Great day chaps - good to see you all, also fantastic to see such a good turn out of 300's!

Indeed, great to see everyone again, and meet new people too.

As I've just posted in the Post BKV BBQ thread;

Well, firstly thanks to Foggy and Ryan for hosting the pre BKV BBQ! I can safely say we were well fed and watered. A grand time in great company guys.

The BKV was a great day as well. Saturday night this lot convinced me to join the VOC and enter my car, as I'd actually bothered to clean it! It had it's annual wash Saturday morning, and I thought, hmm, the bonnet could use some polish, hmmm, and the roof, oh well, might as well do the whole car.

Well done to Kevin Devine, his fantastically clean 360 GLT won the 300 section, and he got the award for the furthest distance travelled within the UK to the BKV.

A huge turn out of 300's made the event one to remember. There were some absolutely amazing Volvo's there today.

Pete

petefarrell360 wrote:Well, firstly thanks to Foggy and Ryan for hosting the pre BKV BBQ!

Agreed! A good meet and the 300s ruled by having pretty much the most in any class, excellent!

Heres some of the pics from the Saturday, I'll upload the rest tomorrow...

http://spainter.110mb.com/index.htm

Ace pictures Steve! Fantasic work catching Ryan mid spray with back to black on the towball! And then writing 'Volvo 340' on Chris' bumper! How many V3M members does it take to attempt to put a rear door card on without the correct equipment? Plus the cleaning that took place after alcohol and BBQ'd food, do us young gentlemen have nothing better to do on a Saturday night? And also catching Andy in his usual hiding place, under the bonnet of a 300, this time changing his cam!
Pete

Yes, more 300s than any other model. PWNED!

Thanks for a most enjoyable weekend chaps!

cheers

James

petefarrell360 wrote:Well, firstly thanks to Foggy and Ryan for hosting the pre BKV BBQ!

Yep, thanks so much to them for doing such a great job on the food and hospitality and Foggy for his help with my car.

I was lucky enough that the K-cams that have been 'in the post' somewhere in between Canada and here arrived on Friday so we fitted them on Saturday evening. Results, in the form of some Powerdyn runs are on the way later.

Definitely agree pwned on the 300 series front, we even got mentioned at the prizegiving "mumble mumble good turn out this year mumble mumble...."

What you meant to say was....."biggest series turn out in the entire show " Congrats to KevGLT for winning best car in class too, very clean car indeed.

PS: looks like I had my head under a bonnet again and missed all the fun

Here are some pics of the day. It was a pleasure to have you guys stay over. Glad you enjoyed the food!

The Non standard section










The 300 Section

and their owners


The rest








A few stand out cars
440 with 1.8 litre turbo (won the non standard class again)



Imported Yank 780



The second 780, from europe, along with a french 740



A mint 740


A mint 300



Ruperts Manual 760








A Random Fiat in the middle of the field


The Judging has started


Foggy's additional reserve



A happy Chappy - Griz


Rupert having a nap



Chesh and his new toy ( He won a remote speed boat in the raffle)



A great T-Shirt


After the rally, we went to the top of the field to take some group shots











Some of the owners


And Foggy has to break down of course (flat tyre)




Some pics of mine and chesh's cars together

Here are some more, pretty much mostly of the show itself...

http://spainter.110mb.com/bkv_more/

Also, a couple of videos of Andy doing a powerdyn run and Foggy following.

http://media.putfile.com/MS-vs-Carbs-

http://media.putfile.com/MS-vs-Carb-2

I'll also say thanks to Ryan and Foggy, was a great weekend. I got to learn basic Megasquirt mapping, and my rear bumper got a clean

Tyre knackered then Foggy? Think we should tell them how far you'd driven on it before I had pointed out it was flat the day before

:EDIT:: Just watched Steve's videos... Haha, Andy's car is quick I had my head buried in Powerdyn and Megatune at the time, so didn't see how it was going!

Yeh! As mentioned, it was marvellous to see so many 300s.

I'll put a few pics on my site later, but for the benefit of Mick here are a couple of snaps of two Redlines:

cheers Gavin ,

wish I could have made it but was baby sitting 700 cub scouts at there 90th birthday bash,

I thought Nottingham was bad but where that black redline comes from must be a far more dangerous place to live ,

I have never seen anti squatter grilles fitted to a car before lol.

glad you all had such a good time ,

and I am sure it was the wind deflectors and cavity covers that made Kev's car shine over the rest

redline wrote:wish I could have made it but was baby sitting 700 cub scouts at there 90th birthday bash

Scary

redline wrote:I thought Nottingham was bad but where that black redline comes from must be a far more dangerous place to live ,

I have never seen anti squatter grilles fitted to a car before lol.

That's Wales for you

redline wrote:and I am sure it was the wind deflectors and cavity covers that made Kev's car shine over the rest

Those and the Moose sticker in the back window

I've put a few pictures up now, although they're not very good. I did like this car:

That there kids is 'area under the curve' in action. I might have more peak power and torque, but I have a massive hole in my powerband below about 3500rpm (you can actually hear when the engine clears its lungs, changes note, and starts pulling). OF course if we'd done the same pull from 3500rpm, the result would have been a little different

Just to add insult to injury, in the first video Andy was in 2nd, and I was in 1st! As well as accurate tuning, Andy has the benefit of a much shorter diff (the gearing of an injection 360 is nearer that of a 340 1.4 than that of a 360 carb) - so a lower theoretical top speed, but better accelleration. I'm working on that though

Thanks to Adam (because I left it behind!), I now have a spare downpipe for wideband oxygen probe installation, so I should be able to clear up that hole in the power curve in the next couple of weeks. Then I demand a rematch

Pretty depressing though - he's miles quicker unless we're racing, and still gets tasty MPG figures!

cheers

James

knew I should of come out. I at least could keep up with the front car to film it correctly!

These pictures make me determined to get the 360 ready for next year and the 940 too