly...

a whiff of kerosene mixed with gas.

good to learn the truth once and awhile. Even the first engine was a gem when I first got it going and tuned in. the problems worked in very fast.

*******
back to a daydream. As to know me, I have none.
as this little ea82 is limited to 8500...I truly ponder what losing a half ton in body weight and letting it fly would really do. the factory five 818 chassis has my daydreams.
$9,990 to place an order for the kit. I have never felt so poor.

if you know subes like the rest of them, this one sounds normal. there is definitely a load taken off the fires..this is good news for ej workers.
my own is instant formula 1 shreak in that chassis. I'd limit to 10k rpm..and hope the engine accessories did not fly.

the mathematical stuff for my daydream was not realized until the internet. Comically ponder 2.65 liters holding a track record for 30 years...

and the car had an exact little brother....only liquid cooled.

I have some guesses about ej series and the 818.. the hard firing 2liter done up to shreak a real run..none of them are high rpm for more thn seconds ona dyno or a drag race.
It still won't get by the three main..and if it did, it would catch it after it breaks. The ea can stay there for a hundred miles at a time.

[Barry Donovan]

the storm

sleepless 3 am. 6f
I got to thinking of welding at single digits..low single digits.
not going to try it.
the hanger is right near the spot for o2 bung, and that is attached to the tranny.

expensive transmission. rapid cool down, very rapid...yikes. jumped me right out of bed.

I opt to go by my own rules and stay patient. there is a 39F for next week, maybe nose it into a garage get it done.

18 to 24 inch snow forecast, throttle feels full...

I'll just enjoy the snow for now. Another thought is delivery in the afternoons, and I need to test it before hacking the car up. may not even be arriving at the right time anyway.

just a winter delay. not all that often in the past few years. I have not stopped in quite some time. the first two years of this car saw 20s below, elongated cold spells. smooth sailing for about four years..kept after projects all year. Not this time.