KMS Tools Cars & Coffee, Abbotsford

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KMS Tools Cars & Coffee, Abbotsford

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Friday night, July 5th, starting around 5'ish is a Cars and Coffee meet in the KMS Tools parking lot next to the Abbottsford Costco.

I'm heading out to meet Ron S , possibly Glen is coming too.

I plan to take LOTS of pictures.
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1971 Vintage 13' BOLER trailer
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WHINE…SNIVEL…….


I guess I just have to acknowledge that getting out of White Rock/Lower mainland is just plain a traffic nightmare now! I have not used the Southern East/West routes for a few years, since the 510 died and it just spoke to how much traffic there is now…EVERYWHERE…ALL THE TIME!

After the 510 day traffic I ran into going to Byron’s, I vowed not to do that again. Reality yesterday kicked me hard.

I left the garage at 2:30, planning to go Zero Avenue, where I figured no problem for traffic. Cripes, as soon as I turned onto 8th I was behind a long line of traffic who were behind a farm vehicle. That took some time to clear and then I used some boost to pass that tractor.

Getting onto Zero I had forgotten how bad all those speed bumps are in a race car suspension, then, I came upon a LONG line of people held up by gravel trucks going the speed limit. There was NO passing them

It is NOW HOT! I show 93F inside the car. I’m still getting to know my new engine so was worried as temp crept up, but, the fans did hold it….paranoid, I guess.

Reaching 264th I then zipped up to 8th/Huntingdon where again I ran into stop and go traffic for kilometers. It is now over 100F in the car, what with heat from the exhaust coming up.

Finally getting to the road to head to Ron’s I got a break and water and oil temps came down.

Had a nice cool drink at Ron and Iz’s had a visit with them both.

Ron and I headed to the show at about 4:30, good call on Ron’s part as we could park in the shade of a row of trees. Only a few cars when we arrived but in the next hour lots started to show up. Pictures show the range of vehicles for the most part, only an RX7 and our 2 510’s was the Japanese contingent.

Ron and I also reminisced how we truly were lucky to have lived to the end of the glory days of our 510 drives, as the Club disappeared and then Covid came. That we could have such wonderful, truly high speed drives in our mountains has now faded into memory. I’m so glad Matt and I did our drive videos, I do watch them on occasion, even now still gets the adrenaline going.

Only a few people came to comment on the 510’s, the vibe as I thought was mainly Detroit Iron in all forms and ages. Most nicely done, a few British cars were there. The TR6 reminded me of when I helped a friend change his clutch. What a nightmare. Had to be 50 bolts holding this silly pressed cardboard trans cover on and super hard to get too.

We waited till almost 8 PM, as the swag draw was happing and the air temp was finally dropping.

The drive back was wonderful, cool, water temp “normal”. I tried sneaking up on the boost, but, it just felt like a bit stronger 10 PSI…I want to be able to run 12PSI if I can. I only had a few spots to give it W/O so it is a project in the works. My wide band is still showing a bit rich, so that too needs to be addressed. I got to “toss” the car a few times, tires are great!

I need my “riding” mechanic along to see of the methanol sprayers are getting triggered at the lower boost. I need to go through my log book and see when the HIGH sprayer is on, I think it was 12 lbs. I want to make sure it is working what with the higher compression.

Looks like we are in for a bit of a heat wave, so I won’t be taking the 510 out other than a short run to the shop, to test things mentioned above.

Keith Law
July 6, 2024
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WOW, is the site ever glitchy today, took me 20 minutes to load all this.

HTTP errors, resource limit reached......ARG!

It has been like this for awhile, anybody else run into this? Who's left to comment, so quiet these days.
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Keith, I had to clear 40 spam posts through that shit the other day. We are now in the era of spam bots driven by AI and all that comes with that... I know that barely anyone posts anything these days, but I am fighting the spam war daily and it is only getting worse...

I just checked the main index page, which says...
In total there are 74 users online :: 6 registered, 0 hidden and 68 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 356 on Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:59 pm

At times, when I've been trying to delete bullshit accounts and spam crap, which is sometimes twice daily, there have been over 150 guests, which I suspect a lot of are AI spam bots...

Data is the new gold; AI engines need training data, so our corpus of historical data is valuable to them and we are in the midst of a gold rush. Spencer closed the site to the public, which was actually a move to close access to AI data rakes, but everyone wanted it opened again, so here we are...
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Also, it sounds like the car show was a typical chevy small block show, with a bit of sushi and mushy peas thrown in for good measure! :P
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So sorry...maybe it is time to shut it down..or just leave it as a resource but NO AI BS, Bots whatever this insane World of technological crap does to undermine us...YOU!

I have to admit, I felt a bit like the 510 World of BC has truly gone now. When I was driving in that crazy heat, traffic, blah blah...my car..me...hate that crap now..

I kind a saw the beginning when people did not want to do "Keith's crack of dawn" starts, to miss at least the morning traffic. I get that was early for all of us to be at Hope for 5:30 am.

After a few more of what are really "test" drives and trust all the new stuff on my car,
I am going to do my own early start, run up to Manning or Princeton.
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Great photos Keith. Lot's of fabulous eye candy.

There's got to be a way to defeat the bots. I would think the captcha or sliding jigsaw puzzle piece should work? Maybe someone young and smart could figure out how to add that step in?
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But the guests was also there when it was required to log in. How was that possible?
I am just wondering what is the definition on a guest in this matter.
Dont shut it down! At least leave it as a resource like Keith said.
I start to understand that there is a lot of work to run a site like this, work that just got mentioned a little now and then and most users don't know about?
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Don't worry, I/we are not throwing in the towel on this site.
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bradicuss wrote: 07 Jul 2024 09:00 Great photos Keith. Lot's of fabulous eye candy.

There's got to be a way to defeat the bots. I would think the captcha or sliding jigsaw puzzle piece should work? Maybe someone young and smart could figure out how to add that step in?
Everyone younger and smarter left sites like this during the great Zuckerberg migration when they migrated to his various platforms (Instagram, Facebook, etc...). :shock:

It is a good suggestion. Thanks. I will poke around to that end...
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