nissan sunny gti

I saw my thesis again today

I went to an openhouse at my old colllege today, The 12 liter natural gas engine I worked on was still there and an other team was working on it.

the workshop is starting to look like something

oetinger power

IMGP1133, originally uploaded by ruffbiker.

wolfburg

The museum, great place for a beetlebuff

das drag day 4

Een van de belgische deelnemers.
Seppe, de metaalman van bbt.
Vond ik persoonlijk een van de sterkste prestaties qua techniek

muppet racer, nostalgia racer uit de DAS stal

engine update

thesiswork

I'm gonna start working on my thesiswork. The assignement:Give this bus engine a gasinjectionsystem so it can drive on CNG. I'll keep you posted.

top gear crash

Richard Hammond had een jaar geleden en crash en liet bijna het leven.Hier de ware toedracht in top gear stijl.

the good old days

Having fun doesn't have to cost nada . http://www.kar.be

The old crew, crazy motherfockers, all of them.

Men at work,Mr maestro's creation, remember this when you see it back in a month.

The season is shaping up

Ninove 2007

14 inch rims + lowprofile tires => faster acceleration , less rotational mass, more braking power => slalom king
Now I just need money for tires, bummer....

More news for the summer

see you in bitburg for some quartermile action

Internationale onderdelenbeurs in mol. Onderdeeltjes kijken en pintjes pakken, wordt leuk.

it's been a while but the blog is gonna be updated regularly from now on.

A lot has happened in the garage since this summer.

My brother in crime has bought two beetles and he has started restoring them.

It should be ready this summer. We'll see.

Next I want to say something about the european bugin.

It's gonna be the biggest thing in european cal-look since...ever.

http://http://www.europeanbugin.com/en/inscription.html

bitburg

Yep,I was there again. This year it didn't start to rain in the morning, i saw a lot of racing, good racing. Don't have racing pictures, lots of technical pictures and nostalgia replica stuff.

racing buddies

one ful blown weekend in lelystadt

keversite circuitdag

This weekend I went to the keversite circuitdag in the netherlands. Great to get to now your car on the circuit. So owkay I wasn't the fastest car over there, I didn't drive that bad and I had a great time. Going there next year too.

summer's here

It's been a while but I'm back. Exams are a thing from the past. Three months to make dreams come true. The conversion of my car is complete, it's a stick-shift right now. Really like it. In about two weeks I'm gonna go racing with liz. http://circuitdag.keversite.nl The garage.... I finished the floor on my attick.
Now the sad part, lizzy didn't pass her control. I had to convert her to oldtimer to keep her on the road. Right now there are plans for a new car as daily driver. Keep in touch at www.thebadbitch.blogspot.com. Thats it for now, more updates soon, a lot sonner then before.

did a lot of stuff

I didn't have to go to school for a week so I got some work done, not to much though because I'm waiting for two very little gearboxparts, A backing up switch and a clutchlever returnspring.
If I got those I got the gearbox mounted in no time. The wiring is adjusted, there we're a lot of wires unneccesary now that the semi auto is gone. The gearlever prooved to be a tricky on to, not an easy instalment. The engine is an other questionmark, they told me it should run but offcourse you never know. I'm about to change everything changeble in the ignitionsystem and offcourse the oil. I've allready cleaned the airfilter. To adjust the engine I've got a new toy to, A multimeter disigned for cars, it's ancient but so is my car :). While cleaning out the electrical system I also got rid off all of the sound deadeningmaterial.Like that I can enjoy my engine sound a bit more. Maybe I'll paint the enginebay in checkered flag next season, I' don't feel like painting right now. I also found a rather large piece of rot next to the drivers door sil. Something to look at once I buy my welder this summer. Sure hope they guys from the carcontrol don't find it.

time?

exams are done, and where are the updates? Well my excuses, I've been working and drinking. Money is a priority now, when that is taken care of things will get rolling.

sandblasting-gun

received my package from http://www.rustbuster.nl . I ordered a hobby-sandblastingtool and a can of inoxspray. The inoxspray is used between plates before welding. Because of the inox and other metals it stays active in the heat of welding. This makes sure there will be no rust between to plates after welding.












the sandblasting gun , hope it works as I hope it will, should be a valuable tool. Cleaning a part, repairing it and then painting it . Would it be possible to do a whole case like this, When you do it yourself you can make sure there's not to much heat you know.
It comes with different pieces to put on so you can seal it around plates , inside and outside corners. The grit is then recovered in the nose piece and guided to the sac.

engine and semi-gearbox removed

Here she is, ass up, wheels gone, a lot of emptyness in the back.
all gone, it took a while though. Everthing was full of mud, rusted and so on. The semi auto is'nt all the same ass the manuel box neither

The semi auto box

The torque convertor, that's why there are oil lines going in to the gearbox. An extra pump pumps oil through the torque convertor to make it work and cool. as you can see the teeth for the starter are also on the torque convertor. This is because the engine doesn't have a flywheel, it has a driveplate.

So, the engine has a dual oilpump... It also has a big vacuumport below the carb and offcourse it doesn't have a flywheel. Than there are the lower mounting studs on normal engines, this one was attached with bolts so I'll have to screw in some studs. But for now this engine isn't going in. I think I'm gonna mount the 1200 I have over here.Take the heads off this one to check them and maybe rework them. We will see wath time and money brings, always the money.

working in the garage

This is my dad stable, the first part used to be our home, now it's lizzy's home. Ok, cosmetically there are some things to be done, on al other earia's.

This is where I enter, not the widest of entry's. I've got to fix that to. A gate is coming son too. We've got one with remote control lying around.

This is a view from the attick, yep, that's how big it is. A lot of the junk is going up when the attick is done.

This is the attick when I started.

Cleaned up....

removed the old floor, no ones gonna fall through that one.

These pictures are from a while ago 23/10/2005. today I laid in the new floor together with my dad, didn't pull any pictures though. I'll pull them in the weekend.

greetz