Author: Patrick

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My Dream Job

I just came across my dream job today. I am not fully qualified for it but I applied anyhow.

Imagine flying chase plane in a T-33 and T-38 taking pictures and video of other airplanes?

Pictures are printing so I can go down to Kenmore Air and apply for a photographer job there.

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SpeedDealer 2015 Calendar

The SpeedDealer Motors Calendar is about to go to print. We will probably make a limited initial print run to see what the demand is. If you want one for sure you should let us know. We are planning on offering them for $20.00 each.

We are planning a calendar signing November 22nd at Smarty Pants in Georgetown. Come on down and purchase your calendar and get it autographed by some of the models.

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Speed Dealer Motors Calendar Shoots

We have two more weekends to shoot for the SpeedDealer Motors Calendar. If you are interested please contact us so we can schedule you in.

Here are some shots from our shoot yesterday:

Latex provided by Essential Latex and Seattle Latex

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The Broken Alfa

here is all that I hope is wrong. This is the crankshaft pulley. The nose of the crankshaft looks good, the keyway is still in the slot. I just need to find a new pulley now. I priced one at International Auto Parts so far, 249.00. I am hoping I can find a second hand one on Monday perhaps.

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Working on the Alfa

I was driving home the other day and I missed a shift and over revved the alfa. it started making an awful banging noise. At first I thought the clutch was starting to come apart because it shifted really hard and pushing in the clutch seemed to make the throw out bearing squeal. Upon inspection the clutch seemed fine. I took the cam cover off and noticed the timing chain was very loose. I adjusted the tensioner, checked the cam timing and the valve clearance. I put it all back together. The banging noise is not as pronounced now, and only at idle and right above, but it is still there. I checked timing again and when I reached down to try to turn over the engine, I noticed the crank pulley rotated on the crank about 1/4 turn without the crank turning. I pulled out the radiator to get a better look, with frars of the crank nose being broken. I see that the pulley spins on the crank, but the TDC mark on the crank nose is in alignment with TDC measured with a dial gauge on the piston. I have not puuled the pulley off yet, I am hoping I just sheared a keyway and the pulley bouncing back and forth is what the banging noise is. Compression checks out good in all of the cylinders so I do not think I bent any valves.

Anyhow, here are some pictures of the engine and my helper, Xesia, working on it.

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Thundering Angels Motorcycle Rally

I was asked to photograph the Thundering Angels Motorcycle Rally today. Here is a quick glimpse of what I saw.

The girls have to go through the pictures first before I release any more

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Motorcycle Races 2014-04-27

The WMRRA Motorcycle Races at The Ridge Motorsports park, Photographed by Patrick and Connor. The images that start with AP1 are from Patrick and the images that start with PCA are from Connor.

http://mechanophelia.com/Races/Motorcycle_Races_20140427/

 

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Mechanophelia Group Shoot

Kristy andmyself are hosting a group photo shoot at SpeedDealer Motors. You can see the invite here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/257748667736378/

 

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Shooting Mitsu for the 2014 SpeedDealer Calendar

I am working on a 2014 calendar project for SpeedDealer Motors and I figured I would share a few shots of my shoot with Mitsu for the calendar.

If you are interested in modeling for the calendar, contact me here

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Motorcycle Racing this Weekend

This weekend, August 10th and 11th, there will be WMRRA motorcycle racing at Pacific Raceways.

We will be there Sunday for sure with Xesia and tentatively Karleena Gore and SpeedDealer Motors

If you want prints or digital images of any of our photographs please let us know so we can bring them with us.

You can find links to the galleries under the Race Gallery Category

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Daily Life with an Alfa Romeo Spider

My daily driver is a 1988 Alfa Romeo Spider. When I purchased it for a very small amount of money it barely ran.

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Since then I have invested way more into the car than it is worth and I am about 1/2 way to being all complete. I cannot say “Finished” because things like this are never “Finished”

So far the engine has been completely rebuilt.
10.4:1 pistons and matching sleeves
.030 shaved head
Girdled Block
High flow oil pump
Oversized Valves
292 duration 10.5mm lift cams
Ported Head
4-2-1 header
2.5″ side exit exhaust

Etc. Etc. Etc.

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It still has the almost stock Bosch (German Relative of Lucas) Fuel Injection which is a future project.

Suspension has been rebuilt by Group 2
Bilstein Shocks
Koni Springs
Polyurethane bushings throughout
New Idler arms
New tie-rod ends
add lots of Etc’s here also.

The body, well, my youngest son took it out (when he was not supposed to) and while it was parked, someone hit it and took off. So I had a friend rough in the bodywork and I sprayed it again in black in the garage. Not the best of jobs but it works until I get the rest of it more together. Then I can spray it properly.

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The Interior, That is what I am working on now. At least I am at the point of putting stuff back
together. I do need to get a roll bar sometime because it does like to oversteer under power.

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Well, that is all for now, I will update as I go along and you can sort the updates under the Category Alfa Romeo

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Model for 2014 SpeedDealer Calendar

I am looking for female models for a 2014 SpeedDealer calendar

Please Contact us if you are interested.
These will be trade for images shoots.

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Here are the pages from our 2010 calendar:
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Preview from the Seattle 100 Charities Race Yesterday

I took a lot of pictures that I have to sort through yesterday at the Seattle 100 Charities Race Day.

I was not able to obtain a photographers pass so they are taken from the public viewing area, I concentrated mostly on capturing airtime.

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Kenmore Air

Kenmore Air is a large seaplane base near my home. I have always been fascinated with aircraft, and one of the perks of where I live is seeing the Beavers and Otters flying over my house daily.

I posted a little gallery here.

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Alfa Romeo Pictures

I was out at the Evergreen Speedway helping Kristy with one of her group shoots for FemmePhoto LTD yesterday. While I was there I snapped some pictures of my Alfa Romeo Spider

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Girls and Guns

Machinery.

Another interest of mine is firearms. A friend brought over some fairly exotic firearms and I had Xesia and Karleena pose with them.

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