Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Artwork for the shop!


Our friend Marc Nischan created a cool logo for the school shop. Going to try and have it put on some t-shirts that the students could use as shop shirts...

Assignments week of 3/22 - 3/26

TFL
New section started Monday 3/22
Read pages 1-20 in textbook
Answer questions from workbook pages 1-4

Auto I
4th and 5th period
read EP 125-133
answer questions on pages 127, 133, 134

Auto II
Read HA 3-21
answer questions on pages 7, 16, 21

Have a good week, feels like Spring might finally be here!!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Assignments week of 3/15 to 3/19

Auto I
4th and 5th period:
read EP 11-121
complete questions on pages EP 114, 121, 122

Auto I
6th period:
Read ER 139-155
complete questions pages ER 146, 152, 155, 156

TFL
read pages 75-96
complete chapter 4 questions from the workbook

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Neat stuff....


Lots of cool ways to get involved in the automotive world. Here is an example of some cool auto art...

Cool website to check out!

www.cartechbooks.com has some awesome free material for you to check out!

Auto I week of 3/8

4th period-
Correct worksheets and papers from last week.
Read EP 93-104

5th period-
same with the exception of doing questions on page EL 124.

6th period-
Correct worksheets and papers from last week.
Read ER 139-146

TFL week of 3/8

Monday we collected the engine models that the students were assigned the first day of class.
We continued our discussion of Chapter 2.
Tuesday the 9th we will collect the questions from Chapter 2.
Wed., Thur., and Friday we will read Chapter 3 in the textbook and complete pages 21, 23 and 24 in the workbook. Skip pages 22 and 25. In addition, question #1 on page 24 should read "piston pin" rather than "piston ring".

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Updates from the shop!

Here are some of the things the students have been up to in the shop lately:
With the weather changing from cold to warm motorcycles have taken the place of snowmobiles in the shop. Projects include a stroker 110, a '70 Honda enduro and a re-assemble of a freshly painted dirt bike.
Students are still completing a number of impressive fabrication projects. Grill guards are a very popular and useful project. Our '40 chevy pickup is also receiving a hitch.
A number of engines are in the process of getting rebuilt, new cranks, etc. We have everything from full on rebuilds to minor "freshening up" jobs being performed.
The project to remove and replace the engine in a suburban is nearing completion. Another student is fixing questionable vacuum hoses on his Toyota pickup.
For our long term projects the '40 chevy pickup is getting wired, the headers are pretty much done for the '27, the '52 chevy pickup is struggling with some vacuum leaks and the '53 chevy sedan is getting an open rearend in preparation for a T5 swap. The '72 Nova is getting some body work and its engine is about ready to go back in.
In all, we have projects in the shop ranging from the 1920's to the current decade. Rebuilding, repairing, refinishing, fabricating the kids' are busy and doing great!

Testing week of March 1

This week we will be completing our required MONT-CAS tests. Only the sophmores are required to take these. Sophmores will arrive at school at normal time and test until lunch. All other students will report to school after lunch for a modified class schedule.