Author: Shaun Abrahamson

Finalizing design, led by https://andreanhuch.com/. Will ask her to describe the process in more detail, but lots of iterations with Chat GPT, though final renderings were human-made in photoshop. Here’s the brief.

Making our way through Lemons guides on how not to fail tech/safety inspection. It’s fascinating to see how rules get codified to improve safety. A lot comes from existing motorsports standards and if you follow sports like F1, you can clearly see some of the safety improvements like the halo. It’s remarkable to see older…

A core part of Lemons is being able to generate additional budget for non-safety parts of the build, by selling parts from the car. In our case, nearly 50% of the build budget is comes electric motors. By 1987 the 924 had an electric pop-up sunroof, an electric actuated trunk lock, popup headlights and electric…

This ChatGPT o3 diagram below isn’t very helpful. I suspect a lot of this is going to be overcome if current LLMs are used as interfaces to existing design tools that already include a lot of rules and behaviors. That said, Claude (above) seemed to have better grasp on circuit logic as the image below…

One of the areas we’ve been playing with is “text to CAD” or “text to surface” with tools like Meshy or AdamCAD. Working with teams like Cove Architectures, gives a sense for why this might be hard. It’s one thing to get a great looking rendering, but it’s something else to get accurate surfaces and…

The safety cage is the one thing we decided not to DIY. First, there is a tech/safety inspection to pass and the longest, most detailed section deals with details of the cage including use of force spreading plates, gussets, etc. Cages are designed for highest frequency crash situations – sure there is a small possibility…

“That’s really fun. Well done!” – Max Abrahamson, after his first session in the Temperossa. The first track day for our 1987 Porsche 924S “Temperossa” is in the books, and it was a resounding success! Today I want to share how artificial intelligence, particularly large language models like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini helped our family…

We’re making our way through suspension and brake upgrades. For suspension we went with Superbeetle coilovers as helper springs. And for the front some slightly modified MarkI Golf Alibaba sourced coilovers. These were the LLM suggested (by training on loads of forum discussion data) cheapest ways to get the 924 to do the things we’d…