well….
after a long day setting up the new accounts system with my accountant (which was actually fun and exciting – which is worrying…) i settled down and watched the new spykids 3D movie with emily and lucian. it was actually alright. the spykids trilogy is from robert rodriguez, of ‘rebel without a crew’ fame – which is a fantastic diary/story about rodriguez’ transition from struggling fil school student/burger flipper to the hottest property in hollywood and runs through the making of the original ‘el mariachi’. He got the money for the original low budget production, using friends in a small town in mexico, by booking himself in for a month of medical experiments ! more recently he’s made things like desperado and ‘once upon a time in mexico’ and also ‘dusk ’til dawn’ with tarantino and clooney…
interesting guy, interesting director… apparently he holds the record for the most ‘set ups’ (set and shot camera positions) in a day.
anyway i digress. i was watching the movie (with the red green glasses on !) and thinking how cool the cheap garish 3d graphics were and also as an aside that silvester stallone is a better actor than i give him credit for (he’s the evil mastermind with the multiple personalities)…

anyhow, after calm had descended upon akciddento towers i decided that i’d better shift the race engine off the kitchen table (there is a side story to this that i might relate at some other time…) so i got out the stanley knife and spent a merry evening (until 2am) whittling the fibreglass porsche fan shroud to get it to fit over the street eliminator heads and the intake manifolds… and guess what, i think i’ve nearly got it right. I’m going to clearance it loads more tomorrow to make access to the spark plugs easier but i think i’m nearly there. i even figured out the bell crank throttle linkage and got that all in place… will wonders never cease ?

ollie slammedbay is coming over in the morning and we’re going to pull the 1600 engine from the bus and stick it into his bay window. his race engine is not ready yet and he needs to get an MOT so motive power would be kinda helpful…

at the moment team akciddento has one MOT and one engine between two….

oops.

more later folks… 🙂