Akciddento estd. 2003

doing the things that we want to

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  • ’twas the night before christmas…

    will glennon from the BBC in bristol came down this afternoon to go through a load of stuff. will did a shoot at the portrait exhibition i did about drag racing (petrolheads) and is keen toi add more material and make a short film… no idea if anything will come of it but it’s always…

  • shiny shiny !

    the stainless steel pipe I ordered turned up today… very shiny 🙂 2m of 50mm diameter and 2m of 60mm diameter… this goes into the turbo hose setup to route the air from the airbox across and down to the turbo and then back up and into the intercooler/plenum chamber… i think theres far too…

  • more bits…

    all week i’ve been doing the last assembly of bits n pieces from all over the place… from forge motorsport.. all the assorted clamps and some 25mm vacuum hose for the recirculating dump valve.. and another ebay special ! a badly painted/anodised adjustable boost controller. thsi goes in line before the dumpvalve/ wastegate actuator and…

  • more cutting!

    used quicte a few grinding discs so far….. 🙂 and made a nice big pile of scrap… so i put it on ebay for sale and I’ve had quite a lot of interest…. 🙂 I was a little disappointed with the amount of weight that i removed but with a target of removing 250KG i…

  • bump n grind…

    been having a busy few days attacking thigs on the bus… I finally bit the bullet and got the grinder to the interior of the bus. and managed to hack out a total of 18kg of skinning and reinforcement from the rear of the bus. The sliding door, the rear door and the rear load…

  • splurge !

    My son Louie finished the last technical drawings of the pieces we need laser cut – a flange for the bottom of the throttle body and the flange for the hot side of the turbo. These two and the two collets to hold in the k jet injectors and we’ll be rocking. They went to…

  • at last !

    I started out in the yard, stripping the exhaust off the panel van. I had reversed into Conor’s trailer at raceshack last week and bent one of the flanges on the exhaust and it pops and bangs like a machine gun on the over run now. It Makes people in St. Pauls nervous ;). (if…

  • look who we found!

    driving back from vw action we got passed by nicola and conor and family from Raceshack… they followed us back to akciddento towers for some tea and conor left a happy man, proud owner of a new intercooler…

  • flamingoes

    and in their natural habitat after we got home on sunday 🙂 with thanks the reformed Rod Jeremy-Price – pornstar extraordinaire and dolphin killer– and Dude – the secret mohican skater psychologist… Rod and dude were running a stall sellling old coke coolers and other retro stuff for Julian. It’s amazing the things you find…

  • wheel!

    after a bit af a scare with the BK racing wheels – after cleaning and rattle canning them it turned out tha one had a BIG crack in the rim… they were an ebay special so… … i rang around and talked to the distributors etc and it turns out the wheel is discontinued and…