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Zippy gets a new exhaust system

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...

Basic Performance Mods

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

Door seals and sill plates

An easy fix, but one I was aprehensive about. I'm used to interior pieces being difficult to remove without either first removing other...

Spring Plate Install

How I installed new adjustable spring plates in the 911

Front End Refresh

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...

Fixing the Sunroof

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...

The A5 hits 90,000mi

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...

Central Locking Issues

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...

Fixing Our Stove

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...

Low Latency Recording with Logic

What is latency? Latency implies here there that things that should be simultaneous are not. In recording, we are often over-dubbing new...

Building a Strat

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+...

Replace Your Cylinder Head temperature sensor

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...

Replace your fuel pump

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...

Building a LP Jr Style Guitar

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...

Replace your Ignition Coil

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

Zippy gets a battery

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...

Audio Engineering Basics

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

Replace the outer window scraper

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...

Saving a budget Strat

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...

Repairs / Cost Of Ownership

A few years in, I wanted to look at cost of actual repairs - stuff that broke - vs the cost of things I chose to renew/restore. How is...

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