BXProject

[docchevron132]

And the story goes thus:
Smiffy buys a valver thats been sat in a field for 5 years.
I then give him most of KMO to secure an MoT.
Then he races a Renault Clio Sport, importantly he WINS!
But he made the fatal mistake as many have done before of ragging the balls off it with no oil in the sump, and then carries a vast amount of speed round a roundabout!
Result:
Engine that sounds like a Ak Ak gun.
So, in a moment of unprecidented wonderfullness on my part I offer him the engine from KMO, since he's already got most of the car I figured "what the hey"..

And now, after many skinned knuckles, a wanked neck and shoulder and a hand I've repeatedly hit with various hammers so that it now resembles John Merricks head, it works!

All told I guess it took 11 hours to remove the engine and box from KMO, do the same on OHO, build up the engine that was removed from KMO and make it work..


Here's the FUBAR engine removed from OHO.



and the large hole in the front so familiar to us all...


Smiffy piloting the fork lift complete with not so shiny but working engine being lowered into place.
The green BX in the background is next weekends project...



Engine in place, the bus behind the car is a Leyland Titan owned by Matthew (one of my bosses at work, but actually a thoroughley nice bloke) who can be seen in the blue top.
This is the guy that knows all about West Midland buses, Billy there's a post in the temple RE: Metroboxes..
Matthew leant a hand all day Sunday but failed to join in too much with the unbelievable amount of piss I was ripping out of Smiffy!



Late, cold and two rather tired men, but here stands 332BHP ticking over.

Smiffy's motor on the right, and my beasty on the left..

Happiness!

As I type I'm given to understand Smiffy is in work washing the car!

[smiffy]

Yes he was....While I was there, I checked the LHM level, as the stop light came on on Lawrence hill roundabout. she took annother 2 litres, oil and water are still ok.

Cowshit washed off, I love steam cleaners......

I love you doc!

john s

[docchevron132]

Not surprising I guess, it had all night to drip a large quantity of greenblood all over the floor... Which of course was disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.........


Steady now JD.......

[mickey taker]

well done guys thats not a bad time for the amount of work you got done

and Smiffys going to be nice and warm coming from and going to work from now on.

[Philhod]

Wow!!!!! that`s 7 hours less than It took me to drive down to Bandit`s............teach him to weld......and drive back

BRILLIANT job guys

[Madcav]

Top work fellas. Doc, what's the small white car with a black roof seen in one of the pictures?

[mickey taker]

looks a bit like a peugeot 205 cj concertable to me

[charlie]

its reading threads like this that makes me realise how fuckin awesome the doc in top gear is

here i am about to take the engine out of me xm and thinkin in a time frame of weeks if not months to do the work and put it back in

doc, and smiffy as well, A +++

[charlie]

and..........

i'll buy yer both a barrel of beer if u can get that fork truck down here for the weekend

[Philhod]

Aww, I must have missed it .I didn`t know the Doc was going to be on Top gear

[Bx Bandit]

Awesome mate! Totally rockin ...

[Vanny]

the Doc's not that good, i bet he couldn't build a BX trailer at my farm in a single weekend, namely this weekend!








well i've got to try haven't i

[docchevron132]

Top work fellas. Doc, what's the small white car with a black roof seen in one of the pictures?

As Mick said, it is / was a 205CJ..
There's a rather involved story that goes with that car.
I bought it for Kate, and paid quite alot for it.
I then spent quite alot on bits for it.
Then Kate and myself had one of our regular "toys out of the pram" moments and she declared she didn't want the car and I could go F....anyway..
It then sat around for ages, since me and Kate wern't speaking, and she'd thrown the paperwork for it away, and I really couldn't be arsed to pay DVLA for a log book.
Then I bought Kate another 205 (see a pattern emerging here??), for not alot at all as it goes, but I then spent a bastard fortune replacing, er, EVERYTHING on the car. I robbed a few bits off the CJ for various people and still it sits in the shed awaiting it's ultimate fate. Which will death by grinder...
Shame, it was a fucking nice drive. Although I only drove it once. From Wales to Stroud, with the top down and stereo up, it was a lovely trip. It's been parked there ever since, which is, er, well over a year now...

I'd love to come build you a trailor this weekend Vanny, really, I actually would!
I could do with a weekend away, but I've got a shit load to do to that Green TXD in the piccy above, and it MUST be finished by close of play this Sunday.

BTW, I'm on Top Gear every week (but I'm not allowed to say why...)

[docchevron132]

and..........

i'll buy yer both a barrel of beer if u can get that fork truck down here for the weekend

It does like 15MPH, so if I leave now, I might be with you by the weekend!!

[smiffy]

and..........

i'll buy yer both a barrel of beer if u can get that fork truck down here for the weekend

It does like 15MPH, so if I leave now, I might be with you by the weekend!!

Yes, and with no suspension, and a plastic "school chair" if you try to drive it fast, you'd break your spine... Don't ask how I know this!

[mickey taker]

if you try to drive it fast, you'd break your spine... Don't ask how I know this!

err I take it we are still talking about the fork lift here

[mickey taker]

[BTW, I'm on Top Gear every week (but I'm not allowed to say why...)

sorry mate but your just tooooooooooo short to be

[Vanny]

perry mcgrath

[smiffy]

perry mcgrath

Perry Como more like!

[smiffy]

if you try to drive it fast, you'd break your spine... Don't ask how I know this!

err I take it we are still talking about the bus here

Actually no, we were talking about our Coventry Climax 2 ton forklift!