Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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good and bad
today was all good and bad news… good news, got to raceshack and remembered croissants and video tape for the camcorder. bad news, got there late. good news, fixed all the fuel pipes and clips and stuff. bad news, the fuel pump weeps fuel (fairly obvious i know but just wanted to clarify that it…
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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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GRRRRRRRRR!RRR!!!!!!
it lives ! and here it is! more to do, still got to tune and plumb and fiddle and fettle but its in and it runs! got flu and feel really groggy so will wrtite more later and will put all the images & diagrams etc into a proper ‘how to’ or even ‘how not…
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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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making progress
back as early as possible to RaceShack and get going… after a slow morning of pottering on stuff waiting to attack it all I sort out some jobs like capping more pipes and investigating a leak in the right hand cylinder head jacket.. yes, it leaks… i’ve drained the coolant and if it’s dry tomorrow…
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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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’twas the night before christmas…
will glennon from the BBC in bristol came down this afternoon to go through a load of stuff. will did a shoot at the portrait exhibition i did about drag racing (petrolheads) and is keen toi add more material and make a short film… no idea if anything will come of it but it’s always…
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shiny shiny !
the stainless steel pipe I ordered turned up today… very shiny 🙂 2m of 50mm diameter and 2m of 60mm diameter… this goes into the turbo hose setup to route the air from the airbox across and down to the turbo and then back up and into the intercooler/plenum chamber… i think theres far too…
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more bits…
all week i’ve been doing the last assembly of bits n pieces from all over the place… from forge motorsport.. all the assorted clamps and some 25mm vacuum hose for the recirculating dump valve.. and another ebay special ! a badly painted/anodised adjustable boost controller. thsi goes in line before the dumpvalve/ wastegate actuator and…
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more cutting!
used quicte a few grinding discs so far….. 🙂 and made a nice big pile of scrap… so i put it on ebay for sale and I’ve had quite a lot of interest…. 🙂 I was a little disappointed with the amount of weight that i removed but with a target of removing 250KG i…
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