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The time has come and we have finally got our act together to organise the long awaited SPRING MEET 2013! Different location to the last, so head on over to the facebook event and get attending. We want this one to be bigger than all others we have held, the last one was approx 300 cars so we have quite the task ahead of us! Share the event with all your friends and lets make this a meet to remember! The spring meet will be held at Morrisons Barnsdale Drive in Milton Keynes. Anyone and everyone is welcome! There is a Mcdonalds, KFC, Morrisons super market and a Pizza hut at this location. Anyone and everyone is welcome. Jap, German, British or what ever you've got! Hope to see you all there! Barnsdale Drive Milton Keynes England MK4 4DD United Kingdom The organisers of this meet are not responsible for anyone elses actions at this event, this is a park up and enjoy the cars and company kind of meet, keep it safe people!

So, we at Dirty Stancing and Garage Midnight acquired a block, in quite a sorry state, and I have taken it upon myself to make it not a sorry state. This little block has quite the lovely story behind it. Starting life in a very good friend of ours' Lupo, a Mr Robin Marriott. After serving its time in his little show stunner it had taken to having a bit of a smoke, so he stripped it out and was planning on re building it. In the mean time fitting a new, non smoky engine to his Lupo. This meant that this poor block sat on an engine stand never to be touched again... until Levi bought it, and put it in his garage... where it also didn't get much attention... and then we got our FILTHY hands on it. it a bit of a state I must admit... once we had had a good long think about what to do with it, still undecided, we stuffed it on the engine stand and started to deconstruct. things dont happen all that fast here... easily distracted, and like i said, we weren't sure where we were going with this so it was really for me to learn what can be done. Having never worked on an engine before, its all new to me, so its a learning curve. Got most of the front end off and started to clean this DUTeeeyyyy thing up. and the sump off and demucked! couple of bits bought whilst i had the cash moneys sitting there so its pretty much ready for the next few bits. Next on the agenda is get these valves out and have a go at porting and polishing this head. got loads of room to play with with these new gaskets and then we are going to fab a manifold to fit that so we can go wild! Then all there is to think about is cams, lightened flywheel and carbs, which is the decision we have come to for this build. The point/plan of this build is for me to learn, so there will be no sending it off for others to do. EVERYthing is going to (hopefully) be done inside the confines of Culo Diablo/Dirty Stancing/Garage Midnight. (which you can follow as individual hashtags on instagram) hoping to get around 160bhp from it, but to be honest like ive said, its just to have a go really. i'll update when anything new happens Safe x