Ace-Garageguy

Drive or text, but please not both at the same time, because the life you save could be mine.

"Sandy" isn't a good feeling in your swim trunks.

Handy Andy returns broken things to being just dandy.

Evenly spaced blades can actually get to howl like an air raid siren in extreme cases.

I never learned much about Bosch CIS fuel injection because even though I've spent a lot of time wrenching on European cars, the vast majority were either carbureted or had timed mechanical injection. By the time non-timed-mechanical injection was widespread, I wasn't much in the repair end of the car biz anymore. Well, the DeLorean has CIS with Lambda, known as K-Lambda (exhaust-gas oxygen sensor feedback), and it has problems...which it had when it came in for all the custom work. I'm having to wade into it with a vengeance, and have bought all the factory and aftermarket CIS books, including the factory Volvo 760 GLE manual (the 760 used an almost identical PRV V6 as the DeLorean). There's a lot to know, but it's just another machine, and of course it's entirely logical IF you approach it methodically and have all the specs, references, and diagnostic procedures available. I was kinda dreading it, but it's actually a lot of fun learning a complex new (to me) system, and the bonus is that my '74 911 has pre-Lambda CIS, and after getting the DeLorean sorted, I should be competent to straighten out the Porsche as well (even though the plan is still Weber carbs, just because, it'd be nice to be able to enjoy the car a little with the CIS before I do the swap).

Disclaimer: no wildebeests or iguanodons were harmed during the making of this post.

Prospects for snow-skiing weather in Georgia and Florida this weekend aren't looking good.

Pointless activities include playing on the interdwerbs all day instead of actually accomplishing something tangible.

Good looking wood effect. Thanks for explaining the way you got there.

We have a much higher incidence of that sort of thing here now (even 10 years ago, this was a very clean area) along with old tires and busted TVs, lotto tickets, bags of trash, fast-food wrappers, cans and bottles, and poopy diapers galore. EDIT: Googli's AI lists various and sundry "reasons" for "urban decay" as evidenced by illegal dumping, and not a single one of them addresses the reality of the situation...so it's best to just think of it as cultural enrichment. Learn to love looking at trash and waste everywhere and embrace it as part of the brave new world.

Delivery services like DoorDash and Uber Eats and Grubhub seem to me to be favorites of the terminally lazy who have too much money to burn, but maybe I'm just jealous.

Time and time again I think there are actually going to be complete sentences posted from now on, but...nope..

I'm sure the townsfolk would appreciate that...

Intro is the opposite of outro, is that not so?

Very nice. I love those little buggers, owned several 1:1s, and still kick myself for letting the last two get away, a yellow '74 and a maroon '80.