Well I've been lazy all week and haven't touched the car aside from driving it and tinkering with the EFI.
I tried engaging the EGO compensation, but my VE map isn't quite close enough yet. So I've turned it back off while I tinker.
The car idles, and returns to idle, well once it's up to temp. But the time between cold start and hot it hunts for idle. I'm making small adjustments and I think I'm on the path.
It rained yesterday, so I was running the wipers and lights and it was pissed even once up to temp. I made some adjustments and it seems to be much happier.
Incremental progress is still progress.
Incremental progress is still progress.
Incremental progress is still progress.
Incremental progress is still progress.
Incremental progress is still progress.
Incremental progress is still progress.
Moving on!
I went to bed last night ~2145. Alarm was set for 0528.
This morning at 0528 I was on another planet. The alarm almost brought me back to Earth...almost.
I snoozed until 0545. That alarm got me from bed to the bathroom, but I would not have been able to cogently answer many questions. #sleepinsleepin #iykyk
I shower and dress and make my way to the kitchen. Still hazy, but the shapes have clear edges now instead of fuzzy ones. I fill my two Yetis with ice & water and head to the garage. Push the car out, fire it up, close the big door, exit the little door, jump in, and I'm on the way to work. It's ~0615.
Traffic is average for Saturday, so I'm speeding but not setting the world on fire. I get to the ramp from IN37 to I69 (nice) and the GD driver's mirror 'ejecto-seato, cuz' -es itself right off the car. What the hell.
(car at work with no mirror)
I check my remaining two mirrors, and savagely rip the car from the passing lane (left) to the right shoulder. Full stop, 4-way blinkers on, car off, parking brake set, jam car into 1st, do yoga to check over my left shoulder (no mirror), and I'm out of the car and crossing the HIGHWAY on foot. I jog back to the mirror and find it and the base gasket sitting on the shoulder. Check up-range, and I dart back across to the relative safety of the shoulder. As I'm making my way back to the car, I inspect the mirror. Glass is intact. Mirror base intact. Mirror shell is intact. Nothing rattles. The pegs that secure the mirror are intact. It's quite literally a-ok, save some scrapes in the plastic shell of the mirror. Somewhere in the 100-200 yards I walked, I managed to step in poop. I do my best to scrape the poop off my shoe on the jersey-barrier (K-wall?). That gets the bulk, but I'm not getting inside my forking 911 with hella poop stuck to my shoe. No way. I take the shoe off and whilst balancing on the other foot, beat the shoe against the top, back edge of the jersey-barrier sending little bits of poo asunder. Thankfully, they went over the wall and not back towards me. This gets four of the remaining five percent of the poo. I magically pull a paper towel from my hoodie pocket like Mary-freakin-Poppins and carefully wipe the shoe to purge what remaining poo I can. I AM STILL BALANCING ON ONE FOOT ON THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY. The poo-towel was folded in on itself and carefully tucked away (not in my pocket) and I got back in the car. The mirror is on the passenger seat with my laptop. I get the car fired up, steering wheel back on, and I'm back doing yoga checking over my left shoulder. (still no mirror) I see an opening and pin it. I got to work with no [additional] drama. I even managed to get to work on time...albeit not by much. I'll borrow a 4mm allen key and get the mirror back on before I leave.
Some takeaways from this morning's events.
1. These 3d printed Pegaroo bases are tougher than I gave them credit for.
2. I didn't tighten them enough as I was afraid I'd break them. This is clearly untrue.
3. You have to be a real...jerk...to poop on the side of the highway. IDC if it was goose poop or dog poop or fox poop or person poop. Stop pooping on the road. Dang.
Here's some pics of the carnage, and lack of carnage.
I can't recall the last time I had a Saturday that felt this much like a Monday.
I hope you all have a less eventful weekend.