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I’ve been to Africa... twice. You’re not missing much as far as I’m concerned. My only regret is not buying a particular wood carving that i uploaded a picture of and subsequently removed for those with delicate sensibilities.

Maybe the safari type countries are better, but Angola and Equitorial Guinea were armpits
 
I’ve been to Africa... twice. You’re not missing much as far as I’m concerned. My only regret is not buying a particular wood carving that i uploaded a picture of and subsequently removed for those with delicate sensibilities.

Maybe the safari type countries are better, but Angola and Equitorial Guinea were armpits
It's all good,..she did win a trip as a second place, but unlike the big one, (which has meetings, an agenda, scheduled activities, and company dinners) ithe second place was an all inclusive 4 day 5 night un-escorted Trip to one of four resort locations in Mexico.
Just me n her.
 
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Little late to the party as far intergrading the rear radiators back in-
But here’s the valves we use on transit buses to shut of coolant lines.
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Be very carefull you don't 78-86 Audi 5000S any idle "throttle kicker" you have. Despite claims to the contrary, Sudden, Unintended Acceleration is what happens under certain situations. Although not an A/C issue (Aussie EFi Fords used an Auxilary Air Valve and VAM, and had a Mazda A/C unit which was throttle kicked via either the EECIV or Bosches LEII computer), the 84-87 turbo AIT X-flow Ford 250's with the Microtronics upstream turbo injection suffered similar throttle modulation problems under part boost because one injector was upstream of the turbo, and other six in the intake runner, causing Differerntial Fuel Delivery, and ergo, differential fuel modulation.

ITB's or common single throttle body Fuel injection is able to over load the idle progressively, and on a auto, or car with a cruise control, its always a risk that you might overspeed things if the engine load condition changes. Especially so with the ultr sensitive multiple throttle body systems.


The solution was Fords CFi and TFI throttle retard tip in on Auto Throttle Body EFi 5.0'S for 1984 to 1985. Your EDIS uses the same basic coding to , and you can pull out or add in advance. I'd make sure you'd look at using your vehicle speed control sensor to lock off any possibility of idle to drive throttle overspeeding, or curb idle to at cruise throttle plips causing acceration spikes.
 
First....I hope that uni-strut is not holding up that butcher block workbench with the 100 lb vise on it. You might need new feet if that's the case!!

2nd, on to what I think I have deciphered from Dean down under. When I was hand tuning my Holley C950 system, one trick (or hell maybe EVERYONE already knows this) to get a more steady idle and help prevent the car from dying or trying to die under and idle load like A/C or turning the steering wheel a lot was to get the target idle rpm and add a few degrees timing to the cells below it. If the idle dropped, the timing would advance and pick it back up a bit.

I am no efi master, but that did make my idle more stable that ever messing with the PID settings on the IAC controls.

And I feel for you about the rads and having to cut everything up to get back in. It's my curse that if I do something really really nice and neat and especially if I brag about how nice it is.....when I was making whatever it was, I would be thinking, this is nice but if I have to get back into it, I will have to destroy it....and I think nope, I got this. No sooner do I get finished, close it up, let the paint dry or whatever and it blows a fuse, burns a wire, the component is dead or whatever and I have to take that :poo: apart. And I never get it looking as good as it was the first time!
 
Well hello guys.... In no particular order...

#1. Firstly, that vise is more like 30 pounds than 100. ( it is made with genuine Chinee steel after all). My erector set corner support is more than adequate to support it, considering that the surface is cantilevered off of the bench, and anchored to the back wall.
The reason for the upright (which Is bolted to the floor so it won't kick out) is to support it if I have to wail on something,...or pry down. As a weight bearing support, I think it's fine for the application....it might be different if there was a shaky condition with the bench top, but considering that it's bolted to the wall,.....if this thing starts shaking.......there's a lot more at stake than whether my support is up to the task. Well see as I use it.
#2. Secondly, whether I use timing, or allow more air to move into the common plenum as a means of upping the RPM to offset the drag from the AC compressor, rest assured.......I will not mechanically alter the throttle position.
So, no lurching out of gear Audi 5000 style.

#3. It's my SOP. I build everything to look good, and to be a btch to service should something fail. Now, after spending an entire day putting the hoses back on again ( where it was impossible to get those freakin -12 push lock fittings installed in the newly shortened hoses) they are much more hap-hazard now as opposed to when they were originally purposed as intercooler hoses.
Business as usual.

The current wiring on my ecu has me concerned that adding all of this high speed MS3 sht is gonna create some conflicts ahead. I had a bad circuit in the thing that forced me to abandon two potential outputs, and do other things that by the grace of all things abnormal, work in lieu of that. The boost control mod, the repurposing of the IAC outputs, and the can bus have me thinking I've got a obstacle to deal with unless this upgrade leaves what is done alone, and adds extra capabilities beyond that

I'll be leaving to go to a wedding in Canada on Thursday, so that'll leave me one day when I get back to fix the water recirc issues before I can hope to make the trip to Gulfport...it shouldn't be more than a couple of hours if the new caps fix this. As long as everything holds fast,...I'll put it back together ( effectively sealing the potential leak) but if I have a rupture from the pressure those little rads are gonna be subjected to enroute....ill be a sun bleached skeleton on the side of the road.
 
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Just when you think one thing,...something else comes along and changes everything.

On Thursday I get on a plane bound for Ottawa, Ontario. My wife has committed me to attending a wedding that I learn is in a small farming community 40 or so miles to the west.

These people are related to Kate on her mother's side, but we barely know them. ( as much as any of us know our distant family). They are steryotypical rural Canadians...sturdy, hard working, focused on family and community. (as all farmers are, I'm sure). But the one thing her cousins aren't are........talkers.
A conversation with these guys are a chore...i know from personal experience. Every time I've been in the same place with them over these last 20 years tge conversation was limited to "How's it goin?"

Now I'm gonna be stuck in a small town full of these kinda guys with a whole bunch of dead time in between.....

Woo-hoo!

When I get to the Quality Inn in Arnprior Ontario, I get the full update... The weddings gonna be in a church, the receptions gonna be in a BF tent.

I meet the wedding couple, ( I know one of them). I meet the family of the one I don't know, I meet the family of the one I do.

( I find out that it's only Kate's family that lack conversational skills, the other guys will talk your ear off)

As a footnote, there's bad weather forecasted for later that day,....right about the time of the reception...at the same time that were all gonna be.....in the B.F. tent.

The wedding goes as planned, we all adjourned to the farm where the bf tent is,
And I'm silently musing to myself....wondering if this tent will survive high winds if/when the weather turns bad.
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I walk around the property, trying to kill time, which BTW is located right next to the old abandoned hwy17 truck stop.
( that has now become the hwy17 truck repair stop)
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Evidently, they don't repair Chevrolet pickup trucks..at the hwy17 truck repair stop,...they just throw them btches away.
I look up the road at the sky,......there is definitely bad sht coming.
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The wind has been blowing pretty briskly for hours....., it's whipping the tent, it's threatening to blow dresses up and hats off,...and tents......away.

I'm in the bathroom when a weather alert goes off on my phone...the CanadianWeatherService has just put the area in a tornado warning..
A tornado warning.
A super rare event in this part of the country...arnprior is about 400 miles north of Watertown NY....I'm quite confident that a tornado there is just as rare too.
But here we are...all dressed up, with nothing to take shelter in except.....a big...fcking..tent.

This just keeps getting better by the minute.

The powers that be decide to split us up into two groups, and shuttle us off to two different farmhouses that have basements. There is one on the same property as the tent, and another 1mile to the west.....directly in the path of the oncoming storm. We go into the mouth of the beast.
I'm sitting in the passenger seat next to the wife, who's driving because she rented a 7 passenger sized SUV. We're all packed in, 8 people jammed in a space for 7. We get to the farmhouse right as the rain starts, and right over the car I look up and say out loud, look at the funnel!....

The freaking tornado formed right over our heads.

It touched down about 300 yds to the East of us, and started on what would later become its 50 mile path..evidently dancing and jumping on both sides of the road between here and the BFT....
But took a turn before it got there,...and left that vulnerable structure alone.
It did however break, and uproot trees, between here and there..
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how it dodged the tent is a miracle, and at the time, we all had no idea of what plans that storm had in store for its future path...for all of the build up to the actual storm, the aftermath was dead calm.
But for the Robertson's....the wedding reception was on....and it went off without a hitch afterwards.
That tornado became an F3 as it moved on at 80 mph eventually slamming into communities in and around Ottawa...
( Where I am presently). When we got here yesterday afternoon, there was city wide power outages, non operational traffic lights, and obvious wind damage...Fortunately some areas had power restored and our hotel happened to be one...
Today will be my last day here...i planned to be home, but we decided to stay given that Ottawa is so cool...
That leaves me only a precious couple of days to get the monster ready for his big drive to the Coast...But that is still left to decide anyway.
 
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It's sometimes a bad thing when "the wedding reception ....went off without a hitch...."



My relatives on my natural Dads side are now transplanted Canuks, Americans and , gasp, Aussies. By transplanting them from this part of the world, and marrying there a$$es off to established Yiddish Torontoians or Hispanics, you gain more than a few great things. Of course, I drove them to it....

It's only the imports that love to pack sh!+ ba99's, shoot, and fix C1500's. They come back to New Zealand, run motion picture companies, play basket ball, and wonder where the heck the bears are. Down here, I almost severed my thumb off back in December 2014 splitting wood with a fantastically cool log splitter. I wasn't goin' fast enough, you see, so I gave it a Digital Hand Signal.

Best thing was the pre-op medical dude from Ontario who asked me why I'd been sitting for three hours without pain relief in the ED room. I told him it was on account of me being a little hacked off. The biggest pain was to my ego. He said its serious but worse things happen in the woods. Then he said, look, we can do this under a local if youre keen, stich it, and we are pretty sure its an easy save. Its Friday, so weve got the Christmas party drunks and car crashes, so we might have to do it under a local. That okay? We've got a fall back option to put you under general if it gets complicated. I said, yeah, local is fine. Then we Canuk trashed talked like I Mdid with my cusion dam, about how Kiws don't know what cold is, and how crazy quick a night fall is compared to here, where our twilights are like three hours, and yours, 30 minutes or less. He laughed, and said he's always packing for a 1000 mile journey, and wondering if the weather is gonna crap out. He told me I was in good hands, and although Canadians are great log cutters, he wasn't planning to gaffer together my finger like my cusion gaffers together films. I then told him the story Adam related to me about a US filming cintamatgrapher, who rolled his Range Rover in En Zee, and ended up being clocked in the eye by the sunroof apparture. Serous stuff, One eye gone, the other, they could maybee save. Cool, whos the surgen? A yound lady from New Zealand. Is she good? Yeah, she told me she used to edit films for you. That's okay. She's are great editor. Can I talk before the operation. He says to her. Section it like the last film you edited for me....


So it is with my cousin Adam. When Adam was scopeing out shooting a flim, the Director gives stern warnings to Adam that this is high Country New Zealand, and the attire he had on would likely get him dead from exposure. Adam says, Thanks, but where I came from, ..exposure happens when the camera lense gets frozen to my eye socket.


The Directors cut.....
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8KAaf45g5U
 
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Mike in church and it's not for his funeral...I would have paid good money to see that...

The tornado skips over the wedding tent "how it dodged the tent is a miracle"

Two unusual events in close proximity... Interesting, what are the odds of those two events happening to anyone without some outside cause?
 
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@CarMichael Angelo

Mike in church and it's not for his funeral...I would have paid good money to see that...

The tornado skips over the wedding tent "how it dodged the tent is a miracle"

Two unusual events in close proximity... Interesting, what are the odds of those two events happening to anyone without some outside cause?
Cmon Joe...
you really want to wake a sleeping bear?

Rest assured, while in the church, I didn't sing, I didn't bow my head, I didn't even close my eyes...i just watched and looked.

And,...if youre trying to give god his glory for steering the tornado away from the tent, ( evidently your miracle reference standard) why he then chose to drive the thing broadside into eastern Ottawa?
( Is this gonna be another "The Lord works in mysterious ways" answer?)
Seems by comparison, the suffering and damage he would have inflicted on the 20-30 people affected by destroying the tent, would've been much more merciful in the long run than trashing the dozens of homes and businesses in a major metropolitan area.

I guess God must be a good ole country boy...
 
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Actually methinks if the tornado hits the tent, it just adds that carnage and 20-30 people to the rest of the list anyway. If you want to know who or what turned the tornado away, watch The Thirteenth Floor. There's some spazo kid in another dimension running this world as SimCity on his iPhone. He said, Ewww, skip the wedding, smash the city.
 
Well,...back in the states. Sitting in a musty old hall in Detroit, not near the maritime sailors cathedral.

Aka Detroit international airport.

Ill be home at 9:30...at the house by 10.

Vacations are good, but being able to come home when it's over is always better.
 
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I think SNL had a skit where Gordon Lightfoot sang about 20 different songs and they all sound like this. I remember thinking, this ain't fun. it's true. Every song of his sounds the same! For some damn reason tho, I like this song!
 
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