sat in gatwick airport after a start that was TOO early. watching the timer count down on the internet access i just boughtt at a kiosk…. …ah the wonders of modern technology. flyinh out to the french alps via geneva for a week or so to hang out with my friend hubbs and maybe do…

got the wierdest piece of spam today…

thought i’d post this too, i thought it was such a nice image… one of the taylor machine custom pulleys showing the additional notched wheel for the crank triggered ignition system that goes with the fuel injection

i spent the day trying to get the studio back into some sort of shape and throwing away all sorts of old garbage that’s been in boxes since we moved back into the country… getting somewhere i guess. ollie dwyer came over late in the evening and we chatted about his new project. his first…

finally sorted through some of the images from the trip up north last week to take the bus to taylor machine. so out with the old and in with the new

i’ve been looking around for a cheap windows laptop to monitor the new engine management system on the bus… should be a giggle, enough to keep me out of trouble anyhow. if i run a serial extension cable from the main ECU in the engine bay up into the cab i can drive along with…

martin taylor at taylor machine works sent me some pictures ofthe damage done to the dyno while he was doing the mapping on the new engine…. when he said it made a mess he wasn’t kidding ! you can see the fractured propshaft of the dyno, the damage to the dyno bellhousing and, sadly some…

just come off the phone from martin taylor at taylor machine works. the mapping of the fuel injection managemnet system on the new engine is nearly done. the final sweeps to determine torque and peak horsepower haven’t been done yet but martin reckons that it’s making good usable torque and will be in the region…

just back from the train station… yes, the train… it’s been a while but i was amazed… it arrived on time at leeds station (nice and new and CLEAN)and remindng me of someting vaguely european. i got a seat. the train was quiet. the buffet car has ok coffee and food and books and magazines…

my daughter and i made a deal, she wanted to dye her hair. i said in the summer holidays. she said purple, i said only if you dye mine too. ugh, no way she said…