Perceived Volume, Watts and Speakers
In many years of playing out, doing repairs and being asked to perform mods to people's old tube amps, there is nearly always a single...
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So how does it drive?
Update: Jan 2024 I've had the car a couple years now, and have rebuilt the front suspension entirely as well as had it professionally...
Fixing a sticky Throttle
I had a mildly annoying problem; when the car got hot, the throttle would stick a little and the car would idle a bit high. I sprayed it...
Replace your main fuse panel
One of my goals is to feel good about taking the car for medium length trips, weekend sort of things, a few hundred miles each way. Part...
Replacing your Engine mounts
Your engine and transmission are the source of a lot of what auto engineers refer to broadly as "NVH" - noise, vibration and harshness....
Change Your Oil
The air-cooled 911's have some interesting differences that seem to make checking and changing the oil a bit more challenging for the...
Guitar stuff on the web
For the curious, here are various resources: In the press: Reviews of "Now is not a great time" by John Sally Ride....
Removing your stone guards
If you have them and you like them, you can skip this one. If you are not crazy about them, they are fortunately easy to remove. With...
Upgrading to H4 headlights
The US DOT is very good at some things. Headlights are not one of them. The ROW cars got nice bright H4 halogen lamps which consisted of...
Mirror Mirror
Every old car has issues. Rufus is no different. It's just part of the journey. My PPI looked for accident damage, serious engine issues,...
Approaching maintenance on a 34 year old car
I knew I wanted to go to track days, probably some autocross events too. Not make a race car out of it, but it was going to need to be...
Buying a 1988 3.2 liter Carrera
I bought a car online, having never driven it. A very odd experience. I did a bunch of research first, read buyers guides, and tried to...
What every guitarist should know (a work in progress)
Lessons from Bob Mayo, Dan Hovey & others Bending & Vibrato You're bending strings with your ring finger, but use the two behind it for...
The Story of OEI
The name pre-dates the company by many years. It was originally a joke from my dial-up days on Prodigy. My friend Ed was teasing me...
The Amp Dogs
Back in the days when Prodigy was the big alternate to AOL and the internet was a thing you tied up your POTS line to connect to, people...
Electronics
I don't know where curiosity comes from. For me it was always there. By the time I was 4 I was explaining the 4-cycle gas engine to our...
Music finds the scientist
Senior year of HS I found myself interning at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Rye, NY. It was right behind the woods by our athletic fields...
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