My son Louie finished the last technical drawings of the pieces we need laser cut – a flange for the bottom of the throttle body and the flange for the hot side of the turbo. These two and the two collets to hold in the k jet injectors and we’ll be rocking. They went to the machinists and should be done in 5 days. I also ordered all the hose clamps I need and another T piece adapter for the other side of the recirculating dump valve (YES it’s true the bus wont do that chav ‘whoosh’ noise). Some more turbo hoses, in blue, and some other bits and bobs.
I set off across town to find the steel suppliers. I need to get some lengths of stainless steel tubing to make the runners in the turbo system. After driving round for about 45 minutes i realised that i couldn’t remember how to get there or what they were called… doh.

so the next thing on the list… PrtoTyre in lawrence hill said they could do me a good deal on tyres for the BK racing rims but would need to order in nuts for the studs on the back. because the wheels are dual fit (5 x 100 or 5 x 112) the bolt holes are tiny and take special tapered bolts…. but they can’t get them so i need to search the web to get some. they called them tuna bolts or is that tuner bolts.

i need to find a new clutch too.
the stock clutch won’t survive the power the bus is planned to be making so i started ringing round trying to find a 228mm Kennedy stage2 Racing Clutch.

fat chance.

funnily enough there aren’t that many VW transporter tuning shops in the uk…
so after find a few places that would order one in (lead time 3-5 weeks EEK!) i bit the bullet and phoned Kennedy direct in California and ordered one. The shipping was a bit hard on the wallet and i’ll probably be clobbered by VAT and import tax but at least that’s another bit of the jigsaw in place.
I’m still way under budget on the bus. I priced up teh correct cost of the Twisted Sanity Nitrous injection Kit and even with the smart Digital progressive nitrous controller I’ll be under budget.

However…

If i buy tyres for the BK wheels I think i’ll be over budget and I need to save money for contingency during the build up….

i need to go back to the spreadsheet and work out the costs again…

oh yes, and Conor at RaceShack was kind enough to email me through the data for Torque vs Rpm of the powerpull the bus did on the Dyno. I have a veru clever spreadsheet modelling program that will take all the data and let me run different scenarios and projections… Heh heh heh 🙂
(thankyou jimby 😉 )