more twiddling and stuff…
bit of a frustrating delay, i removed and chopped and welded up the fractured steel waterpipe but with a combination of my bad welding and improper gas flow in the welded the weld is lumpy and porous. so after struggling to get it back in and connected up it leaks… it’s strong but leaks. i may revert to the old method now that it wont flex and just cover it in epoxy..

i’ve also decide to junk the route i’ve been talking with the turbo manifold and modify a stock late manifold so that i can tuck the turbo away at one side of the engine bay…

unfortunately if i buy a new one and a new water pipe it’ll blow the budget so i’m scrounging around trying to find a good second hand one…

doh.

i got out the throttle bodies as well as other bits to check stuff over and realised that the stock throttlebody is not sealed so i can’t use it anyhow, i;ll have to use the larger saab turbo one… 🙂

what a shame 😉

i also pulled out the clocks to make up lists of the electrical stuff i need…

i also pulled out the laser diffuser i bought for the samba but never fitted. i’ve got a radar detector that does x, k, ka and all the other bands but it’s no use with a laser gun. what the diffuser does is fire back laser information at the same frequency when it detects a laser gun and set off an audible alarm in the cab. the idea being that it give you a few seconds grace to ‘modify’ your driving in the event of being shot with a laser cash gun. when you are driving ‘comfortably’ you switch off the diffuser and let the gun register your more comfortable speed….

i also broke my socket breaker bar…
doh..