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FX, no FX

Published on May 27, 2013 in car by taro. Closed

First off, the valves worked great! No gas spillage and fume issues this race. Did hear a soft honkey sound once, kinda like if your meep meep horn was buried. I’m thinking that was the valve “blowing off”. The car ran pretty well the whole event.

The exhaust has developed a leak again, the flex joint has failed yet again. The guy at exhaust system said he’ll look for a heavier duty one that has the stainless mesh on both inside and outside. What a PIA, I later thought maybe I should have them put in flanges so the flex joint could be bolted in & out. I’m confident enough in my welding that I could a weld a section, but not while its still in the vehicle.

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Escalate!

Published on May 25, 2013 in Uncategorized by taro. Closed

Trippy, the Beretania Safeway has a shopping cart escalator!

Beer Is Good – Widmer Bros. Alchemy Ale

Published on May 14, 2013 in Food and Review by taro. 1 Comment

Pours a clear medium light amber with medium head. Strong floral hop throughout with accompanying bitter. The bitter does taper leaving a hint of nut. Mouth feel is medium. It’s a good beer to have with hearty food, but by itself I can’t say I enjoy it a lot. 2.5 out of 4 monkeys.

More traffic rants

Published on May 14, 2013 in SUAR by taro. Closed

Oops dude, your rant got munged, but I got the idea. Is that like when making a left turn, pedestrians aren’t in your half of the road yet if you turn into the wrong side of the road? Saw someone do this in front of a mother carrying an infant no less, WTF is wrong with people?!

And there seems to be a new medical crisis among the population, colorblindness seems to be rampant. People can’t distinguish between red and green!

Finally, why do auto manufacturers go through the bother of installing turn signals. No one uses them, it would cut costs to eliminate them.

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Get Some Culture

Published on May 12, 2013 in Culture by taro. 1 Comment

This past Saturday evening was the 2013 Hawaii Eisa Festival, the third year it’s being held and it was a great event. Every year they add something new and in addition to what they had last year, they got the current Eisa champions to perform. It seems the army of teruteru bozu worked, the weather was a pleasant Hawaiian evening. The oppressive stillness and humidty of the past days had lifted, in fact by the end of the night it was almost chilly. You might consider this a warm up to the Okinawa Festival, but in many ways I prefer it. It’s a smaller more intimate venue, held in the cool evening, lot less crowded, and focused on eisa performances. The food is a lot more limited, the KCC cafeteria rendition of rafute leaves a lot to be desired, I would skip it. The goya namasu side is pretty good though. The other problem is they are not set up to handle the sudden rush, I jumped in line at 5:45 and didn’t get out with my plate until 6:15, so I ended up missing the opening performances and was rushing eating and attempting to shoot off some pics one handed while balancing the plate of rafute in the other. Not happening. Missed out on getting some andagi too. Continue reading ‘Get Some Culture’

Anime Briefs – You’re kidding more, more ’13 Spring anime?!

Published on May 12, 2013 in anime, Culture and Review by taro. Closed

What, do I have no life that I actually watch all this?! No comment….

Streaming over on Funimation’s site is a few more not bad shows. We talked about Railgun S already and Date A Live. Continue reading ‘Anime Briefs – You’re kidding more, more ’13 Spring anime?!’

Gas-ex

Published on May 11, 2013 in car and Gear by taro. 1 Comment

So here are the parts roughly assembled onto the old charcoal canister bracket. Only needed to drill two small holes for the stainless sheet metal screws that came with the white plastic clip thing and drilled two holes in it to thread the ziptie through. Have yet to road test, the battery in the road FX kind of went flat so charging right now.

Oh, and as for routing it back into the intake where the canister went, the BVSV in the coolant line is broken so I’m not sure what would happen if I routed it back into the intake with it open all the time. I suppose if I put it before the AFM then it would be no problem.

Gasy

Published on May 8, 2013 in car and Gear by taro. 1 Comment

The rally FX being all race has slowly been loosing extraneous things. One of the more recent things I did was remove the charcoal canister. It’s not needed for the car to run, however removing it and capping the line from the gas tank that used to go to it causes some issues. What happens is that modern fuel systems are sealed. The gas tank cap holds pressure as a limited one way valve. As you use up fuel, that would create a vacuum in your tank and make it hard for the pump to work, so the gas cap has a one way valve to let air in. But as things warm up, vapors in the tank expand and cause the tank to become pressurized. Normally these excess vapors are routed into the charcoal canister to be absorbed until they can be put back into the intake and burned off. Without the canister pressure builds until the safety release in the cap opens, which is enough pressure to also cause liquid gasoline to come puking back out the cap.

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Sony ActionCam Accessories

Published on May 5, 2013 in Gear by taro. 1 Comment

The Sony AKA-DM1 is probably one of the more unusual official action video camera mounts I’ve seen. I’m sure mounts like this have been jury rigged already, but for a big company to actually have one out for the specific application is interesting.

Here We Go Again

Published on May 4, 2013 in rant by taro. 1 Comment

Hm, there went HFD up the street…. Hm, lot’s more sirens….

Yup, sure enough there’s HFD Air 1.

Oh man, that sucks! Da boys are hiking in all the way to the top, and one’s rucking in a stretcher!

I dunno if he just wanted to carry it or what, just about when he reached the top Air 1 hooked up the stretcher it had dropped off on previous pass and pulled out the victim.

A few minutes later it came back with the barf bucket and pulled a second person off the mountain.