Category: WBX
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Just what happens if you put a swannee whistle in the dumpvalve of a junkyard turbo system?
Just what happens if you put a swannee whistle in the dumpvalve of a junkyard turbo system?
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doh!
back up to the garage of thomas to finish splitting the case on the wbx… cleaned some stuff up and found that the one stud that just would not move was actually a bolt all the way through just completely bimetallically corroded… looked like it was held in with concrete… after lots of huffing and…
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turbo snaggings
an earlyish start put me heading north on the m5 with a freshly burned copy of daft punk’s ‘discovery’ in the cd player. rolled into raceshack (via herberts bakery for the best almond croissant and pain au chocolat to be had in bristol) and got on with it. attacking the bus i started with the…
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Kjet & Turbo gear for the T25 Wasserboxer
the scrapyard parts start come together starting at one end of the system..going anticlockwise from the right of the picture i still need hoses and some other stuff like… erm, i forget… ah yes, boost gauge and boost sensor, bits of exhaust manifold pipework from the baja header to the inlet flange on the turbo…
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off we go…
everything ready to go and packed and off up the M5 to Raceshack in Tewkesbury… first job, cup of tea then over to the lasercutters to collect the flanges and collets that louie had designed. unfortunately only the collets for the fuel injection are ready, the others will be done tomorrow.. and they fit !…
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running forward to christmas
well it’s been quite a day, the lovely blue samco turbo hoses turned up from demon-tweeks. apart from the one that was red – but i sent that back and asked for a blue one… i told conor and he called me a tart and a wuss for wanting all the pipes to be the…
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turbosystems are go…
it’s all there bar two flanges and the hoses… 🙂
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HOW LOUD !%^&!*&@*!!!!!
if you find that noisy neighbours keep you awake at night or the noise of the airconditioining in your place of work annoys you here is a simple and fun solution to noise related problems that you can make at home. 1 remove stock backbox… 2 hack up expensive strange exhaust you got from Marco…
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pimp my ride- butcher my bus
rolled up to RaceShack early on thursday, Conor had organised a Petrolheads monthly meet for later that evening and asked me if i’d like to put the panel van on the rollers to get a baseline so we can see how much extra power we can wring out of it after turbo fitment… when i…
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guess my weight,,,
i trucked up to RACESHACK to deliver croissants and blag mugs of tea and also to checkout how progress is going for bigbang show at santapod this weekend.. conor and kevo had the rail together and had just finished breaking in the cam on the new engine… conor also had a seablau and blauweiss 15…