SPEED HERO Blog

Ratios.

A lot of people are obsessed with numbers. Numbers associated with cars, and I've always found the most important factor to be the amount of fun. However, that's really not a measurable scale, however let's focus on the numbers that really count. Ratios are important, for example, let's at least refine all this E-thuggin' by defining what matters. Power is often what is bragged about, but torque at RPM's is an equation equaling the measurement of power. This power in ratio to weight is a much better...


Bad Slide Night.

I gave in, I bought a new headgasket. Awesome, last A engine C head gasket on the island apparently at JB auto parts. Swapped the gasket, cleaned the head and block, torque it down all nice and good, and it runs like absolute garbage, over heats like a whore, stalls, bogs and generally a serious bitch. The engine ran WAY better with the drilled out, reused 4AG gasket. Go figure, also, the air getting in my cooling system? Found out my heater core is leaking like a shiv. Who knows if my old gasket was working well or not.


I guess we did it second.

So, Colby and I did the nose swap knowing people had swapped Levin noses onto E70's before, we had no knowledge that just shortly before we did it, our heros, Team Motorfix, had done it too. Neat!


AE871?

It just sort of happened?


Birthday Hike.

First of all, I hate my birthday, but it's still nice to know people love me. :) I had been feeling very down the last little while, even before, during and after the DK meet. Robin got me motivated enough to get out of the house, and along with all the nice birthday wishes, I felt pretty decent yesterday. We took a hike up to Elk lake with some decent Chinese food along the way. Brining the camera I couldn't help but shoot pictures of the few cars along our way, sadly the camera just isn't quick enough to catch...