Stop in for a cup of coffee

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toolmanmike said:
When you brew 2 gallons and bottle 8 liters you have a little left over. Small plastic bottles work great to check for proper carbonation and a small sample to see if it's ready. This is chocolate orange stout. Not too chocolatey or orange flavored but this is the last little bit out of the bottling bucket. I would imagine this will improve with age. It is very smooth.

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It's Fiat Friday!
Good morning.
Remind me not to go hunting for coffee for hire before 5AM around here. :lol:
 
Unconventional said:
75 and previous is smog free here.
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I read somewhere that it was 74 and newer that had to be smoggied. But if it is 76 and up, it is even better. Then it is not all counties that is smogging the cars here. A couple of towns north of here, north of the sanity line, there is no smogging.

Bill
 
Mattax said:
I think its more about the chances of running it lean and advanced during break in are higher, The friction idea is possible. Another is the rings aren't fully sealing at break in. I don't know why that would drive the EGT up but maybe it can.

Bottom line is most header coatings start to fail under high exhaust gas temperatures. Might be worse if they haven't fully cured - that part depends on the coating and the process.
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When we broke in Eddie's engine, the headers got red hot...

Then we adjusted the timing and it would not glow like when we first started it... If I remember correctly, our timing was too retarded when the headers were orange hot....

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dukeboy_318 said:
Waking up to expected but still sad news. My grandmother passed last night. She’d been on death watch all week after she stopped eating and drinking and slipped into a deep sleep.
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Sorry to hear Chris.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Oh snap, I guess they didn’t shut down enough Power lines, big wildfire in LA county
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I keep wondering about the shut down power outages there... Is it because they are not maintaining the power lines correctly and now are shutting them down so not to cause fires because of their lack of staying on top of maintaining the power grid???
 
memike said:
Good morning, Ramcharger is ready for daily driving now , leagal Eagle
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Good to have it ready for winter...

But if I remember correctly you don't get much snow down there in the winter...

But it's good to have it running and ready to go...
 
krazykuda said:
I keep wondering about the shut down power outages there... Is it because they are not maintaining the power lines correctly and now are shutting them down so not to cause fires because of their lack of staying on top of maintaining the power grid???
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Pretty much :BangHead:
Funny power thing. When I was working the Space Shuttle complex at S. VAFB I was running a portable concrete plant. VAFB had their OWN power plants, numerous generating plants scattered around the base. If I saw little sparks around the insulators on the power lines on the way to work I knew it was going to be one of those bad electricity days. Tell my oiler "Go warm up the genset." which usually got me a :wtf: kinda look. About 8:30 or so, boom boom out go the lights :lol: My oiler would just look at me and shake his head and go fire up the genset :rofl:
 
dartnabout said:
It may be a 74. The 70 is on a rotisserie and the 73-74 I was driving until the state truck backed into it, I am putting a rear quarterpanel on it and life has gotten in the way. Someday
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Bills65Dart said:
If the state truck backed into you, wouldn't they pay to have your car fixed ? That is a sin by the way, who does a thing like that.

Bill
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A guy in a school district truck hit my niece... The cop on the call put on the ticket that there wasn't any visible damage to her vehicle, even though there is some hidden damage behind the bumper that he's getting fixed... My brother is an insurance adjuster that also did body work for 12 years and knows how to spot damage...


When he sent the bill to the school district, as they are responsible for any damage that is done when someone is driving their vehicles, they try to say that the ticket states that there is no damage to his daughter's car... He told them that he doesn't tell the cop what to write on the ticket and the cop doesn't tell him how to do his job...

They should end up paying for the repairs by the time he's done with them....
 
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zkx14 said:
The coffee maker at work uses bags of liquid concentrate. Last night the water wasn't working right and it was dispensing just the coffee 'syrup' till I reset it.
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That'll open your eyes up real good....
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zkx14 said:
Every other? It's annual inspection and emissions here if you don't put antique tags on it.
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We don't need to have anything before OBD II emission checked here... :D

Michigan got rid of their emission testing many years ago also....
 
Unconventional said:
Pretty much :BangHead:
Funny power thing. When I was working the Space Shuttle complex at S. VAFB I was running a portable concrete plant. VAFB had their OWN power plants, numerous generating plants scattered around the base. If I saw little sparks around the insulators on the power lines on the way to work I knew it was going to be one of those bad electricity days. Tell my oiler "Go warm up the genset." which usually got me a :wtf: kinda look. About 8:30 or so, boom boom out go the lights :lol: My oiler would just look at me and shake his head and go fire up the genset :rofl:
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One of my good buddies from high school is a power line repairman...

He moved away from here when I moved back and now lives in Colorado.... Still climbing the power lines....

He was in town a couple months ago and stopped by...
 
krazykuda said:
When we broke in Eddie's engine, the headers got red hot...

Then we adjusted the timing and it would not glow like when we first started it... If I remember correctly, our timing was too retarded when the headers were orange hot....

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Com'on Karl - that's just a little glow. LOL. I wanted to see photos of red hot headers. :poke:

Seriously. That makes sense. Retarded means the burn is finishing later, and therefore more heat into the walls and exhaust port.
By default my engines were broken in with manifolds.
However Rob broke in somebodies engine on his test stand using the TTI shorties that were coated with zirconium dioxide.
Didn't affect them at all.
Good thing too - since he neglected to tell me that he had used them when I listed then for sale. :rolleyes:
 
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