Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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little and large…
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…
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more stuff…
pinholes in the base of the inlet manifolds… weld em up… offer up the k-jet injectors to the manifolds… then louie got on the case designing the collets and adapters that will need to be made to hold the injectors… a bit like this… louie got it done so quickly, i was amazed, it seems…
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it’s alive !
yes, it’s true ! the race bus runs ! after the work yesterday chasing through the electrics and cleaning contacts and refitting the starter motor i left the battery on charge overnight. today the sun was shining and the smell of summer was in the air, day dreams of touring france ran through my head…
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oh trolley day
after a gloomy start to the day and too much paperwork and phone hassle… (more and more of each day seems to be taken up with just trying to organise basic things and battling against bureaucracy run riot. even the simplest thing like ringing my phone company to query an item on a bill turns…
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progress…
thanks to the welder of jimby, the argon of halfords and the gloves of machinemart (in a rather attractive shade of turquoise (sp?)) and lots of tea and help from louie we got the welding going on the baja exhaust, all that needs doing (kinda) is to swipe the flanges off the end of the…
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brrrr…..
late night dash to the beach via flowers and cards for mothers.. take some fantastci pictures driving through the lanes… b-stop long exposure of the headlights on the hedgerows, open shutter ofr twenty seconds… much of it is very beautiful albeit in a predictable way but some of the constructed panoramics are really exciting… i…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
well, it’s the first of march 2005 and this is entry number two hundred and sixty eight! the weblog is now TWO years old (in a week or two but i thin kthat 1st march will be its official birthday from now on, like the queen but less wrinkly and more like a weblog than…
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not welding….
sunday came and it was bright crisp sunny… love;y sunday for doing things and getting things done… ed decided to get loaded up and return londonwards early to get into his shed and work on his fastback…. so we loaded up the wheels i’d collected for him from dubfreeze (or to be more accurate hubbs…
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shopping with ted rogers…
**ed** came down to visit for the weekend in his newly slammed passat estate… slammed to the floor on majorly cut springs it looks the bomb! ed had done a deal with chris CSP who lives on the other side of bristol for some moon disks. yes, moon disks on the passat (more on this…
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chavtastic!
hubbs decided to hang around in bristol for another day or so and the new headlights he had got at dubfreeze were itching to be fitted to something so a test fitting to the race panel van (sat sad and immobile under the trees)* was called for… and here they are, screwed into the old…
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