back as early as possible to RaceShack and get going… after a slow morning of pottering on stuff waiting to attack it all I sort out some jobs like capping more pipes and investigating a leak in the right hand cylinder head jacket.. yes, it leaks… i’ve drained the coolant and if it’s dry tomorrow…

everything ready to go and packed and off up the M5 to Raceshack in Tewkesbury… first job, cup of tea then over to the lasercutters to collect the flanges and collets that louie had designed. unfortunately only the collets for the fuel injection are ready, the others will be done tomorrow.. and they fit !…

will glennon from the BBC in bristol came down this afternoon to go through a load of stuff. will did a shoot at the portrait exhibition i did about drag racing (petrolheads) and is keen toi add more material and make a short film… no idea if anything will come of it but it’s always…

the stainless steel pipe I ordered turned up today… very shiny 🙂 2m of 50mm diameter and 2m of 60mm diameter… this goes into the turbo hose setup to route the air from the airbox across and down to the turbo and then back up and into the intercooler/plenum chamber… i think theres far too…

all week i’ve been doing the last assembly of bits n pieces from all over the place… from forge motorsport.. all the assorted clamps and some 25mm vacuum hose for the recirculating dump valve.. and another ebay special ! a badly painted/anodised adjustable boost controller. thsi goes in line before the dumpvalve/ wastegate actuator and…

used quicte a few grinding discs so far….. 🙂 and made a nice big pile of scrap… so i put it on ebay for sale and I’ve had quite a lot of interest…. 🙂 I was a little disappointed with the amount of weight that i removed but with a target of removing 250KG i…

been having a busy few days attacking thigs on the bus… I finally bit the bullet and got the grinder to the interior of the bus. and managed to hack out a total of 18kg of skinning and reinforcement from the rear of the bus. The sliding door, the rear door and the rear load…

My son Louie finished the last technical drawings of the pieces we need laser cut – a flange for the bottom of the throttle body and the flange for the hot side of the turbo. These two and the two collets to hold in the k jet injectors and we’ll be rocking. They went to…

well it’s been quite a day, the lovely blue samco turbo hoses turned up from demon-tweeks. apart from the one that was red – but i sent that back and asked for a blue one… i told conor and he called me a tart and a wuss for wanting all the pipes to be the…

I started out in the yard, stripping the exhaust off the panel van. I had reversed into Conor’s trailer at raceshack last week and bent one of the flanges on the exhaust and it pops and bangs like a machine gun on the over run now. It Makes people in St. Pauls nervous ;). (if…