Weblog of Neill Horsman

So finally on Saturday we got out to pick up Johns Toyota 1JZ twin turbo 2.5litre engine for his RX7.
Got to the guys house, turns out John already knows the guy through his family, so we stayed for a bit to chat.
In the garage is a Toyota Soarer that the engine has just come out [...]

Well last weekend ended with a twist.
I dropped into my local mechanic where i used to work as an apprentice, needed to pick up a fuel filter for another car, had a chat to my old boss which was there on his own as his other mechanic hadn’t shown up, and he had hurt his [...]

So popped down to the shops today and picked up everything i needed for the battery relocation
Also got the 2nd isolator switch, 1st is for the starter motor, 2nd for the ignition. I probly could have run just the one switch but as this car is wired there are to main lines running from the [...]

So with nothing else to do currently i started cleaning more engine bay things, while cleaning up some tools i found my engine kill switch and decided it was time to mount it while i have a lot of the wiring out.
Looked around the car and thought id chuck it in the dash next to [...]

Tools, tools and more tools. Opening my Firefox bookmarks list now take 3gig of ram alone :p
No but i have been organising them neatly now and have a new bookmark folder named tools.
Over the years i have found sites that provide free services for web designers, anything from building a sitemap online to making a [...]

Spent the last 2 nights cleaning and tidying up pipes and wires.
Pulled out some of the engine bay harness to pull apart and rewire so the battery can go into the back seat
Also removed the battery tray and started cleaning up the dirty hole cut for the intercooler pipe. Will have to find a way [...]

So tonight Johny boy and Bart came round, we had a few bourbons and got stuck into it..
Only things left to do to pull the engine out was undo gearbox cross member and engine mounts.
Trying to undo the engine mounts from under the car with a 3/8th socket we snapped 2 3/8 extensions.. the only [...]

So Ive had this blog running for a few days now, and i am really enjoying the layout of it.
Its fun, bright, lots of white space (oh my screen res is 1680×1050 so  i see more white space than some may) and it has my fav colour green.
Now i do like my current site design [...]

Went out tonight and picked up my engine crane after its 2 year absence from the shed..
Spoke with Johnny boy about having few drinks tomorrow night….. oh i mean pulling the engine out..
But come on, they go hand in hand :p
So all tee’d up, just need to find a chain and some bolts to hold [...]

So I’m sitting here trying to design a website… and I’m having no luck with ideas, colours, layout.
Opened up some old designs that never kicked off and saw something id been wanting to use for awhile but haven’t had the chance yet, so included that.
Still nothing was coming together, so started working on a logo, [...]