after what seems like an age i’m blogging again… i stoppe dbloggin gjust before going to spa in belgium, where the racetrack is. it was the belgiam buggy club summer meet at the F1 racetrack and it was a blinder…. any how i digress.. i was thinking about switching akciddento off, giving it away or…

– that’s odd… i wrote a long piece about not having written in the blog for a while, about where i’d been, the buses and what i’d been up to and then talked about the dilemma i have about akciddento and what to do with it. i ended with the thought that i might just…

the panelvan finally ran at bugjam last weekend. images care of ollieslammed356 stock 2.1 dj k-jet injection tb03 turbo chargecooler the engine is a 2nd hand shed find and a little tired but we found about 7lb of boost on the dyno and made 108bhp at the rear wheels, with 100bhp in 2nd gear. the…

when all through the house, not a sound could be heard, not even me out in the yard at midnight swapping over the wheels on the panel van in the dark…. 🙂 well, here we are again… night before bugjam and getting ready for racing… …the panel van is kinda ready, in that it’s settled…

how good was that ? off to croyde on friday evening… gathering of the clans bliss!

oops. realised that i have to get road tax for the hightop soon… though i ought to check the MOT as that must be due soon… was due last week !!!! eek… so off to roundway garage this morning. fingeres crossed as I’m supposed to be off to beachiddento at croyde bay in devon tonight……

i’m home, it’s home… it runs, it leaks but is happy. seal it and make more boost… swannee whistle in dump valve veryy funny/. exhausted. muppet like flu receding… mussssttttt sleeeepppp [b]thankyou raceshack ! thankyou conor! thankyou kevo![/b] pictrres nund e video got them, willll post m nsoon….. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, [i]bleh[/i]

all back together and running now.. chemsealed the head and it doesn’t seem to leak anymore ! even the fuel pump doesn’t appear to be leaking and the breather hoses aren’t spewing oil everywhere ! had a wierd one with the rocker gear. after worrying that i’d bent a valve and having no compression on…

it lives ! and here it is! more to do, still got to tune and plumb and fiddle and fettle but its in and it runs! got flu and feel really groggy so will wrtite more later and will put all the images & diagrams etc into a proper ‘how to’ or even ‘how not…

back as early as possible to RaceShack and get going… after a slow morning of pottering on stuff waiting to attack it all I sort out some jobs like capping more pipes and investigating a leak in the right hand cylinder head jacket.. yes, it leaks… i’ve drained the coolant and if it’s dry tomorrow…