@domino:

I've still never been able to watch more than 40 seconds of this. It's like a snuff film. I want to go to confession.

I used to live with a guy who had a boat with the marine version of this engine in it. We called it "The Iron Duck."

For real some of these places are turning into farms. Property values are so low Detroit is the center of urban farming in the US. My sister buys produce from a bunch of them. It's apparently better than the cars they built...

Crappy cellphone pic ahoy. The orange motorcycle is a '75 RD350, and the other one is an orphan GS. The white boxes are new wheels for my fiancee's car.

Pneumatic valve spring compressor. I dream about it at night. Or at least I did when I did valve jobs for a living...

When I worked at a parts place, we had a competition to see who could open a beer with the most random thing in the store. My highlights? A brake pad, a torque wrench, a cam for a Chevy 350, a fire extinguisher, and a wheel puller for a 1920 Lincoln (which was a great big cap nut you put on the spindle so you could…