Fireworks party at the house of bricks Pictures.

[Chesh740R]

Heres the few pics i took with my camera phone last night.



Ryan the Chef, Nessy's buggered engine in shot as well.



The motley crew on the picnic table.



Foggy in his normal pose, sorry for the bluriness i was bloody cold.



One of the fireworks from James Selection box.



The remains of one of the big ass rockets i bought, this one seemed to have slipped through quality control, and had no propulsion, but it still managed to explode its sky display with us about 8 ft from it.



I had to leave last night, so won't have any pictures of todays activity's replacing Nessy's engine, but the above has buggered up my swapping of lowering springs from my old 740 to my new one.


Post the other pics up here guys.

[classicswede]

Foggy in his normal pose, sorry for the bluriness i was bloody cold.

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There was me expecting to see Foggy with a petrol can.

Disapointing

[volvorsport]

they still didnt havethe engine in y 1.30 today , rebuilding the carb on the 240 by all accounts

[SteveP]

Yeah, Dave - thanks for the help... I don't think turning up for 5 minutes allows you to comment The engine was in by around 3pm, and fully working by about 5.30 with the prop connected, all seems to be well so far anyway

More pics:

Some of the selection:


Chesh, and the rockets...


Lighting one of the fireworks:


Fireworks:


More Fireworks:


More Fireworks...:


More more Fireworks...:


And some more...


And more...


Catherine wheel:


Catherine wheel #2:


V3M written with sparklers!:


Chesh left some important engine install instructions:


Old engine...mmm.. mayo:


New engine... nice and clean:


New engine in situ:


Cheers to Ryan & Foggy for providing a rather nice BBQ (again) and putting us up (or up with us!),

[pettaw]

Yup, can report all has gone basically to plan :O the new engine is installed and running very sweetly indeed. Nessy lives again

Also yeah, we rebuilt the slightly tired Stromberg unit for the 240 and I have to say its somewhat transformed the car. Mid range grunt and general smoothness have returned and gone are all the slightly spluttery, pingy noises it made before.

Thanks so much to Foggy and 1stRaven for putting us up and feeding us fantastically and to Foggy and Chesh for providing the fireworks. It was an extremely good, if very tiring weekend.

[5lab]

did you work out what went on nessy's engine in the end?

[foggyjames]

Not yet. We only got finished after dark, and I'm having a very busy week so far. I will probably give it a bit of a 'teardown' next weekend, although there is further work to do on both Nessy (gearbox rear mounts) and the 240 (water pump and hoses, plus rear shocks if there's time) first. All will be revealed in due course.

Huge thanks to everyone who came, and especially to those who helped out with the unexpected engine swap. Nessy is indeed running better, and it's really quite shocking to see a B14 which isn't leaking *any* oil! The engine pulls well, and seems to be delivering good economy. All we need to do is sort out the gearbox, and we're laughing.

cheers

James

[V6 Man]

did you work out what went on nessy's engine in the end?

I think Foggy muttered something about abuse by its previous owner...........

[foggyjames]

I said no such thing, tart

cheers

James