Category: upgrades
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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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diagrams
here are the diagrams for the intended k-jet turbo setup from jamie. good egg! here’s the k-jet setup as a schematic heres another showing the whole system with turbo, k-jet etc…
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it’s spring
a productive morning processing image files and uploading all new shirt images to the ak shop and also adding the rather swank ak pitcrew shirts then onto the spannering on the beige wedge of captain hubbs… the headlights he needed are in (care of andy F in norwich) the welding than needed doing is done…
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Porsche Cooling Fan Conversion – pt.2
Read part one here Here I build up the engine with the Custom Speed Parts Fan conversion kit. Additionally, I fit the CSP bell crank throttle linkage kit. The fan conversion kit has all the parts necessary; GRP Fan Shroud Reconditioned Porsche fan and alternator Replacement alternator/oil filler pedestal Alternator/fan securing straps Nuts, Bolts, washers and other misc hardware…
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back where it belongs…
after a few late nights fitting up the porsche fan gear and some other twiddling the race engine is finally ready to get back where it belongs, in a bus. my bus 🙂 so, this afternoon it got carried out into the front yard and plonked infront of the yawning empty engine bay and after…
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Roll Cage installation in the Samba
Installed at the end of the 2003 season by Paul and Joss at Der Botcheinvolks the cage is constructed as a 6 point full hoop from certified CDS tubing. here you can see the main hoop over the top of the walkthru and the hoop running around the roof line behind the peak. it also…
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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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wahey! maybe heating (again)
parcelforce (bless ’em) turned up at the door with a parcel from germany for me… and guess what it contained ? this…. it’s an eberspacher B1L petrol air heater. it’s got a fancy 7 day digital timer and other stuff and after connecting to a 12v battery pack it all seems to work but the…
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wishlist… (deathwishlist?)
the engine is now out and i’ll be shipping it up to wellingborough on sunday to hand over to martin taylor from taylor machine services. martin is going to strip it all down and give me an assesment of the damage then i’ll plan a course of action. nominally the list is like this porsche…
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can you guess
what i’ve been up to today ? this is (apart from the engine) the biggest nastiest mechanical bit i’ve ever removed from the bus… ..you could kill someone with this.. 🙂 if you used it properly. finally got the driveshaft out and stripped the CV joint on the end. I forgot that one end is…