after nineteen hours of driving from calais, with a stop over night in dijon and a variety of twiddling we’ve arrived in Morzine in the french alps, about 70km outside geneva and sitting at about 1500m we’re sat drinking coffee in a snowy wonderland. the journey was generally uneventful, the first day was almost completely…

well, the snow tyres are on, and the fronts have about a rizla papers worth of clearaqnce nderthe front arches…. aftera quick trip down to devon itlooks like i mighthave to change overthe tyres to the old porsche cups because they ground out every timei brake or corner hard…. however aftera quick check it turns…

after MUCH sweating and swearing VWSP97 is now sat resplendent on it’s winter tyres!…. … got the tyres swapped onto smlla 5 lug hubs yesterday and started to fit up the back ones… doh… lowered slambasaurus… wont’ fit in the arches.. bus falls off the jackl and axle stands… need to jack the bus up…

with an early start i got stuck into drinking tea in earnest.. then eventually got out into the cold wityh all the tools and started on the job or getting the bus ready to receive its new donor engine. first off, get the piping in for the heat exchangers then make sure that i remember…

after staying up too late last night working on version three of the Akciddento website (it’s looking cool, all automated stuff with a huge PHP backend system (millions of lines of code to keep in order!!!!) that allows a full gallery system and user uploads and downloads, member logins and webmail, messaging etc etc etc…

after checking the new eberspacher heater over all looked good. the fancy digital 7 day timer works fine. the little pump chugs away, the relays click and clack back and forth… .. but the fan doesn’t spin… after lots of twiddling and testing it appears that the bushes or similar are broken in the motor…

parcelforce (bless ’em) turned up at the door with a parcel from germany for me… and guess what it contained ? this…. it’s an eberspacher B1L petrol air heater. it’s got a fancy 7 day digital timer and other stuff and after connecting to a 12v battery pack it all seems to work but the…

got the verdict from Martin Taylor at

work continues apace on the ak website v3.0… jake from fireboxmultimedia is working through all the backend stuff at the moment, installing and configuring a full CMS (content management system dontchaknow) with a proper ecommerce module. once it’s all done and the interface and flow sorted it’ll give a lot more flexibility and make access…

the engine is now out and i’ll be shipping it up to wellingborough on sunday to hand over to martin taylor from taylor machine services. martin is going to strip it all down and give me an assesment of the damage then i’ll plan a course of action. nominally the list is like this porsche…