Modest Moddy DSM Diary

Something that always makes my brain itch is inconsistency when there should be …. consistency.  Specifically, articles among the same authors, music between the same artists, photos between the same photographer. So as I’m typing this, I’m making an attempt ...

I went to the garage this morning to start cleaning up from swapping the transmission last night.  I had bolted everything up and took it for a test drive immediately, so that I could get to bed.  I drove off, ...

The cold has left!  It is time to get back out and start running, start working, and start showing!  Rain isn’t keeping us indoors, but it’ll keep some major work being done while the garage is still full.   The Moddy ...

Something has been rolling around in my head like a soda can floats around in the car during severe turns.  This whole swap of the engine has brought up concerns about the ease of future swaps & repairs.  Questions about ...

The year 2013 has come and gone, leaving us with some what of a bad taste in our mouths.  It was a rough year for every one and everything involved.  We actually had to make so many repairs that we ...

Found this car while trolling facebook.  I can’t get a good lead on who or where it is, but its pretty neat.   I think if I were to paint Moddy that solid flat desert tan, in 2 months she would ...

In 2011, I had wrote up an article describing a fuel system upgrade.  Here it is, almost 2 years later with no progress.  Actually, I had thought I lost the article and wasn’t ready to redo the whole thing again.  ...

The DSM that has supplied us with the most parts is one we call “Bad Tranny”.    Resting in pieces at B & B Auto Salvage, no one had the story of the blue talon that sat for 3 years, other ...

It felt like a good title.  The poor car was red on the outside, and slightly red on the inside.   It had been hacked up, beat up, and tossed away in the yard of car corpses. Fucking Tragic. In ...

Over the past several months of having to work under the hood, I’ve come to the conclusion that not only is the battery set up here ugly, but it can also be difficult to deal with.   Basically, its a ...