April 2007 - Posts

• Windshield wipers.

  I took the 944 to the Sheriff's office Friday morning for it's Kansas State inspection. It was raining and I discovered that the windshield wipers were useless. It was a long couple miles trying to see out of that thing. Saturday afternoon I decided to fix that little problem. I went to Walmart and got 2 new wiper blades, a bottle of Rainx and some windex. I cleaned the windows 3 times before I got all the gunk off then I rubbed them down with the rainx and finally installed the new blades. Wow! What a difference! I had my son stand in front of the car and spray it with the garden hose and turned on the wipers. No trouble seeing now I thought. Then the passenger side blade came loose and started flopping all over the place. Turned out to be easy enough to fix, just a quick tightening with a wrench and all was good.   Since I had the hose out, I decided to give it a bath too. Posted Apr 29 2007, 07:44 PM by Chris with no comments Filed under: My 944

• Cleaning 'er up.

  Three years worth of crap have settled in every hard to reach place on the ol' 944. I spent several hours cleaning it out of the engine compartment today. I still have a long way to go before it's clean enough to suit me but it looks much better. Yesterday I spent the evening giving the outside of the car a good scrubbing that helped a bunch. I was going to wax it but decided that could wait. The guys at Imagine Auto gave it a good polishing while it was at their shop so a good wash was all it needed. Posted Apr 29 2007, 07:30 PM by Chris with no comments Filed under: My 944

• My 944 is home at last!

  I finally got it home from Imagine Auto. It was a nice 100 mile drive too. The engine rebuild is great! It runs better than it ever has since I've owned it. I'll have a million nickel and dime things to do from now until eternity but the worst is over at last. IT's RUNNING! Posted Apr 26 2007, 08:24 PM by Chris with no comments

• Heartland Park: PCA Porsches in the Heartland 2007.

  I added a ton of pics from the PCA club race this weekend at HPT in Topeka, KS. They are in no particular order. Some are from Saturday and some are from Sunday. I really could use a better camera. The bottom of the line Olyumpus just doesn't cut it. It's not nearly as good as the one that got stolen last year. :(  Oh well, I had a great time and the pics are good enough for this site. :) Posted Apr 23 2007, 01:11 AM by admin with no comments

• Added a bunch of pics.

  I found the bulk upload feature and used it to upload a bunch of car pics from World of Wheels 2004. I like the bulk upload for getting content added fast but I'll still have to go edit the descriptions manually. Most of the pics this time don't really matter but future uploads might be better with nice descriptions and comments. Posted Apr 20 2007, 07:50 AM by Chris with no comments

• Community Server Install.

  Well, I finally got community server installed and running on my godaddy.com hosted site. It was pretty simple but I did have to get some help. Installing an asp.net app like this to godaddy.com isn't as easy as if I had it on my own server. This is simply due to the way they have thier free/shared hosting set up. I found a very helpful guid to installing Community Server 2007 on a godaddy.com site at http://davestokes.net/files/folders/2007_installation_guides/entry273.aspx Posted Apr 19 2007, 08:52 PM by Chris with no comments