CokeRx7

How far are ya from the white Marsh area... if i can find a house (in july) i'll move out there so i dont have to keep paying the toll just to work in the garage ya know???

I know lots of math.. i'm teaching my self economics and how the market works.. and thinking about custom making my shifting boot.. :-D.. gotta find my moms sewing mechine..

emory_stagmer

I've got an industrial machine - it'll sew through your HAND if you're not careful - it was really bad when my wife's sewing machine had more horsepower than my TABLESAW - so I got a bigger saw

Anyway - it sews leather great - up to about 6 layers anyway ( it'll do 12 layers of canvas ) at up to 600 stitches / minute. For small projects, it's available. Bigger projects would have to be negotiated (like seats). I'm in Lutherville (Greenspring Ave).

The shop idea is good - biggest hurdle (any small business) is being under-capitalized in the beginning.

falnfenix

i still say Greenspring Ave is Baltimore, not Lutherville...

Tenacious

I got some awesome equipment, dont waste your money on a car lift for lifting cars, just borrow my 9,000lb forklift!

Pele

iTrader: (28)

We need a CNC mill for porting. Perfect ports every time.

Only 50K... Best thing is if you get em by a certain brand name... "Bridgeport"

AkumaKuruma

its kinda scary when yer referencing the HP of a sewing machine

Bukwild

"Bukwild, I'm serious about this if I could get a crew together to support this, and a location."

Well get it together soon because I am looking at buying a apartment building in Southeast with my lifes savings.

Tofuball

Well, I'm not going to rush this, I still have the tail end of classess to work on, and I gotta move, and rushing is going to make mistakes happen, and a mistake I make while operating a shop is going to hurt a lot more people then myself. (Customers, Employees, Investors)

And I'm heading off to the Dominican Republic/Hatian border to biuld houses/hospitals/churches/whatever they need help with in june, so I really wont be all there till I get back.

I have $650 left to raise for the trip

Anyone wanna help? Contact me

Bukwild

hit me up when you get back. Don't forget your sunblock. The sun is unforgiving down their.

x0ny

hey jason, ill be happy to chip in 20$ for good cause ^_^

Tofuball

That would be fantastic! Thanks!


AND PAGE 300 IS MINE!@!!!!!@!2789#)

bWAHAHA

muythaibxr

Julian and I are down for the shop thing, we're working on getting our tuning acts together so we can specialize in tuning.

Tofu's car is my first megasquirt. I've had a few bumps here and there, but it starts up real quick and idles real well. I just have to sort out some common-ground issues so that the temp sensors work right once they heat up, and we'll be well on our way to a good tune.

Edit:

Oh yeah, and I'll donate you some money. I'm feeling generous

AkumaKuruma

i still have yet to see it run. last i saw it you were still soldering the wires in to the harness

muythaibxr

Well it's over to my house now, so it ran well enough to get it there (I did a VERY rough tune manually without looking at any datalogs to get it over there). It stalled several times, but started right back up whenever it stalled)

I have a common ground issue to take care of (I need to ground the sensors to the megasquirt, or ground the sensors and the megasquirt to the same place), that is affecting my tuning efforts, so I'm going to fix that tonight or tomorrow evening, and we'll be back to tuning again tomorrow.

In addition, I took a look at the datalogs yesterday, and figured out the stalling issue, so that'll be gone tomorrow as well. (It was stalling whenever the throttle was lifted really fast, because that'd cause a really high vacuum (low kPa) and the map at that point was too lean (afr was jumping to like 15:1, apparently death for a rotary at low or falling revs). I richened it up, so it shouldn't stall anymore.

Spark advance is working perfectly now, so I just have to fix the temp sensors (so they report correct temp, and don't trick the megasquirt into ending its warmup enrichments too soon), and then I can really start tuning.

CokeRx7

I'll surely keep you in mind.. I just gotta find a good spot to buy the meterials and thread.. I am looking at leather and ployiester (sp i hate english).. A white boot will be my first one to make.. making two.. cuz my friend is going to use it in his auto Nissan Sentra.. Just for advertising it for me.. and of course i'll make them cheaper than what the mega market sells it.. :-D

DarkAngelKamui

Yeah, start a shop guys... then sponsor me so I can enter drift tourneys...

monchie01

yeaa!! all i really want is a tire sponsor.... lol

Bukwild

"yeaa!! all i really want is a tire sponsor.... lol"

If you join SCCA racing you get a sponser from Tire Rack but you have to run their banner in the front window.

CokeRx7

IF we do a shop.. i can be the fabricater... like interior mods... and stuff.. (depending on how well i mimic the shifting boot.. :-D) .. Using the 50hsp sewing mechine..

AkumaKuruma

cool...cant wait to see what kind of gas mileage/power differences he gets.

AkumaKuruma

you good at making custom panels out of foam/fiberglass/wood?

CokeRx7

nope but once i learn i will be.. i'm good with my hands..

DarkAngelKamui

Yeah, I get told that all the time too... lol

Shinobi-X

I'm sure you tell yourself this enough as well LOL, J/k

AkumaKuruma

too bad it isnt over something OTHER than your hands then