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Ok, the videos only have the idle since the sound stopped recording when we went rev'd the engines. My wife edited the three together into a single vidoe. So... here is that video of the idle of the stock exhaust, aftermarket exhaust with baffle, and aftermarket exhaust without the baffle.

Quick job yesterday in the shop... It will probably take longer to write this up than it did to do the job. My wife picked up a new exhaust for the Miata on an early Black Friday sale. It's a Helmholtz resonator exhaust from Good-win Racing. She went with the Super Street single tip. Just...

Updated the second index page linked in my signature line to link in the important posts from the last year plus....

Yeah, it was the 992.1 GTS. No hybrid power or electric turbos. Never turn down track time and definitely never turn down FREE track time.

We had a interesting opportunity this last weekend. One of my wife's track sister friends took a job with Porsche North America. She invited us up to the Autobahn country club in Chicago to take part in the Porsche Insider Drives program. Basically, you get an opportunity to drive a couple...

As I have shown before, I try to update something in the garage each year to reflect some of the trips we have taken. We decided to update some of the artwork that follows the stairs up to the mezzanine. We ordered some more metal prints taken at tracks this year. We already had two prints...

It's a rainy November day today and I thought I would catch up on some posts. Our last track day of the year was at Ozark International Raceway near the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. This is rapidly becoming my favorite track. It is a long 4.0 mile track with so much elevation change and...

And now for some random garage updates. As I like to do, I try to pick up something from our trips to add to the garage so that the decorations in the garage mean something. I picked up some stickers and some license plates on our big 4000 mile trip west. When I got back, I ordered some...

Our second track day of the year was at GingerMan near South Haven, MI. It was a different experience from Barber. It was a more rural setting, the drivers were more relaxed, and the weather was blessedly cool. I had a number of issues that happened over the weekend but it was still a lot of...

@TX4runner Thanks! I know I have posted this before but we put this quote on the wall right by all the car wash equipment. It is to remind me that I like a clean car but it is more important to drive them and get a few rock chips....

Every year we try to pick up one new track that we have not been to in the past. This year we decided to do Barber in Birmingham Alabama. The national Porsche club convention (called Porsche Parade) was in Birmingham that same week. We did not attend the Parade but the it feels like Barber...

This weekend is the annual airshow down at Spirit airport. We always head down to spend some quality time at the garage and watch the spectacle. We invited our new neighbors down so we brought sliders to grill and plenty of refreshments to cool off. Our home garage is full of construction...

You thought I was done ... not quite yet. Our weekend back home was Memorial day weekend. Unfortunately, we had work to do. We had to get these cars cleaned up and ready for tech inspections. Most of our PCA track rat peers had already been to a track or two. We delayed our first track...

@Jon69RagTop - No worries. I should not have been so defiant in my last post about people questioning us. I could tell they just didn't understand. Much like when I told people we were building a car condo.. A car what??? ;) Us both driving came from two sides: One was safety. Our...

Go West - Day 12 and Day 13 - TX / OK / MO I going to drop the last two days in a single post - as the stops were fewer as we picked up pace to get home. We had been exceedingly lucky with weather up to this point on our trip. We had a couple minor showers in Colorado but the rest of the trip...

Go West - Day 11 - NM / TX Day 11 was really the start of the purposely heading home. The goal for today was to head up over the mountains east of White Sands and work our way Northeast to Amarillo, TX. We could have headed north and connected back with Rt. 66 much earlier but decided on a...

Go West - Day 10 - AZ / NM At the end of Day 9, I was feeling bad about my navigation error and the long cut through Phoenix. We had missed a bunch of time on good two lane roads and spend way too much time on flat interstates. Over dinner at the saloon, I proposed that we just throw out...

This video really should be up in the Day 5 post. It is taken from my wife's dash cam as we go up Rt 145 in Colorado on our way to Moab. This is the type of drive up a 2 lane road in a canyon that happened a lot but we didn't photograph in general. Enjoy... My wife also extracted a photo...

@GRN96WS6 - The vast majority of my 35+ year career, I did not take more than a one week vacation at a time. After my wife's scare with cancer, we have tried to do better. My career is winding down so I'm taking more vacation as I am not trying to get ahead anymore. I do not know your...

Go West - Day 9 - Grand Canyon / Sedona / Globe AZ Day 9 started on the south rim of the Grand Canyon watching the sun rise from window in our room. We had a very good breakfast at the main restaurant at the hotel. I decided that before we hit the road, that I wanted to walk west along...