picked up the new con rod bolts from the main dealer this morning, ?55 with vat !!!! and they didn’t even come ith nuts ! swapped out the old rod bolts and part assembled the crank with the pressure plate and flywheel with the new flywheel bolts etc.. all ready for the balancing now.. what…

called over to thomashells workshop at the weekend, he a jake were spannering hard under the back of the new syncro caravelle t25. lots of new bits n pieces and all being stripped out underneath for a subaru engine to be grafted in…. thomas was also fitting the old rock n roll bed that he’d…

after lots of faffing anf pauses left anmd right it all seems to be coming together… after trying to get the head studs out of the case and having them just snapping like glass time after time i sent the case with the broken studs in ovet to a place thoma shell recommended, pison broke…

(hello jess !) got skype and donwloaded it … skype is IP telephony, call for free over the internet.,… seems that akciddento as a skype usename is taken by a gamer in norway… i’d noticed he was using this a few months ago and wondered if he’d seen the site… seems he has. i set…

here it is, the 2.1l waterboxer i was running lastyear in the red panelvan. i dropped it a stripped it before the van went and thomasdiamonhell was kind enough to offer me some clear bench space at his workshop to strip it. working inside with lighting and BLISS OF BLISS ! an air ratchet is…

borrowed the van and trailer from raceshack and trucked up to oakham near leicester to collect the NEW akciddento weapon of choice, it’s a 1990 devon microbus, double sliding door, walkthrough with captain seats and rear wash wipe… it stinks of ep90 gearbox oil (probably because the engine and gear box are sat in side…

after a fantastic saturday night out in cardiff with rod912 and dude, meeting up with kelster and mave (much bench racing and discussion of new projects was done) it was off up to raceshack to help matty walker with getting his ghia ready for the volksworld show… it’s going to be awesome… 🙂 unfortunately at…

after a strange and taxing day doing ‘other’ stuff i got to attack the panel van… i’ve sold it to gary from glastonbury who is going to rebuold it and race it and i’ve bought a 1989 t25 devon shuttlebus from dave up in oakham… gary and jinx are coming on saturday to collect the…

Just realised that i’ve been writing this weblog for three years now ! started way back in march 2003 !!!! that’s a bit strange.. 🙂 d

after a hectic few weeks (they always seem to be hectic… i wonder why that is ?) i’ve done a deal with davecappucino cruiser (always meant to ask him why he calls himself that, cafe racer reference maybe ??) to buy his old devon shuttlebus off him. he bought it off ben and robbed all…