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An interview with Dr. Bradley Edwards, a big proponent and really smart guy on space elevators. I really hope that I see the development of these in my lifetime, and the jump in technology and innovation that’ll come with them to benefit society. The world will be an amazing place when you can spend a couple of days in transit and end up in space!

I got my fuel pressure and oil pressure gauges yesterday, from Lee’s Spare Parts & Performance – a great little place down on Kingston road, near me. I ended up just buying two oil pressure gauges, since that’s all they had, and they were cheap – they are the same gauges anyway, just with different labels They are Speco brand 2″ white face gauges, nice and small, and easily readable. They ended up being $59.95 each, which was a steal since they are electrical, and include the sender and all mounting hardware.

Bob and I went to Petroject – actually we got really lost because I didn’t have my refidex or a proper address – made a call or two, and found it. I talked to one of the reps about all the different options and stuff, ended up going with a stock bosch injector, since they are $230 cheaper EACH than replacing the ones I’ve got with the same thing The rep helped us with a lot of information on our options, and what the effects of each decision would be – upgradability, performance etc. I bought one injector so we can test fit everything, and six connector plugs for the injectors (because I have a bad habit of losing/breaking things) so I can make up the loom.

There’s a couple of different styles of bosch injectors, the old type that I have are expensive and pretty much one-offs. The new bosch layout is a standard-fit injector, meaning you can get anywhere from 30Hp of flow to 1500Hp per injector in the same package without changing your manifold. Since they aren’t the stock injectors for my manifold, I’m going to have to modify things a little. There’s two options – either file down the little plastic cap on the new injector, or get someone to machine the manifold slightly so that the cap will fit, and the O-ring will seal the spray end of the injector like it’s designed to. I’ll also have to get a new fuel rail made up, because the old injectors had hose barbs on them, and the new ones have a design that means they seal into a fuel rail that sits on top of them.

I also bought a new set of basically everything for the ignition side of things on the gem – coil, leads, plugs, points, condensor, rotor and dizzy cap. It’ll mean that I’m still running points-based ignition to start with, but that’s just so I can get used to the EFI, and then an untested ignition system after that

A slightly expensive day, but one that was VERY productive. Today we’re going to have a look around at a few places to see if we can find the intake air temperature sensor and a throttle position sensor, two things that are a bit elusive at this point.

Well, that royally sucks, all their history is destroyed These guys make some seriously cool animated shows and feature films, incorporating good english humor and hilarious visuals.

Found from a slashdot article here.

Oh well, so that failed – there’s no wireless access points that I can see from where I sit at this desk overnight. I’m at work, starting at eleven PM. It’ll probably be so boring that I’ll just jot down notes and rambling whenever I think of something.

23:00 The overnight. It’s a really boring shift from what I’ve heard, only about one call an hour when things on the network are running fine, or completely crazy if they are not. Let’s hope that it all goes well – I’ll just put up a recorded message begging people not to talk to me if it goes awry.
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Great review of John Romero’s “Dead” series of movies on K5. Cool