Inkjet license plates and packing bubble head lights.

It was about 15 years ago that I purchased Vol. 3 of the Popular Mechanics Do-it-yourself Encyclopedia at an estate sale. Inside that red, hardbound collection of reprinted PM feature projects, I found an article that would ignite a long-standing, sometimes dormant but never extinct desire to build my own car. Specifically, my […]

One of the things that I have noticed about model driver figures, is that they tend to end up with a really alarmed, kind of Marty Feldman on crack sort of bug-eyed stare. I thought that by toning down the “whites” of the eyes a bit, I could achieve a more relaxed look.

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In 1980 I saw a TV commercial for the most remarkable model car that I had ever seen. It was a radio-controlled off-road buggy from Tamiya called the Sand Scorcher, and it could jump through the air, blast through water, and generally tackle the terrain like […]

In this 1969 Popular Science article, 2 Editors get a chance to check out GM’s new Pinto-Vega-looking XP-883 hybrid-drive commuter car, and love it.

Finishing up the Megasquirt DIY programmable engine management and fuel injection system.

Installing The Megasquirt ECU and Ford EDIS.

a quick snapshot of most of the EFI parts.

Megasquirt Part II of converting a BMW 2002 to Megasquirt DIY Fuel Injection - Building the controller, cable and relay board.

Megasquirt - DIY Fuel Injection Conversion Introduction