it seems like waiting time…

.. apparently the courier was picking the new/old 2.1 wasserboxer up in scotland yesterday but i haven’t been able to get in touch with nick to confirm or deny. (NICK! are you out there ?) it’s starting to drag on a bit so that’s frustrating but i understand that nick has had some stuff to deal with so hopefully no worries.

the throttle body i bought off ebay (the nice bluebling one) is in transit to me (i think) it took a few emails to the seller to get a response but apparently all is fine…

alos been looking at the price of waste gates (to put into the exhaust side ofthe system) I have the recirculating dump valve for the intake side and there is a built in wastegate with a standard actuator on one of the garrett turbos i have but i thion it might not do the job… we’ll see. the aftermarket wastgates seem to start at about ?150 and reach skyward to about ?350 very quickly….

i think i need to do som emore research. it’s why i’m also ithcing to get this new block onto a bench so i can start gaffertaping and testfitting it all together…

had a look at some ofthe discussion about lifters and valve train for wasserboxers on the shoptalk forums and although there seems to be a strong concensus toward junking hydraulic lifters and putting in type 4 solid lifters there seem to be a few informed voices saying ‘what the hell’ stick with hydraulic lifters unless you want to start revving over 5,500rpm. seeing as with the turbo i’m expecting to make more power lower and not need to scream the engine i might be able to get away with it…

watch this space…

( i feel like i should be humming the rainbow theme tune now )
dum dum da dada da da da, dum dum da dada…

hello everyone! this week we’ll going to be building a 250bhp street racing motor from a biscuit tin, an old bicycle pump and four hundred litres of nitrous oxide…

…oh geoffrey, that sounds fun!
yes it does doesn’t it bungle…
…uh, uh, uh, oh geoffrey can, can, can we put it on a dyno when we’re finished ?
..of course we can zippy. but first we’re going to get some friends to help us.
look, here comes Con, Botch and Ollie!

rainbow unmasked