after a hectic few weeks (they always seem to be hectic… i wonder why that is ?) i’ve done a deal with davecappucino cruiser (always meant to ask him why he calls himself that, cafe racer reference maybe ??) to buy his old devon shuttlebus off him. he bought it off ben and robbed all the good parts from it and now it looks to be headed for deepest darkest bristol….

what i have to do is make room for it so the panelvan – minus some of the more expensive parts – is up for sale. gary and jinx from glastonbury came to look at it on saturday and seemed interested but who knows. (they’ve been talking to mark germman (again i need to ask him about this ….) about racing a bus in vwdrc… – it’s a small world ;)) they’re planning a golf gti conversion and all sorts of shenannigans…

i’ve started bit shopping for a rebuild on the 2.1 wasserboxer in the panelvan. i did a compression test on it and found out why it won’t hold boost… the cylinder pressures read (bear in mind that they should be within 10psi of each other –
ladies and gentlemen, in reverse order we have,
at number 1 is number one cylinder with 180psi,
strangely at joint second are numbers two and three with 170 psi
and last and very much least is cylinder number four with 70psi….

so i guess that’s a little sickly then… bear in mind that it made 108bhp at the wheels like this (thats somewhere over140 at the flywheel… 😉 )

so – i’;ve got a spare block, new barrels pistons and rings, a pair of good condition second hand heads waiting for some dremel porting work & valve job.
i’ve done the horrible budget on a full best quality gasket set & also the little bits, new studs @ ?7 each, new pushrod tubes, bearing set, oil pump, balancing etc etc etc… all the basics – comes to nearly ?300 for what is only a bit more than a gasket set… oops…

there’s also a part 2 shopping list with the shiny things on it.
so far i’ve got to

engel tsc-10 turbo grind cam ?60
straight cut camgears to suit ?50
scat 1.4:1 ratio rockers ?190
solid lifters to suit from ?60 up to ?300 (ouch !)
SCAT H beam rods ?200

(i’ve got a bag with my old manton chromoly push rods in somewhere too…)

but there’s then a part 3 shopping list….

omex/wolf 3d fuel injection EMU
8 injector setup
new 54mm jenvey throttle body with TPS
crank trigger sensor & all the gubbins
new wiring loom to suit
edis ignition pack & bits…

– cheap as chips for what you get but not really all that cheap… 😉

ah well….

who knows, the last race bus got completely out of hand… so why break a habit !

oh btw while window shoppin on ebay for cosworth throttle bodies i found this…

on australian ebay but will ship to the uk, only ?300.

100mm throttle body !

EEK ! thats proper scary…. if you made enough boost your could end up sucking all sorts of wild life and even pedestrians into it !