after a strange and taxing day doing ‘other’ stuff i got to attack the panel van… i’ve sold it to gary from glastonbury who is going to rebuold it and race it and i’ve bought a 1989 t25 devon shuttlebus from dave up in oakham…

gary and jinx are coming on saturday to collect the panel so i need to get a load of stuff out (partly because it’s been loaned to me and shouldn’t strictly speaking be sold ;0 )

so advance toward the bus with screwdrivers, socket set and side cutters…

an hour later i have a heap of

all the gauges and clocks… (incidentally the clocks are worth more than the whole bus)
sparco race seat (thankyou conor)
msd ignition system & rev limiter (thankyou kevo)
chargecooler radiator & pump
chargecooler
kjet injection system
half the pipewrk for the turbo
nitrous system
assorted other junk…

all i need to do now is remove the injection pump & accumulator from under the floor and drop the engine…

if it stops raining…

i also called over on thomas diamondhell to say hi and it looks like i am going to take up his kind offer of benchspace to start stripping the 2.1 motor for rebuild…

finally 🙂

he also mentioned that he has a (cant-remember-the-code} 4 speed gearbox that’s just been rebuilt that has the really tall 4th gear… sounds interesting. the devon is a 5 speed – which is not ideal – the dogleg first is a hassle and the box is weaker than a 4 speed… the only this is the tall 5th gear…
i need to check ratios and codes but this might work out welll….

ah… such plans

(btw i also spotted a 62mm turbo sealed throttle body on ebay for ?cheap) it’s short which is great and is HOOOGE ! but jimby says nah… IT’S TOO BIG…
too big ?

too big !

pah… although he’s probably right, what does he know ?!!@@!