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  1. Darthomas

    Where I've been

    The last 10 months have been life in hell. Was staying with a buddy in Elgin Illinois. Still no closer to recovering any of the $58000 my ex stole out of the house sale escrow. Finally after another $4000 in atty charges and 18 months of trying got child support reduced to proper 25% instead of...
  2. Darthomas

    Smells and memory

    Hundred year old barns.... abandoned chicken coops. The smell of crude oil. Sickly sweet, with everything still in it. The smell of steel in the furnace...smells like nosebleed. Steel being cut off with a grinder brings back that same smell, and it really gets my attention. Old muscle cars...
  3. Darthomas

    Car dealer antics

    So I had the local Dodge Jeep Ram dealership change the ECU about October in the 2013 Tardis (Charger). Got a letter from Mike Somethingorother that they had a buyer interested in my very car, and the buyer was going to be going on vacation 29th, and look ke to buy it before then, and they'd...
  4. Darthomas

    EPA fines FCA for high efficiency diesels a la VW

    God bless good engineers who write code to to circumvent EPA idiocy. High combustion chamber temperatures equal high efficiency; translation of heat into cylinder pressure and motion. The nitrogen oxides produced are the same gas produced in lightning discharges, which become weak nitric acid...
  5. Darthomas

    Last day of Walter P Chrysler museum

    Lots of people. I will add a few photos every day. This is the test dyno Hemi from room 13 dyno bay with its GE generator load. Here is a 5.7 Hemi cutaway model next to a beautiful aluminum block slant 6.
  6. Darthomas

    Prayers for new house.

    Found the house. 1885. 3 lots, creek in back. Almost half an acre at 110k. 3 blocks from the Napa.
  7. Darthomas

    Moving this weekend/Monday

    Send prayers, It's getting very stressful.
  8. Darthomas

    Sudden extreme employment

    Laid off May 4. Unemployment until Aug 18. I guess they needed an electrician. Worked 10 hour days Monday to Friday, 14 hours Saturday, and tonight, begin 9 PM to 6 AM shift, or maybe 8 to 5. Gonna be a good first paycheck. No end of failures, faults and mystery problems to diagnose. Find 'em...
  9. Darthomas

    Goodbye old friends, all 8 of ya's

    6:30 PM setting out old orig 383 pistons in the alley, let's see how long they last.
  10. Darthomas

    Construction Equipment is backing up half a mile away, why do I need to know about it?

    Must everyone in a mile radius be warned when equipment is backing up? The equipment might suddenly appear in my kitchen, and I should be forewarned? When was personal responsibilty on the part of equipment operators or bystanders ruled inadmissible, and therefore everyone in a mile radius be...
  11. Darthomas

    Perfect Summer Car Songs

    The Angels, 1964.
  12. Darthomas

    Sudden appearance of Mini Skirts

    Yesterday while running errands, saw no less than 5 very clean and sharp miniskirt installations being used as normal streetwear. Was there a declaration somewhere in the fashion world? I am certainly not complaining, as long as I don't have to wear a shirt with huge lapels under a pullover...
  13. Darthomas

    Detached or attached garage?

    I've never lived anywhere that had an attached garage, and wouldn't want to. Modern cars have electrical problems that sometimes make them ignite and burn in the middle of the night, plus remote starters get bumped accidentally and asphyxiate families when a sleeping driver rolls on the couch...
  14. Darthomas

    Can't believe I'm calling Victory Auto Wreckers!

    Wife didn't change oil, and varnished up the engine in the 2004 Hyundai. Now the cranked is locked up tighter than a (your choice of comparison). And she talked down about my old cars. I have seen these commercials my whole life and never dreamed I'd be calling them! Victory Auto Wreckers - A...
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