Month: July 2005
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’twas the night’was before thugjam…
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…
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baby wants a bottle….
i picked this up from rod912’s place in Cardiff last night. Along with all the solenoids etc from Dude. It’s the biggest bottle i’ve ever seen. Ordinally a large bottle holds 11lb of Nitrous Oxide but this one holds something like 28lbs of gas… 😀 I’m not sure whether there’s actually time to get it…
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beachiddento!
how good was that ? off to croyde on friday evening… gathering of the clans bliss!
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passed and off to the beach !
oops. realised that i have to get road tax for the hightop soon… though i ought to check the MOT as that must be due soon… was due last week !!!! eek… so off to roundway garage this morning. fingeres crossed as I’m supposed to be off to beachiddento at croyde bay in devon tonight……
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home!
i’m home, it’s home… it runs, it leaks but is happy. seal it and make more boost… swannee whistle in dump valve veryy funny/. exhausted. muppet like flu receding… mussssttttt sleeeepppp [b]thankyou raceshack ! thankyou conor! thankyou kevo![/b] pictrres nund e video got them, willll post m nsoon….. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, [i]bleh[/i]
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relief…
all back together and running now.. chemsealed the head and it doesn’t seem to leak anymore ! even the fuel pump doesn’t appear to be leaking and the breather hoses aren’t spewing oil everywhere ! had a wierd one with the rocker gear. after worrying that i’d bent a valve and having no compression on…
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good and bad
today was all good and bad news… good news, got to raceshack and remembered croissants and video tape for the camcorder. bad news, got there late. good news, fixed all the fuel pipes and clips and stuff. bad news, the fuel pump weeps fuel (fairly obvious i know but just wanted to clarify that it…
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turbo snaggings
an earlyish start put me heading north on the m5 with a freshly burned copy of daft punk’s ‘discovery’ in the cd player. rolled into raceshack (via herberts bakery for the best almond croissant and pain au chocolat to be had in bristol) and got on with it. attacking the bus i started with the…
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GRRRRRRRRR!RRR!!!!!!
it lives ! and here it is! more to do, still got to tune and plumb and fiddle and fettle but its in and it runs! got flu and feel really groggy so will wrtite more later and will put all the images & diagrams etc into a proper ‘how to’ or even ‘how not…
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Kjet & Turbo gear for the T25 Wasserboxer
the scrapyard parts start come together starting at one end of the system..going anticlockwise from the right of the picture i still need hoses and some other stuff like… erm, i forget… ah yes, boost gauge and boost sensor, bits of exhaust manifold pipework from the baja header to the inlet flange on the turbo…