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So, I made my own alignment jig. Its a clone of a well known string setup. These brackets hang off of the inner trunk and hood lips. Their whole point is to hang a bar down at axel height at the front and rear of the car. The bars are designed to have grooves on the ends to hold a string. The grooves are exactly the same width in the front and rear...
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So, its been a very long time since I had anything to post! Months and months. Unfortunately, this same dearth in posts represents a similar dearth in actual activity on or with the racecar. I won’t bore you with the excuses…lots of work related things. Anyway, I bought an SP Induction Systems SPX2 intake, and finally got a chance to install it....
A last minute opportunity to drive at MSRC came up for January 2nd, 2012. I was able to go, and it was an “educational†day. Another friend had given me some of his old tires. The story of the day is really a separate post that should include video footage of the “incidentsâ€. But, suffice it to say that I “fought†the new tires until I finally flat-sp...
MSR Cresson track Day – Apex Driving Academy – 1/2/2012
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Yesterday was my first time in my own car on any R-compound tires (RA-1 takeoffs). It wasn’t pretty: one 4-wheel off — rear end tried to come around, saved it…realized I wasn’t going to keep it on track, let it run straight into flat grassy area (outside of wagonwheel)one 2-wheel off (the front two on wrong side of the apex curbing) — turned in too abrupt...
She is done. Again, Chris comes H. through. He did a great job cutting my vinyl for me. I understand he had a couple hicups with his new cutter and the large rolls of black and silver. I sent him the files to be cut last Friday, he had them cut by Wednesday. I’ve been putting them on for the last two days. I used Window cleaner to let them slide, but...
I seem to have contracted a cold over Thanksgiving, so I’m laying low this weekend. I figured I might as well start working on the graphics set for the car, until I feel human again. I’ve been using Inkscape (inkscape.org) to do all the decal designs. Its an awesome tool for vector graphics work (and free to boot).http://www.tomhampton.info/wp-content/...
So, I decided that I wanted to brew some test beers to see how different types of Malt taste. I started by making a beer base for a Pale Ale. Then I divided the base into 5 separate batches and added 1/2 lb of 4 different types of specialty grains: Munich 20HoneyCrystal 40Chocolate http://www.tomhampto...10079_thumb....
Chris Haldeman painted the car for me. I think it looks AWESOME. Here is a decadent set of photos to show it off:http://www.tomhampton.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/P1010069_thumb.jpg http://www.tomhampto...10071_thumb.jpg http://www.tomhampto...10072_thumb.jpg Continue reading Back f...
http://www.tomhampto...70_thumb.jpg 2 years ago (today) I brewed a basic Robust Porter recipe. It was going to be the starting point for some attempts at toasting my own malts…in particular a smoked brown malt. After reading Ray Daniels descriptions of original porter, I’d decided I wanted to try and figure it out. An...
Okay, its not Miata related, but who doesn't like a little beer? Its been a while since I made a batch of beer! I decided to make a batch of basic Porter, today. I use BeerSmith (www.beersmith.com ) 1.4 for my recipe design. The recipe below is a pretty middle of the road modern Porter, just to get my feet wet again. Eventually, I want to start w...
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