Alabama thread!

Goodnight everyone

 

From AlabamaWX

AUGUST FRONT: We have a broken band of showers and a few thunderstorms on radar early this morning over the northern half of Alabama in advance of a surface front that is drifting southward. This front will bring some needed heat relief to the northern half of the state today, and statewide tomorrow. Highs will be only in the 85-89 degree range across North Alabama today, and in the mid 80s tomorrow. South Alabama will still be well into the 90s today, but the high there tomorrow will be in the low 90s, much more tolerable than recent days.

We note that SPC has defined a “marginal risk” (level 1/5) of severe thunderstorms this afternoon for areas south of a line from Opelika to Greenville to Mobile. A few storms across South Alabama ahead of the front could produce strong gusty winds later today.



REST OF THE WEEK AND THE WEEKEND: Morning lows will drop well down into the 60s over the northern 2/3 of the state early tomorrow and Wednesday morning, and some of the cooler spots could dip into the upper 50s for a little taste of fall. Heat levels rise late in the week, and by the weekend we expect highs back in the mid 90s along with slowly increasing humidity levels.

Most of the state will be dry tomorrow through the weekend with mostly sunny days and fair nights. Isolated afternoons will be confined to far South Alabama, and even there the risk of any one spot getting wet will be low (20 percent).

NEXT WEEK: Next week looks quiet as well with hot and mostly dry conditions; highs will be in the 90s and isolated afternoon thunderstorms will remain over the southern quarter of the state. After today no sign of any organized severe thunderstorm threat for 7-10 days for a change. See the video briefing for maps, graphics, and more details.



TROPICS: NHC is monitoring a tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic, and another one will will emerge off the coast of Africa tonight or tomorrow. The lead wave will be in a hostile environment and has only a 10 percent chance of development over the next seven days. The wave coming off the African continent has a 30 percent chance of development in the 4-7 day time frame. No tropical systems are expected to be near the Gulf of Mexico or the U.S. for at least the next seven days.



ON THIS DATE IN 1787: Tornadoes were reported in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Wethersfield, Connecticut was hard hit by the tornado outbreak. There, a woman and her family were caught in the open. She and her son were killed. Clothes from the family farm were carried three miles away. This event is regarded to be the most significant tornado outbreak in early New England history.

ON THIS DATE IN 1983: Hurricane Alicia formed on this day and was the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic since Hurricane Agnes in 1972. It struck Galveston and Houston, Texas directly three days later, causing $2.6 billion (1983 USD) in damage and killing 21 people. This storm was the worst Texas hurricane since Hurricane Carla in 1961.

 

Started the Brown Samurai today for the first time after complete rewire, converting to multiport fuel injection and Mirosquirt ECU. Started pretty good, tuned it a little bit to smooth out idle, sent the project tune and a Datalog to my son, he is the tuner. It's a little loud but the breather will quiten it down when I get it put on.

I removed the carb, welded four injector bungs to the intake manifold and added a throttle body from a Toyota Corolla to where the carb use to be. Joseph, my son made a custom crankshaft position sensor sprocket we put in the distributor after gutting it, you can see it turning in the video and a few other things, now no more flooding.

https://youtu.be/NI_17HXz2jM

After a little tuning

https://youtu.be/yLYBLwf6NH0

 

Good morning.

 

Morning fellas.

 

Morning Brian.

 

Nice, I need to just bite the bullet and replace all the Ujoints front and rear. All of them are factory (307,745 miles) other than the one at the rear axle.

 

Morning guys.

 

Dude it’s time lol. Mine only had like 60k on em lol

 

Picked up the car yesterday! Paint looks Great! Just need to clean up some of the plastics that i didnt get painted lol. Wasn't covered under warranty. But they arnt bad at all.

 

Morning peeps, finally stopped raining but everything is under water.

 

Morning Hayden.

Morning Stevie.

 

I know man lol but other than the slight shudder from a stop there is no other signs that anything is wrong. This truck truly amazes me. Only things not factory at this point are the front axles(replaced at 304K due to torn boots), starter (302K), front coil overs (200K), rear axle side Ujoint (265K) and several front wheel bearings. Blows my mind.

 

2nd gen supposedly is the best in terms of longevity from a report i saw. the 2tr-fe is supposedly the most reliable engine Toyota has ever made. Im hoping mine lasts at least 300k since my truck is far from stock. So far i have some small leaks but not dripping just soaking the outside of the motor.My truck just rolled over 130k. Change the oil every 3. This guy is a Toyota master engine tech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcA6Dp8ZJQ

 

I have watched a lot of his videos, You shouldn't have any problems getting to 300K. I wouldn't hesitate to drive mine anywhere.

 

Jeff,
Can your son do tunes for us on our Tacoma's? How about cam gear swaps?

 

He says the engine failed because it was overloaded. Guy had a huge snowplow attached to it. Mines got similar weight if not more lol but mine has also been geared appropriately to compensate for the added weight to not put as much strain on motor. Plus my Ultra gauge shows engine temp always around 188-199 even during this summer heat which is well below the max safe operating temp. Oil is always clean so i think its well on its way lol.

 

Yeah for sure, you have went about it the right way. Man I got to get me an ultra gauge. Which one do you have?

 

Lol

 

I have this one