SpecterByte

No more door slam

Last time I had a passenger at the track with me I realized they have to slam the door to get it to shut. I spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to address this problem. Checkout this guide about it: https://github.com/amarjandu/s30/tree/

Neptune

Neptune is the network configuration for our place. Here is a repository that I use to save some of the service configurations. This used to be only used for spitting up a adguard-home instance that blocks ad network traffic at the house. The next itteration of this needs to be

diy

Cornering Stability - Part 1

On the last track event at Thunderhill West I noticed that I was not comfortable running the car very hard into the corners. From the data that I pulled from RaceChrono it appears that I'm getting around 1.8G of force in turn 3. In comparison my buddy Barry in

datsun

Numbers Game

Is it true that `if you don't fix something multiple times did you really do it`? I'll tell you what the older I seem to get the less time I have to come back to something and fix it again. Funny that the older guys always have nicer cars, here

life

New Year New Me

There's this running joke among some friends were toward the start of the year, we always justify the same ol' things we are doing with, "New Year New Me". But it's almost March as I'm writing this, and I can finally say I'm starting to get a handle on the

unrealistic expectations

One week ill be driving it my ass. There is still hella work to complete on it, i ended up not being able to find a large enough metal tie down to hold down the AC-line to the chassis. This actually led me to getting a 3d printer so i

Autumn

Its the beginning of fall; you can feel the air get cold and crisp. I drove the other night with the windows down blasting some music while driving to Santa Cruz, funny it was my remote day from work, but I went to see my buddy. It was strange though,

Updates

Currently fighting off an issue regarding anything above 4k RPM, complete loss of power. Believe the issue might be with the burn not being complete, I upgraded to the electronic ignition, so I'm not sure how much control I can have for adjustments. The timing of this dizzy does not

starvation

I attempted to change the fuel pump to a Carter 4070, I found that the OEM fuel pump bracket is not really designed to hold this pump. With the modifications required to the bracket it would leave hoses exposed to debris that gets kicked from the rear tire. There are

flow

Flow

So I've been breaking in this motor for a while, Ive put around 4000 miles on the rebuild. Which means I should probably do a valve-adjustment, and oil change. One of the issues that I felt about the motor was that the tune was not smooth. There was always some

Ouch!

So, this website was down for a while, allow me to kinda explain myself. The first issue had been that over my brief summer work that I was doing I forgot to renew the SSL Certification for this website, (HTTPS is important!). But addressing the bug took a while because

images

split second image

Howdy, I've been busy for the past couple of weeks with course work, after spring break everything started piling fast. I still saved some time to work out some of the knots. I fiddled with the carb yesterday before taking it out to the local coffee shop, pretty stoked about

Idling Time

I've been slowly working on the car for the past couple of weeks. It seems that my professors have all decided to amp up the amount of work we have to produce in every class that I'm taking. It really hinders the amount of work that I'm able to do

LTC

Dirty Hands

The last time we were discussing my car, LTC was at $2 bucks a pop. (It's $9.28 as I type this), and my car was not running at all. Since then I got the car running correctly, I fixed some major leaks within the system (should have used hondabond

locks

Recursive Issues

Within the last posting and now, I attempted to fix the rear hatch lock, by re-keying it. Something that I noticed was that in both instances the dust cover spring was rusted out, and in the case of the rear hatch it had snapped one of the arms off. That

repair

Locks

I went to close the door yesterday on the Z and realized that although the door was closed, nothing involving the latching system was engaged. I was able to shove my hand in between the door gap and it flung open. So off came the door panel, and a few

Gaining Momentum

Since the last post I made, I think I only stopped working a couple of minutes to eat, or drive somewhere to work. This weekend was quite eventful. I needed assistance bleeding the brakes, IPX was up to the challenge and shot over after he got off work. Upon removing

A stash of gold

When I bought this last S30, I must admit, I thought that the building of the car would be something surreal. I guess having it in the yard makes it that much easier to be accustom to the presence of it. Sometimes I find myself only really appreciating it when

Hours Spent

When the ghost production site says "you can save time by just using our ghost hosting service" holy crap will that save you time. I think currently after 6 hours of fiddling around with NPM/NODE/NVM I finally got the setup done correctly... At least I think