AlaskaStar's Automotive X-Prize Design, Open Source Project-

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Hey Keith!

Happy New Year to ya! Haven't heard from you since last year!

Have you got all moved and settled in yet?

This week I'll be finishing up the camshafts, and preparing the installation, and final assembly. More pictures soon.

Right now dealing with broken equipment and the weather (warmed up to MINUS 35 degrees! WOO HOO! Heat Wave!), which now has a 40 MPH wind....

So hopefully I can make it to Anchorage to finish it out. I have to heat my engine on my rig with 3.2 KW per hour for minimum 11 hours just to get it so the engine will fire and run consistently on ONE cylinder...then 2....then 3....then 4....then 5...than all 6. As the heat moves about, the cylinders can start firing. The problem is the extreme cold (absence of heat) makes the conditions for fuel vapors not possible, and thereby if the fuel will not vaporize, it will not combust, thereby....flooding the engine, and wetting the plugs.

When the final assembly is to take place, I will be taking loads more pictures.

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