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That's pretty good, nice to have something to be proud of!!
And twins on the way, well done there - instant family! At least you have plenty of warning these days, back in the day a mate of mine and his wife only found out when the doc delivered the expected baby, and said 'I think there is another one in there!!!!' Funny, they never had another ...
Whether people like it or not, Harley is an iconic brand, and to have your work cemented in history on a final production model is pretty ******* cool.
And congrats on the dual kiddos on the way!
Thanks dude! Speaking of work, I may need a CTSV fix again as I'll be in Chandler again the last week of Sept for more testing on neat things I can't talk about....
Originally Posted by Gee Emm
That's pretty good, nice to have something to be proud of!!
And twins on the way, well done there - instant family! At least you have plenty of warning these days, back in the day a mate of mine and his wife only found out when the doc delivered the expected baby, and said 'I think there is another one in there!!!!' Funny, they never had another ...
Dude, the number of check-up's and appointments these days for pregnancies makes a guy question how women ever possibly had kids 100 years ago. They were struggling to see one of their hands in a recent scan and I'm sitting here like "whats the difference if he has 5 fingers, 12 fingers, or no hand at all? It isn't changing our path and there's nothing you can do other than create worry"..... Anyways, off my podium of black/white engineering logic, the process is exciting!
Originally Posted by leboeuf
Twins! That makes you, myself, curly, and 18psi if I'm up to date on multi-kiddo status. Mazda baked something into the dash plastics.
Congrats!
What's crazy to me is how many people came out of the woodwork since our announcement saying that they either had twins, are a twin themselves, or having siblings who are twins. I thought this was a rare occurrence, but my impressions of that are now changing.
I go through those mental gymnastics daily. On one hand, we're screwed... On the other hand, thousands of people much dumber than I have figured this out, so I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll be just fine
You will be at after 6-8 months. We had some particularly difficult twin boys, did nothing similar. One would guzzle 10oz of milk every 2 hours, the other one would take a half hour to sip 5oz every 1-1.5hr. We were up 24/7 for a month straight.
If you feel like this is happening, and your credit card can take the ~$10k hit, hire an over night doula for 3-4 nights a week. And always remember the mom has two patients, the dad has 3.
On the second point, WOOHOO. Sounds like you might need a K-swapped minivan before a K-swapped Miata though.
I've already got one better than a kswapped minivan: a cammed/tuned v8 3-row 4x4 suburban! (thank god I traded up earlier this year while looking in hindsight)
The human body can sustain an amazing amount of "adversity". To echo curly, you'll want to do anything and everything in your power to keep them synchronized. You will fail, but trying will give you something to work at
At one point I went back to work sleeping ~8-10 hours a week. I don't remember those months. See, the body took care of it for me, no problemo.
I've since left that job, but every now and then I would come across the things I did and it was clear that I was still productive, but not really sane. My lab coworkers said I was quiet but otherwise normal.
My boys ended up on the spectrum so in hindsight some of those (ongoing) experiences were(are) abnormal.
Anyway, you'll be fine. Time compresses with kids. A year to non-parents is like a week to me. You won't drive your car as much but you'll only notice it relative to other elements that are moving at the normal speed of time.
I've already got one better than a kswapped minivan: a cammed/tuned v8 3-row 4x4 suburban! (thank god I traded up earlier this year while looking in hindsight)
When it comes times to go rear-facing-but-full-sized car seats you will see the light.
Some great parenting advice upthread.
MT.net ftw - who knew?
MT has always been a place for more than just turbos, kittens, and kswaps... I love a good educational thread derail every so often and this is no exception.
Originally Posted by codrus
When it comes times to go rear-facing-but-full-sized car seats you will see the light.
--Ian
I should probably mention, this isn't completely our first parenting rodeo. My wife had a 3yo when we met, so I caught the tail end of the rear facing full size car seat ordeal with my now stepson at that time. I can see how the minivan has its perks, don't get me wrong, but there's a lot of things I have already used the utility of the SUV for that I don't think I could give up with our lifestyle and we've got all sorts of space for the car seats in there. My stepson just turned 9 and it feels like he's going on 18 with the teenage attitude already, but that's a different topic for another day...
same kid, same car, but 5 years apart... I am already quickly understanding what every parent means when they say "time goes too fast"
You will be at after 6-8 months. We had some particularly difficult twin boys, did nothing similar. One would guzzle 10oz of milk every 2 hours, the other one would take a half hour to sip 5oz every 1-1.5hr. We were up 24/7 for a month straight. If you feel like this is happening, and your credit card can take the ~$10k hit, hire an over night doula for 3-4 nights a week. And always remember the mom has two patients, the dad has 3.
We've already hit a reality check on some of this with the cost of child care... with one kid, it was reasonable to expect my wife to continue working for her own mental well being to be able to get out of the house, etc... with two kids off the rip, you may as well say that her whole salary would instantly get blown into child care, at which point going into work doesn't really make sense. This situation isn't uncommon for many these days, but it definitely wasn't planned to need to do on our end so quickly...but... Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. We'll sort it out.
That's some really sound advice though and one of my concerns looking ahead. Will one wake up the other? Will we get them on the same schedule or will they fight us tooth and nail and keep us up constantly? All I can do now is plan for the worst and hope for the best. My direct neighbor is a twin, my boss is a twin, my close colleague has 11yo twin boys, and now apparently half of MT has had multiples, so I'm surrounded by plenty of people with experiences on the topic, that is for sure.
Originally Posted by leboeuf
You'll want to do anything and everything in your power to keep them synchronized. You will fail, but trying will give you something to work at
this is a resoundingly common message that I've been hearing on the topic... fingers crossed that I fail less than average lol
Originally Posted by leboeuf
Anyway, you'll be fine. Time compresses with kids. A year to non-parents is like a week to me. You won't drive your car as much but you'll only notice it relative to other elements that are moving at the normal speed of time.
This is facts. My photo above doesn't feel that long ago, and I haven't driven the car nearly as much since being a stepdad (yay 2 seater life). It doesn't feel that way until I really look back at it (or compare to what my single gear head friends without kids have done in the same timeframe).
Side note: I've already gone as far as considering parting ways with the kmiata for something more practical to dual duty with kids, but anyone that knows me, knows I'll be right back into missing the cheap-to-run lightweight 2seater platform again if it was gone. That's why I sold my CTSV's to build this car and make this thread after all... so I've currently convinced myself that I'm better off keeping it and using it rarely vs taking a big loss on it and doubling (or tripling) my consumable costs in something else to only MAYBE drive it a little bit more frequently (over the comfy & convenient suburban) and probably be a similar lap time anyways when I make it out on track.
and even got to see a pile of pre-production automobiles from other manufacturers at some of the test facilities that we rent track time at. How neat is that? Pretty neat if you ask me...
Heh. Im out there at CAPG testing with Tesla frequently. I'll be there next week actually. You guys have been great to work with. Glad the high speed maneuvers don't scare you (I hope) LOL.
Congrats on the family expansion, fingers crossed and knock on wood I don't end up with twins when that time rolls around. Idek if I like the idea of one
Heh. Im out there at CAPG testing with Tesla frequently. I'll be there next week actually. You guys have been great to work with. Glad the high speed maneuvers don't scare you (I hope) LOL.
The guys out there are pretty awesome to deal with. I don't make it out to APG frequently as a majority of the testing that I manage is thermally based and APG doesn't have consistent enough high temps (and low enough wind speeds) to give me the consistent data that I need. Most of the testing that I do is out in Maricopa at Nissan's test facility. Nissan obviously tests out there, but Mercedes does as well. There's some very cool stuff to be seen from both of them when I'm out there, which I am sworn to secrecy on, but one past example is seeing the test mules of the now released Nissan Z.
Thanks dude! Speaking of work, I may need a CTSV fix again as I'll be in Chandler again the last week of Sept for more testing on neat things I can't talk about....
Yeah of course, get in touch and we can go cruise around and grab some food.
excellent update! I suppose with the excitement you are not pushing towards the 8hp swap? I've been following as I consider going down the same path for my turboBP.
excellent update! I suppose with the excitement you are not pushing towards the 8hp swap? I've been following as I consider going down the same path for my turboBP.
I've got a very long list of ideas sitting in an excel document as I'm building the car virtually. As could be understood by most in my above situation though, money is being diverted to other things. I still very much want to do a BMW 8HP45 swap for my transmission solution, but the money pit snowball would not be a small one once I make that commitment and I fear the car could be down for a while, which I don't want right now. Transmission control solutions for these sort of swaps are continuing to develop and I've been watching many others spend their money to be the beta testers before me. For what it's worth, CANTCU seems like the current winner (https://www.canformance.net/product/...on-controller/), but I still would love to find an integrated solution for TCU and ECU so that I wouldn't be using separate software for each aspect of the car.
As part of the transmission swap, full chassis harness comes into scope along with new electronics across the board, then I'm also considering moving from the K24 to a K20 with boost so that I eliminate a lot of the second order vibrations that I have on the car currently thanks to being forced to remove the balance shafts for steering rack clearance. The K24 is the N/A power king because of "no replacement for displacement" (and reason for me currently dealing with the vibrations), but when the 8HP comes into play I would be boosting it as well and there's really no strong reason to use the K24 over the K20 then anymore as your power is only limited by how far you want to turn the boost controller ****. With modern turbos that are properly sized, I'm not worried about response time either with less displacement. K20 street manners would be a lot better without the vibrations and the bore is 1mm smaller which is incrementally stronger for high boost. So, as you can see, this whole thing feels like starting the build all over again in some regards.
I want to do it, but I want a lot of other things too... so... life decisions do be at play here.
Putting this link here for future reference and potential discussion amongst MT peeps.
Winning Formula appears to be tossing one of these in their kswap car with air shift actuation. It's one hell of a transmission by the sounds of it, but equally has one hell of a price tag.
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