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Yea, I've recently gotten into working on cars for fun. I've gotten 2 cars I bought at auction from no start/no crank to running in the past few months.. But n

Yea, I've recently gotten into working on cars for fun. I've gotten 2 cars I bought at auction from no start/no crank to running in the past few months.. But no one around me is interested in tinkering. Hopefully I can find someone to help me with an engine rebuild (my next major learning goal). Then messing with turbos. People in tech are especially averse it seems to me to wanting to do manual labor type things like this.

WalterBright 8y ago
Heck, it's fun to even just go visit the other guy while he works on his car, drink beer, and insult his execrable taste in cars. And vice versa :-)
- ethanwillis 8y ago
  I'll never feel shame for liking crappy Toyota Tercels. It was my first real car and you can hypermile the shit out of them :)
WalterBright 8y ago
I finally got my '72 dodge back on the road. It's an unusual concoction of all go and no show parts. It's got a roller valve train in a 340 block, which is highly unusual for a streetable build, with a gear drive too instead of a chain. The fun thing is that imparts an unusual sound to the engine, which is a good conversation starter.
WalterBright 8y ago
> messing with turbos Haha, ain't nothing like the sound of a belt-driven supercharger. I didn't stick one in the dodge because: 1. it would stick up through the hood, messing up my all-go-no-show plan 2. it would wind up the body of the car into a pretzel if I didn't add a ton of stiffening 3. without one it dyno'd at 400hp which turned out to be enough to scare the crap out of me
- ethanwillis 8y ago
  400, nice. One of the things I'm worried about is all the heat they generate. I was watching a guy on youtube and he had to build a ridiculous heat shield to keep it from melting stuff around his turbo. Seems fun though! I just want to add a blow off valve and get that sound. I find myself watching these videos a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-AoxKQB90&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-AoxKQB90&t=11s I don't even like driving fast, I drive like a grandma haha

WalterBright 8y ago

Heck, it's fun to even just go visit the other guy while he works on his car, drink beer, and insult his execrable taste in cars. And vice versa :-)

ethanwillis 8y ago
I'll never feel shame for liking crappy Toyota Tercels. It was my first real car and you can hypermile the shit out of them :)

WalterBright 8y ago

I finally got my '72 dodge back on the road. It's an unusual concoction of all go and no show parts. It's got a roller valve train in a 340 block, which is highly unusual for a streetable build, with a gear drive too instead of a chain. The fun thing is that imparts an unusual sound to the engine, which is a good conversation starter.

WalterBright 8y ago

> messing with turbos Haha, ain't nothing like the sound of a belt-driven supercharger. I didn't stick one in the dodge because: 1. it would stick up through the hood, messing up my all-go-no-show plan 2. it would wind up the body of the car into a pretzel if I didn't add a ton of stiffening 3. without one it dyno'd at 400hp which turned out to be enough to scare the crap out of me

ethanwillis 8y ago
400, nice. One of the things I'm worried about is all the heat they generate. I was watching a guy on youtube and he had to build a ridiculous heat shield to keep it from melting stuff around his turbo. Seems fun though! I just want to add a blow off valve and get that sound. I find myself watching these videos a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-AoxKQB90&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-AoxKQB90&t=11s I don't even like driving fast, I drive like a grandma haha