my turbo engine buld

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my turbo engine buld

Postby hb estate » Sun May 31, 2009 4:51 pm

i will post more pics as work is done
so far ive been colecting bits for the buld this is my new engine block was an old stock one no miles coverd in some sort of grease / gunk took me ages to remove . to day i painted a nice red
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Postby pbottomley » Sun May 31, 2009 4:58 pm

well done, what colour is that, (dont just say red) as its darker than the red I use and closer to the original vauxhall red by the looks of it :D
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Postby hb estate » Sun May 31, 2009 5:09 pm

dont know the shade but its made by tetrosyl got it from my local motor factors
http://www.tetrosyl.com/index.cfm?page=1
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Postby pbottomley » Sun May 31, 2009 8:29 pm

Intresting will keep a note of this :D
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Postby colonelk » Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:43 pm

haha its nice to see someone had the same idea I had to get some more pep out of the 1256! Will be interesting to see how this progresses :)
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Postby Jon-HPF » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:45 pm

A turbo'd 1256 8) cool . But will the bottom end handle any more power ?
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Postby grandas_shed » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:18 pm

bump


whats happening with the rebuild m8.
thread seams to have stopped
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