Beginning

I am currently living in China. It is not my first time living here and like before it has provided me with the time to evaluate my life and priorities. During my time here I have come to see, quite clearly at times, that life is short and that death is certain.

"So what does this have to do with building engines?"

Good question. I have wanted to build an engine for years. I have loved engines since I was a kid. This led me to go to school to become a mechanic (Automotive technician sounds so pretentious) and have worked as one for several years. In this time I have assembled engines but I never built one. I had always felt like it was too expensive and too impractical but I have come to realize that I will die and it would suck to die and never have built an engine. So now I am doing it.

"What is the difference between assembling and building and engine?"

Assembling an engine taking the supplied parts and putting them together. This is no small feat and there is plenty to know about assembly. Building an engine is the process of assessing the requirements of the engine's intended application and then selecting the parts that are best suited. That is what I want to do. I want to create purpose built engines.

I created this blog as a place for me to record my thoughts and as a form of structure and accountability. I doubt very much many or even any people will want to read this. . .but the might! And if someone does I don't want to have a bunch of crap down here that makes me look like an idiot.

If I really get into this I may begin learning things that other people might find useful. Jack's Machine Shop does great work or Fuzz Flow air filters are crap. Perhaps this kind of information is already out on the net but there is nothing wrong with multiple sources of good info. After reading some articles from some of the automotive magazines on this subject, I am struck with how they read like advertisements. We have got to make full use of the Internet to spread the straight info.

You may call me Builder.