Intro and preview

What would a first post be without a little intro?

   My name is Damon Casey, I am a currently a psychology student at Utica College, also I write this as a 20 year old, though I will be turning 21 on saturday! I am an avid auto enthusiest, more of an obsessor. My true passion is taking pictures/ videos of cars and action of cars, while also knowing specs like I am a walking encyclopedia. Since I love so cars so much, I must own my own!

Unconvential, yes, who would have thought a 25 year old base model pick up truck could be made into something "cool" (whatever your definition may be). I seemed to have found it as I myself have built everything on the truck. Taking it from a factory v6 to a 5.0L v8, with self ported aftermarket heads, a different camshaft, intake, suspension dropped, welded my own exhaust,  and electronic fuel injection system I tuned myself. Yes I LOVE to tinker.

Now on to the important part. My series of blogs I am going to try to aim at something I love doing and I feel do well,to PROBLEM SOLVE. I will try to share weekly a new way inwhich I used unconventional things, in my everyday life, or solved everyday problems in unconventional ways.


For this week I will start with something quick and easy, while hanging out with a friend of mine this week, we were discussing tuning his car and how under boost (a term used to describe a force induction of air above vacum) his car was significantly going lean (the air to fuel mixture was more air than fuel). But he could not figure out why, I suggested a loss in fuel pressure, which he claimed he could not tell because the car had to be under load (driving) while the car built boost for it to go lean and the gauge was under the hood. So with my left boot lace, a bungy and left over rag i was able to use my Go Pro hd camera to record his car with the hood off (to dark with it on) going down the road, and even though we could not see particular numbers we saw the needle have a huge drop in pressure, so we checked the "boost" referancing fuel pressure regulator and sure enough the vacuum hose we had hooked up fell off, we put it back on, zip tied it down and away he went!