Weblog of Neill Horsman

I can drive like this :p

Trivett Group, Australia’s largest prestige automotive group raised the benchmark in automotive motoring yet again by adding the world’s fastest production car ever built to its stable of brands, becoming the exclusive authorised dealer for Bugatti Automobile in Australia…. Read full story here.
Now they fail to mention that the Buggati wont be road legal/registrable here [...]

Just came across this awesome video on YouTube. check it out, clip is directed amazingly, and some great driving

Today the letter box also was nice enough to supply me with my oil block (tuneagent)

Again will i state before this install that my engine is out, and i also have the intake manifold off making this task mush easier. Also at the bottom of this post i will included the few problems i encountered
First [...]

So the steering spacer arrived today along with a almost everything else id been waiting on.
Here you can see the solid bush to the left and the standard rubber bush to the right.
So to start off documenting the install of this part i will first mention, my engine is NOT in the car.. making this [...]

So been a few weeks since a car update.
Work has picked up so flat out designing some websites, might do a blog to show off them later.
Also while making a battery mount bracket i slipped with the angle grinder and took a bit off my finger, so been a tad sore to work on it.
Although [...]

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 [...]