This.
We will be here the rest of the week as well.
This.
We will be here the rest of the week as well.
Nothing Saturday because the weather was awful. But today Annie and I took the MX-5 into Northeast CT for fall foliage views. We stopped at Taylor Brooke Brewery for a couple beers and live music:
Then some spirited driving on the country roads of Woodstock and Pomfret. Pic courtesy of Annie in the co-pilot's seat:
Then home for a fire in the fireplace and a bit of wine:
Finishing up my little utility trailer project.
Then I went shopping at my favorite place for some little parts for my truck.
Today when I was cruising the neighborhood on my way back from PickNPull I spotted this killer electric trailer dolly sitting on the curb. My neighbor used it to maneuver his boat in and out of his garage and had recently sold his boat.
I replaced all four cam sensors on my CLS. It totally transformed the car. Idles better accelerates better pulls harder. There's have been going out for a while. Maybe three months or so. It would stumble when I did a longer acceleration run like getting up to speed on the highway and the chk engin light would come on but only for a coupole minutes and then it would clear. I would chk it later and no stored codes. Well two weeks ago it started doing it more often and then finally early last week it did it and the car went in to reduced power mode and the light stayed on. The car would drive fine as long as I kept the rpm under 3k when accelerating. Codes said the sensors were bad. It is really sadisfyimg when the ecu sais this is the issue and you replace the part and it fixes the problem.
On another note I went and helped my daughter pick out her wedding dress. Never done that before. For some reason she wanted dad there. It was a lot of fun actually.
Nothing out of the ordinary for me. Autocross at the Firm, this time with Buccaneer SCCA out of Jacksonville. Finished third. First and second was MR2 Toyotas, I beat the other three miatas.
Watching my videos is useful, I can see all the mistakes I'm making.
Another great weekend at camp with my daughters.
Went for,what will likely be the last group flatfender Jeep run of the season
Camping, cruising, and picking up trash with friends. Didn't do any internet and didn't pay any attention to news. A nice weekend.
In reply to Scotty Con Queso :
Scotty, is this scouting? Princesses?
In reply to mtn :
Y-Princess Program. Highly recommend.
In reply to Scotty Con Queso :
Thanks - I was in Indian Guides when I was a kid. Loved it. Will be looking into our local program, kiddo will be there in 1-1.5 years.
Took vacation time to do stuff around the house, and race at Eastern States Weekend in Middletown. It rained most of the week and there was a general lack of ambition so not much around the house got done. Friday night's race was rained out and postponed to November. Saturday's small block race Dillon started 23rd and made it to 5th before the rave was called gor rain at 67 of 100 laps. He was fast enough to maybe pick up two more spots. Sunday we had to run the consi to qualify for the 200 lap big block race because of a flat tire in his heat. Finished 5th so he started 39th. Made it to 13th when a left rear shock mount broke with 8 laps to go dropping him back to 24th. We were going to be close on fuel and either would have picked up or lost a few more spots depending on how out math and uncounted caution laps went.
We’ve had a nice run of Indian Summer days here in Southern New England. (Can we still use that term?) So today we took a drive in the MX-5 through western RI into CT and then south on CT Rte. 49. Beautiful. Targa top down, 83 degrees, sunny and not a cloud in the sky. One of the best days of the summer, even though it’s autumn. Destination “Kingdom of the Hawk” vineyard in North Stonington, CT.
Older pic, same destination:
Todays pics:
You’ve seen many of my posts featuring wine, and you may think I’m a wino. But you'd be wrong. Diversity is my strength. I also co-exist with craft beer, Beefeater gin martinis and various bourbons and scotches.
Recovering from hip replacement surgery! And scrolling GRM forums and online content.
NHRA in Vegas. Should be good. Pics when I can.
Man. One car exploded the its top end at the scary end of the track and still ran 3.7. And Millican lost a tire at 300mph. These folks are nuts.
The Outlaw Bug needed to get a workout. Drove into town for the local VW clubs picnic in the park get together. They put on a nice event. One may start to believe in global warming when its 85 on the 29th of October.
Take a trip down to Brown County, Indiana with the convertible before it gets put away for the winter.
I concede that almost every time I post something in this thread it's autocross events. Not this time, Mrs and I have escaped town, hanging out in Savanna for a few days.
Lego GTR with Grandson.
Did we collectively decide who Gary looks like? Because he looks JUST like someone, I just can't decide who that someone is.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
nice.. Gonna be fat bike weather here soon.
I just tried to keep my ass out of the hospital with COVID. Was on a business trip to NYC this past week. I didn't get the booster before going because I had a sinus infection before and felt terrible. So.. Thursday I got a fever and then.... 104 fever and some some laborered breathing had me in the urgent care. I have asthma so they are worried. Luckily some prednisone and paxlovid got that under control and fever finally abated..
A couple of bike rides, but not frosty. Weather here has been about perfect. Yesterday was 82 and sunny with no humidity, the day before was 84 and sunny with no humidity.
Found a peaceful stop along the trail yesterday. Weather/atmosphere was 10/10. Trail was a 3/10 maybe. Its listed as the "most technical trail in the triangle", which I grossly misinterpreted as elevation/speed/fun but it was just a berkeleying grind.
Saturday morning I reinstalled my lift on the new concrete.
Dirtie is headed back to Lemons for the Road Atlanta race in December. We had clutch/transmission problems at the last event and broke the 3/4 shift fork. I built a spacer so we could use a Colorado clutch slave with a bleeder instead of the Solstice slave, which is apparently bled by magic and wishes. We also replaced the OE Datsun clutch master with a Colorado master. Hopefully, that makes the clutch a little more dependable.
Spacer. Actually built a couple of weeks ago.
Trans in and driveshaft going back in.
Sunday I was making new cage spreader plates. A couple of them are questionable due to rust so I'm going to replace them and get out to good steel. I'll get those welded in this week.
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