The Strat-O-Blogster posted this video of Edgar Winter guitarist Doug Rappaport’s amazing guitar solo:
Doug Rappoport Guitar Solo
February 5th, 2010Van Halen Guitar Tracks
November 9th, 2009With the imminent release of Guitar Hero Van Halen, we are fortunate to be able to hear the guitar only versions of several early Van Halen songs.
Enjoy!
Atomic Punk
Eruption
Feel Your Love Tonight
I’m The One
Mean Street
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
You Really Got Me
Thanks to magicaldog for processing these!
Corvette Engine Progress
November 8th, 2009
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- Bellhousing Before
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- Bead Blasted Bellhousting
I’ve been making some progress on the Corvette’s engine.
I’ve been working on finding and cleaning all of the front end accessories. Tried to remove the power steering pulley to facilitate cleaning of the pump, but the ridge on the pulley busted off. Found out that the stock C5 pulley is a plastic piece of junk, so I’ve got a new C6 metal pulley (12568997) on order. Decided I should probably replace the pump while I’m at it.
Having access to a bead blaster is really great. It makes dirty parts look like new in short order. I’m attaching before and after pictures of the bellhousing.
Jonathan and I are working out the plumbing for the dry sump. It looks like we’re going to go all AN12 for everything, except the lines rom the filter, thru the oil cooler, and to the engine supply, which will be AN10.
The next step is to remove the engine cradle from the car and place the engine on it so we can mock up the oil lines outside of the car.
Here’s a few specs for the engine:
- GM LS2 Block
- Callies Dragonslayor Forged Stroker Crank (402 ci)
- Manley Rods
- Diamond Flat Top Pistons (11:1 Compression)
- AFR Heads
- Custom Hydraulic Cam
- FAST 90mm Intake
- TPIS 90mm Throttle Body
- Kooks Long Tube Headers (HPC coated)
- Fidanza Aluminum Flywheel
- LS7 Clutch
I’m hoping for around 480-500 HP at the rear wheels.
Red Alert for iPhone
November 4th, 2009The classic real time strategy game Command and Conquer: Red Alert is now available for the iPhone.Â
It’s pretty cool once you get used to manipulating the game with your finger. The graphics look great but I do feel like I’m looking thru a keyhole sometimes.
I was a little disaapointed to discover that the sound only works if you have headphones on, but I guess it would probably sound pretty cheesy on the built in speaker anyway.
Here’s a direct link to the Red Alert game on iTunes.
The price is $9.99.
Checkout Forms and Google Autofill
November 4th, 2009This morning I’ve been working on a shopping cart checkout form and wanted to share a few things I learned.
I needed a list of countries for my checkout form, and I discovered that country codes are defined by ISO 3166.
Here is a site that has some example html code for states and countries:
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/samples/html/country-list.html
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/samples/html/state-list.html
To get the Google Toobar to autofill my checkout form, I used the ECOM field names for my input fields which are available in RFC 3106.
I had some trouble getting the CVC (card verification code) field to autofill, but adding the text “CVC” to the fields label got it working.
Posting from my iPhone
October 30th, 2009Being able to post from my iPhone is cool!
Hopefully this will allow me to keep my blog updated on a more regular basis.
I’ve been doing a lot of development work for the iPhone lately, so if anyone has any ideas for an iPhone app, let me know!
Hello world!
October 30th, 2009Welcome to my new blog. I hadn’t updated my page in a long, long time, so I decided to install Wordpress to make it easier to add entries.
For the old motorsports site with Vette information, go here:
http://www.alanchavis.com/motorsports/
If you’re looking for Mustang Cobra information, check out the really old site here:
http://www.alanchavis.com/oldsite/
The old music and astronomy sites are still available as well.