Tony D
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Friday is a good day to go... Sleep all weekend and keep your eyes closed. The more they are closed, the more healing occurs during the critical first two days.
Plus, it's a rock-solid excuse to lay around for two whole days and do absolutely nothing. Keeps the wife's mouth shut about doing yard work...muahahahaha!
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Yeah, that's what I meant, the train went under the road.
I put the cars as the dominant feature in my last statement...LOL It was a "Car Overcrossing" to the Railroad....
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Taipei 101 had the bottom floors and shopping plaza open for business/occupation well before the tower was totally completed.
I didn't get to go close enough to it to see if the bottom floors were open, but I would assume so, it only makes sense.
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If you have a flexible spending plan, start funding it for next better procedure.
That is exactly what I had done with mine! I had 'the river incident' in August.
Open Enrollment was October.
Unfortunately I was occipied till November to actually get the procedure done.
If you have an FSA the great thing is you can (as I have done in the past) max out the disbursements in Jan-Feb, and then basically 'pay them off interest free' over the course of the year with your employee deductions each paycheck.
Actually, when I was taking the 'no frills' medical at the last employer, I got $750 a year deposited into an FSA for deductible reimbursements, etc... That now sits around $2500 and I'm no longer employed by them, but the money is mine. That FSA will be used likely this month or in January for my wife to get the surgery on her eyes.
I'm glad you mentioned FSA---I TOTALLY forgot about that account. Since I'm not an employee, I pay $3.75 a month 'serevice administration fee' which about wipes out the monthly dividend/interest from the money market fund it's invested into....
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yes, 95 now 65...
WOO HOO! That means my intake from parts "Down Under" is back on track... I suspect the "Fast Fours" website in NSW will be frequented by me again soon....
(Sorry!)
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Most ATF is an SAE 10wt oil. This equates roughly to an ISO VG32
The 20Wt oil John C refers to roughly equates to an ISO VG68
If you are rural, and have tractor supply stores nearby, the AW-Hydraulic Fluids are similar specification viscosity wise to what ISO grades are available, hence an ISO VG32 oil (ATF) would be similar in consistency and properties to an AW 32 hydraulic Fluid.
Same for AW 68 / ISO VG68 / 20Wt. As I recall, 30Wt is either ISO100 or ISO VG150... quite a jump.
You are looking for hydraulic dampening, so the VG is relative---you can see the difference between 20Wt and ATF is an ISO differential between 68 and 32. Why do I mention this?
Because now knowing the ISO / AW relationship, you can find ISO VG46 oils out there that 'split the difference' and knowing the ISO number will allow you to experiment on your own with known ISO VG grades where you will know the viscosity differential and can somewhat predict the difference in response.
Some Compressor Oils like Sullair SRF 1/4000 are ISO 46, so that gives you another alternative. But finding a liter bottle of the various grades will allow you plenty of oil for a lifetime of experimentation. If you find oil of the same manufacturer, you can 'mix' grades to split the viscosity characteristics as well.
I would never have thought this possible, but I got an E-Mail from Mobil Technical Department for a special application we had and we indeed were told to simply mix AW68 and AW32 to 'get' and AW 46 for testing at a remote site!
I mean, we're talking hydraulic dampners in SU's here...so a little experimentation isn't going to have earth-shattering consequences if the viscosity isn't 'spot on'...
happy experimentation!
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I bought out Spankys (Garys, z car side of things anyways) shop. There is no more spankys anymore. Gary is moved to texas, and his brother danny works for the city of mesa. Just to clarify Tony.
You should update his website to reflect such....
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What, was my crystal ball wrong?
It's as accurate as anything else posted given the specifications listed...
I just wasn't as verbose...or specific, in keeping with the spirit of the original post.
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It's tall. When you see it in person, especially driving in from afar, it gets even more impressive.
Taipei 101 is hard to grasp because you can't really see it from afar like you can driving into Dubai across the desert.
I was more impressed with the indoor skiing area, personally. In August, to be able to go into a place so big that has an artifical winter environment is really mind-boggling. To even grasp it, I'd say you would almost have to be in the region in August to appreciate it. 46C and 100% relative humidity are only numbers on a page. It takes some doing to make flash-condensation on your own body when you walk from an air conditioned building...
I am actually looking forward to returning to that area to check out some more of the CE projects that are ongoing.
As far as 'our money' building it, that's a bit of an overstatement. If you know the history of the area and how the place came into being... They (the Ruling Emirates) seem to be using what money comes into the country in a way to genuinely take custodial care of the subjects / workers / expats that are there doing the work. The standard of living is very high, and to have seen it even 20 years ago you would never have believed it.
I had friends that worked these same places in the 70's and the stories they tell are almost beyond belief. It has come a long way in a very short period of time. I would say it's a model of how a government should develop it's resources for the benefit of it's people given their rate of development at the time! You don't see a lot of 'disenfranchised' UAE Natives...
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meh, I posted to the original thread at CZC...
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let me look into my crystal ball...
No, you will detonate on your sixth dyno pull, and fail the engine spectacularly with rod ventilation at #5.
There will be fire.
Please plan the video camera positioning and future you-tube post accordingly for our entertainment.
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Good point. It is about he coolant flow issue, which helps decrease the detonation sensitivity as a side benefit.
From the tests KTM posted, the temperature does drop when these mods are done...and overheating on the dyno gets less acute---which was the primary goal.
Detonation decrease is another benefit, but secondary.
Cogitating on it further, after reading Tim's comment...
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My wife's uncle used to take pride in telling me whenever I came over how much MIG wire he used on the cab of this truck's restoration or that... it was an almost British-Like Pride in how much welding he did to 'restore' a vehicle: "18# of wire in this one!"
What's the score on this project? How does it work with the segment bends in there?
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I like the second suggestion...
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Last I checked here is was either the same or slightly less per gallon
Ag states in the Midwest is considerably different than pricing in other parts of the country, like the coasts.
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Nice "raw" castings. Very nice, indeed!
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Worrying about an impact blow is a bit of an overstatement of the Risk.
My father-in-law got RK some years ago. He then took a nose-dive on his mountian bike and detached a retina.
To this day he blames RK on his loss/impairment of vision in that eye. Both he and his wife were big anti-operation voices in the house against my operation due to ther misplaced fears. "Oh now, don't do that, remember what happened with Ken's Operation!"
Big news: detaching a retina has nothing to do with the cornea. You can't worry about 'what if' to every eventuality. One doesn't have any bearing on the other, and no matter what you foresee, something that is random CAN occur rendering anything you have done to safeguard yourself totally and utterly moot.
IMO, it's a red-herring. If you get hit that hard, detaching a flap (or your retina) is the least of your worries.
You could turn the corner one day and walk into the end of an unopened umbrella, as well. There is 'reasonable and forseeable' and there is 'unreasonable and unforseen'... Chances are good, even in motorsports activities, the chances of encountering the forces necessary to involve the remote differences in healty/operated upon eyes is miniscule. Nothing is ever 100%, and no matter what you do, no matter how well you eat, and how in-shape you stay....you will die. Life is a terminal disease, which there is not any cure. We are all afflicted. So make the most of the time you have, because your disease of life will result in your death!
And as mentioned, there are 'alternative' techniques.
I was unaware that anybody considering this technique in this post was a human rocket-sled test subject, either...
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For the rental fees, and price of the air time, you can buy a cheap local phone and use it. Seriously.
Globalphoneworks offers the same service.
I use Skype for the phone calls home that don't go on my business line. 2 cents a minute... And I can call internationally in the USA through my Skype 'dial in' feature from any phone using a local number. I can actually call from my home phone (which has no long distance carrier) via local phone number to Amsterdam for cheaper than my old intra-state charges!
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There are several places that offer parts on EBay AU but drop-ship directly from Japan.
The shipping is not as outrageous as one might think (to the west coast at least) and the Japanese EMS post has courrier requirements in the USA---they end up sending a supervisor in his own vehicle out to deliver the parts to my place!
I wish our post office was as effcient as Japan Post... I sent cash through the mail there routinely with nary a problem.
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Just got a text back from the truck's seller, it missed his house. But landed less than 3 blocks from his ex-wife's house...(I remain mute on what else he said along that line...)
About 2 miles shy of the runway, more near Miramar than Clairmont.
Looks like nearby a railroad overcorssing, and I can't place that in my head right now...
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Woah, I just went to look at a truck yesterday between 3pm and 6pm in the Clairmont/Miramar area!
I commented as we passed the Holiday-Inn Select on I-15 to take the 163 South "There are normally F18's flying over the freeway right here!"
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it's obvious that they're old kitchen furnishings that were moved into the garage during a renovation.
"Old"?
Those fittings and furnishings are better looking than what I have in my kitchen.
I'm just glad to see someone with two Corvettes has the same idea about using those dual french doors to get the cars inside the house for work to commence!
I don't feel bad about running the snowmobiles into the dining room any more...
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That is so cool, I'm bookmarking this thread!
Thanks for these photos. Even with a forklift and a gantry available, they don't go everywhere on my property, and this would make some things a LOT easier during the times of the year I have a full wash restricting my access to the westernmost portion of my property.
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At my place, it would be a coin flip over whether to use the gantry, or the forklift...
I like the orange-rotisserie. And my wife asks why I always buy engine stands for the new engines I store...muahahaha!
Cam install/Spring height/Rocker dilemma
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That's a funy statement "It's not an L28 Head" and using buffed Nissan and Identifiers as a rationale for that is spurious.
It's a late-model L28 Head from the JDM, and if the combustion chambers are small, likely they have been welded. Usually based off an N42 head---which was the standard in JDM well into the 90's. They simply didn't have P90's there, the L28ET was not available domestically, and the P79 was not an emissions requirement. Almost everything in the JDM came with an N42, and in several variations that were not seen in America.
The options for the head would be from an L26 (one year, and recalled for the most part, bery rare in the JDM and not EFI notched to boot!) or an L28 with an N42.
It's an L28 head. It's just the chambers have been reworked, and the chamber volume dropped through the 3mm milling operation mentioned.
I used to buy Dashracer 100 for between 95 and 100 yen a litre, and drove around happily heavily boosting on 8.5 CR. The N/A guys ran 11.5+ on a regular basis for street cars. During gas wars, the price could drop to as low as 25 yen a liter! When the yen exchange was 131 to a dollar, it was pricey, but for the first three years I was there and the exchange rate was over 200/250 to a dollar, it was pure heaven! Why pay a $ a gallon for MoGas on base when Dashracer 100 awaits for the same price just outside the main gate. Dorm rats need not apply.
The mindset in Japan is different than elsewhere, and if you approach the work they did there from a non-Japanese point of view you will convince yourself of a lot of assumptions that simply are wrong.
I should go take some photos of some 'street heads' I have out in the shed... there are people who would swear they were 'full race' but I can personally attest they were in cars that were street driven daily, and simply maintained.
Then again, 50 mm Mikuinis were not a 'Street Carb' in the USA, either...