So the new rally tires and rims are making a big difference. Two events ago went well, but I ran into power problems. It turns out that the wiring harness for the air flow meter got chafed and wires were shorting. My results were good, I was once again running even with my rival in the FF class until mechanicals took him out. In the time between, I taped up the wires and then discovered one of the CV boots had a tear. Since the shafts are now custom it took some work finding a boot, but eventually found one and got that taken care of. Continue reading ‘Rally On/Off’
Monthly Archive for April, 2014
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Since ride got rained I’ll rant instead. Did it not occur to these runners on Diamond Head that black outfits at night is NOT a good idea?
(0)There’s “squirter overflow” on the Likelike. If you’ve driven on the H3, you know what a squirter is: They’re the drivers going 35 in the passing lane who you pass only to have them blast by you a mile later going 90, but you end up passing again at the bottom of the hill when they’re going under the limit again. Essentially, drivers who can’t properly control or understand their speed. Guess there are so many on H3, they’ve bled over to other trans-Ko’olau routes.
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Of course, since there was something happening in the sky at night, it was cloudy, then rainy at my house. The sky did clear enough for me get these lame pictures with my point-and-shoot. I didn’t feel ripped-off, but it was a lot less impressive than I imagined it would be. In the long shot, that’s Mars at the top of the frame, and some unknown star to the right of the moon. Continue reading ‘Gesshoku’
Keep seeing a white Chevy Captiva around. It’s a Puerto Rico only model, but is supposedly also available as a fleet vehicle. Because it is nearly identical to the Equinox, it is not sold in markets where the Equnox is heavily promoted. Both are built on the GM Theta platform, but the Captiva uses the short wheelbase pan of the late Saturn Vue, and the Equinox uses the long pan of the Suzuki XL-7.
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