Billet
Mmmmmm.. Gold. Nice that the Injector Dynamics hats happen to be gold for these ID2000. That Paul Yaw thinks of everything. Radium pulse dampers as well.
Billet
I put up a second video about the Subaru build. 11 mins you will never get back! I will be doing videos of the entire build, install, and calibration, so if you are interested, subscribe as I won’t post them all here.
House
Ready for footer pour.
Billet 2
For those of you who really really want hear me talk for 5 mins about this block, here ya go!
CPU
I have a reasonable number of meetings that involve people transmitting data at suboptimal baud rates. Doodling has always been a valuable way to provide some mental exercise and increase my retention of the important bits.
I have always tended towards doing designs during these idle times, and in particular I like designing microprocessors. I find that post-it notes are a good way to organize hierarchical design, and makes it easy to pick up a design months later. Sometimes I’ll do something novel like a single instruction design (‘mov’ obviously), something like a 128-bit VLIW, a yet another MIPS knock off, or in this case a very compact 8 bit design that can be implemented in a reasonable number of old school 74 series gates. Sometimes I’ll just write out stuff in VHDL, but doing old school Kmaps has its place.
It is really simple stuff, but I find it very relaxing and calming.
What do your doodle designs do?
Pan
Thanks to Chris Bergeron and the great staff at Killer B Motorsports for making the best oil pan/baffle/pickup for the billet Subaru! As soon as the oil pump gets here we will start getting this engine assembled!
Plan
Electrical plan round 2. Eric Rosenberry keyed me into a good idea. I was planning on getting a residential 600amp service, but PGE offers a metering plan for EV charging that has variable time-of-day rates. From 10pm-6am power is about half the cost of normal day rates, but day rates are between 2 and 3 times normal rates. If you did your entire house as time-of-day metering you would probably pay more, but if you get 2 meters, and only connect EV charging to the time-of-day meter you can get the best of both world. Since you can program the Tesla chargers to only charge in that time interval you can always charge at the low rate every night. The additional meter cost is only $11/month, so less than the additional charge for a 600 amp service.
That leaves me with the other 400amp service for other regular house stuff. Attached is a new house layout with 5 total panels. 1 Panel dedicated for EVs, to main panels in the mechanical room, a seperate generator panel, and a panel in the shop (for all of the lower level stuff).
Comments and criticisms welcome!
Foundation
A little progress on the house…
The foundation footing are almost setup for pour. Due to some small changes, it looks like the footings will be about 150 yards, the foundation walls about 140 yards, and the garage floors about 70 yards.. so around 360 yards give or take a bit. That would be around 45 trucks worth, or about 1.5 million pounds of concrete.
That seems like a lot of concrete. The guys putting the forms together said it seems like these load calcs are for a commercial building, not residential.
Of course there are already 46 pilings that go 50-55 feet deep, and are 3 feet in diameter, so that is probably at least 500 cubic yards, so I guess I am getting off easy!
Billet
Something fun this way comes…
This billet Subaru block is downright beautiful! The surfaces and contours provide rigidity improvements, and the closed desk design with ringed sleeves will provide support for much higher combustion pressure. Block clamping is significantly increased with second main bolts and much thicker mating surfaces.
Manley Crank, Steel O-Ring Head interface, 14mm head studs, Cosworth Valves, Springs, and Cams. Michael Roark and the guys at Extreme Turbo Systems will provide the 4″ Intercooler and their kick ass precision 6870 kit.
Thanks to Myles Kerr and Lucas English and English Racing, Rick Arbogast and the guys at IAG, Martin Donnon and Willall Racing Pty Ltd, and Perrin Performance. (and Darton Sleeves) Timothy Bailey and I will be cranking on the Cobb for this one.
I don’t think I’ll be able to match the 1130whp of my GTR, but we will give it a shot. 🙂
This will be a great daily driver setup, especially for those rainy winters here in Portland.
iCloud
I wonder what is the upper limit of the iCloud Photo library size? I merged in some older stuff from 1996-2001, but still have another 100gigs to go.