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 and seems consistent… it still only makes about 7 or 8 pounds of boost but it’s kinda sparky with it.. I took ollie out for a little blat round town in it earlier and he was very quite for the first few minutes and had a worried look on his face then he started giggling… so not too bad by all accounts…

sadly dude’s kindly donated Nitrous kit has not had it’s install finished. everything was there bar a fogger

and here’s a fogger !

there just wasn’t time to get the install in and test it and do everything else that there was to do.
as it was I louie and I were at raceshack untile late yesterday. The turbo was running fine but making no boost, i checked for leaks and then shelled out on a new forge motorsport dumpvalve (very nice people!, very helpful and great products, made in gloucester and really well engineered,)

one of these. the chap at forge even fitted an uprated spring and threw in the other one too.. and it’s very shiny…

– on the way back from gloucester, looking at this shiny piece of engineering in it’s white cardboard box, i did muse on the strange state of affairs that the dump valve cost me exactly the same amount of money as the whole bus did originally.

funny that…

anyhow. back at raceshack. no boost… no boost. started working on the otehr turbo i had as a spare getting ready to swap them incase there’s a problem when we start into the timing. too much advance… retard further . make boost ! how good is that. after several power pulls we started to see seven or eight pounds of boost. no great shakes but a good start in the right direction. running out of time we locked it all off. happy that it was running consistent and that we’d found nearly 45 extra horsepower with the turbo setup and there was a mile more tuning to go.
i was quitely relieved in some ways. conor had promised that he could get the bus to 140bhp at the rear wheels. i agreed that if he did i’d let him shave my head.
in the pits at bugjam.

close one that…

so, we’re getting ready. there’s loads more power to be had from the bus and i might even get the nitrous sorted out in the next week or two…

🙂

BRING IT ON!

oh btw marco, i did make a turbo, injection wasserboxer racebus for under a grand ! 😀