Welcome to Pop's Garage!

Pop's Garage, not a real place, so don't look for it in the Yellow Pages, lol. Actually, my wife has called me "Poppa" since before we got married, and I thought it would be a good name for a garage if I were to ever open one. So I'm using it here.

On to the purpose of this blog. I love pretty much anything to do with cars. Mostly old muscle cars, classic trucks, mini trucks, diesel trucks, hot rods and some sport compacts. Some times, I either get to working on a project, or have ideas for one and I like to share the info with others. There are also times I am working on a car for someone and I need to complain about the engineers bad ideas, or rave about the good ones. So this is my place to do that.

A little background on me and my automotive experience. I have been driving since 1992, when I turned 16. I have worked in the automotive industry in some way since 1994, off and on, either selling parts, delivering parts, installing parts or making parts. I have been in to building custom cars for just as long. I have built about 10 cars of my own and helped my friends on dozens more in the past. I have been in 5 car clubs since I was 16, and president of 3 of those 5. The club names were Syndicate (Dayton, OH), Furious Stylez (president), Crossroads Customs, 0-60 of Dayton (President), and Positive Perception (President, current club my wife and I have been trying to start since '08).

So that's all about me. Later I'll post about some past, present and future projects. C-ya!


Monday, March 14, 2011

Project Locomotion: Phase 1 - Power Train - Update

OK, it's March 14th and my truck is still in the barn, lol. The guy who is helping with the 6.5 swap got hurt at work, so I'm waiting until he's ready. What's going to happen is we are going to use the 6.5 in a N/A form. The engine is a 2000 Humvee powerplant, built as a N/A motor, and I believe having about 300HP as it sits. He's going to change the heads from the Humvee style to a standard truck version because of the angle of the exhaust side. Also, we will be using the Humvee intake and exhaust manifolds. It's projected to get at least 27MPG. But, we might be able to tune it to get better than 30MPG.

I've also been kicking around the idea of instead of a body dragger, go with a pro-touring suspension set-up. More on that as I do some other research.

So, until the next post, God Bless, keep the rubber side down, and get to wrenchin'! I hope my posts can be an inspiration to all who read them. John, "Pop"
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