Fantastic pics and I admire the many hobbies!
However none of the drag cars and 1000+hp motors? :wink:
Is that a electric motor?
Here's a 1000+hp motor we are building in a 69 camaro, LSX with a F1R Procharger. It's blown two 4L80E that were supposed to be good to 1500hp built by a big name company out of state and we haven't even broke 80% throttle yet. Also fixing Procharger's setup, it was flexing under boost and chewing up the side of the belt. Talk the customer into going built 400 with trans brake and built gear vender. I will post some pics when we take it out to finish tuning.
That much torque can turn a Camaro into a pretzel. I hope you stiffened up the frame and rear springs, and beefed up the tranny and rear end.Here's a 1000+hp motor we are building in a 69 camaro, LSX with a F1R Procharger. It's blown two 4L80E that were supposed to be good to 1500hp built by a big name company out of state and we haven't even broke 80% throttle yet. Also fixing Procharger's setup, it was flexing under boost and chewing up the side of the belt. Talk the customer into going built 400 with trans brake and built gear vender. I will post some pics when we take it out to finish tuning.
That much torque can turn a Camaro into a pretzel. I hope you stiffened up the frame and rear springs, and beefed up the tranny and rear end.
Bob
In the long-long ago, I was into autocrossing for a while, then I got (back) into mountain biking, road biking, triathlon... But I don't have any great shots of that.
For a while I got pretty into photography...
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Thanks! The first shot is... well, it was really lucky. It was a bubbling volcanic mud pool near Rotorua, NZ. It was fascinating to watch it and I got some cool shots ... But I realized as I was going through that this one looked like a flower; when I boosted up the contrast, it was ... striking.
Here's the whole set...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesdbrockman/albums/72157624590865376
Travel and photography
The French Alps
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Canadian moose
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Iceland
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Got back into slot car racing after a 30 year break from it.
Wow! Great photos in that album! Many I really like, including that morningbird in flight shot. Some look like they belong in a magazine! Kudos!
Got back into slot car racing after a 30 year break from it.
Thank you!! Let me share an awesome true story....
So my wife and I were on vacation in New Zealand and we were supposed to go whale watching. When the day approached, it did not look good. The seas were beyond rough - I don't remember how big they were, but we saw the waves from the bus and they were HUGE. So we rescheduled (we had a "free day" just for that reason) and we decided to knock around Christchurch and see what we could see. For lunch, we ended up at this place called She Chocolat - a wonderful little cafe/chocolate shop. The food was beautifully presented, and the storm that had produced the heavy waves made for wonderfully soft, diffuse cloudy light coming in the window. Being ridiculous nerds, my wife and I both thought we'd take some pictures of our food. And not with our phones, but with our fancy DSLRs.
As we were sitting there, we noticed some people doing the same thing with desserts. We kind of smiled and gave a "yep, this is happening" smile to them... and then one of them came over. She asked if she could see the pictures we'd done. I said sure. She ran the shop and said they were taking pictures of some of their chocolate products; if we could do some high-quality shots of their chocolates, she'd give us lunch and chocolates to take with.
And that's the story of how my photography paid for my lunch.
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We had a 1/24 scale slot car drag track here in town, sure wish it was still here. I have almost built a track just to keep it going.
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