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Well, I definitely want air conditioning. Though, I imagine at some point my existing factory compressor (likely other components, too) will be replaced with . . I guess the Sanden ones are more efficient, and the most common/popular? I haven't done more than a few minutes of researching into...

LOL, I actually considered buying a late 70s Pontiac Phoenix that had the Iron Duke... and strange ideas like this HAVE occurred to me, but with more modern V6 or 4-cylinder engines. Yep, and what I meant was that I already have something modern, so would I just be giving myself another...

Geez, I can't believe it's been 5 years since I've been here... 5 years, and I've done exactly jack, and squat, with my Cutlass Calais. And, if anything, it's made me more indecisive. The one constant is that the 260 will be replaced with... something. Also, life sort of got in the way. It's...

I think that those of us who are minimally mechanically inclined benefit from seeing this from the inside... especially the part about getting stuck with service advisors and managers of less-than-stellar ability. Hence, why, when I find a good mechanic that I know is straight with me, I always...

Oh, I should also point out.... The very day I made that post, about my friend having it, and it being absolutely reliable, my friend calls me. Says it's leaking a little coolant, and can we fix it. I assume it's a water pump, and remember them being not too bad on this motor, so I go to take...

I'm told there's a 12 step program for us, but really, I don't need it! I swear!

Ok, so a few of you have been midly interested/alarmed at The Blue Rajah, which I mentioned in this thread and in this thread While I got it to the point that it was running great, the "bits of surface rust" rapidly escalated to "large expanses of surface rust" HOWEVER.... that wasn't the...

Maybe slightly off topic, but I found this article both informative and hilarious regarding the Google self driving car (ok, pretty much anything from The Oatmeal is going to involve hilarity) http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car

The 260 is actually quite surprising right off idle... weird feeling that it doesn't seem to care if you give it a little gas or a lot, it just feels like an absolutely plateau flat torque curve. The throttle really only seems to affect the shift points, IMHO. Still, an interesting feel...

Oh, man I love that car! But, I may be slightly biased... Great GREAT find!

1980 Honda Civic DX hatchback with the Hondamatic trans... for those who aren't familiar, it was a 2-speed semi-automatic. You would manually shift between 1 and 2, depending on what you needed, but there was no clutch. Hand-me-down from my dad when I got my license. It was actually...

Well, it was fast for its time, but by modern standards, yeah, slow. That said, I've always liked how the low-horsepower, "slow" engines of the day had the low RPM peak torque, and made tip-in feel awesome. ie: having driven a 205 hp 3800 V6 in a Regal or a LeSabre, while it's got kick, tip...

Love it - but... well, the music sounds more late-60s than anything to me . . . I couldn't stop laughing at the intro music.... It just seemed over a decade out of place, considering the video was for 1983.

Ah, sorry, what I meant to say is that if you were running straight ethanol, you'd need twice as much fuel in the mixture to run correctly... though actually I now realize that I've confused it with methanol. Ergo, you'd need about 9:1 for straight ethanol, 6.5:1 for straight methanol...

Ah, ok, so if the concern is potential pinging/detonation, then the ethanol will help in small amounts, but the lesser energy in it (and I understand that with 100% ethanol, the air-fuel ratio should be approximately twice as rich as what it is with gasoline) will reduce power. So, at 10%...

I . . thought that the ethanol in the gas would actually slightly increase the octane rating, given ethanol's natural octane rating of 99 or 100 or so... but don't hold me to that.

Continuing the story that began in this thread (I am no longer authorized to reply to it? Maybe because it's an old thread?) Yes, I'm lazy. Yes, I'm a procrastinator. There, I said it. However, there are some updates, and a notable improvement at the very end. I guess I didn't want to...

Actually, I do . . I'd intended it as a replacement (thinking there was a problem with my speedometer rather than just the cable), but since the "replacement" was definitely dead, I guess I could experiment with it. I did briefly take the speedo out of the casing with the "good" speedometer...

Hmm, even if the drill spun fast enough to, say, run the speedo to 80 MPH, I'd still be looking at doing that for over 40 hours. Not to say I haven't done the drill trick for basic testing, though...

I don't. I stay inside, or maybe hit the supermarket. I stay outside very briefly in such temperatures unless there's a pool involved. I sweat VERY little. Where other people have sweat streaming down their faces, I'll just barely start to get a glaze. To understand, let me explain an...