I converted my Trans Am from automatic to manual last month with the help of K-Roll. Swapped out a 700R4 that was missing two of the four gears for a Borg Warner Super T-10 that came out of a ‘79 Trans Am. Bought the full manual swap parts from that ‘79 parts car, everything from the manual specific radiator to clutch…

Better than the CT5 for sure. Interior looks miles better than the ATS/CTS in pictures at least.

Bought the entire 4-speed setup from this car and I’m going to install it in my car. Got the trans, all the linkages, brackets, drive shaft, cross member, pedals, all nuts/bolts/springs, clutch, flywheel, the works. Now I just need to find somewhere to install it since I don’t have a garage here in Detroit.

Just booked flights and Airbnbs for a quick five day vacation in San Juan over the Easter weekend. Any suggestions of what to do? Any idea if there are Turo like alternatives to renting a car, Turo is coming up empty? I plan to do at least one day of scuba diving minimum.

I’m pretty much just a lurker now, but wow I’ve been here too long and was more active than I remember. Here’s my first post, and first post with that #content.

Post ‘70s GM things to commemorate me not dying in the last 365 days

After putting on 100,450 miles it was time to trade in my ‘04 Volvo S40 and get something new. Picked up this 2019 GMC Canyon 4x4 SLE with the V6 in this beautiful 2019 only (so far) blue color. I hated every minute of my car shopping experience and nothing went well at all! Walked out on three dealers, struggled to…

Buying this ‘18 GMC Canyon All Terrain. Hopefully taking delivery Friday if my out of state bank can process everything by then. Got a pretty good deal that made it easy to decide to purchase new rather than used. 

I’m seriously considering a used 2.0t AWD model as my next car. I’ve driven the sedan and liked it quite a bit. This post could also be titled “depreciation is beautiful”

I keep breaking shifter cables. Tonight I broke my 3rd one in two weeks. They all break in the same way, the rubber cable housing pulls out of the metal end bit. So the push-pull cable becomes a pull-only cable. I have absolutely no idea why this keeps happening, the cable is installed the exact same way my original…

One Rally Wagon with an Oppo sticker cannonballing down the metro Detroit interstate. 

Proceeded to find the redline, and discovered what valve float is... David Tracy’s Jeep was cool though! Also, got some free stickers

Multiple mid-engine corvettes? Check.

My first night in the area did not disappoint, I could have chosen much worse places to move to than Detroit.

Last Friday I was commuting from class on my old beater mountain bike down a bike path that I did not know had a steep curb right in the middle of it, I somehow crashed as a result and ended up with a compound fracture of both bones in my left arm. Ambulance ride to the ER, an emergency surgery, a night in the…

And it is slightly worse than I had hoped for. As you can see in the video, there are leaks on all cylinders where the head meets the intake. This was probably caused by some machine work I had done to the heads a couple years ago (where it had never run correctly since). The car has trouble starting, doesn’t like…

I’m loving the fairly high speed limits on twisty county mountain roads.

Recently I have been trouble shooing a weird thing where when there is no load on my engine (park/neutral) the revs climb to like 2500rpm but when the car is in gear it idles at a perfect 700rpm. I always assumed that this was the result of a vacuum leak, but could never figure out where the leak was coming from…