Month: April 2004
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gaH! catalogue errors..
here i am, supposed to be packing to go to the big bang race meet with a thousand and one things to do and what am i up to ? trying to fix the errors on the hard disk on the laptop, catalogue b tree errors that norton utilities doesn’t want to fix, kinda irrelevant…
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typical!
it’s the morning we should be leaving for the pod and last thing last night i was testing the new mini fm transmitter i got for the laptop (to dj off in the pits, so you just tune all the buses and cars within radio range to 88.1fm and hey presto! the biggest pa in…
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a little while later
after what seems like the longest break i’m back here at the diary again… it’s the night before racing again. tomorrow we head off to the big bang at santapod…. exactly a year ago i was getting ready for my first ever race…. and here I am.. after the disaster with the engine at the…
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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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let’s get digital…
well, after the success of yesterday it’s time to sort out the snaggings.. popped out this mornign and tracked the short on the oil temp gauge and some other bits. donwloaded the new Map for the fuel injection ECU into the laptop and off to tune the engine. it’s running lumpy as a lumpy thing.…
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it lives !
after a mornings fiddling and twiddling sorting out the last of the plumbing and wiring loom all iss ok. fill with oil and crank over to build pressure then wityh bated breath i go to fire up the new engine for the first time…. of course it doesn’t fire. does it ? well, to cut…
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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…