Dream at the top of your lungs

So the old Caddie is going to be sold. It’s official. While it’s 22mpg is pretty damn good considering it’s HUGE V8 engine the Eugene part of me has been screaming for almost… what, 2 years now? Also I stopped selling plunderin’ rights on mah flock-o-womenz so the caddie just doesn’t fit my lifestyle the way it used to.

Oh heated seats… I will miss you so…

Moving on! Soooo in getting it whipped into shape (No computer? Take the car apart!) it turned out that I needed a couple of new window motors (yes I took them apart down to the BONE but, alas, the gears are destroyed and you can’t just buy the damn gears) and a new warp coil.

Warp coil? You had no idea that that the reason pimps used caddies was due to their faster-than-light travel but I assure you: it is simply a fact. Ever want to backhand someone so hard they ended up in the middle of last week? Yeah, I thought so.

How else would you explain this part?

The warp coil

Ahhh a nerd can dream. Actually that’s a rather expensive stepper motor with semi-digital control and a TON(foot*) of torque. What does it do? It blows air. Why is this important? Because in LA you can literally, as well as figuratively, die without AC and cars without some good cold air sell for as much as cars without transmissions (I’m not joking)

Not to worry though! I new one shall be found! Thanks to this crazy guy… he has 16 acres (yeah…) of NOTHING but Cadillacs! LA is good for some things I guess :)

You can check out the madness from SPACE!

Ok well it’s 8pm and time to go home (I’m writing from work because, you see, my computer caught fire last week and seems to have harmed itself in the process… go figure. Not much fire! Just a little bit. There was some melting… and some smoke… The bird was not pleased. I’ll post pictures of the melted component etc later.)

And now to close with a couple more pictures!

Trust me sir... it was like that when I got here... those cables LIKE doing that...

GRRRR! I'm an engineer!

* torque is measured as a force at a moment arm and so ton would not, in fact, be a torque. 2000 lb(Force) * 1foot satisfies this engineer as a very large amount of torque.  If a blower motor had this it would not blow air… it would rip your car in half when you turned it on…

Filed under: Engineering on November 10th, 2008