islerodreaming wrote:
I was going to say that Coventry Climax, who built F1 championship winning engines in the 50's and 60's, fixed porosity issues with Araldite - worked just as well as welding without the hassle.
Great minds think alike

The shop wifi node is great. Plugged the thing in up stairs and perfect. Now, the heatpump software is shit the best I can tell and actually using the connection locks the thing up but I can read/post to forums in the shop now
My buddy's valve grinder chuck doesn't got small enough for the my 5mm valve stems. I wasted a bunch of time making an adapter to send him....hopefully it runs true enough to be usable
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Then I got about 2/3 the valve cut to finish length
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Tomorrow if there is power I hope to finish them up. I've also got myself 3/4 talked into a new ECU project....more to come on that once I'm completely talked into it but its a couple very talented guys I've known for many years who think together we could make something I will like even more than the enginelab unit I currently have so that's hard to say no to.