Record holding oval

This is one bad oval racing on the salt, and apparently this record should still hold!

OCTO bus show 2009

Here is some pictures from when I visited the OCTO show back in june.
Despite I´m not a bus guy, it was very cool to see over 160 split busses gathered at one place.
And I still dream of all the nice parts lying on that swapmeet! If only I had the $ to buy it all, and maybe even a bus :-)

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Head job

This week I got my heads from the machine shop.
They got new valve guides, new seats, and I had bought 8 nos valves for them, but after some persuasion from my good friends Andi from Germany (oval56.com) and Ulrik from the JDVD garage, there were a change of plans on the inlet valves.
The heads got a set of 33mm Okrasa inlet valves instead of the 30mm nos ones I allready had bought. The exhaust remanined stock.

Also this week I got my linkage back from my Friend Bo, he made some small bushing for the linkage so that the axle won´t run against metal.

I can´t wait to try this modifications out.

Nos hub caps

Nos hub caps

Still with the original part number inside.

After some hours of polishing.

The final result, bright crome and painted logo´s.

I recently bought a set nos painted hub caps for the oval.
They needed a croming though.
I decided to do the grinding/polishing work myself to save some money, and Jens was kind enough to help me.
Here are some pictures through the different stages.

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NOS time

I have run with my Hella foglight/bumberguard combo for 4-5 years and I´m real happy with them!
Only thing, when I got them they were in poor condition, heavily pitted.
The good/bad news is that they are made of alumunium, that ment that my chrome guy said he was´nt able to recrome them, but instead I polished them, which I have several times each year since.
But just before christmas I got a email from a friend in Sweden.
Who had found a nos set of Hella guards that he didn´t need, I jumped on the deal right away! And yesterday it was time to mount them to the oval.
I must admit it didn´t hurt that they were put on, it looks even better now! And the nuts on the bolts were still 14 how cool is that?!