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haha nice description :p

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    So another one turned up today.....

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    well today i have picked up a G40 engine. pictures and more details to follow tomorrow, ime so happy its unbelievable!!

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    dubownerbilco

    Well i made a start this morning! First i pulled all the original engine bay loom/fusebox and compared it to the g40 loom so that i could lable everything up for future reference. The eagle eyed

love this so much! just sat here and read the hole lot! but its made me want to take the afh out my mk2 golf put the standard engie bk in sell it and buy a polo just to put the valver in haha! also i now neeeed bike carbs in my life lol!

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Glad you enjoyed it :D

Just annoying that the damn thing has broken down again!! :mad:

well thts not good! what is happened to it?

Just read through the lot, very impressive work mate! And i can guarentee you will get sick of the flyeyes soon enough, i literally cant see anything at night.

Do you have a number for the chap that made the inlet manifold for you? ..if he doesn't mind..

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well thts not good! what is happened to it?

boo hoo clicky

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Do you have a number for the chap that made the inlet manifold for you? ..if he doesn't mind..

it was phataz on here that made it :)

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well this was yesterdays state of affairs!

stripping the engine...

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the donor block

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swapping the parts over to the donor block

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and now the block is in the car and ready to be rebuilt on sunday :)

dare i say it...panic over?

cracking work, hope this solves the problem in time for the ppc shoot.

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cracking work, hope this solves the problem in time for the ppc shoot.

Me too...

Saw this parked off kirkstall road the other day (not exactly sure which day though :lol: )

Looked spiffing.

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Saw this parked off kirkstall road the other day (not exactly sure which day though :lol: )

Looked spiffing.

i work at woodrup cycles so it is always parked there :)

Glad to see yoour gettin it sorted craig!

great work pal hope it all goes well :thumbsup:

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Thanks for the encouragement guys!!

did you ever find out why you washers jets stopped working mate mine have done it :-( cheers

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did you ever find out why you washers jets stopped working mate mine have done it :-( cheers

nope :S just learnt to deal with it for the moment haha!

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she is alive and kicking once again! :D

and i also noticed that all this time i have been driving it my throttle hasn't been fully opening! so i re adjusted the cable and now she feels even quicker! :DDD

soooo happy I've got her sorted out, it was a tough couple of days

BIGGGGG congrats mate! now good luck with the shoot!

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BIGGGGG congrats mate! now good luck with the shoot!

cheers fella! lets just hope she makes it there now

she is alive and kicking once again! :D

and i also noticed that all this time i have been driving it my throttle hasn't been fully opening! so i re adjusted the cable and now she feels even quicker! :DDD

soooo happy I've got her sorted out, it was a tough couple of days

Does that mean slightly incorrect peak BHP then on the rolling road? :-o

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she is alive and kicking once again! :D

and i also noticed that all this time i have been driving it my throttle hasn't been fully opening! so i re adjusted the cable and now she feels even quicker! :DDD

soooo happy I've got her sorted out, it was a tough couple of days

Does that mean slightly incorrect peak BHP then on the rolling road? :-o

quite possibly :p

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so far so good, she started up fine again this morning for work :)

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here is a few sneaky shots i got on my phone today as the professionally shots were being taken :p

to see the full write up etc you will have to buy PPC mag in march/april because they want to get it in asap apparently

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and one just to show how immaculately clean i got her :D

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and best of all! after all the commotion over the past few days with swapping the block etc, she got there with absolutely no problems, didnt miss a beat! apart from realising i need a new pass side TCA as i have rather alot of wobble in it now...

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