Category: EFI
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oh….
well, the new engine is in and running… the only clue is this… i forgot just how deafening it is… with the solid mount gearbox it’s punishing to drive long distances… all the oil over the back of the bus if from the old engine (flywheel oil seal dontchaknow) the oil seal is now fixed…
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back where it belongs…
after a few late nights fitting up the porsche fan gear and some other twiddling the race engine is finally ready to get back where it belongs, in a bus. my bus 🙂 so, this afternoon it got carried out into the front yard and plonked infront of the yawning empty engine bay and after…
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DTA electronic fuel injection
The bus currently runs with electronic fuel injection. The system is comprised of DTA E48 EXP Engine management system Jenvey 45mm Throttle bodies with Bosch injectors Samco Coil back with wasted spark Oil temp sensor in left hand rocker cover Ambient air temp sensor inside engine bay Throttle position sensor on spindle of left hand…
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yee haa !!!!!!
the fugly 412 passed its MOT. third time lucky! now all i need is the road tax (a quick trip to the post office) and i can start blinging it up in a charity shop stylee! i’ve got the new front wings and the rather nice solid aluminium US spec bumpers (though i think i…
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Travelling…
A trip away heading south… We had fun playing with a honda r type. Sadly the bus lost the edge after about xxx mph. It was only after slowing and regaining hearing that i realised the bus had lost a plug lead and was running on three cylinders the whole time…. Cool ! had to…
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because…
thought i’d post this too, i thought it was such a nice image… one of the taylor machine custom pulleys showing the additional notched wheel for the crank triggered ignition system that goes with the fuel injection
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hmmm…
i spent the day trying to get the studio back into some sort of shape and throwing away all sorts of old garbage that’s been in boxes since we moved back into the country… getting somewhere i guess. ollie dwyer came over late in the evening and we chatted about his new project. his first…
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out with the old in with the new
finally sorted through some of the images from the trip up north last week to take the bus to taylor machine. so out with the old and in with the new
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splitscreen flight sim…
i’ve been looking around for a cheap windows laptop to monitor the new engine management system on the bus… should be a giggle, enough to keep me out of trouble anyhow. if i run a serial extension cable from the main ECU in the engine bay up into the cab i can drive along with…
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he wasn’t kidding…
martin taylor at taylor machine works sent me some pictures ofthe damage done to the dyno while he was doing the mapping on the new engine…. when he said it made a mess he wasn’t kidding ! you can see the fractured propshaft of the dyno, the damage to the dyno bellhousing and, sadly some…