.Still working on it George! It is now functional in that we can watch movies, listen to music. Still have quite a bit left to do but it is nice to actually be able to use it. I was working on it today actually tidying up some of the wiring in the rack and making a list of cables I need to order. Things I still have left to do....

Order 2nd row of seats and build riser

 

 

 

Wow, that is one awesome setup.  that will make for some great family movie and game nights. If I may, I want to make a suggestion, you should use big long fluffy couches in there, instead of indiviual seats. more room to lay down or just cuddle with the wife and kids.           

This project sure does make up for all that money you spent on that ghey 16. once a hater, always a hater. long live the SR20!  ........you know I love ya!

Changed the oil in the S2000.  It's the first car I've ever changed oil on that I didn't have to crawl under the car.  I can get the drain plug and oil filter from the top!

Changed oil in the Maxima after 15k miles the other night. The oil came out pretty good as a dark brown color with zero sludge. It's all about the discontinued 0-30W Cosworth synthetic engine oil. The check valve on the Purolator oil filter was still intact too. I swear by Purolators (if you are too lazy to get factory for your beater like me). The VQ30 now has 169000 on the ticker and burns less than 1/4 quart in 10,000 miles. You can't beat that with a bat.

Installed some "Rain-X" brand wipers on the Maxima too. I bought them at Target for $9 each with the blade holder. They had some $4 store brand ones for $4 each, but I couldn't get myself to buy those. There had to be something wrong with them or were probably removed from the 50000 ton hydraulic press by a 9 year old girl in China at 2:30am after a 17 hour shift.

Poured some self-leveling underlayment on the floor of one of my upstairs bathroom last week too. What a bitch that was, but now I can lay down some tiles.

I got Christa a used Emick 50cc kids kart with a fresh blueprinted Comer engine for her birthday and we spent the last two days cleaning it up, fixing odds and ends on it and nut and bolting it. It looks like new now. She tried it out in our cul-de sac and in a few minutes was hauling ass pretty good. So I broke out project Ruckus and tried to MotoGP on her and she kicked my ass and lapped me. I was dragging the pegs and she could out corner me.

Then I busted out with the neighbors CRG 125 shifter kart, he brought out his spare kart and we had a 3 Kart battle, she out braked me somehow and passed me twice. I had a hard time keeping the CRG on the pipe and she could get me out of the turns and under braking even though the CRG had 4 wheel discs. I had way more top speed though. It was surprisingly even. My neighbor was being easy on both of us and he just stayed behind Christa. Christa overcooked it on the straights got off line and almost ate the curb a few times and her mom got scared and made us quit.

Man I am tired, I think I did about 100 laps. Christa is pretty tired too,

Installed a Tri-Point Engineering rear swaybar, CP-E intake and rear motor mount on the Mazdaspeed3. Then did the front brakes on my brothers Silverado. Now i'm sitting down to some nice local microbrewed IPA and playing some Modern Warfare 2.

It's been a good day.

Finished the mechanical work necessary to get the '86 SVO Mustang back on the road, well except for the exhaust.  My son took everything off the long block a couple of years ago so its was mostly an exercise in finding the parts and fasteners. The PO hacked the wiring, and the mice ate some, so now I'm on to the electrical side. At least it turns over, now to get it to fire.  '80s EFI cars have connectors and wiring that are just falling apart. As much as I'd like to keep all the original connectors, I'm tempted to just change everything I can to weatherpak. 

Bob 

The chain on my TAG Kart and the drive belt on Jeff's super rattler scooter