Ginch wrote:
Sounds like a good, not strange, move. Vader always complained about Chicago weather.
Expecting to see some Very Big Things from you in the coming year!
I'm pretty fired up about it. While I love our current house, it's too big, too expensive, and too much work for just two of us plus a couple dogs.
Nashville has much less winter, isn't that much hotter in the summer, and is just a generally cool town to live in. Plus, there are massive tax advantages, which translates to More GoFast Parts, among other things.
We have a short-term rental (a couple who bought an old Airstream and are going to go tour the country for a couple months) while we look for a place, but are going to be looking for something in East Nashville, Germantown, Sylvan Park, or in the vicinity of any of those. Those are neighborhoods, not suburbs, btw, for those who don't know the town. Basically, a swath of mostly early 20th century homes that runs around the downtown on the north side. The universities & kids are all South of there, with Music Row, Vanderbilt, and Belmont (where our daughter attends).
Chicago weather is great for about three months in the summer. Fall can be good, but you never know, then six months of winter followed by "sprinter," which is when it's supposed to be spring, but it's still hardcore winter here.
As to the VBB, I don't know how much progress I'll make before it goes into storage for a few months, but immediate next steps are:
- Get enough lighting going that I'm street legal-ish (throw in some cheap incandescent bulbs). DC ignition will probably be the SIP/Vape after it comes out of storage so I can run LED & turn signals
- drill out the fuel passage in the carb
- pressure test the whole motor
- Get the jetting set up enough it's not painful to ride
- Shorten the too-long shifter cables
- Ride it as-is until we're settled. I will hopefully be able to keep it at the house we've rented until Xmas so I can work on it around the edges. If not, this thread will go on ice for a few months until we're in a more permanent place.