ED TEAM CHATTER

I’m usually quite a decisive person. When I say that, though, I don’t mean that I always make the right decision. What I mean is that, when it comes down to pulling the trigger on something, I do it with certainty at that point in time — it’s the constantly changing thoughts that follow a short time after that start to muddle that decisiveness. That may explain why my Holden still doesn’t go — or outright laziness, I forget — with this month marking two and a half years since it last saw the road, the poor bastard.

Within that time, and with all my ‘certainty’, I managed to collect piles of parts that could easily form three very different versions of my oncefactory motor — carbys, injection, individual throttle bodies (ITBs), turbos, and more grand ideas than I care to reveal. While I was always sure of each purchase that I made, given a little time and fiddling around, I’d grow to question what I was actually doing. This feeling only ever concerned the motor, though, as I’ve always been in a somewhat happy zone with the chassis itself.

This feeling finally led me to understand that I was sure that whatever I had been doing wasn’t what I really wanted to be doing. Those who are friends with me on Facebook, or who just trawl buyand-sell groups, may have seen that I recently sold off my full collection of parts (sorry for the spam) prompting more than a few messages asking what the hell I was doing. The short and sharp of it is that I want to simplify and, most important, get the car back on the road fast. What that will translate to in the engine bay is an unknown right now, for perhaps the first time since I started.

Whatever it ends up being, I will promise you this: it will be worth the wait.