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…

Had the TA out for some winter fun today during the snowstorm.

Got my first road bike today, a 2018 Trek Domane SL 5. Compared to my old bike, its stupid fast and light. It’s amazing how much 30+ years of bike design and materials advancements makes. The shifting is still pretty crappy so I need to adjust stuff still, but I’m so happy.

So I just learned that recently all our big box stores have gotten rid of their film development labs. It’s a real shame too since the people working the photo labs at our local Walgreens were quite good at developing and using their scanner to it’s fullest potential. Where do you guys get your color film developed?…

If any of you are going to the 24h LeMans in France (not jalopniks little watch party), let’s get a beer together. Picture from my trip to the Porsche museum last week

This is one of the ones I got and is my soundtrack for homework tonight. Not a bad purchase for $1.00. I also got a minty copy of the Rolling Stones compilation album, Made in the Shade, for $4.00. It is nice when you find a record shop that doesn’t have the hipster tax added.

Going hiking this weekend a few hours from campus! I was thinking about it and realized my Trans Am gets better fuel economy than my new Explorer. 17mpg vs 13mpg. Weird, eh? I’d totally take my trans am if I wasn’t convinced it would leave me stranded somewhere. /CoolStoryBandit