The “after” pic in our little story. Just waiting to have new bushings glued on. Passivated Zinc plating is a really sharp look while protecting these parts from corrosion. My spring plates were in rough shape but it was also the middle of the Auto-X season. In the interest of time and adjustability I replaced the original spring plates on the car with an adjustable set from Prekom. They work great, and look terrific. But what to do with the old plates and hardware? They wer

Zippy's old muffler and heat exchangers had been in bad shape for years. But since we really only drive on sunny days with the top down...

Cornering on the stock suspension. Might be time for bigger anti-roll bars! (photo: Charles LeTouzey, CVR PCA) Having a few years of...

An easy fix, but one I was aprehensive about. I'm used to interior pieces being difficult to remove without either first removing other parts, or impossible to re-install due to the assembly order of operations. Luckily this job had neither issue. My door seals were already shredded when I got the car, and my sill plates were ugly and too short. Probably not uncommon, the door seal is pretty ripped up. There was some mild bodywork done on the door and a re-spray of the rear

How I installed new adjustable spring plates in the 911

My low horn stopped working and while I don't honk much, I would like it to not sound silly when I do. And the passenger side bellows...

Harkening back to my consulting days, here's the answer first and if you want the saga, well it's still all there. The Sunroof was...

Back in the fall of 2013 my VW Jetta lease was ending and my fancy consulting job gave me a stipend to pay for a nice car. I went looking...

I turned the key to lock the doors, and the lock went down and then popped back up. I tried it from both sides and got the same result. A...

Our home came with a stove in it, like most homes do. It is a dual fuel 36" range with a gas cooktop and an electric oven. It is a...

One thing about getting older is the guitars you bought on the cheap 20+ years ago may be getting pricey and a little beat up from 20+...

My initial symptoms seemed to be that I was getting gas & getting spark since the car would start when cold, run and then die. I could...

Things are not always what they seem. It started out with a ride on a flatbed, I was about 10 minutes from home, the car was running...

Hot on the heels of building a Tele in spring/summer 2020, I then fixed up a beater strat which took more work and got me optimistic I...

Nothing mind blowing, just some hopefully helpful tips for first timers. While tracking a start and then stall condition, I tried to test...

Seems to be a theme around here, old cars with old batteries. But in this case Zippy was a little funky starting sometimes - it didn't...

Basic Basics By no means exhaustive or definitive, but ideally short & helpful for new folks to fill in some gaps. "Stands For Decibel"...

Thanks to the magic of internet searches I learned that some people call this a squeegee. I was taught that it's a window scraper, but...

Back in 2020, a guy I went to HS with saw that I was fixing guitars online and he reached out when he saw a beat up guitar at a...