Archive for April, 2008

Project Nissan 240SX: Day 3

I got a little distracted today and didn’t quite follow my plan from yesterday to the T. I had initial hopes of removing both manifolds and the head but I quickly realized that was a big chunk of work. I started off by removing the fluids from the block and then removing the various components [...]

Project Nissan 240SX: Day 2

Today went off without a hitch. I had planned on doing all this on Day 1 but my evening was cut short for dinner/date and play. Saw two plays, was most interesting. Day 2 consisted of roughly 3 hours tearing into the engine pulling all the vacuum lines, wiring harness, radiator inlet pipe, and a [...]

Project Nissan 240SX: Day 1

I don’t often speak of it but I’m a huge car fan. To be more precise, I love small 2 seat rear wheel drive cars. The lighter and more powerful the better. In addition to those cars, I love the Japanese supercars from the 1990’s. In particular I’ve always loved the R33 Skyline, I feel [...]

If I Could Design A Motherboard

This is one of those dream posts where I detail what is most likely impossible and expect the industry to respond. I doubt I’d ever see anything like this board, but perhaps those in important positions could take a few notes? The ideas mentioned below were the resulted after a short discussion with a friend [...]

Cold Enough Cascade Planning Stage

I have decided to embark upon what will most likely be a lengthy but carefully planned cascade build. This will become my primary benching and reviewing cascade to replace my underpowered but otherwise ideal Baby cascade. I am aiming at -95C loaded temperatures, cold enough to consistently bench at 5200MHz and higher but not cold [...]

Review: Wolf King Warrior

No, this is not some sort of video game character, this is actually what I’d dare to say one of the best gaming keyboards I’ve set my fingers to. I don’t typically game much or for that matter do anything with computers besides bench hardware but when Mike at MotherBoardPro approached me with the opportunity [...]