With an older car it just seems to make a lot of sense to send out a used oil sample and see what is going on inside the engine. This...

Quick timeline: Changed the oil at 119k Miles or so (Jan 8) Got my UOA back and it recommended fuel injector cleaner because it looked a...

This is an amp head I bought on ebay years back. The AC50 is perhaps most famous as an amp head the Beatles used for a very short time....

My old 1997 M3 4dr enjoying a blast through the snow. Proper snows and a limited slip differential made this fun rather than scary. Our...

I am not aware of any other single material in musical instrument manufacture with such a cult following, and such a lot of confusion....

Well, maybe not "all", but a decent start... Our host, Pythagoras (Image: World History Encyclopedia) Tuning is surprisingly complicated....

A short sweet photo guide to get good results quickly, I hope. A couple quick notes (TL;DR) * Remove & replace strings one at a time if...

Our old cars would have a hard time being more different. The odd couple? I thought it would be fun to look at some of the engine design...

When you amplify a signal, any signal, the circuit you use will often have some non-linearities. These can lead to additional frequencies...

Get a bunch of guitar players together and in no time debates will ensue about some other player's "tone". What causes it, what...

(This is kind of an homage to the kinds of articles the great Peter Egan wrote in Road & Track) The year was 1984. I was newly out of...

One thing that happened when I took the car in for its inspection was we saw the front turn signals were not working. It felt a bit like...

I purchased a used Fender "alternate reality" 12-string as an affordable, giggable alternative to the real thing. The vintage ones have...

Here we'll try and hit the high points of what you need to know about speakers. A microphone "backwards" Speakers date to the late 19th...

You're just driving and minding your own business, you go to close the sunroof and it starts to close but then stops and won't close any...

There is a good chance, if the car you are buying is >25 that the stereo (such as it was) is dead. I didn't buy an old 911 for the...

I will post archive docs here for former and present clients to access. The original site is still accessible via the wayback machine if...

What: An Elephant Racing quick release front strut bar Why: The 911 was designed in 1964 and todays performance tires can exert a lot...

While this is a very simple operation, I have seen almost no pics of a G50 pedal cluster or details on them online. So this is more of a...

Thought it might be handy to have a list of parts for a major service and some ballpark costs for estimation. For general maintenance,...