Life and Cars
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The Red Pickup–to Live Again
Over the past couple of days I have been devoting time to pulling the damaged engine and performing the installation of the new motor from LC Engineering. Once the intake parts were bolted to the new motor Mark couldn’t resist… Continue reading
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Road Trip to FLA–a Special Car Museum
Thursday last week I flew into Orlando on my way to pick up my road trip car and spend a couple of days in Tampa. While in Tampa a friend and I checked out a car museum in St. Pete.… Continue reading
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The Red Toyota–a solution in sight
After a valiant attempt to find a quick solution to the problems with the motor in the red Toyota pickup things went bad. Very bad. First it was discovered that a cam lobe was worn way down. So a new… Continue reading
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How to Tell When You are Too Much into Your Cars
Who would whine about this: Must be something about turbo spool with this one: The VW guys take the cake: Thanks to Dale P. for the photos… Continue reading
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IMIS–Road Trip, sort of
This past Friday I hopped on to a flight to Indianapolis, IN, so that I could attend the International Motorsports Industry Show there. Known as IMIS, it is an annual showcase of racing products and fabrication gear open only to those… Continue reading
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Small Block–REALLY small Block
Back in 1955 Chevy offered what became known as the small block V-8 in the ‘55-‘57 Chevys. They were a huge hit and have become a mainstay of hot rodders looking for a powerful, and relatively light weight V8 power… Continue reading
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USA Road Trip–the Vehicle Emerges from Paint
Work by CM Autowerkz is progressing on the “ultimate road trip vehicle” and here are a couple of photos of it as it comes together: Continue reading
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USA Road Trip–Filling the map
Thanks to a great deal of your input I now have more places to visit on a lap of the USA than I ever imagined. At the moment the number of sticky posts tops 80 and may climb higher. Some places… Continue reading
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Thinking About It–License Plates
We see them every day as we drive. Probably once a year we are required to pay for another year of being able to display them. Many states offer users the opportunity to choose what numbers and/or letters are on… Continue reading
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Follow Up–what happened?
Sometimes a blog entry stands by itself and the story it tells is enough. Other times there is a future that adds to the original entry and provides you, dear reader with some insight into the credo of Jim’s Garage… Continue reading
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