Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Its Good to be back!
Hey everyone,
Its me I know it"s been awhile since I been on my blog, like over three years now. Since that time my life been on a ride of ups and downs
which included losing my wife. She passed away last year the day after our anniversary and we never got to enjoy our day together. So, since that time been keeping myself busy and trying to move on with my life. Let me tell you it's hard day in and day out, and always keeping her in my mind.
Well now you asked what's going on with you today? I am not saying that giving my car up to help other is a bad thing, cause it not. I am not saying that business is moving slow and sometime it make you want to quit, Naw, to strong mentally for that. What I am saying is this ""WELCOME BACK TO MY BLOG"" and boy does it feel good to be back.
Starting late 2013 I will be posting design questions for Idea for converting a 1998 Pontiac Trans Am into a different type of Knight Rider car.
I will be taking design parts from different builder's sites and see what I can construct. The first design feature will be the replacement of the rear spoiler on the 1998 Trans Am and replacing it with a Pontiac's Banshee design type spoiler. I will get this part from LE (Lousell Enterprises). I will also be using the door handle module as well, the module will also have the Knight Rider's secure electronic system for the door which Kitt had in the show. Now the big question: Should I keep the original nose or replace it with a new design?
Well this is all for now, and as usual Keep the metal to the petal, see you on the highway.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Knightrider Project Continue
Wow, its been two years since I posted anything on this site. I am back in the big apple, New York City, and the project has grind to a total halt. Last update was I think my friend with my permission has donated my trans am to help kids in need. I am already looking for a replacement. The next car will be a trans am but a 1998 or 2000 model, I am going with the 4th season look, I thinking about auctioning off my Knightrider's season one nose off. This look will be a cross between Knightrider and the Pontiac Banshee concept car from 1988 or 1989 year. I always like the rear spoiler on the Banshee and it also didn't have any side mirrors. the tech in the car was way advanced and some of that tech can be seen in today's cars. There are some tech I want to put into this car, like cams to work with the side mirrors and I am also going to used 2way mirrors due to cams will be inside the mirrors housing. Some body work will have to be done as well as some cutting, this action will be for fenders front and rear. The Interior will be Knightrider and Banshee design. hood would be the new ram aim type hoods you seen on later models trans am and other sport cars. There is so much more to write but I been up all nite and It time to hit the sack. In case none of you don't know waht the Banshee look like here is a few pictures: as seen above, the first picture is a Banshee build off an trans am, the next picture is the real Banshee. I will begin posting my project ideals and companies that will be helpful in the building stages.
Well this is all for now, Keep those scanners moving.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Knight Rider Nose Project Continue
Hey KR Fans,
Update time! Well I moved my car to my friend's house and now it's safe. I've taken some pictures of the damage areas and will show them to the auto body shop near where my friend lives. There are other pictures that needs to be uploaded to this blog. The pictures are of the Knight Rider nose with the parking light area cutted away. Now there will be alot of work in these areas, lots of sanding to even out the cut out area. Also will need to make some molds for the side fenders aa well as for nose support down near the radiator. Will post all pics in next entry.
This is all for now, keep those scanners scanning.
Update time! Well I moved my car to my friend's house and now it's safe. I've taken some pictures of the damage areas and will show them to the auto body shop near where my friend lives. There are other pictures that needs to be uploaded to this blog. The pictures are of the Knight Rider nose with the parking light area cutted away. Now there will be alot of work in these areas, lots of sanding to even out the cut out area. Also will need to make some molds for the side fenders aa well as for nose support down near the radiator. Will post all pics in next entry.
This is all for now, keep those scanners scanning.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Happy New Year
Hey Fellow Knights,
Happy New Years to you all. I got some great news, the other day my storage guy came by my home and let me know that my car was not auction off. In fact, nine people looked at it and decided no way, to much work to rebuild it. And I was given a deal as I can have my car back as long as I get it off their property, I was given seven days to do so.
The main thing is that I got my wheels back, so I will be busy busy busy getting it off their property and moving it to a friend house. I think that was a good Christmas present from him. So now you know it back to the original project and I will have to shelf the new project again.
This is all for now, keep the scanning moving.
Happy New Years to you all. I got some great news, the other day my storage guy came by my home and let me know that my car was not auction off. In fact, nine people looked at it and decided no way, to much work to rebuild it. And I was given a deal as I can have my car back as long as I get it off their property, I was given seven days to do so.
The main thing is that I got my wheels back, so I will be busy busy busy getting it off their property and moving it to a friend house. I think that was a good Christmas present from him. So now you know it back to the original project and I will have to shelf the new project again.
This is all for now, keep the scanning moving.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Making change
Hey KR Fans, this is a note to anyone who is reading this blog, I am making change to the World is not Enough blog. Change will be as follows:
Child Support, Identity Theft and Small Claim Recovery information will now be on my business blog called Multi-Tasking Intelligence Intervention. So please take some time to see what I wrote in there.
Child Support, Identity Theft and Small Claim Recovery information will now be on my business blog called Multi-Tasking Intelligence Intervention. So please take some time to see what I wrote in there.
Sad Day
Hey KR fans, I have some bad new to share with you today.
As of 10:00 AM EST, I lost my car. My fault that this happen and it is something to learn from. My car was auction off today for non payment to my storage place. Like I said it my fault, You see this happen when you don't have a job and no one want to hirer you. So you fall behind on some bills and you try to catch up and in the long run you just go dry, no funds, no help and the man wants to be paid.
But enough of my drowning in sorrows, cause life goes on, and after all it's something that can be replace. Now that that is over with, on to something I always wanted to do, my car was a 1983 Pontiac Trans Am, and since I do love the car so much it's only fair that I replace him with another one. My new project will be called "Extreme Knight " it will have a 1994 - 1999 Pontiac Trans Am with the WS6 package. I will also incorporate a working ram air hood for more power, also there will be some Knight Rider items added to this car. But I think the main thing I' am adding to this car is the way it will look, I always like the Pontiac Concept Car called the Banshee 1988. This car was so high tech for it time and in fact most of the newer Trans Ams' have design features which was taken from this car. So my mission will be to:
1. Secure as much information as I can for the Banshee from the internet.
2. For the Knight Rider parts, will research and secure information from 3rd parties
Conversion companies.
3. Other 3rd Parties auto part companies to help in building this car.
Now to make this car high tech, I want to add a carputer, now for those of you who don't know what a carputer is, a carputer is a small computer made for the automobile, from my research you can either buy it complete or as most auto hobbyist do they build their carputer from scratch. What this mean is that they buy the computer chassis and add things like the motherboard, processor, memory, cd/dvd drives and software, with some tweaking they get the car running the way they like. Now you asked what can a carputer control, well some features are power management, control of audio and video, media, the internet and etc. My carputer will control different functions of the Knight Rider parts, also there will be alots of mobile features.
Since I have complete phase one which is to research everything about the concept car called the Banshee. Now I will begin organizing the information obtain from the internet, I also have a Revell Model of the "Pontiac Banshee". There are lots of pictures that I will use in deciding how the car will look, like I say before will be using a 1994 - 1999 Trans Am, I will have the original nose removed and I will purchase from a well known Knight Rider Conversion Company called Louisell Enterprise. The Banshee package once it is available will cost around $7500.00, and I believe it will consist of the Banshee's style nose and the spoiler, not sure what else is in the package. Will get in touch with them for more information. Well this is all for now till the next time. Keep those scanners moving.
As of 10:00 AM EST, I lost my car. My fault that this happen and it is something to learn from. My car was auction off today for non payment to my storage place. Like I said it my fault, You see this happen when you don't have a job and no one want to hirer you. So you fall behind on some bills and you try to catch up and in the long run you just go dry, no funds, no help and the man wants to be paid.
But enough of my drowning in sorrows, cause life goes on, and after all it's something that can be replace. Now that that is over with, on to something I always wanted to do, my car was a 1983 Pontiac Trans Am, and since I do love the car so much it's only fair that I replace him with another one. My new project will be called "Extreme Knight " it will have a 1994 - 1999 Pontiac Trans Am with the WS6 package. I will also incorporate a working ram air hood for more power, also there will be some Knight Rider items added to this car. But I think the main thing I' am adding to this car is the way it will look, I always like the Pontiac Concept Car called the Banshee 1988. This car was so high tech for it time and in fact most of the newer Trans Ams' have design features which was taken from this car. So my mission will be to:
1. Secure as much information as I can for the Banshee from the internet.
2. For the Knight Rider parts, will research and secure information from 3rd parties
Conversion companies.
3. Other 3rd Parties auto part companies to help in building this car.
Now to make this car high tech, I want to add a carputer, now for those of you who don't know what a carputer is, a carputer is a small computer made for the automobile, from my research you can either buy it complete or as most auto hobbyist do they build their carputer from scratch. What this mean is that they buy the computer chassis and add things like the motherboard, processor, memory, cd/dvd drives and software, with some tweaking they get the car running the way they like. Now you asked what can a carputer control, well some features are power management, control of audio and video, media, the internet and etc. My carputer will control different functions of the Knight Rider parts, also there will be alots of mobile features.
Since I have complete phase one which is to research everything about the concept car called the Banshee. Now I will begin organizing the information obtain from the internet, I also have a Revell Model of the "Pontiac Banshee". There are lots of pictures that I will use in deciding how the car will look, like I say before will be using a 1994 - 1999 Trans Am, I will have the original nose removed and I will purchase from a well known Knight Rider Conversion Company called Louisell Enterprise. The Banshee package once it is available will cost around $7500.00, and I believe it will consist of the Banshee's style nose and the spoiler, not sure what else is in the package. Will get in touch with them for more information. Well this is all for now till the next time. Keep those scanners moving.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Knight Rider Nose Project Continue
Hey gang,
I just remember that I didn't post the part about the Knight Rider's Scanner! Yes we all know that Michael Knight's famous car KITT had the lights that when side to side with a chase effect to it. There are alot of people building their own set of scanners and selling them on sites like eBay, and there are some private small businesses who are building and selling them. I will list them later on this blog for those of you who are interested in purchasing one. I decided not to buy one instead I am going to build one from scratch. I will be using information provided by the Knight Rider Project which is a manual that provide information on building your own Knight Rider electronics. The manual is old but the information is a great teaching tool. If you have this manual then I will begin with Stage 1: The First Step: Designing the following boards:
1. Scanning Lights Controller
2. High-Power Interface for Scanner Lights Controller
I also secured a blueprint which shows you how to build the scanner bar from scratch. let me tell you the blueprint is very detail and very easy to understand. As of this writing I had already build the scanner bar per the blueprint. Now, I did make some mistakes like for example: I used a product called J D weld, very strong stuff once it cured. Later I learned that most of the other Knight Rider builders welded their scanner bar together. Since I don't own any welding equipment I used what I know to work. This also bring up the second mistake, I was trimming the scanner bar and two main parts of the scanner bar broke off. To repair my scanner bar will be welding it together. So now I am rebuilding the scanner bar and will rework the electronics from the Knight Rider Project Manual. Check back later on this post for picture and current development on the Knight Rider Nose Project.
I just remember that I didn't post the part about the Knight Rider's Scanner! Yes we all know that Michael Knight's famous car KITT had the lights that when side to side with a chase effect to it. There are alot of people building their own set of scanners and selling them on sites like eBay, and there are some private small businesses who are building and selling them. I will list them later on this blog for those of you who are interested in purchasing one. I decided not to buy one instead I am going to build one from scratch. I will be using information provided by the Knight Rider Project which is a manual that provide information on building your own Knight Rider electronics. The manual is old but the information is a great teaching tool. If you have this manual then I will begin with Stage 1: The First Step: Designing the following boards:
1. Scanning Lights Controller
2. High-Power Interface for Scanner Lights Controller
I also secured a blueprint which shows you how to build the scanner bar from scratch. let me tell you the blueprint is very detail and very easy to understand. As of this writing I had already build the scanner bar per the blueprint. Now, I did make some mistakes like for example: I used a product called J D weld, very strong stuff once it cured. Later I learned that most of the other Knight Rider builders welded their scanner bar together. Since I don't own any welding equipment I used what I know to work. This also bring up the second mistake, I was trimming the scanner bar and two main parts of the scanner bar broke off. To repair my scanner bar will be welding it together. So now I am rebuilding the scanner bar and will rework the electronics from the Knight Rider Project Manual. Check back later on this post for picture and current development on the Knight Rider Nose Project.
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