Category: Tuning
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collected the rods from the machine shop
Just collected the Scat h beams from the machine shop… Type 1 style h beams from Serrano vws in CA, 24 mm bushings from CSP in Germany and then off to piston broke machine shop in bristol… nearly there ! 😉 All I need now is the sleeves for the lifter bores, hopefully from Knofe…
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Just what happens if you put a swannee whistle in the dumpvalve of a junkyard turbo system?
Just what happens if you put a swannee whistle in the dumpvalve of a junkyard turbo system?
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doh!
back up to the garage of thomas to finish splitting the case on the wbx… cleaned some stuff up and found that the one stud that just would not move was actually a bolt all the way through just completely bimetallically corroded… looked like it was held in with concrete… after lots of huffing and…
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baby wants a bottle….
i picked this up from rod912’s place in Cardiff last night. Along with all the solenoids etc from Dude. It’s the biggest bottle i’ve ever seen. Ordinally a large bottle holds 11lb of Nitrous Oxide but this one holds something like 28lbs of gas… 😀 I’m not sure whether there’s actually time to get it…
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good and bad
today was all good and bad news… good news, got to raceshack and remembered croissants and video tape for the camcorder. bad news, got there late. good news, fixed all the fuel pipes and clips and stuff. bad news, the fuel pump weeps fuel (fairly obvious i know but just wanted to clarify that it…
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turbo snaggings
an earlyish start put me heading north on the m5 with a freshly burned copy of daft punk’s ‘discovery’ in the cd player. rolled into raceshack (via herberts bakery for the best almond croissant and pain au chocolat to be had in bristol) and got on with it. attacking the bus i started with the…
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Kjet & Turbo gear for the T25 Wasserboxer
the scrapyard parts start come together starting at one end of the system..going anticlockwise from the right of the picture i still need hoses and some other stuff like… erm, i forget… ah yes, boost gauge and boost sensor, bits of exhaust manifold pipework from the baja header to the inlet flange on the turbo…
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off we go…
everything ready to go and packed and off up the M5 to Raceshack in Tewkesbury… first job, cup of tea then over to the lasercutters to collect the flanges and collets that louie had designed. unfortunately only the collets for the fuel injection are ready, the others will be done tomorrow.. and they fit !…
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running forward to christmas
well it’s been quite a day, the lovely blue samco turbo hoses turned up from demon-tweeks. apart from the one that was red – but i sent that back and asked for a blue one… i told conor and he called me a tart and a wuss for wanting all the pipes to be the…
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more clockage !
another ebay special arrived this morning 🙂 all done now… nearly