Use a variety of approaches in suspension design
Suspension design is great fun, and very challenging. I am not talking about ‘design’ as in picking which upgrade kit to buy for your car, but much more fundamental aspects like developing a whole new...
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Home Workshop Performance
Our ‘Building a Home Workshop’ series (starts here) has been very popular. So what’s the workshop like after being in use for 9 months? What’s been learned about its performance in that time? Firstly,...
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Some great products to buy
I’ve recently bought three products that I think might interest you. The first is an OBD reader and display. Over the years, I’ve experimented with a variety of OBD readers, including: Using a data...
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Driving something different
Back here I raved about how much fun I had driving a Bobcat (or, more correctly a skid-steer Cat 226 B2). I’d hired it to clear the site for my new home workshop, a step I’d taken as a result of...
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Another incredibly cheap digital meter
The story that we ran on the very low cost digital temperature display has proved to be extremely popular – hardly surprising, when only a few years ago such a display would have cost well over...
View ArticleLow sheen acrylic – with added photocopier toner
When I hung my collection of jack-stands and ramps on the workshop wall, it was obvious they needed a repaint. I didn’t much care what type of paint was used, so long as it stayed on for 10 or so...
View ArticleBeware black snot
If you’ve been sawing, grinding or filing metal, it’s likely that you’ve ended-up with a nose full of it. Not just snot – but black snot. For years I thought it a just curiosity that resulted from that...
View ArticleTurning over a new leaf
Over the last few weeks I have been working on my little Honda Insight. I’ve been installing a turbo, water/air intercooler system and a new airbox, the latter fabricated from scratch. It’s a complex...
View ArticleBloody brackets….
I hate making brackets that hold things driven by belts. The last, most horrible job that I performed in this area was installing a supercharger on a Toyota Prius. I wanted to get the little blower...
View ArticleA new dash
I’ve always enjoyed having lots of gauges in a modified car. Even in my first car – an air-cooled, 2 cylinder Honda Z – I fitted an oil temperature gauge. Subsequent cars have had gauges that show...
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