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dkak001 said:
I just picked up some corvette heads that came with a plastic intake, from 1999. So, it's been around a while.
A lot of people (myself included, sometimes) bemoan plastic. However there are use cases it's just fine. I'm not sure if intake is that application where it's fine, but they seem to hold up. And you can do things with airflow you can't with cast or forged aluminum parts. 🤷‍♂️

Found a set of winters on rims for the last car that didn't have any winters on rims today. On the way home it started snowing! Talk about waiting for the last minute! :ROFLMAO:

Most of the outside stuff is done now. Need to do a little maintenance and maybe a upgrade to the blower on the tractor, but the shop is heated so it won't be as painful as other projects would be out in the snow. Still trying to recover from the treezilla project, so it's going to be a slow day, methinks.

Hope you all have a good Saturday afternoon. Maybe I'll check in later, maybe not. Cold, wet, gray, rainy/snowy days have a habit of including a nap and extra snoozing.
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I hope you chose the nap option! 💤😴
 
Wat_Tyler said:
Dr. Tyler did make some strides today. She still needs to rest up, but she's off the dope and is eating a bit. We'll see how this goes. She's going to a rehab facility upon discharge. What happens after that is still to be determined.
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I'm glad she's better today. Older folks just don't metabolize medications in the way expected. One of the reasons they become so loopy! Rehab will be good for her. 🫂🫂
 
dkak001 said:
Slow day today. Had all sorts of big plans, most of which didn't get done. The bed was feeling all nice and soft, and I drifted off for a few hours. Was awoken by a dinner call, pot roast with taters and carrots out of the garden. Slow was a flying earlier today, so that warm dinner hit the spot!

Now I'm vegging in front of the TV...
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Sounds like a perfect day!
 
Wonderer67 said:
Today was a good day.

Started off with a hare brained scheme with a friend. We’ll see how it shakes out.

But I got an early start and got the solar kiln almost all the way framed out. I’m certainly not an expert carpenter, and I’m sure some of you may find fault with how I’m building it, but I feel pretty good about it.

when I got to a stopping point, I split some firewood and then went up into the woods to see what kind of havoc this week’s wind did on the ash trees. Took two pretty good ones down. They were across the trail and as I tried to clear it, I realized that one of them had a huge poison ivy vine going up the side.

I’m super allergic, but chainsaw it very carefully use an ax to strip it off the trunk. It had a shit load of little branches coming off, and I know that the roots have the most concentrated oil.

As soon as I was done, I stripped off my clothing and washed it and took a shower.

Then an early fire , dinner and now watching the World Series. Go Jays!
https://imgur.com/a/vOf2XYV
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Good job, W! 🥰
 
dkak001 said:
There's a lot of other stuff that won't be usable in a 70 year old car by then too!

But, there's old stuff out there that failed at high rates too. Try find an original flathead Ford V8. Lots of them are cracked. We just forget about the stuff that fails, and 60 years later it's faded from memory.

I think a lot of the reason that older hardware is still available was the power per cubic inch was low. When you start pushing power density up, reliability and lifetime suffers. Some of those old flatheads would make 1/10th of a HP per cubic inch. They just weren't pushed hard enough to hurt themselves.

In my experience Honda does that with their small engines. They last forever because they keep them detuned.

Every design is a compromise. Cost, power, expected lifetime. When we want a lot of power and low cost we get plastic in our cars. Don't forget we're telling these guys what we want by what we buy. (Except when the government sets limits and rules, etc.)
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Well said and all very true!
You could wear the rings off of a 283 Chevy, put anti-foulers on the sparkplugs... and keep on driving it without the lower end ever failing, just stop at the service station to fill it with oil and check the gas. 🤣
 
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Boat1 said:
I remember going to a school auction with dad, where we picked up a 1950 Chevy Suburban for 50 bucks. They said it had been sitting for 20 years.
We spent one day cleaning up the fuel and ignition systems, changing tires, then drove it around town....
I love that old stuff!
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I remember being six years old and hearing my mom and dad talk about needing a new used car. The discussion was more about how they were going to afford it.
Later, there was an ad on TV for a used car shop. It was selling used cars for nineteen ninety-five.
I remeber thinking, "Just how poor are we?"

That would be $1995
Not $19.95

We didn't do dollar sign math until 2nd grade 🤭
 
Wat_Tyler said:
Of course, they used 8 bolts where Henry Ford would have bitched about the 2nd one.
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I like bolts. Bolts are good.
Had a Chevy Blazer back in 2001... had 3 bolts holding the engine block in place.

One oil change my mechanic told me, "It's time to get serious about finding a replacement."

Seems one of the bolts was sheered off. A stiff breeze would likely finish the job on the third... and there was no way one bolt would hold that engine in place.

I really liked that car. The engine had over 200,000 miles and was raring to go for 3, but the body was disintigrating. If that 2nd bolt didn't break off, the windshield was a couple milimiters from rusting out.

Driving it in weather was... an adventure :LOL:
 
likes2watchU said:
I remember being six years old and hearing my mom and dad talk about needing a new used car. The discussion was more about how they were going to afford it.
Later, there was an ad on TV for a used car shop. It was selling used cars for nineteen ninety-five.
I remeber thinking, "Just how poor are we?"

That would be $1995
Not $19.95

We didn't do dollar sign math until 2nd grade 🤭
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