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Old 19-03-2011, 11:02 AM   #161
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Old 19-03-2011, 11:05 AM   #162
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At the Premier Inn Oxford? (re. Simons facebook post)
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Old 20-03-2011, 05:14 PM   #164
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Was a bit like christmas this morning!
Oooh, would you like my postal address so you can forward them on to me then?

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Old 20-03-2011, 06:22 PM   #165
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I plan on it all being finished by May.
You wanna get your finger out or I'll be on the water before you!
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Old 20-03-2011, 07:45 PM   #166
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What are you building Tony?
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Old 20-03-2011, 07:54 PM   #167
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Old 20-03-2011, 08:23 PM   #168
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Did I say May 2011?

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Old 29-08-2012, 09:11 AM   #169
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I have been getting on with it. Honest.
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Awesome!!
Let me know when your going to drop it in & I'll pop down & give you a hand.
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I have been getting on with it. Honest.
Ooh that looks nice, what ECU are you going to use to fire those injectors? I am just troubleshooting my new Holley HP EFI and it seems pretty impressive if you want fully programmable fuel and spark maps.
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It'll be running a Megasquirt 2 V3.0
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It'll be running a Megasquirt 2 V3.0
Ok cool - looks a little bare though..
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Old 29-08-2012, 01:08 PM   #174
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I wondered why it wouldn't start.
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Old 30-08-2012, 06:28 PM   #175
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Another of sidewinder - courtesy of Graham
great looking boat, is that the ship inn just before you get on hayling ?
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Old 31-08-2012, 11:30 PM   #177
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Converting the hilborn manifold to run efi has taken hours. And hours.
But getting there....

This is a mini plenum linking the cylinders together to give the ecu a good vacuum signal.
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Old 31-08-2012, 11:32 PM   #178
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Can't believe I started this all in 2009. I really should get a move on.
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This is how the plenum started:
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And this is the intake manifold in it's previous life.
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