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The weather was great and finally had the time. Drove Mines Road all the way from Livermore to San Jose. Stopped at the Junction on Mines for lunch. The fires last year and Covid have been hard on their business and wanted to support them. Got on 680 briefly then exited on Calavaras and took that to Sunol, and back roads home. Traffic was very light so no one held me up but there were bicycles and a few leisure drivers coming the opposite way so had to show caution going around the many blind corners.
It was about a 120 mile loop and overall a great day!
I had the next round of mods installed: IPD Plenum and Kline Headers.
This thing is massive...looks much bigger than the DO88 Plenum. Cramped working conditions....glad I wasn't wrenching! These Kline headers are works of art... These Kline headers are works of art... Those Romanians know what they're doing... A full Kline Exhaust setup - 76/70, deCat pipes and Headers. All stainless steel (not Inconel)
I sincerely hope this is it for a while. I expect to enjoy the car as is and resist the urge to upgrade turbos and add Meth.
Finally got to drive it after a week of being in Alberta and a few extra days of being cut off from the lower mainland, and taking eight and a half hours to drive from Kamloops to Vancouver, a trip that would normally take about 3.5
So, the turbo was a real breath of fresh air after a day like this...
You would not have loved this; for some reason, beyond my simple comprehension, the highway inspectors were letting tractors, b trains, everything commercial through the mandatory road block inspection site at the beginning of Manning park. The Province put this in place to limit truck weight to 63,500kg in order preserve the highway as much as possible.
What was incomprehensible was that they were flagging all these trucks through without ordering them to put on their chains - it was snowing heavily, low temps, so it was pretty slippery.
About35 kms east of the checkpoint, there was an absolute **** show of chaos where all the unchained trucks had spun out, in various lanes, causing all kinds of blockages, and of course, the tow guys couldn't get to the problems at the front of the lines because of all the problems in the back, and of course, because of where this was, and they were so tightly packed together, the drivers had very little, if any, room to get their chains on.
We were informed a couple of weeks ago that there are 22 major outages on Hwy 5 - the normal heavy traffic route and efficient way up the valley. This means that once the assessments on the road condition/foundations are complete, it is still going to take some 2+ months to get temporary bridges into place to replace everything that was washed out by the atmospheric river (x4). And as old #1 was closed, and gets closed regularly, all this east bound and west bound traffic has to go somewhere...
It is already have am immediate and noticeable impact on supply chain resources and delivery times - I think there will be more hurt coming for the lower mainland and GVRD in the coming weeks and months.
11-26-2021, 12:14 PM
