Now you are speaking my language. I really enjoy those dark rums. I know what you mean about those small family owned ones that have been doing it for generations.

Just finished a jug of Appleton Estate Blended Rum. I spent the day spraying and wiping mine from front to the center diff underneath and completely inside. I am starting to look at rerouting wire bundles and a few other things I want to do to it.

I have a couple of newer CD players laying around and a bunch of speakers that sons had in various rigs. I may throw together a set and makes sure it plays then put it in one day.

At times I wish these were just plain carbs instead of all this early ECM and injector stuff.
After reading all thru the MAF Tutorial Savannah posted I thought I was back in the autopilot technical days. I was part of a team that completed the first Aotomatic Carrier Landing System way back in the early 70's. Can you imagine letting an early computer take over and land your jet aircraft on an Aircraft Carrier in the middle of the ocean?

It's bad when all a system can do is switch back and forth from one extreme to the other. The way these are set up, it is either rich or lean, and if a ensors says it is lean or cold or something that is not true, then the ECU just keeps it full rich all the time trying to compensate for a condition that does not exist. What a goof-*** way to do things. The newer systems get variable signals and attempt to fine tune. These archaic beast do not seem to have a center point and there is no way for the operator to make slight adjustments. We are at the mercy of whatever the sensor mandat5es without the ability to overide or even compensate for a small error.

That is why I thought of an over-ride type of Breakout box whre you could fine tune an input. But I guess this technology does not truly support that.

Slang, I wish I had developed the artistic side more than the technical side. At age 60 I am just beginning to explore that. I was always very hands-on with fixing things. I grew up in a small southern town just a little bigger than Mayberry. My dad drove the Firetruck and had a general repair shop in the backyard. He was a fafrmboy from the depression who got caught running moonshine just as WWII broke out. After the war, he moved to the "City" giving up his portion of the family farm and I was his helper since age 5. Everything he drove was the fastest thing that he could get his hands on.

 

I had always suspected you were FBI - Farm Bred Intellectual

You can also Google and find write ups of how to convert Rover V-8s to fuel injection, because of all the problems with carbs....

 

What about conversion to solar? Have you seen those NICAD powered motorcycles and race cars? That would be awesome, just put a badassed electrical motor in there.

 

Yeah but they thought moving to the city was the thing to do. I wish they coulda held onto the farm, but then the cousins wouldn't have so much property to fight over.

 

You been spying on me...

 

Why were you spraying and wiping your jug of Rum...???

 

LOL thats funny

 

i'm not a spying type....to each their own as long as it doesn't get in my way. I suspect we have some similar ideas tho....and it aint a fun thread until chris-bro join in.

we bury our pitoro (moonshine rum) in the ground here to age so you'd have to spray and wipe it so you don't get dirt all over your shirt.

 

I gotcha now. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Me, I do the Dew.

On subject...a bottle of Seafoam in the gas tank every oil change will help immensely. But I wouldn't use it more often than that.

 

or some people like almond joys. other people are nuts.