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Dropped off a steering rack with a friend near Columbus, OH

This is a sun dog. The sun’s reflection in the clouds. Sometimes you will see two of them – mirroring each  side of the sun.

it’s 2:32pm here. eating lunch at Wendy’s (of course) next stop is to drop a steering rack with a friend.

Daun came out earlier this week to help Cathy purchase an aircraft. But this odd snow made things interesting…

Daun’s flight out of Philadelphia got cancelled due to the snow as his flight was about to be de-iced. So he rented a car, and attempted to drive back to Dayton. Turnpike was closed (snowy hell), so he headed to Glenside. (now known as Glensicle )

After he got here, we ordered Pizza (of course). Becky started having a rather bad allergic reaction to a medication, so we took her to the emergency room. She’s a-okay now thanks to the doctors there!

Tomorrow, we’re leaving around 9 or so. Daun and I will caravan all the way to Dayton, OH. Becky and I will continue on in the Scirocco from there.

I completed installing the Megasquirt system from my old car into the new one.  This system controls the engine – the fuel and the spark. The car can be both more powerful and efficient with the Megasquirt system, which is tunable with a laptop. The car’s old fuel injection system was Bosch CIS – a mechanical fuel injection system. With the wideband oxygen sensor, I can run the engine lean on the highway for more MPG. In my old car – I averaged 36mpg. (Epa rating is 28 mpg)

It uses a 1999 Saturn SC1 coolant temperature sensor, fuel rail from a 1991 Jetta, Oxygen sensor from a 2003 1.8T New Beetle, intake manifold from a 1992 VW Fox, intake temperature sensor from a 1989 Chevy Camaro, a fuel filter from a 1996 Golf, a throttle body from a 1988 Scirocco 16v, and some other various random parts. Despite the disturbing variation of weird parts, it looks a lot simpler than it was before.