After a year of searching, an Alpineweiß story

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Update
I got a nice piece of mdf cut to size on the panel saw at Home Depot
It's 41.5X17.5
It's going to be a spacer between the top of the box and the butcher block.

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I took the top drawer thanks to the help of a YouTube video by user R.J. Workshop

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NZwing6p70

Trying to get a game plan going.


Sears had a sale on this 4 inch black bench vice. So I picked one up.


The mounting holes had excess flashing so bad that the bolts wouldn't fit.

The vice couldn't only pivot half way before it got bound up.
More flashing in the way.


There are bits and pieces of flashing that had to be removed for it to operate smoothly.

Dremel and a carbide tool made quick work of the flashing.


I machined a nice base all squared up for the vice.



I machined some soft jaws also.




I bought hardware that ended up being to short so still have to wait on mounting the vice.

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It's 108 degrees out in Irvine yesterday but I got to work on mounting the vice.
Here is the new vice.
Soft jaws
Bolts
Nuts
Washers
Base plate


Mdf spacer attached to the bottom of the butcher block to act as a spacer between the tool box since it has a metal lip around the sides and back.


Measure 5 times and don't fuck up this nice piece of wood.


Perfect.

The bolts are now going through the
vice
Aluminum spacer
Butcher block
Mdf
Top of the tool box
And nuts tighten from below.



First test holding my wife's bike
I got a wall mount bike rack at Home Depot to hold bikes in the vice.

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A little late night prep before the road trip to Laguna Seca this Friday.

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A little late night prep before the road trip to Laguna Seca this Friday.

Good luck! That sounds like it will be an amazing weekend. Used to love lapping that track on forza and gran turismo :)

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update from my laguna seca trip with tyler (apexgoblin)
to see the Super Bike World Championship
left early 3:08am friday morning. I HATE hate HAte traffic, and this car with out AC and with the light weight flywheel. i rather be tired and cranky versus boiling hot and stuck in la traffic.



I ended up having car problems at the top of the grapevine. The car was having an electrical or fuel cut out.

watch the tach and the check engine light


tyler and I pulled over at a gas station and we were bouncing ideas of each other.
we removed his ignition coil and tried it on mine car.
we drove around for 10 minutes and it made a huge difference.
We put pulled back into the gas station and installed his coil back in his car and my crappy one back into my engine.

we called a bunch of auto parts stores north of us to find one that had a ignition coil in stock.

We found one in town a little north of Salinas which meant we had to drive from the bottom of the grapevine near Bakersfield all the way past Salinas.

Once we pulled into autozone we installed the new coil. It was a short 30 minute drive to laguna seca.
unfortunately it still wasn't fixed. wayyy better
but still not fixed.

thanks to Robert from e30 Motorwerks he helped me trouble shoot the car and documents made up by jlieve for motoronic trouble shooting.

A seriously BIG thank you to these 2


getting gas and tyler catching pokemons
near button willow raceway


beautiful views arriving into Salinas. i don't normally use the phone while driving but man was the view nice.






made it to the track
setting up our camp site

our neighbor


tyler and his grandfather


at the corkscrew


panoramic shot


this chick had an awesome shirt!

selfie


on fox hill


we got to meet 1 of only 2 Female privateer team owners. Michele of TOBC racing
and she gave us a tour of her 18 wheeler and the private look out area from the top of the truck








first time seeing this type of small bike.
its called a Honda Grom. this one had been tastefully modified. wouldn't mind owning one;D


tylers uncle was volunteering as a medic at laguna seca and we got invited for nice catered dinner after the races Saturday night.





track side turn 11



medic chopper


fuel filler


back to trying to repair my car.
Robert recommended trying my spare crank position sensor.
problem was i didn't have any Allen wrenches with me.
near our campsite there were 2 bmw motorcycles.
i talked them and they rolled out this bitchen tool kit he let me use the allen wrench i needed.

unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.
when i test drove it the problem was still there.
When the engine looses timing data its common for the tach to drop.
I was sad when the different crank position sensor didn't fix the problem.
robert recommend to ground pin 85 only by shoving a wire in the socket and pushing the relay back over it and grounding the wire locally.
this would bypass the dme for proving ground to the fuel pump relay.

didn't work on that test drive:hitler:

so i removed the additional ground on pin 85 and made a jump harness out of a inline fuse holder and 2 male crimp pins. i jumper-ed pin 30 and 87.
test drove for an hour near Monterrey.
the problem didn't happen in that test drive so i thought i got it.




turn 11 track side with tyler, his uncle and his grandfather


uphill before the corkscrew

100 + mph wheelie


bbq burgers


it was nice that they had these really clean mobile showers for free

corkscrew



heading home
hoping trouble free


not quite trouble free
same problems the whole way home.
stopped at tylers house on the way home and picked up a spare
BMW metal crank position sensor
Dme computer
stock chip
throttle position sensor
new crank sensor didn't fix it

it was the freaking computer. it took a crap on this trip. this car is my daily driver and never misses a beat but on this nice road trip it decided it had enough!:hitler:

this little fucker was the culprit of all my troubles.
i was lucky to make it to laguna seca and back

installed tylers spare DME and drove around orange county for an hour.
canyon driving
low speed
low load
highway cursing
highway flying
wot rips
no problems WOOHOOO

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awesome pics it looks like it was a blast. it's always the worst to have car troubles on a long distance trip but i'm glad it's finally sorted!

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awesome pics it looks like it was a blast. it's always the worst to have car troubles on a long distance trip but i'm glad it's finally sorted!

Yes glad it's fixed

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Get some ice cream tonight.

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I made a digital volt meter.

Credit is goes to Atlant, I just tweaked his idea.
And George graves idea on the light output of the plastic.

can you make a thread on this ?? would be very useful

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Nice coverage on Laguna Seca. My car also hated the grapevine. Fuel pump went super loud and the car would shut off on idle - thinking I overheated the fuel pump (Walbro 255). Let the car sit for a day and all things went back to normal.

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can you make a thread on this ?? would be very useful

other forum members are making this for a small fee and selling them

Nice coverage on Laguna Seca. My car also hated the grapevine. Fuel pump went super loud and the car would shut off on idle - thinking I overheated the fuel pump (Walbro 255). Let the car sit for a day and all things went back to normal.

damn that sucks

my friend brought a spare fuel pump, fuel pump relays, fuses, spare tps and icv

have an update from autocross last weekend

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