Category Archives: Cars, Boats, ATVs

RIP S60R or: How to lose your project car

Haven’t made a post here in a while, been really busy between running a business and fighting my car situation So on Friday, October 6th 2023, literally 2 days before I was to take this car to its first racing event with my friends, I came home from work, and the plan was to order […]

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Programming in ASSEMBLY is ASS

Learn assembly, they said It’ll be fun, they said Okay it’s actually pretty fucking fun. And once you know assembly, literally everything is open source and you become like Neo manipulating the shit around you like an absolute madman, just because you can. SO in my quest to make my car more better-er, the next […]

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The M66 Swap Experience (a long rant)

The Volvo S60R is a lot of fun to drive. The 5-speed automatic transmission however, sucks ass. I mean, when it’s brand new I’m sure it’s pretty good. But over time they turn to shit and the maintenance is retarded. Years ago mine developed the common 2-3 shift flare problem. For those baller mofos who’ve […]

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Tuning the S60R is a shitshow

Tuning. The final frontier of any car project. Anyone who knows anything about cars knows that you can only go so far with bolt-ons, and once you reach a certain point, you need to modify the ECU’s code to accept/adapt bigger changes. This was braindead easy in the 90s, when ECUs were just meant to […]

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The Dogecoin Boat A Year Later .. and other things

Holy shit it’s been over a year since my last update, and I only remembered because I’m currently working on my boat. Yeah, owning (and maintaining) a used boat sucks ass. Especially if the previous owner is a – well I don’t know a good antonym for ‘mechanically inclined’ so I’ll just say – dipshit. […]

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How to break your new Acura (quick rant)

And why cascading failures in modern cars are a pain in the ass. So the 2016 MDX TECH is a pretty fun car, but despite the fact that it boasts a 10-speaker system on a 510-watt amplifier. The placement and direction of the speakers are amazing, and it sounds fantastic. BUT THAT ISNT GOOD ENOUGH. […]

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How to build a trailer and put a new ATV on it

So the theme over the past year is ‘running out of time’, basically growing up poor and having to struggle to obtain the toys you want allows a person to develop a good set of skills such as scavenging, repairing, modifying, and related to this, the ability to use a good variety of tools. The […]

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Quarantiiiiiiiiine

Not really, the company I own was declared essential so I get to stay open in case of emergency calls. It’s been a fabulous few months doing my own thing while still collecting a severely reduced paycheck, but health is more important than anything, including spending time in the general population, which, lets face it, […]

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Volvo button hacking

The curious case of Volvo’s center console buttons My S60R (like most P2 Volvos) has this row of buttons below the climate controls, in front of the shifter. Depending on the configuration of the car, these buttons can vary in number, position, and function. For example my buttons are, from left to right: traction control, […]

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Something else tragic happens

I jinxed it in my last post, but I saw it coming. So I was driving down the highway and I started to notice a ticking sound coming from the engine. I was concerned, but then it went away. No warnings, no indications, even VIDA scanned clean. The car appeared to be in good health. […]

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