Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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gas me up !
after a fun two days at raceshack and some twiddling back at akciddento towers the westie t25 hightop now has a fully working nitrous install… we installed the fogger into the top of the inlet manifold behind the base of the pierburg carb so you can hardly see it, matty made up some neat brackets…
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and so , we’re back again…
after what seems like an age i’m blogging again… i stoppe dbloggin gjust before going to spa in belgium, where the racetrack is. it was the belgiam buggy club summer meet at the F1 racetrack and it was a blinder…. any how i digress.. i was thinking about switching akciddento off, giving it away or…
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entry 321 !
– that’s odd… i wrote a long piece about not having written in the blog for a while, about where i’d been, the buses and what i’d been up to and then talked about the dilemma i have about akciddento and what to do with it. i ended with the thought that i might just…
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on the track at last !
the panelvan finally ran at bugjam last weekend. images care of ollieslammed356 stock 2.1 dj k-jet injection tb03 turbo chargecooler the engine is a 2nd hand shed find and a little tired but we found about 7lb of boost on the dyno and made 108bhp at the rear wheels, with 100bhp in 2nd gear. the…
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’twas the night’was before thugjam…
when all through the house, not a sound could be heard, not even me out in the yard at midnight swapping over the wheels on the panel van in the dark…. 🙂 well, here we are again… night before bugjam and getting ready for racing… …the panel van is kinda ready, in that it’s settled…
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baby wants a bottle….
i picked this up from rod912’s place in Cardiff last night. Along with all the solenoids etc from Dude. It’s the biggest bottle i’ve ever seen. Ordinally a large bottle holds 11lb of Nitrous Oxide but this one holds something like 28lbs of gas… 😀 I’m not sure whether there’s actually time to get it…
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beachiddento!
how good was that ? off to croyde on friday evening… gathering of the clans bliss!
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passed and off to the beach !
oops. realised that i have to get road tax for the hightop soon… though i ought to check the MOT as that must be due soon… was due last week !!!! eek… so off to roundway garage this morning. fingeres crossed as I’m supposed to be off to beachiddento at croyde bay in devon tonight……
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home!
i’m home, it’s home… it runs, it leaks but is happy. seal it and make more boost… swannee whistle in dump valve veryy funny/. exhausted. muppet like flu receding… mussssttttt sleeeepppp [b]thankyou raceshack ! thankyou conor! thankyou kevo![/b] pictrres nund e video got them, willll post m nsoon….. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, [i]bleh[/i]
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relief…
all back together and running now.. chemsealed the head and it doesn’t seem to leak anymore ! even the fuel pump doesn’t appear to be leaking and the breather hoses aren’t spewing oil everywhere ! had a wierd one with the rocker gear. after worrying that i’d bent a valve and having no compression on…
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