Re: The Colorado BS thread
I appreciate the kind thoughts. The condition I get to "enjoy" is a genetic fault. No cure. No real treatment, for that matter, either. Did just increase the Oxycotin level and the prognosis is that we will be increasing the dose every three months, at the
latest, from here on out.
I can not see a fund raiser as a viable opportunity as there is not any chance of recovery. But thanks anyway for that thought. I will just need the Heep to go to a good home so I can get a little peace.
Mayhaps that some of you have noticed that I no longer participates on
. Just do not have the energy to, quite franky, put up the the BS from the idiots that
think they know what they are doing.
I have the utmost respect for some of the
members and, until recently, was assisting 4 Members with the Forced Induction projects of their own.
I have found a place, in Georgia (!), that will take my train collection. The Kid will start the cataloguing (I know, the word looks odd, but it is spelled correctly) process once he is back home. It will be interesting to get the tally on just how many pieces there are. I suspect well over two hundred.
Good news on the Kid front is that he will only have to drive up (OK, down really...) to Denver two days a week. As he currently works as a TA in the Wood Shop, he will be staying until the shop closes (2200hrs) on those two days to get as many work hours in as he can. If he can get the hours, it will put him at 20 hours a week which is his current work hours. Hours that are regulated by the college.
My Dad (who died of this crapola at the age of 72) was fond of pointing out that sometimes it is "tough sledding". I always thought that odd as I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. Snow was something you saw on the telly. He was first generation American born, my Grandad came over from Germany post WWI.
I must say that it looks like tough sledding ahead. I expect to be housebound by end of March.
Engineers, even when they die it has to be by a bloody schedule...
So, anyway. If any of you know someone looking to build a rig, do me a favour and let them know that a turn key solution will be shortly available. The supercharger can either be left on the rig or removed (by the new owner) and sold off. The list price on the SC kit was $4k. Add in the costs of 6 new 40 pound Venom injectors($400 and to be honest, 35# would be a tad better), the AEM F/IC8 ($600), the
68mm F&B throttle body ($400) and you get a total pushing $5.5k in induction parts alone. I figure that these are worth about $3k as used parts.
Just a note on the 68mm TB. If I had known, for sure, how the Heep would drive with this "little" TB in place, I do believe that I would have opted for the 70mm TB that was F&B actually recommendation.
