My Computer Ninja

New Chevrolet Camaro Getting a Lift

Jon Steege — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:40:51 +0000

I saw this last night.. wonder what is up.

Ferrari Video Update for May 2010

Jon Steege — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:57:07 +0000

кухненски столовеIt is a never ending battle around here to come up with fresh, interesting material that hasn’t been beaten to death by all the other Auto related blogs out there. Recently, I did some digging on youtube and other spots to find some interesting, and yet barely viewed videos relating to my favorite racing [...]

Removing a Broken Exhaust Manifold Stud: The MCN Tutorial

Jon Steege — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:14:52 +0000

A while ago I had to deal with a broken exhaust manifold stud. To say it was annoying is to seriously understate my feeling on the matter. Rather than dwell in my own misery, I decided to come up with a do-it-yourself solution so some poor sap in the future may have an easier time [...]

CRX flywheel explodes, Carnage ensues.

Jon Steege — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:19:41 +0000

I remember a conversation I had with my father-in-law many years ago about SFI ratings. The topic came up because I was putting a 7lb flywheel in my car, and happened to notice the sticker strongly affixed to the flywheel and the corresponding clutch stating the parts were SFI certified. I wasn’t very familiar with [...]

How does a Phantom Grip Limited Slip insert REALLY work?

Jon Steege — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:02:00 +0000

For a while now, I have been wondering how a Phantom Grip Limited Slip open differential conversion works. I have read often enough on Honda-Tech.com about how “Phantom Grip LSD’s don’t work” or “cause excessive metal shavings in the transmission oil”, and other horror stories. Never the less, lots of people are lured into buying [...]

JUN Time Attack R34 Skyline on Ebay!

Jon Steege — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:43:12 +0000

Every couple months or so, I find myself lost in thought over really cool cars that I don’t own but I wish I did. I usually end up searching craigslist in my area for interesting things, and often hit up ebay to see what’s posted at the moment. Well, today I found myself reminiscing about the [...]

Jadclipse plugin not working? Here is the solution and a story..

Jon Steege — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:08:38 +0000

The other day, I found myself needing to reverse engineer a java class. Some may wonder why, and the answer would be that this jar file composer must not have known about javadoc, and likes to write methods with lots of inputs and vague method parameter names. I thought that it wasn’t going to be [...]

How to remove a broken exhaust manifold stud

Jon Steege — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:56:02 +0000

I recently had the distinct pleasure of needing to remove a broken exhaust manifold stud from an aluminum cylinder head on my drag racing car, even when using a torque wrench graduated in inch/lbs. As you may well know, there are only 3 types of people in this world. Ones that have not yet broken [...]

Chris Miller wins E-Town Fall Nationals in Outlaw SFWD

Jon Steege — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:03:42 +0000

Chris Miller won the Outlaw Street FWD competition at Old Bridge Township Raceway park this weekend, capping a weekend full of the fastest FWD racing in the country. Miller faced a hard charging Fernando Cunha who joined the NRGTech racing team in running into the 8’s all weekend. In the end, Miller came out victorious, [...]

Newegg files for IPO

Jon Steege — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:02:35 +0000

According to an SEC filing released today, the internet’s favorite electronic retailer Newegg will be going public. The offering is being underwritten by JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup. A date and ticker symbol have yet to come, but the IPO will likely happen before the end of the year. Newegg has been around since [...]