Tech Anorak Corner

At some point I'll stuff all the various useless trivia I've accumulated over the years here.

• Cable calculator - calculate sizes, ratings, voltage drops, fuses, etc. for re-wiring your car
• MPG Calculator - compare fuel costs between two vehicles
• Running Cost Calculator - compare fuel + fixed costs between two vehicles
• Electricity cost calculator - written to work out how much it costs to run a heater in the workshop per-year, but works for anything.
• Stuckulator tool for calculating loads required to recover a stuck vehicle

Manuals, parts catalogues, etc.

NBC Autoweld 2 Restoration

If you love it, lube it!

• Oil Stuff - Technical info and rants about engine oils, oil specs (ACEA etc.), additives, etc.

• Top Tips my collection of chips & teats, lovingly stolen from everyone else
• Engineering Snippets - little nuggets picked up at random that changed how I thought about something
• Random awesome or interesting engineering stuff
• Galvanic Corrosion AKA “Stop using stainless fasteners on your Land Rover!”
• Fasteners - nuts, bolts, rivets, etc.
• Useful parts, tools, potions and bits and where to buy them.
• Turbo Exhaust Theory
• Dyno plots I've found for a few popular engines
• Coefficients of Drag (Cd) for a variety of vehicles
• That one time I did metal spinning and made a thing
• Making Q-Max hole punches and dimple-dies on the lathe
• Rustproofing
• Overland vehicle design / prep ethos
• Handy universal power supply
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Dashboard Gauges

• Dumb stuff, scary steering, eBay horrors, failure, etc. to serve as a warning to future generations
• My spy shots of the Mercedes AMG G-Wagen 6x6 thing
• The Spider a proto racer built for nothing.
• LT230R vs LT230T
• Paint, Rustproofing, etc.
• My Dream Garage

• Rants