Category: Tuning
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take it all apart again!
dragged the engine into the house and onto the kitchen table and started stripping all the cooling and tinware off it. martin at TMS had phoned me during the day on friday to let me know that the porsche fan kit had turned up from CustomSpeedParts in Germany. Only two months after i ordered it….…
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Samba Engine Specification – 2332cc type 1 EFI engine
2332cc type 1 engine with DTA electronic fuel injection 2332cc Engine (84mmx94mm) * New AS41 racecase,bored for larger cylinders,drilled and tapped for full flow, clearance for 84mm long stroke. * Case fitting kit. * Scat Procomp 84mm forged chromoly crankshaft, 8 dowel, counterweighted. * Bearings for above. * Scat “H” beam chromoly conrods with “ARP”…
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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…
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blessed be.
today is a bit of am odd day. paul venners – of the commentating, ‘botch boys – team botch- fame- is round for a few days doing the welding that needs to be done on the 412. he’s tapping and welding and grimnding away. my boy louie came back from school yesterday and walked through…
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4.1 litres of aircooled power!
after an early start i decide to keep the single quiet pack exhaust on the bus rather than swap it back to the magnaflow muffler as i had intended. no real reson, just lazy i guess… ..off to the bank and sneak out with a big manilla envelope and off to portsmouth to the funkenblitz…