Servicing Cars
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Stuck at Home with the Covid Lockdown – Car Projects
So here we are being asked, requested, directed, etc. – to shelter in place at home. Sure you can get groceries and other essential things, but many of the things we car enthusiasts like to do are currently verboten. No… Continue reading
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Automotive Shops–Torque
Automotive service shops are a tough game to play in. The dealerships do everything they can to hold their customers captive to their own service department. Obtaining factory diagnostic tools and information can be difficult and is always very expensive.… Continue reading
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Be Careful What You Wish For…
You may remember an oft told tale of a genie that immerged from a magic lamp and would grant three wishes to a mortal human. You may also remember how, in the story, that the human struggled to deal with… Continue reading
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The Bouncing Speedo
As you may know my daily driver is a 1992 Toyota Pickup truck. Pickup is capitalized because that was the model name that Toyota gave its mini-truck. This red truck started its life as the most basic (cheap) truck that… Continue reading
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Another Bullitt Mustang Project Car
Ford produced the Mustang back in 1964 and it kicked off the era of the pony car. Soon Chevy had the Camaro and Pontiac had a Firebird, followed by Mopar’s Barracuda. Carol Shelby was tapped to produce a performance version… Continue reading
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Robotic Gas Pump–Coming Soon?
In the old days, prior to 1972, you would pull into a filling station and a person would come out and greet you. They would ask how much and what type of gasoline you wished to purchase. They would pump… Continue reading
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Ate BLUE–we’ll miss you old buddy
Ate has been a favorite brake fluid manufacturer for those of us that are higher performance car floggers, or at least think we are. It has a nice high (dry) boiling point 536 F and wet at 392 F. It… Continue reading
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P71–Some breathing for the Road Trip car
Chris at ADTR.net has been extremely helpful in terms of guidance and as a source for parts to improve the car that I purchased from CM AutoWerkz. The car itself has been great and the preparation work done by the… Continue reading
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Building a Track Car – Thoughts on the Miata
As I wait for more parts to arrive I am continually reviewing what needs to be done to the car to make it track worthy. There will no longer be a need for Air conditioning so I will remove all… Continue reading
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Vintage Racing Service and Support – Raleigh
This morning I took a short road trip to Raleigh where I came across the kind of car shop to die for. It is named Apex Vintage and don’t go looking for it in Apex either. Do you own a… Continue reading
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