cooler weather

FINALLY!!!!! i was dying there for a bit. it was about 95 million degrees with a billion as the rated humidex. well i might be exaggerating a little bit.

today it is about 10 degrees cooler...but still will be pretty hot.

dropped the engine off at the shop today...

i finally picked up the engine last night from a guy locally and trailered it down to my place -- it was a little nervewracking to say the least getting it all the way across the city seeing as i haven't towed a trailer for years... they make a lot of noise. the car was fine pulling it tho!

i was a little nervous about leaving it out on the trailer uncovered (especially in the rain!!!!). pulling it to the shop this morning was nervewracking too with all the rain and mud from construction too. the timing belt, cams and clutch will be going in next week and then into the car the following week! how exciting...my need for speed will be satiated again soon...

the beginning...

i've always been a speed freak and always will be.

i used to race my mountain bikes (Kona HOT with XT and various one-off machined aluminum components...some titanium parts as well...that bike was worth about $3700, which seems totally nuts to me now; i also had a custom built AMP Research frame with Reynolds 851 tubing and a beautiful downtube gusset, RST air/elastomer forketc. etc. etc...).

i blew my motor in my 92 talon this year...i was still running ok times (14.1 @ 93 or 14.2 at 94). i think it went a little lean and fried two of the pistons and whacked the valves too. Arrrgh. i spent months just trying to decide whether to buy a used JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) engine, or to rebuild. I decided finally to buy a used engine from someone locally... phew!