Google AdSense (AKA Internet Millions!)

So I went ahead and sold out my ideals...I decided to subscribe to Google's AdSense. Please let me know if they become overly obnoxious. Its kind of a continuation of a project that I started at the beginning of the year to see whether you can actually make money on the internet.

I started out with a Knowledge Network account. I had gotten an phone call from someone about it, so being curious, I agreed to participate. Basically, I receive an email every couple of days telling me that there is a survey available. The surveys take about 10 minutes to answer and generally relate to current event topics, like Healthcare, the economy, online activity, etc. For every survey, you receive 1000 points for participating (sometimes more). Each 1000 points is redeemable for a handful of prize drawings, or you can cash out points in increments of 25000 points (equal to $25). Having participated for about 8 months, I have cashed out $35 (and wasted a couple points on prize drawings). Along with this, I am also allowing Knowledge Networks to monitor my internet usage for 20000 points the first month and 15000 points quarterly thereafter. I realize that it may seem intrusive to some, but I figured that I might as well try to recoup some of the cost of my internet for doing nothing more than what I would normally do.

Regardless, I'll keep everyone posted on how well AdSense works out and also if I come across any other marginally legitimate means of making money on the internet. Let me know if you have any opinions one way or the other, or any comments that you'd like to make on your own experiences.

Ponderings of one who thinks too much

Fascination and fear both come from the unknown. How is it that two disparate emotions can have the same root? Rachel has been telling me about a book that she read last year about how to discipline children and that the author asserts that children's negative behavior is entirely driven by fear or avoidance thereof.

My initial thought was that this was bogus. Children have to be driven by more than just fear. Children are curious, sometimes they seem completely fearless when it comes to behavior, with no regard for consequences. However, the more I've thought about it, the more I've started to believe that fear is the primary emotion that everyone experiences.

Fear is truly an all-encompassing emotion. Its negative; fear of failure prevents us from attempting something new. Its positive; fear of consequences keep us from breaking the law. Most other emotions are very one-sided; anger can be construed in a positive and negative light, but an angry person is generally a person who has lost control. Love is universally considered a positive feeling. By not having a bias, fear becomes possibly the most primal emotion.

How is it, then, that some people are afraid of things, while other people are completely fascinated by the same thing? Take spiders for instance, most people are terrified of them. They're hairy, they behave strangely and we're always told that the average person eats 5 spiders in their sleep every year. Yet, people study spiders; other people keep taratulas as pets.

I really don't have an answer as to why certain people display fear while others are curious, but I think its something that is interesting to be aware of as you go throughout your day.

Zetec Engine Build Wrap Up (Part III: Tuning)

My alarm went off and I was up like a flash. This was the day that I would find out if my efforts would reward me! I hit the shower, threw some Red Bull and Gatorade in a cooler, grabbed some cookies and granola bars and hit the road. I made it to Youngstown in about an hour and filled up on gas (after an aborted stop in Brimfield where they only had 92 octane), knowing that I80 through PA was pretty shy on civilization for the first 150 miles. Another 50 miles and I needed to make a pit stop for myself. Shortly thereafter, I saw a sign for the road I knew I needed to take south. I was a little bit confused, because Google Maps had said exit 123 and this was exit 70. But I didn't want to end up in New Jersey again, like I did the last time I took I80. So I turned off onto 322 and wandered into the hills...

It became apparent to me relatively quickly that I had gotten off way too soon. But being afraid of getting lost, I stayed on it. It was beautiful country and the sun was just starting to rise. I quickly realized that the speed limit was more of a suggestion than anything, so I picked up the pace a little bit and started making up time. On of the confusing things was that trucks were limited to 20MPH in certain hilly areas, but cars were not. Once I got to State College, 322 open up to 4 lanes, divided, It was still allegedly 55 MPH, but the flow of traffic was about 65. It still took awhile to get to Dillsburg from there, but I ended up at the shop around 9:15AM. The guys had bunch of stuff going on; there was still a Mustang on the dyno from Wednesday, and people were calling for advice on what parts to buy. We finally got my car on around 10AM and started tuning. Random people started showing up as soon as they heard a car on the dyno. Most were locals, but Hal, a Focus owner had shown up from Fredrick, MD. We made 19 dyno pulls and ended up with 150HP and 134TQ.



It was a little bit lower than I had hoped for, but I'm more than pleased with the results. The torque curve is beautiful and really long for these cams. The engine screams all the way to 7400 RPM and is buttery smooth.

We finalized everything a little after 2PM and I headed out for home. I had initially planned on taking the toll road back home, but didn't have enough cash on me to pay the toll, so I decided to go home the way I had come. Traffic seemed a little bit lighter than it had when I showed up (right at the tail end of rush hour when everyone was about 5 minutes late for work) and I had a pretty good idea of where I was going. I got out of the Harrisburg area as quickly as I could and hopped onto US322. Along the river, the car seemed to be running pretty strong, but I kept hearing a ticking sound that I thought sounded like bolts backing out of the water pump pulley, but put it off as the timing belt tensioner, since we had heard it earlier on the dyno. About 12 miles east of State College, everything kind of happened at once. I heard a slapping sound, the steering got heavy, and the battery light came on in the dash. Its kind of funny, I never pay too much attention to the lights on my dash (since the door ajar light flickers when I go over bumps and my airbag light flashes, since I don't have the OEM seats anymore), but at the first sign of trouble, you can pretty much see everything immediately...that's good. I knew pretty much right away that the serpentine pulley had let go, so my next concern was to get the car shut off and off the road (in that order) before the car overheated and blew out the headgasket. Of course, I had been driving on the 2 lane stretch of 322 along a state park, so the area was very sparsely populated and there was no good place to turn off. Fortunately, within about 10 seconds, I came up on a little place with 3 houses that had a pull off in front of them. I shut the car off and coasted into the pull off just as the temperature gauge started moving to the red.

Break-downs are never good. Break-downs are never fully anticipated, either. I kind of sat there in a state of stupor for about 2 minutes, in total disbelief. At this point, I had been on the road (from home) for about 13 hours, I was tired. I hadn't (despite my wife's prodding) eaten anything aside from a granola bar (at 4AM) and 2 cans of Red Bull at some point throughout the journey. I didn't really feel like being broken down (does anyone?). I popped the hood and could see that the serpentine belt had come loose and was shredded. Further, the pulley on the water pump was at a 30° angle compared to the rest of the pulleys. I could hear coolant boiling through the hoses, but like an idiot, I reached my hand down to try to pull the belt out of the pulleys. The aluminum motor mount was pretty hot to the touch, so I screwed around with it for a few minutes, then gave up. I decided to assess my situation instead. I had no map, so I had no clue where I was at. It looked like there were greater odds that someone was at the second house, so I walked over and mumbled something about my water pump pulley coming loose and needing to find a parts store so I could go buy a belt. I don't know if I was delirious or what, but I expected the guy to be super excited and willing to drive me to his favorite parts store. He didn't, he said something along the lines of, "I'll get you the phone number for a shop that's down the road (the way you came) a few miles". I asked if he had a jack and he said no. I realized that not everyone is as interested in cars and things mechanical as I...that was shocking.

I called the shop that he had given me the number for and he said, "Yeah, I think I've got a Focus in right now, I'll go out and have a look at it. Go ahead and call AAA and get the car towed in. I'll see if I can take care of you tonight, but you might have to find a hotel somewhere." This didn't sound too promising. Changing a serpentine belt on a Focus is not rocket science, you shouldn't need to look at the one out front to see if its doable. I called AAA (fortunately, we're Gold Members...not really sure what that means, but I think this just made being a AAA member worth it), they took my information, then transferred it to the agent responsible for the area in which I was broken down. She then asked if I had a shop that I preferred...I kind of thought that we had gone over the whole out-of-state, don't really know where I am, want to get home tonight thing. Did she recommend a place? Graham's Exxon in State College it is. A tow truck is on its way. What this means is, the towing company knows that AAA is going to cover the bill, so "lets wait until the driver is on over-time, so we can bill AAA more and make this worth it for us". In the mean time, completely irritating an already irritated stranded motorist. The tow truck showed up at 5:15PM (about an hour and 15 minutes after I was told he was in-route). The tow truck is a 1983 Chevy with a 4 speed + overdrive. The company name had been painted on the side of the truck, but 26 years of being parked outside made the paint look more like sidewalk chalk. Old faded paint like that just reminds me of the whole fingernails on a chalkboard thing...don't know why. Meet Chuck. They can't get me in until next Tuesday for an appointment (okay, Pennsylvania is seeming less and less hospitable by the minute), what did I want to do? I'm the out-of-town person, can you please give me some options? I can have this car up and running in 15 minutes if someone can sell me a freaking serpentine belt!!! Chuck says, "Well, I can take you to Pep Boys, but I can't guarantee anything." I know that as soon as he unhooks, I'm stuck wherever he drops me, unless I actually pay for the next tow. "Okay, take me to Pep Boys." I figure I'll rent/buy some tools, buy a new belt (and a couple of bolts, two of them worked loose, hence the reason for this disaster) and fix it in the parking lot. We don't have any Pep Boys locally, but apparently, they have bays in the back of their building where they work on your car. "Okay, that's cool, I'll just let them fix it and save myself the hassle." [Is the quoted commentary driving you nuts yet?]

Chuck tells me about the twin turbo LT1 TranAm he's building. Sounds like fun. But he was going to send his computer away to some company over near Pittsburgh to re-tune it. It was going to cost $150. I don't know about LT1s, but with a Focus, if I wanted to do a twin-turbo setup, I don't think I'd send the computer to someone to tune it. Then he goes on to tell me about the guy just down the road who has a dyno, so the next time that I needed one, I wouldn't have to go quite as far as Dillsburg. "Thanks Chuck, but I came over because the guy is a good Focus tuner, not because he has a dyno. I have guys within an hour of my house who have a dyno." He's a nice guy, just seemed a little sheltered, probably in his late 20s, early 30s. We had some good conversation on the trip into State College.

I walked around the front of the Pep Boys as Chuck unhooked me. I walked up to the service desk and told the "Service Writer" (who was actually a high school student) what was going on. It went something like this:
Me: I need a new 75.5" serpentine belt and two new 1/2" M8x1.25 bolts.
SW: What is the year, make and model of the car?
Me: 2003 Ford Focus with a 2.0L DOHC 3 code Zetec Engine without A/C in it. But the serpentine belt is a 75.5" belt, because there is an underdrive crank pulley on it.
SW: Okay...that's going to be $105.42.
Me: WHAT? What's the break down on that?
SW: $36 to remove/reinstall Serpentine belt, $52 for a new Dayco belt, plus disposal fees and tax.
Me: That's robbery. I only paid $28 for my Goodyear Gatorback belt that was on the car. I could almost buy 2 of those for the cost of your crappy Dayco. Don't you have any other belts.
SW: No, sorry, that's all we have.
Me: Okay, I guess let's just get this over with, then.

I wandered around for a little while. I started by grabbing the tools that I knew I would need to install the belt and hunting around for parts. I went back to the service desk and said, Can I get the belt, I'll just go do it myself. "Oh, we just pulled the car in, so you'll be ready to go here shortly." Fine...

There was a grocery just down the strip from the Pep Boys, so I thought I would go get some food and an anniversary card for Rachel (since it was, afterall, our anniversary). I walked to the back of the store, hoping there was a deli where I could procure a submarine sandwich of some sort. Instead, I got accosted by a middle-aged women of oriental descent, trying to sell me some chinese food. I would have to find a bathroom facility before I got home and I didn't really want to make that kind of pit stop. So I found a pack of Cherry Pop-tarts. Those would go well with my last Red Bull.

I wandered back up to Pep Boys, where the "service writer" informed me that the technician working on the car had told him that the tensioner was loose. He had one in stock, and the total would be $202. "Can I go out and have a look?" This is starting to sound like monkey business... The tech was cool (he grew up in Cleveland and almost went to Wooster College). The tensioner was just fine, the two bolts that held it to the block had come loose, so he tightened them up. Okay, I'll head back in and wait some more. I started BSing with the service writer...why was I out in State College? What all did I have done to the car? He had rebuilt a 2004 Acura RSX-S that he had bought for $3700 a few years back. Okay, that's cool...I had seen it out in the parking lot, so that seemed legit. He had a Honda CRX before that with an Integra GSR swap. He sold it to a buddy who promptly put the largest GT series turbo he could on it (sounds like a typical Honda story). He had a picture on his phone. The turbo was about 3/4th of the length of the engine. It was grotesquely fascinating...We were then interrupted by the technician who said, "Hey, this belt doesn't fit!" Yeah...I told you within the first 30 seconds of standing at your counter, that you needed to pull a 75.5" belt, not the 77.5" belt that your computer tells you that a non-A/C Focus gets.

SW: I'm not sure I can look up a non-spec size in the computer.
Me: See the last 3 digits on the part number? That is the length of the belt. If you go pull a 5036755 instead of a 5036775, it'll fit.
SW: Types 5036755 into the computer. Hey, we have one of those, its only $48.
Me: Yay, I saved $4.

7:22PM August 6th - I called Rachel and told her that I was finally back on the road. My best guess was that I'd be home sometime between 11 and 12PM. Instead of making the wrong turn out into the boonies, like I had coming into PA, I decided I was going to take 322 to 99, which would take me right to 80. So, I ended up 20 miles further east on 80 that I had initially intended (rather than the 50 miles west I had done in the morning), but it was much easier driving. Once on 80, I put the hammer down. I wanted to be home. I was a little bit tired of dealing with automotive things. I hadn't seen a whole lot of PHP on my way out, so I figured I'd be okay on the way home. I punched it up to about 75MPH and chased the sun as best I could. Fortunately, most of the other traffic on the road was doing the same thing, so I made quick work of the trip across PA. I found myself stabbing the throttle in 5th gear and feeling the awesome torque (its not a lot, but its a lot more than it was) pull me out towards 85MPH for passing when needed (I kept the speed reasonable). I stopped for gas in Youngstown again, along side a Hummer that was packed to the gills with what I remember as stuffed animals and trinkets. I still can't get over those things...

I must have zoned out going through Akron on 76, because I remember driving by the Rt.18 exit and had a sinking feeling that I had missed 21 South. But I couldn't remember for certain...the next exit was 57 at Wadsworth, so I took it down to 585 and still couldn't remember until I got to 585 whether or not I had missed the 21 exit (I think it was a combination of being very tired and not being overly familiar with the 76 exits past Akron). I finally pulled into the house at 11:18PM and promptly fell asleep. The trash in the car could wait until Friday...

Zetec Engine Build Wrap Up (Part II: Installation)

We woke up about 9:30ish (AM, for clarification) on Friday morning. Rachel had prepared a hearty breakfast of cheesy eggs with bacon and stove top toast. Without Rachel, this whole weekend would have been miserable. She kept us fed and hydrated and made sure that we didn't work ourselves too hard.



I had told Chris that I would have the engine ready to pull when he got there. I lied. I had depressurized the fuel system and I had removed the hood by myself (a feat by itself). I also drained the coolant out of the car, but that was pretty much as far as I had gotten with it. So the first thing that we did was start looking to see what needed to be undone to remove the old engine. We had decided that we were going to remove the engine and transmission assembly together, so that meant pulling the axles and disconnecting the shift linkages and the clutch hydraulic line as well as all of the wiring harnesses that surrounded the engine. Fortunately, there is one main wiring harness that runs the fuel aspect of the engine and a wiring harness that runs over top of the transmission to run the cooling system and to keep tabs on the emissions. So we disconnected those two harnesses, a few random engine grounds, and the vehicle speed sensor and reverse indicator sensor on the transmission (transaxle? for FWD vehicles...I like transmission). If only removing an engine were that easy...

As I mentioned, to remove the transmission with the engine, we had to pull the axles out of the transmission housing. Typically this is pretty easy; remove the wheels, unbolt the lower spindle bolt that holds the ball joint into the spindle, pry the ball joint out and the axle pretty much pulls out of the transmission (you want to drain the transmission fluid before this step, otherwise you'll be covered with heavy oil that smells of onion or garlic...its the sulfur additives in the oil). My Focus in its 112202 mile glory had/has never had new ball joints installed (I guess the passenger's side appeared to have been replaced at some point, since it was bolted instead of riveted) and as a result, we bent a 4 foot 1" thick solid steel pry bar attempting to pop the ball joints out of the spindle. Time for Plan B: We loosened the upper spindle bolt that holds the strut and freed the spindle from the constraints of suspension geometry. Then we popped the nuts off the rear tie rods to get a little more articulation. At that point, we managed just enough clearance to pull the axles out of the transmission. Alright, now onto the easy part...



There are three motor mounts that need to be removed in order to pull the engine. Two are readily accessible from the top of the engine, but the third (AKA, the "Dog Bone", due to its shape) is at the bottom, rear of the engine (actually bolted to the transmission). Obviously, this is the one you want to take out first, since you don't want to be underneath an engine without any support aside from a hydraulic jack from China via RKO. Upon removal of this motor mount, an odd assortment of rocks were found to be hiding behind the mount. It wasn't the only collection of rocks that we found (mostly gathered in suspension areas, helping set preload)...that's the joy of having spent the first several years of its life living on a gravel driveway. Fortunately, the dog bone came out with minimal fuss. We're starting to get into areas where I had worked within the last several years, so bolts were getting easier to remove. We pulled the engine hoist up to the car and hooked onto the two hooks on the engine. Once we drew up all the slack on the chain, we went to work on the motor mounts. Chris took the driver's side and I took the passenger's side. Within 5 minutes we were ready to lift.

At this point it was about 3:30 and Brett (a local guy) had shown up after work to see how things were going. He had plans for the evening, but was able to stay for about 30 minutes to help out. Which was fortunate, because we started lifting, and the clearances for everything got really tight. I manned the hoist, while Chris and Brett watched as I lifted. If there was an alignment issue, one of them would push on the engine until we cleared. We pulled the engine with all of the accessories attached, which reduced the amount of room that we had to play with on the periphery. It took us about 40 minutes to get the engine freed from the bay. We ended up lowering the passenger's side of the car a little bit so that we didn't have to lift the engine quite so high.





At this point, we pulled the engine to the side, lowered it to waist height and started removing the alternator and power steering pump, as well as the cam gears. I had made a last minute decision that I wasn't going to try to leave the A/C installed on the new engine. This engine is built to turn the wheels, not an A/C compressor. We quickly swapped the accessories over to the new engine, timed it with the cam gears installed and went to put the serpentine belt on. Unfortunately, the two piece under-drive pulley kit that I had bought did not work for cars without A/C, because the waterpump pulley was an overdrive pulley and the belt would have worn against itself on start up. So, we swapped the overdrive pulley off of the car, put the stock pulley on from the other engine and headed for Autozone to pick up a new belt that fit. Generally when you go to Autozone, the person behind the counter will look at you with a blank stare until you tell them year, make and model. You can't just tell them what size belt you need. Fortunately, we found an above average employee who understood part numbers well enough to find us a 74" belt. We took that home and tried it, but it was just a little bit too short. So another trip to Autozone and we found a 75.5" belt that did the trick nicely.

Next, we lowered the old engine the whole way to the floor and started unbolting the transmission. Ford for some reason decided to use 13 bolts to hold the transmission onto a Zetec engine, but only uses 6 bolts to hold the transmission onto a 460 truck engine. Go figure...Anyhow, the transmission came off without too much hassle. Then we lifted the engine back up, moved it out of the way and took it off the hoist. The new engine went on, we bolted up the new, lightweight flywheel, aligned the clutch and pressure plate and got ready to slide the transmission back in place. By about 11PM on Friday, we had the old engine out and the new engine ready to go in.

We got a bit of an earlier start on the project Saturday. I woke up around 7AM and decided that I would try to install the revised tune onto my flasher. I had accidentally given my tuner the wrong serial number for my flasher, so I couldn't load the tune. We got out into the garage, wandering around by 8:30AM. I started removing the A/C components, like the condensor and the A/C cooler (AKA radiator). After that, we lifted the new engine up and slid it into the engine bay. Without the A/C compressor attached to the engine, we had an additional 6" of room, so it dropped in much easier. We bolted up the top two motor mounts and started reconnecting harnesses, grounds, hydraulic lines and shift linkages. By about 10AM, Brian, Devon and Megan showed up to lend a hand as well. Once they showed up, they kind of realized that the majority of the work had been finished and it was just a matter of buttoning things up, like reconnecting the exhaust and re-installing the axles. Throughout the morning, I kept trying to call my tuner to get the issue straightened out, since we were hoping to fire the car up by evening. I finally got ahold of someone at the shop around 12:30 and he said that everyone had gone to the local drag strip for the day and I'd have to call back on Monday.





Everyone who had come to help left around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, once the majority of things were finished up. Chris stayed and helped me straighten up the garage and get our tools sorted out. By 5:15, we decided that we could probably get away with starting the engine with the tune that was installed on the computer, as long as we didn't run it too long and we just let it idle. So, we cranked it a few times to get fuel pressure, then I turned the key and it fired right up. It sat and idled, but was making a little bit of noise, so we were afraid that it was running too much spark and was detonating, so we shut it off and pushed it over into the corner of the garage.





On Monday, being rather antsy, I called the tuner several times to see if they had time to straighten my tune out. I spent a little time in the morning checking that I had oil pressure, that the timing was right and that the valves weren't hitting the pistons. The tuner was really busy, so he didn't have a chance to get the tune straightened out until almost 6PM. He emailed it over and I loaded it onto the car. The car fired right up, so I took a look around the engine bay. It was still making a little noise, but I wasn't too concerned about it. I took it out and broke the cams in at 3000 RPMs for ~30 minutes. I got back to the house, changed the oil and the noise went away. After taking the oil to be recycled (and a little detour), I put the car away for the night. I had to get miles on the car Tuesday, because we were busy Wedneday and I was scheduled for tuning on Thursday. By Wednesday night, I only managed to put about 180 miles on the car. I had hoped to have 500 at least. Oh weell...I changed the oil and set my alarm for 2:30AM...It was going to be a long day Thursday...

Zetec Engine Build Wrap Up (Part I: The Lead-up)

I apologize that I have not posted any further commentary regarding my engine build on here. I'm not really sure who all is following it, and I'm also not really sure where I left off last. I believe that I had left off with getting the headwork done...

Once the headwork was done, I was debating on what cams to put in the car. My initial thought was to use a huge cam setup, that looks really good on paper. 300° of duration and 0.450" of lift on the intake and 290° od duration and 0.381" lift for the exhaust side. If you want to pump a lot of air quickly, these cams would certainly do the trick. However, after talking to my tuner, we decided for a car that isn't going to be trailered anywhere, the Crower Stage 2 cams would be more than sufficient (280°/0.413" intake, 276°/0.393" exhaust). When the cams came, I quickly set to work setting the valve lash on them. The first thing I noticed was that there was going to be contact between the cam lobe and the head material surrounding the lifter. This was not unexpected, so I pulled out the trusty Dremel tool and hacked off a bunch of excess aluminum (weight savings to boot).

For those who are working on a project similar to this with a solid lifter head, you need to remember that when your machine shop does a valve job, or has to replace a valve seat, the distance between the top of the valve and the cam is going to decrease (by thousandths of an inch). Ford only has certain size lifters that you use to adjust the lash on the cams, and with the valve job, I was at or below the smallest size offered by Ford. So I pulled out the trusty dremel again and started shaving material off of the bottom of all of the lifters until they were within spec. Just as I was finishing up the intake side, I got a little bit sloppy and as I was tightening down the cam for final measurements, I mis-torqued the cam and it snapped (they're a very high-carbon steel, which makes them pretty brittle). Time to call Crower for a new cam. Fortunately, the Focus shares its engine with a whole host of other vehicles, including the Escort ZX2 (which has variable cam timing on the exhaust side, for emissions purposes). This allowed me to order just an intake cam, instead of having to get a whole new set of intake/exhaust cams. That put me behind a week, and I was planning on installing the engine in two weeks. I called it quits for the evening and the next evening went out to finish the exhaust side. When the replacement intake cam arrived, the lash was not significantly changed (it can vary from cam to cam and head to head, based on machining tolerances and storage conditions.

That pretty well wraps up the assembly of the engine, so in anticipation, I had scheduled a week and a half off of work, starting on July 31st (Thursday) until August 9th (today). With my work schedule, I have to plan it just so, since I work every third weekend. Fortunately, no one had taken that time off before me, so I was good. I had been accruing all of the fluids and miscellaneous items that I thought I would need, so as not to be rushing around on the Thursday before. Thursday was a rush anyhow. I had to run around and find an engine hoist (key element to engine removal and installation), which I ended up just buying a 2 ton hoist from Rural King Ohio. So if anyone in the Wooster/Northeast Ohio area needs to borrow an engine hoist, I'm renting it out for a flat fee of $30 per use (I do have a guy who's interested in buying it, too, so I'll end up having spent less than what it would have cost to rent one for 4 days).

A fellow Focus Forum friend from Michigan offered to come down and lend a hand from start to finish and I had a few local Focus people come lend a hand as they could on Saturday. Chris (from Michigan) arrived about 12:13 on Thursday night, so we stood around in the garage for an hour and looked at what we were about to get ourselves into. Then we decided that we would head into the house and call it a night. The next 48 hours were going to be interesting...

Impressive!

Ever wonder how to get a 3400 lb car into a conference room in the middle of a building? Here you go!