Ken might be many things but ignorant isn’t one of them. You’ve made a big claim mate & posted a video & invited some disbelief.
What was your most interesting recent non solar project?
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sunshine_eggo
Victron's little biatch
I am noting that you did not address the "fat clown" portion. I feel this is unfair. "more cushin' for the pushin' clown" is more accurate.
sunshine_eggo
Victron's little biatch
Don’t worry, the 200 pound silverback will be along sometime soon to wreak havoc
HowlerMonkey
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HowlerMonkey
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The Ad Hominem attack was bizarre and uncalled for.
Feel pretty dumb about it now.
Feel pretty dumb about it now.
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
It's ok I take no offense to stuff like that online. I personally like rotaries and Ford so I poke fun at others regardless of what they drive. now that rotaries are no longer being produced I am a sad little Tanuki.
BTW you ever seen a street legal (in japan) RX-7 do 200 MPH on the tokyo bay shore route? My last one would and I built and tuned it myself... sold it to a squid and he wrecked it 3 days later.... funny thing all my fords were built for cruising but my rotaries were always built for the track.
S Davis
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Finished flushing and charging the ground loops with Methanol, fired up the two four ton two stage heat pumps. Looks like I got the piping fairly even, both units with same output/supply temperature. Going up tomorrow to check on the system and thermal scan the radiant floors.
HowlerMonkey
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Cool!...........
I bought a RX-2 in 1981 and rebuilt the 12-a and put a street port on it along with a "road race header" and only 2 years later was running a 13-B built with tall port center housing from a 1976 13-B with the front and rear housing being 1974.
I J-ported it and ran the same type combination up until 1990 in RX-2, RX3, RX4 and RX5 cosmo cars.
Building the exhaust required for big power was way too loud.
Two stainless packed bullet mufflers on the primaires and a 3 inch two chamber muffler was still too loud.
I also got tired of taking it apart to renew the RTV as well as releasing the pressure on the reservior whenever I parked it to keep the water from intruding.
If I remember corrrectly, you can use the big metal engine dowels to fit a clutch pedal to an automatic pedal set of RX2,3,4.
You just unscrew the nut holding the pedal pivot bolt and replace it with the engine dowel since it's the same thread. Then you slide a clutch pedal over the dowel and use a small hose clamp to keep the pedal from wandering off the dowel.
I did end up building the stock automatic using a TCI crazy high stall speed converter and was surprised when my later 280zx turbo had the exact same unit......with space for more clutches and frictions.
The last rotary I worked on was before they moved the water seals into the side and center housings.
I was working at "Z-Shop of Miami" at the time so gravitated toward nissan because our GTU nissan made around the same horsepower as a GTU mazda.
I bought a RX-2 in 1981 and rebuilt the 12-a and put a street port on it along with a "road race header" and only 2 years later was running a 13-B built with tall port center housing from a 1976 13-B with the front and rear housing being 1974.
I J-ported it and ran the same type combination up until 1990 in RX-2, RX3, RX4 and RX5 cosmo cars.
Building the exhaust required for big power was way too loud.
Two stainless packed bullet mufflers on the primaires and a 3 inch two chamber muffler was still too loud.
I also got tired of taking it apart to renew the RTV as well as releasing the pressure on the reservior whenever I parked it to keep the water from intruding.
If I remember corrrectly, you can use the big metal engine dowels to fit a clutch pedal to an automatic pedal set of RX2,3,4.
You just unscrew the nut holding the pedal pivot bolt and replace it with the engine dowel since it's the same thread. Then you slide a clutch pedal over the dowel and use a small hose clamp to keep the pedal from wandering off the dowel.
I did end up building the stock automatic using a TCI crazy high stall speed converter and was surprised when my later 280zx turbo had the exact same unit......with space for more clutches and frictions.
The last rotary I worked on was before they moved the water seals into the side and center housings.
I was working at "Z-Shop of Miami" at the time so gravitated toward nissan because our GTU nissan made around the same horsepower as a GTU mazda.
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HowlerMonkey
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I didn’t work on the aston martin because I told the other guys that it won’t make boost….,,,especially with tiny air filters.
I later came in to address the car’s inability to make boost but the configuration was all wrong.
They had it blowing through the cats which overheated them.
This vid was when I was called in to find out why the corvette had problems scavenging oil from the turbos and I found RTV in the impellers.
10 minute fix and it went on to run 252 mph.
I had just adjusted the boost controller for boost by gear settings on the GT.
I later came in to address the car’s inability to make boost but the configuration was all wrong.
They had it blowing through the cats which overheated them.
This vid was when I was called in to find out why the corvette had problems scavenging oil from the turbos and I found RTV in the impellers.
10 minute fix and it went on to run 252 mph.
I had just adjusted the boost controller for boost by gear settings on the GT.
MattMan119
Solar Geek
The end…
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
getting it done correct? thats all that matters. i spent years building cars under tents due to lack of space here in japan. my shop was my retirement present to myself for when i finally retire.
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
Isn't that cute!!!! Sorry Bro
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
just my opinon... you should have built the deck and the concrete uprights all under the outbuilding so that rain runs down the siding to the ground... not pooling onto the wood.Isn't that cute!!!! Sorry Bro
Looks fine to me, I wouldn’t post photos of my workshop on here
MattMan119
Solar Geek
Yes, I considered that.. but, the solar panels that mount on the side need the other half of that concrete to use as a lip to hold the bottom of the panels.. 4 panels on top, 6 verticals on sides and back .. but normally yes, but this is the only way I can get panels approved that are not mounted on my RV .
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
sounds like zoning in your area is a PITA. sorry to hear that. best thing you can do is shoot all of the county or city commissioners.... might I suggest a couple of illegal immigrant sto help you with this cause? I hear that TRA is pretty violent along with MS-13. killing elected officials is one of their specialties int heir home countries.
MattMan119
Solar Geek
Yes, the city and county is very good around here. But the location on the water for the RV is a little picky about that kind of stuff, and I like the location so I will deal for a while.
fatjay
Solar Wizard
littleharbor2
Solar Wizard
Nice!
fatjay
Solar Wizard
Just bottled 8 bottles of hard cider and racked off the mango and dragonfruit. Sampled them all. I am... a bit drunk.
Got 8 clean bottles of cider and 1 dirty bottle, with a bit of sediment. So it's not super clear. But it's drinkable and the taste is pretty good.
Got 8 clean bottles of cider and 1 dirty bottle, with a bit of sediment. So it's not super clear. But it's drinkable and the taste is pretty good.
sunshine_eggo
Victron's little biatch
Probably not what was meant, but hey... I'm a postwhoring dick.
Favorite non-solar project?
ME! For me, life can easily get pretty out of whack when juggling a lot of things. I have hoards of things I enjoy, and I often lack the time and even the motivation to enjoy them, so I just said EFF it, threw my leg over a motorcycle I've finished working on, and took a ride to Tortilla Flat, AZ for breakfast. The path:
Fellow riders should appreciate those curves...
Whole trip including breakfast was just over two hours.
I've barely ridden on the streets since 2005 due to my own inability to control myself. I ran the track on a GSXR and SV from 2005 to 2010 to get the wiggles out. Since 2010, I've just taken the occasional ride here and there ... literally less than 1/year average.
42 year old 1983 Suzuki GS1100E (yes, that's it's identical twin in the foreground):
Gazing at it lustily this morning waiting for my breakfast:
The ride was AMAZING. No, I'm no better than I was in 2005 in terms of my hooliganism as I dragged metal on both sides and got rid of the chicken strips on the tires, BUT, a 42 year old motorcycle affords less hooligan potential than a Triumph Daytona with 137hp at the rear wheel...
Even having not been on that road in probably 15 years, it all came back to me... every curve, every place one can execute a double yellow pass, etc.
The best part... ran into a riding buddy I haven't seen in 15 years... he's 78 now. Still kicking, still working on bikes and riding... on his 14th Viffer... a 1986 VFR with the intercepter paint scheme.
That's a 78 year old on a 39 year old VFR:
Now I'm off to go tackle the carbs on the twin. No, not a two cylinder, the TWIN of the GS1100E (this is the ugly one):
Favorite non-solar project?
ME! For me, life can easily get pretty out of whack when juggling a lot of things. I have hoards of things I enjoy, and I often lack the time and even the motivation to enjoy them, so I just said EFF it, threw my leg over a motorcycle I've finished working on, and took a ride to Tortilla Flat, AZ for breakfast. The path:
Fellow riders should appreciate those curves...
Whole trip including breakfast was just over two hours.
I've barely ridden on the streets since 2005 due to my own inability to control myself. I ran the track on a GSXR and SV from 2005 to 2010 to get the wiggles out. Since 2010, I've just taken the occasional ride here and there ... literally less than 1/year average.
42 year old 1983 Suzuki GS1100E (yes, that's it's identical twin in the foreground):
Gazing at it lustily this morning waiting for my breakfast:
The ride was AMAZING. No, I'm no better than I was in 2005 in terms of my hooliganism as I dragged metal on both sides and got rid of the chicken strips on the tires, BUT, a 42 year old motorcycle affords less hooligan potential than a Triumph Daytona with 137hp at the rear wheel...
Even having not been on that road in probably 15 years, it all came back to me... every curve, every place one can execute a double yellow pass, etc.
The best part... ran into a riding buddy I haven't seen in 15 years... he's 78 now. Still kicking, still working on bikes and riding... on his 14th Viffer... a 1986 VFR with the intercepter paint scheme.
That's a 78 year old on a 39 year old VFR:
Now I'm off to go tackle the carbs on the twin. No, not a two cylinder, the TWIN of the GS1100E (this is the ugly one):
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I had that exact bike in a 450 until a guy in a cadillac side swiped me
Hadn't even made the first payment. Did clock up 6000 miles in that first month though !
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