after a strange and taxing day doing 'other' stuff i got to attack the panel van... i've sold it to gary from glastonbury who is going to rebuold it and race it and i've bought a 1989 t25 devon shuttlebus from dave up in oakham...
gary and jinx are coming on saturday to collect the panel so i need to get a load of stuff out (partly because it's been loaned to me and shouldn't strictly speaking be sold ;0 )
so advance toward the bus with screwdrivers, socket set and side cutters...
an hour later i have a heap of
all the gauges and clocks... (incidentally the clocks are worth more than the whole bus)
sparco race seat (thankyou conor)
msd ignition system & rev limiter (thankyou kevo)
chargecooler radiator & pump
chargecooler
kjet injection system
half the pipewrk for the turbo
nitrous system
assorted other junk...
all i need to do now is remove the injection pump & accumulator from under the floor and drop the engine...
if it stops raining...
i also called over on thomas diamondhell to say hi and it looks like i am going to take up his kind offer of benchspace to start stripping the 2.1 motor for rebuild...
finally :)
he also mentioned that he has a (cant-remember-the-code} 4 speed gearbox that's just been rebuilt that has the really tall 4th gear... sounds interesting. the devon is a 5 speed - which is not ideal - the dogleg first is a hassle and the box is weaker than a 4 speed... the only this is the tall 5th gear...
i need to check ratios and codes but this might work out welll....
ah... such plans
(btw i also spotted a 62mm turbo sealed throttle body on ebay for £cheap) it's short which is great and is HOOOGE ! but jimby says nah... IT'S TOO BIG...
too big ?
too big !
pah... although he's probably right, what does he know ?!!@@!