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The Tupperware Turd will be back!!

Postby fha772 » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:30 am

COME ON OWELLY!!
YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
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This video is inspired by your choice of engine, I hope it inspires you!! :wink:
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Postby TeamTotalWankel » Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:04 pm

That's the sort of thing Frank!! :clap:

I like the Pug related one but this might be a better 'Hero theme' to inspire Owelly-

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Postby owelly » Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:24 pm

Cheers guys. I'll post up some piccies tomorrow showing the amount of work left to do and see if your enthusiasm is still there!
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Postby hillbillyracer » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:46 pm

I'm sure our enthusiasm will be there alright, it's easy to be enthusiastic about a job when someone else has to do the graft! :D
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Postby owelly » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:42 pm

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Postby Jaffa » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:00 am

Is it on its way to the tip
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Postby fha772 » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:49 am

As lyrics say;
You've got a long way to go, and a short time get there.
You're gonna do, what they say can't be done.

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Postby Jaffa » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:04 am

Don't let him fool you. Take a long hard look at the scrap fibreglass on the trailer. Its a doppelgänger.

Its got far too much fibreglass left to the TT.

It will be one of the other plastic abominations he has.

Looks like it donated its rear arches to the turd tho.
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Postby owelly » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:35 am

Is the other turd much better?
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Postby Jaffa » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:02 pm

That garden pond will look much better when the water is in and the carp are there.


Think the pond pump might a tiny bit too big tho. Those bloody fish will end up getting launched into the north sea
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Postby owelly » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:43 pm

A bit of an update for the Tupperware Turd....
Engine and box out...
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And found that the reason why 2nd and 4th gear didn't want to play...
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The oily bit poking through the adaptor plate is the gear selector shaft and it was hitting the bellhousing gubbins, thus....
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Mr bellhousing met mr angry grinder......

Engine and box are now back in the car just waiting to get all it's ancilliaries connected up.

JUst a few more fibreglassing sessions to get the bulkhead back in 'shape' and that's a few more things ticked off the list.
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Postby owelly » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:48 pm

And whilst I had the engine out, I thought I'd take some piccies of my inside-out alternator...
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Obviously many folks have told me it won't work but it's run for a couple of hours like this and spurts out 14volts and I can't see it needing to work for much longer than that...
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Postby fha772 » Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:23 am

Looking good Owelly, I can't see why there should be a problem with the alternator, so long as it's spinning, it'll produce power, which ever way it turns. (I know telling you this is stating the obvious!!),
I'm glad to see the gear change problem was a fairly easy fix :thumbup:

Keep up the good work!! :clap:

We need our resident celeb at the £999!!! :wink:
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Postby Jaffa » Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:03 am

Normally the only issue with running an alternator the wrong way would be cooling wouldn't it?
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Postby MFrV1 » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:07 pm

If the alternator fails, what about a Honda one? The engines are known for spinning the 'wrong' way.
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