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...

Well, I certainly tried to do it "right" but something did not work out. While taking a test drive the car broke down and had to get flat-bedded home. When I got the car home I had zero compression in cyl 1 & 2 and only 100psi in 3 & 4. So the bad ones were clearly bad, and the "good" ones were low. I ordered a boroscope attachment for my phone to look inside before going through the effort to open it up. I could see a ring of metal I initially thought might be a valve seat,

There are lots of rumors, heresay, impressions and not a lot of hard tech data about why old gear may sound different or better or worse than a new piece of gear. There can be marketing fluff as well, perhaps telling people what they want to hear to drive sales of something. In some cases there are documented differences in materials or manufacturing methods or specs. I'll try to call those out where I think I can support it although unless I can measure something concrete

If you've got the head off for whatever reason, you should check the guides and the seats. Even if the guides and seats look good, they...

I'll collect odds and ends here from prepping the 911 for Auto-x season Wheel Lugs My lugnuts felt a little irregular, a little tight...

I knew I would be working on the 911 quite a bit when I bought it, so I ordered an inexpensive home "lift" to help facilitate the work....

Some other small items that have been dealt with which really don't warrant their own page but could be handy to someone. Shift Knob The old knob was kinda gross. The new one was not cheap, but looks great. Just use the finest (sharpest) awl or tiny screw driver to pop off the cap (with the shift pattern in it) and below that is a hex key holding the knob on. Easey Peasey. The old knob was pretty tired. This is after popping off the cap, just remove that hex head bolt. You c

My project management (nagging) turns into my day job working on cars. I had bought a 1974 Spitfire in the winter of 1983-84 to get me to...

Some hopefully helpful tips about getting your own guitar & dialing it in. I really wanted a Les Paul, but with vintage pricing in the...

Why did the 911 use a horizontally opposed engine from 1964-on? It's an interesting design study. Other car makers to use a flat engine...

Very nerdy stuff, but I am hoping I can de-mystify transformers a little bit for other casual music tech types. I am not an expert by any...

"A man's gotta know his limitations" - Dirty Harry Someday I really want a barn with a proper 2-post lift in it. They are the joint. One...

Not the only way, but my preferred cheap, quick and easy way (pick 3) Buy some Garolite. This is flame proof PCB material. It cuts...

A journey, but here is where we are so far. By no means exhaustive but what do we think we want to do annually at least? That is the...

Not as sexy as a big wing or a Nitrous bottle, but well worth the effort. I am starting to take longer trips and longer laps at bigger...