National BKV - result!

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National BKV - result!

Post by petavius » 18 Jun 2006 10:47 pm

Great day chaps - good to see you all, also fantastic to see such a good turn out of 300's! :D
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Post by petefarrell360 » 18 Jun 2006 11:00 pm

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.

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Post by SteveP » 18 Jun 2006 11:37 pm

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
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Post by petefarrell360 » 18 Jun 2006 11:51 pm

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!
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Post by foggyjames » 19 Jun 2006 01:46 am

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

Thanks for a most enjoyable weekend chaps!

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Post by pettaw » 19 Jun 2006 02:31 am

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 :o" 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 :D

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Post by 1stRaven » 19 Jun 2006 07:38 am

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
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The 300 Section
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and their owners
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The rest
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A few stand out cars
440 with 1.8 litre turbo (won the non standard class again)
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Imported Yank 780
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The second 780, from europe, along with a french 740
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A mint 740
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A mint 300
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Ruperts Manual 760
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A Random Fiat in the middle of the field
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The Judging has started
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Foggy's additional reserve
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A happy Chappy - Griz
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Rupert having a nap
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Chesh and his new toy ( He won a remote speed boat in the raffle)
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A great T-Shirt
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After the rally, we went to the top of the field to take some group shots
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Some of the owners
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And Foggy has to break down of course (flat tyre)
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Some pics of mine and chesh's cars together
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Post by SteveP » 19 Jun 2006 09:22 am

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
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Post by Chris_C » 19 Jun 2006 10:16 am

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 :P I had my head buried in Powerdyn and Megatune at the time, so didn't see how it was going!
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Post by Cornholio » 19 Jun 2006 11:15 am

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:

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Post by redline » 19 Jun 2006 01:58 pm

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 :oops:
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Post by Cornholio » 19 Jun 2006 02:46 pm

redline wrote:wish I could have made it but was baby sitting 700 cub scouts at there 90th birthday bash
:shock: 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 :wink:
redline wrote:and I am sure it was the wind deflectors and cavity covers that made Kev's car shine over the rest :oops:
Those and the Moose sticker in the back window :lol:

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

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Post by foggyjames » 19 Jun 2006 09:41 pm

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! sm56

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Post by 1stRaven » 19 Jun 2006 11:02 pm

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

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Post by 990 » 19 Jun 2006 11:10 pm

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

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