Thinking about installing a set of original 1986 Buick Roadmaster hours (4) horns later today. they should sound better than the Beep beep.
Still working out all the little kinks and doing a few more tweaks then I may take in a track day or two.
Nice! Here are the horns from my first R53, Jango. A 4-note air-horn (mounted under the rear bumper where one muffler would have been if I hadn't switched to a single-sided exhaust), powered by a paintball CO2 canister. If you can't figure it out, the camera in this YouTube video is sitting on the ground, aimed at the back left bumper of the car. The horns and CO2 canister, in the black box behind the horns, are where the back left muffler would normally be. You can see the Bowden cable move when the air horn honks, that I used to trigger the valve. I upgraded Rufus to Hella horns (one of the OEM horns was dead when I bought him), but still the snail-shell design... nothing nearly as crazy. We need video of the Roadmaster horns!
A bit more than a year ago, I stopped playing racing games because my Logitech G27 steering wheel stopped working. The common problem was the digital position encoder wheel had cracked from the heat. It sounded like a common issue and I wasn't going to spend another $500 on a new steering wheel for a game and I was not able to find another encoder wheel to attempt a fix myself. The manager of MINI Richmond (Vancouver BC area) messaged me last night and said he 3D printed a couple of them off for me and to come pick them up when I had time. I guess I'm going to have to tear that wheel apart and try and fix it afterall. Racing MINIs in Macau
I have a steering wheel for my PS3 it makes racing games fun. My daughter just got a XBoX 1 or what ever the new one is. We put Forza on it but using a controller is no fun!
Wednesday took the 16 Countryman up to FT Collins Trial Flower Gardens for a picnic, it needed some fast time on the highway and we needed a break from the isolation in Louisville, it ran well, even put in some gas 91 Valero. Overall a great day, pretty flowers just starting the season.
Put new sparkplugs in the 02 Mini, Gave it a good wash and wax before the heat today. Replaced the side mirror rubbers on the 05 and about to do the plugs on it also.
I posted these pics over in Rufus' Refresh thread, but they were too pretty not to share over here... 3 coats of ceramic (Gyeon) and a thorough detailing.
TBH, I like the drive a bit more natural. I've got a neighbor who is out there a couple times a year with his pressure washer and his drive almost glows it's so clean. I'd rather have mine start to blend into the background (as long as it isn't oil spotted, and the MINI is parked in the garage, so no big worries there). That and I don't think the concrete was very well done... it's only 5-6 years old and is spalling a bit in spots (we bought the house 1-2 years old). If I go after it with the pressure washer, I might peel the top layer right off! Next on the list is some attention for my wife's new A6. It's black (well... very, very dark grey) with a ton of metal flake. I can't wait to see the depth of shine on that car.