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While it's a bit more involved than pulling a small block out of a pre-80's vehicle, it's actually pretty easy to pull the motor on these cars. I've pulled at least 10 EJ's, and the way the motor is designed, nearly everything can stay attached and the whole thing comes out. It is pretty much as simple as Remove hood Disconnect and remove battery Remove intercooler Disconnect fuel lines Disconnect and pull radiator Remove A/C and PS belts Disconnect down pipe from turbo Disconnect main harness Disconnect misc. other wiring harnesses Unbolt pitch-stop Disengage clutch Unbolt A/C compressor and PS Pump and flip them out of the way Remove the 6 bellhousing to block bolts Remove 2 engine mount nuts Personally without a lift, I think it is faster and easier to yank the motor when replacing the clutch, since there is probably some other mainteneace to be done that will be easier with the motor out like: plugs, timing belt, water pump, etc. This motor has been out of the car twice. Once for a new clutch, and once to do the head gaskets. All in it's 1-1/2 to 2 hours to pull the motor.

I posted a big guide in a spoiler, and it got eaten by the forum. I'm following this thread now, so hit me up if you have any Linux questions. I'm not super familiar with Unraid (my VM hosts are running Debian or Arch), but I would probably go the container or VM route with folding on Unraid. For last months Folding Comp I ran F@H on my GPUs via podman with a slightly modified Docker container from the official F@H containers. https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/containers I was running on AMD GPUs, but the NVIDIA container is fairly similar. It should be pretty easy to set up if you have any interest in running containers, and want to isolate the different GPUs in their own environment. There is a thread in the Unraid forum, but it appears to be dead now. https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/containers I haven't looked at the Unraid community container, so I'm not sure why it isn't working. The offical gpu container from F@H worked fine for me.

The indestructible STi has traveled it's last mile. Rod went a knocking yesterday. I have a fresh shortblock to put in it, so I might post some build pics, and some pics of whatever carnage there is once I pull and disassemble the dead motor.

Docking station for the deck. Downloading from my SteamCache at about 600 Mb/s is a workout for that little CPU. Load is roughly 90% and temps are at 90°C. Not sure where the bottleneck is, but 600Mb/s beats the heck out of my 40Mb/s internet service.

With the late start I was only able to get a few million in, but I did make up for the lost time yesterday. Fired up a few things this morning and I'll just let them fold away for a few days.

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The gem of this build is the 1.5U chassis. This oddball chassis size will allow for quiet 60mm fans, and a dead silent cooler for the CPU. This router will slot right into the top of my quiet networking/power rack. The switches and UPS's in the rack have already had transplant surgery to swap out the stock 40mm and 80mm fans for some quieter Noctua fans. Parts List: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 Pro 4350G Motherboard: AsRock B550M-ITX/ac RAM: 2x 16GB Micron DDR4 3200 ECC UDIMM SSD: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 500GB NICs: Intel X550-AT2 10GBASE-T; Intel E1G44HT 10/100/1000 PSU: FSP FlexGURU 500W The stripped down chassis. There will be some mods to the chassis. IO will be facing the front along with the 2 NICs, and the provided plates don't have provisions for that setup. PSU will also be relocated to what will now be the rear for tidy power cable management. Add a filtered intake to the top for the CPU cooler I am also going to try and stuff one of my PiKVMs into the chassis. I'm not sure if I'll be able to squeeze it between the PSU and the front of the chassis, but there should be just enough room to get it in there.

Very late start for me, but I got some GPUs up and folding earlier this morning. I'll just keep them folding for a few days to make up for the lost time.

QDCs installed, and now I'm mostly ready to put it into full production. I have been running it through some various testing scenarios over the last few months. Now I just need to spend a day getting the OS setup done, and then I can finally fully migrate all my data.

Looks like I only have some pics from leak testing after adding the 6900xt. Someday I'll pull the 6900xt and give it a bit o' copper shine to match the Radeon VIIs.

I might have to go all zodac on you for those capital T's.

Ended up on a much longer than planned for break from F@H, and the forum in general. Not sure when/if I'll be back up folding anything. I'll update the thread when I figure out what I am going to do. @axipher it looks like your 750ti is still folding away.

In Q_Cruncher. Out on prizes @BWG might want to change the thread title.

Latest addition to the arsenal.

No games played yet, but I have tinkered around with the OS, which is the main reason why I bought it.

Here is the almost final build. Missing in these pics is all of the the final HDDs and SATA SSDs, and I am also going to drain the loop to add some QDCs at the GPUs. I meant to add the QDCs in originally, and then I got in a bit of a rush to get everything up and running for the Pent and spaced it out. One of the NVMe boot drives is under the GPUs, which cannot be removed without disconnecting the blocks due to the limited clearance between the GPUS and the radiators.

There will be some final updates incoming. This is now all built and mostly tested, and will be put into operation over the next week or two.

If you need long cables I have both a 50' and a 60' of these: https://www.amazon.com/RUIPRO-Dynamic-Flexible-Projector-Theatre/dp/B09GFXF6QZ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=UPOBK5UCP1P1&keywords=ruipro%2B8k%2Bhdmi%2Bfiber%2Boptic%2Bcable&qid=1660083793&sprefix=ruipro%2B%2Caps%2C262&sr=8-3&th=1 Flawless opertion at 4k 120Hz. Not my latest, but definitely the most anticipated. Delivered today, sitting on my front deck waiting for me to get home.

One more NVMe drive. It took me a minute to get the second drive to show up. The PCIe bifurcation options are indeed all working, but the labeling in the UEFI is a little misleading. Build will be complete this weekend. Swapping out the Vega 64's for a pair of Radeon VII's. Once that is complete I'll post up some final pics.

Dual U.2 carrier for my home server.

I haven't had a chance to do much testing, but this board should have the newer firmware so hopefully it is free of the bugs that existed in the earlier run of the Mini M. As far as the typing experience goes, all of the clickity-clackity goodness of a buckling spring is present, and it is a joy to type on.

I've been running AMD GPUs on Linux since back in the bad old fglrx days, and outside of compute the current state of the drivers is better than it has ever been. @Bones your issue with the Radeon VII was probably due to the rather outdated kernel that ships with Mint. I don't know how much Mint backports to their kernel, but FYI for anyone that is running an AMD GPU, the AMD kernel driver receives constant updates and improvements and you will almost always be better served running a more up-to-date kernel than what many distros ship. For compute on AMD, AMD is re-working a bunch of their docs around ROCm (as evidenced by the link being "ROCm_5.1.1" even though it points to ROCM 5.1.3 ). Here is a link to the current docs: https://docs.amd.com/category/ROCm_v5.1.1 @bonami2 Technically the 6800XT is not listed in AMD's docs as "officially" supported on the ROCm stack, but most everything I've tested with my 6900XT works including F@H. Once you get ROCm installed you should be good to go on your 6800XT. I can't confirm if the posted install method from Diff works. I run an "unsupported" distro, but what Diff posted, and the link to the GitHub issue, looks good to me so it's worth a shot.

It's an EJ257, and the turbo cars (with the MLS gaskets) do not have the same head gasket issues that the NA cars have EJ251/53. Generally speaking head gasket failure is not that common on the turbo motors. Ironically, I did blow a head gasket at about 130k miles, but that has been the only issue I've had with the car. It is probably a bit of a unicorn, since it's been pushing well over stock power for 230k miles.

1/4 of a million miles and still rippin'. Last big snow of the year was last weekend, and night time temps have been pretty consistently above 34°F, so off with the snow shoes.

Looks like I'm not in this yet. Latest addition: Unicomp Mini M Daily driver | Filco Majestouch 2 TKL Camo | MX Brown | Keycaps: Blank Black PBT and Double Shot PBT Dark Gray w/ Black Legends Work board | Cooler Master Quick Fire TK | MX Brown w/ dampers On the KVM | Max Blackbird TKL | MX Brown Spare board | Corsair K65 RGB Mini Black | MX Speed