Category: T2
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more flame and thunder
a damp, rainy bleary start to the day. it’s been drizzling for several hours and the air is so cold it looks not too promising for racing today. It seems that the one meeting tha people thought would be dry is in danger of being a washout just like most of the others this year…
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dontcha just love it…
dontcha just love it when… well, trying to flog off the 84mm procomp crank from the old race engine in the samba. spun a bearing last november in the bus on the M4 being (barely) pursued by botch and joss in an SRi.. (see november 9th 2003 weblog entry) send the engine off to a…
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attack!
after too much tea (and some other distrations we got started on replacing the bushings on the wishbone on the front of hubbs’ t25… with a bit of hepl from a haynes manual and an excellent guide from the brickyard website we were off. we got the wishbone marked up and out in no time…
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Porsche Cooling Fan Conversion – pt.2
Read part one here Here I build up the engine with the Custom Speed Parts Fan conversion kit. Additionally, I fit the CSP bell crank throttle linkage kit. The fan conversion kit has all the parts necessary; GRP Fan Shroud Reconditioned Porsche fan and alternator Replacement alternator/oil filler pedestal Alternator/fan securing straps Nuts, Bolts, washers and other misc hardware…
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more big bang
we all woke to a dry but overcast day.. the track dryers were out hoovering the moisture off the track and all looked promising… all morning to run qualifying and all afternoon to race… off to the startline and into the staging area…..then BANG, it hit me like a steam train… back behind the wheel,…
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big bang 2004
it’s saturday morning at big bang 2004 at santa pod, round 2 of the vwdrc. we arrived and set up pits on friday afternoon after a monster drive, with 5 of us in the split and packed to the roof windows with tools, spares, pit stuff, food and all the stock and stuff for the…
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’twas the night before racing…
and all through the house….. …were piles of tools, bedding, camping gear, spare parts and assorted flame retardent clothing…. all seems well.. vwsp21 aka ollieslammedbay has his bus back with an engine, MOT and road tax and he has a new pair of fireproof boots, care of Kevo… (i blagged them off kevo as a…
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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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Performance charts for the Samba
Here’s the graphs from the mapping on the Dyno at Taylor Machine Services after the winter rebuild and repair work The Engine was run with and without the fanbelt on, without the belt on made 22BHP more and over 10 Ft/lb of torque more. The figures for BHP are slightly down on previous estimates but…