Tag: sambasaurus
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Seat belts for the doka arrive
The correct seat belt ends for the t3 doka rear seats turn up from the nice people at #tristarconnection , ie Lars Neuffer in Germany, who @rainking_78 may not know – but I bought the #sambasaurus splitscreen race bus from 20 years ago… small world – and a t-adapter for oil gauges !!!
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bbc points west video… finally
the akciddento vw t25 t3 turbo race builders van with junkyard turbo install feature on BBC Points West evening news program. At the Raceshack tuning facility in Tweaksbury fitting version one of the Junk Yard Turbo install. on a barn find VW wbx waterboxer 2.1l DJ motor we fitted the guts of a Saab turbo…
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dontcha just love it…
dontcha just love it when… well, trying to flog off the 84mm procomp crank from the old race engine in the samba. spun a bearing last november in the bus on the M4 being (barely) pursued by botch and joss in an SRi.. (see november 9th 2003 weblog entry) send the engine off to a…
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’twas the night before racing…
and all through the house….. …were piles of tools, bedding, camping gear, spare parts and assorted flame retardent clothing…. all seems well.. vwsp21 aka ollieslammedbay has his bus back with an engine, MOT and road tax and he has a new pair of fireproof boots, care of Kevo… (i blagged them off kevo as a…
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oh….
well, the new engine is in and running… the only clue is this… i forgot just how deafening it is… with the solid mount gearbox it’s punishing to drive long distances… all the oil over the back of the bus if from the old engine (flywheel oil seal dontchaknow) the oil seal is now fixed…
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back where it belongs…
after a few late nights fitting up the porsche fan gear and some other twiddling the race engine is finally ready to get back where it belongs, in a bus. my bus 🙂 so, this afternoon it got carried out into the front yard and plonked infront of the yawning empty engine bay and after…
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Roll Cage installation in the Samba
Installed at the end of the 2003 season by Paul and Joss at Der Botcheinvolks the cage is constructed as a 6 point full hoop from certified CDS tubing. here you can see the main hoop over the top of the walkthru and the hoop running around the roof line behind the peak. it also…
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take it all apart again!
dragged the engine into the house and onto the kitchen table and started stripping all the cooling and tinware off it. martin at TMS had phoned me during the day on friday to let me know that the porsche fan kit had turned up from CustomSpeedParts in Germany. Only two months after i ordered it….…
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DragBus Race Technischewerk?!
NEW DragBus shirt designs! black and white high quality inks on HEAVY weight double stitch premium tees, available in khaki, gold, burnt orange, red and shelley green. on sale in the webshop from next week and available from our stall at DubFreeze (i don’t know who makes these names up. that’s what they are called…
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Samba Engine Specification – 2332cc type 1 EFI engine
2332cc type 1 engine with DTA electronic fuel injection 2332cc Engine (84mmx94mm) * New AS41 racecase,bored for larger cylinders,drilled and tapped for full flow, clearance for 84mm long stroke. * Case fitting kit. * Scat Procomp 84mm forged chromoly crankshaft, 8 dowel, counterweighted. * Bearings for above. * Scat “H” beam chromoly conrods with “ARP”…