Here it is:
Vik, Nick, Rick, Rob and myself got together on Saturday to screw around with whatever..
Driveway shot: Rob is enlightening Nick on the joy of cosmoline removal, Vik is under his car changing out his oil, my Z parked in the back there and a spare VG30DETT on the stand. Vik and I cashed in on the Wal-Mart special: 5QT 10W30 Mobil1 synth container for $17.99.
Viks dirty ass engine.. Which leads me to....
I built a clumsy version of this a few weeks back and I cleaned my engine compartment up with it. It worked great despite having to use both hands on it, really needed another hand though. After seeing all of these dirty ass Z engine compartments, I scrounged up the materials and built this single handed beauty. A little window cleaner diluted with water works great to break things loose.
The high pressure air blasts the liquid agains the parts and the dirt just flies away. Once you are done, just use the high pressure air to dry up whatever is wet. It is very controllable and doesn't drench your motor.
More work here..
This is a pic of the infamous vibraheatseat in Vik's TT.
And the control panel for it. Looks good eh? (cough cough - I did that - Cough hack)
APVS DesignZ white face guages insatlled on Vik's TT.
Now here's where it gets a little wacky.
I bought this mini camera with a 2.4GHz transmitter and a reciever. 
This is me making the helicopter cam bracket.
And this is my Hirobo Condor 60, fitted with the mini-cam.
Here I am starting her up.. I had the reciever hooked up to the ZPC's USB Intel Pro Cam's DBD::ODBC::db prepare failed: (DBD: st_prepare/SQLAllocStmt err=-2) at incl_db.pm line 314.
auxiliary input and the video capture running. I flew her way up over the house to get a birds eye view of the city around our area. Once I knew it worked well, VIk and I took my car out to a long straight road and proceeded to see what she could do. I was in the pasenger seat of my Z and he was driving, I got the video capture up and running and the helo in a hover. We took of down the road, ran a 4Mile clip at a max of 52MPH with the whole thing on video - from the helicopter's perspective. Oncoming traffic was freaked! Hehehe. I just wanted to do it so I could say that I did that shiznit.
I also rebuild the ZPC's Carputer case to add another 5.25" bay and some other goodies.
Here it is in the car..
Here's what the old one looked like.
And an underside shot.
My CarPuter Headquarters:
[ ashleypowers.terrashare.com ]
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