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Now online, archives of public auto related mail lists here:

Miata List Archives: http://www.mx5world.com/phorum/index.php?9

Triumph List Archives: http://www.triumphexperience.com/phorum/index.php?12

This is a pilot project, if they're useful I'll put more of the archives I've collected online.

Living downtown, it's not easy to do any work on my car & bike projects, so I finally took the plunge and ordered a 600 sq ft steel building to go on the family "back 40" up near Merritt. It's about a 3 hour drive from home, and it won't have any utilities for a while, but it's a start. Right now there's just an old shack with no running water up there, but at least it has electricity.

At least I can get the boxes of MGB parts on the right side of the border this year, and maybe pick up my old engine & transmission, if I can track them down.

Some users are reporting problems uploading photos, so this is just a test post to see if I've fixed the issue.

Update: seems to work fine. The original image below was 7.7MB and I've updated the upload limit to 10MB (which gets resized down based on your membership level)

Got the car back from the garage today, my guess was right - the injector o-rings were shot and must have been leaking like hell. The car feels like twice as fast. I need to get it out on the highway to see if it fixed the overrun problem too. Feeling a lot more confident for the trip to Oregon in a couple weeks.

Finally got some nice weather so I picked up some 1/8 vac tee fittings and plumbed the boost gauge into a fresh 10cm x 3.5mm FPR line, reading 15 inHg vac at idle and about 5 psi when I floor it in neutral. Living downtown it might be a while before I can open it up on the road and see what the max boost really is. My neon orange 3.5mm vac line from Hose Techniques kinda rules, I'll have to go and replace everything now.

Got a bunch of PVC fittings at Home Depot for building a pressure tester and an old valve stem from my local shop. I'll take lots of pics and do a write-up after I pressure test my system.