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For someone obsessed with cars, and more specifically car engines, there really isn't a greater feeling of accomplishment than seeing a Chevy 350 V8 engine that was taken apart, measured, and put back together by your very own hands run successfully. At school I am in the class I have been waiting to take forever. It's called Hot Rod. It's actually 2 classes long. In the first class we take apart and measure EVERYTHING in our engines and then put it back together. In the second class we put that engine in a T-Bucket and hook it all up. We run the engines we built on a dyno to see how much horsepower we make with them. Then we put modifications on our engine to try and gain more horsepower. The ultimate goal is to achieve more than 340 horses. If we accomplish that we get to put NOS in out engine for one final run on the dyno.

Our first pass on the dyno with our stock engine got us 195 horsepower, which is really weak, and 278 torque, which is really good. I was pretty dissapointed in our weak horespower rating. We then pulled the camshaft out and replaced it with one that had more life, more duration, and more overlap. Thus producing more power. We also put rocker arms that are bigger than our stock ones. The stock rocker arms have a ratio of 1.5:1, the ones we installed have a ratio of 1.6:1.

On our second run on the dyno with the mods we installed we pulled 245 horses, and still 278 torque. Thats really impressive. We gained about 50 horsepower with few modifications to the wheels. That means that with drivetrain lose taken into account we gained about 70 horsepower at the crank. Again thats very impressive for what we did.

There is nothing quite like the feeling of seeing the engine you built turn over 5000 RPM. For me thats something to be proud of. More modifications are yet to come, and thus more horsepower. We will soon put bigger heads, a better intake manifold, and a bigger carburetor and another bigger cam, I think. I think we will be able to get NOS in the end of the class.

Updates will come on the same topic.

OOOOO Sick Burn!!

I went to the beach with Kalani and her friends last Tuesday. It was a ton of fun.
Unfortunately my skin didn't enjoy it much. I think this is the worst sun burn I've ever had. It hurts so bad. But it's getting better. I was absolutely miserable on Wednesday tho. If I hadn't turned into the red lobster it would have been much more fun. But oh well, you live and you learn.

All Work, No Pay

Today at work was entirely stressful.
I busted my butt for like 2 hours straight and barely made like $4.25 on commission all day. On a good day(like today seemed to be) I should make like $20. Granted I should still have like 4 bucks coming from another car I worked on that didn't get picked up, so I made like 8 bucks today. But considering how much work I did I should have made more money!

FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!

I changed one tire on a VW and then had to chance it back because and idiot salesmen sold the guy the wrong tire. Not like it mattered. The tire he got was almost exactly the same as the other 3 so I don't know why he cared so much. Basically I had to do twice the amount of work for NO money at all.

Needless to say I was pissed. I kinda blew my witness too. I suck!!! None of this makes me happy.

In other news: I think all hope is lost!

Desiring

I'm learning to pray more and seek God more.
How am I suppose to receive the desires of my heart if I don't ask God for them. Sure He is omniscient and already knows what I want, but that doesn't mean I don't have to bring my desires to Him and ask Him to fulfill them. How can I expect to receive that which I have not asked for?

James 4:2b-"Yet you do not have because you do not ask."

Matthew 7:7-"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."

So I am gonna keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking. God knows what I want, and I'm gonna continue asking Him for it. But God also knows what He wants, and I'm gonna keep seeking it, and asking Him to fulfill His will. I just hope that His will is to grant me my desires.
If you read this and would like to pray for this situation in my life it would be greatly appreciated.

I so incredibly and deeply yearn for this to work out, but I know it cant unless I seek the King daily.

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First post ever!
More to come? Yes.
I wonder if anyone will read.