Category: Tuning
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turbosystems are go…
it’s all there bar two flanges and the hoses… 🙂
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HOW LOUD !%^&!*&@*!!!!!
if you find that noisy neighbours keep you awake at night or the noise of the airconditioining in your place of work annoys you here is a simple and fun solution to noise related problems that you can make at home. 1 remove stock backbox… 2 hack up expensive strange exhaust you got from Marco…
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guess my weight,,,
i trucked up to RACESHACK to deliver croissants and blag mugs of tea and also to checkout how progress is going for bigbang show at santapod this weekend.. conor and kevo had the rail together and had just finished breaking in the cam on the new engine… conor also had a seablau and blauweiss 15…
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little and large…
more twiddling and stuff… bit of a frustrating delay, i removed and chopped and welded up the fractured steel waterpipe but with a combination of my bad welding and improper gas flow in the welded the weld is lumpy and porous. so after struggling to get it back in and connected up it leaks… it’s…
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more stuff…
pinholes in the base of the inlet manifolds… weld em up… offer up the k-jet injectors to the manifolds… then louie got on the case designing the collets and adapters that will need to be made to hold the injectors… a bit like this… louie got it done so quickly, i was amazed, it seems…
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line it all up and see if it ACTUALLY fits
after getting the kids to be i decided that rather than spending another evening in the anaesthetic arms of the one eyed lodger i’d go through all the stuff in bags and boxes in the junk room downstairs… i got on with a few jobs i knew needed doing, sorting out which of the garret…
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it’s in!
a quick blatt up to conors on friday night for a lovely relaxed supper in the hereford hills then pop into raceshack on saturday morning to see a hive of activity on the doublecab… how much i should tell i’m not sure but i think i’ve fallen in love with it… the cage is in…
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bolt i up me babber….
well after the job of cleaningthe old 1.9 block out of the front room to make way for teenage jam sessions i found the all important box with all the bolts in! so, come sunday lunchtime it’s out into the drizzle on with som esurgical gloves and on with reassembly of the 2.1 block. sorted…
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unpacking the crate
out into the cold and start unwrapping the palette that came last week… here’s one bit… the 2.1 wasserboxer in the boot of the bus, looking a bit dusty, crusty stonecold fusty… it turns over by hand and there seems to be a good amount of compression but it’s been sat a long time in…
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look what arrived !
not only but also ! the bell rang at about 10.30 this morning and look waht turned up! that’s right, a teenage race fan and engineer extraordinair?! (he also bought the thing on the pallet with him) so here it is, the first peek at the thing we’ve been waiting for for so long… once…