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I despise conducting business over Facebook!!

I agree European cars can be expensive to maintain. The only way I can afford it is to turn the wrenches myself. But Porsche parts seem to be exceptionally expensive. Late 80's 911 would be fun for a while

The James Harriet books are a great read Does APS have a website? I found the facebook page but it's hard to tell what they all they really make...

I agree with everything the Aviator said ^^^^^

I have always wanted to build a convertible z car. I have the triumph top frame laying around the shop and used to have the cassette VHS conversion tapes somewhere. Obviously a long term goal! 😉

Isnt that what makes a politician!

That's really unfortunate! Look on my build thread. I took this apart over the last couple of years... Some of that metal is pretty stout! It almost looks like poorly repaired crash damage with holes that allowed rust formation. I dont know who offers the best rear valance these days. A good donor would be my first choice. Especially if you can get the whole panel. Its one piece from the bottom, up around the lights to under the hatch slam panel. A 100 or so spot welds 😉

Thanks for the link Chas! All thats assembled and I had a very kind forum member ship me a really nice used 23t gear which we used

I agree, a nicely done car!

I used a satin black on the spokes I lightly sanded the rim and restained it then some spray can urethane

It's probably frozen up. Try to heat it up and some penetrating oil

I got mine in last weekend but haven't worked on it yet. I believe your numbers are correct

Wild guess is that it cools off some

Get some compressed air and cool the ECU when it does it and see what happens

What are the outside temperatures when this happens?

I had a customer who bought an old 4x4 Ford explorer. He took the rear driver shaft and connected it to a generator. He could run his whole house off of it. He could move it around using the front drive of the 4x4. It made a really discreet quiet generator!

Well that really depends. Lots of moving parts. What the system cost, if there are any tax credits or rebates, KwH costs and peak rate costs and such. For me, being a contractor, I opted for DIY. Now I got a couple of quotes from local PV installers in the $45k-$52k range for about a 10Kw system. Here in the states, in SC I get about 50% as a straight tax credit. So if I owe $5k and have a $5k credit, they offset each other and I pay nothing. So essentially the system costs half of what the initial cost was. Now, this is all provided you owe taxes and in a sufficient amount to be able to use the tax credit. For many years with a large family and relatively low income these number didn't work for us. I just couldn't make the numbers work for me at the quoted prices. So I found a complete system online and installed it my self. 24 LG 330w panels triple black with Enphase micro inverters and an Enphase combiner. This means that the power leaving the panels is AC current as the DC is converted as it exits the panel. This is much easier for me as I am familiar with working with AC power. DC is a lot more dangerous and cable sizing is completely different for DC power. I paid about $13K for a 7.9Kw array and had another $3k or so in misc, conduit, wire and labor to install it. After the rebates I figure it's paid for in about 60 months. So far I have been really pleased with getting much smaller power bills even with 3 teenagers still at home. I need to reroof the main part of the house and when I do that I will probably expand the system to be close to net Zero. I would also like to have a stand by battery system. Enphase has a new battery designed for their system. They are still quite expensive though. Battery backup adds more complexity too because you need magnetic transfer switches to protect utility workers. Chris, I am sure you are technically capable of doing this type of work! Whether your local municipality and power utility will let you is another question. The other issue is the roof work. None of he system parts are very heavy. Even the panels are only 30#s or so. But my roof is only 6:12 so 22 1/2d of pitch. Almost perfect for my latitude. A steeper roof would be more challenging but my coworker is still very young and his balance is good which makes it a lot easier. We took about 2 days for install but like many things we could probably do it twice as fast the second time. Hope that helps Sorry for the thread jacking

I put a PV system on our house in December. I've been really pleased so far. I will probably expand it at some point

Actually it's not that hard to do. They're not real wood anyway 😉

Most of us don't want to watch videos on our phones!

Paint looks nice! 500Hp is a lofty goal, even with a turbine...

I think thats dirt down in the grooves. A brush and frequent bucket changes. See if it gets better. Maybe find a specialty cleaner from Meguiars or Lexall

Yeah, so is my oven 😉

$38k is alot of money for that car IMHO

I use to use it in high school in my z for J turns. Very fun