After the tragic events from last sunday I'm happy to announce that I had a great day yesterday. I had a friends wedding and after the great wedding I came home around mid night. Me, my dad and a friend were ready to start the car for the first time in 3 years. I worked on the car whole friday to make sure that I had everything in order for the first start. When I got back home I still had some battery left in my Video Cam and we tried to strat the car and shoot some video. On the first attempt it didn't even hesitate, it fired right up with out lot of cranking! After almost fainting when it first heard the car running I started shooting some video, MAAAAAAAAN that is some serious noise the new BB and sidepipes makes. We stopped tuning the car around 1.30am, you can just imagine how pleased my neigbourghs face looked this morning when I went out to pick up the paper :lol:
I got few short vids on my computer. it would be great if someone could host at least one of them for me, they are all very small file sizes.

THE BIGGEST SHOUTS GOES TO YOU GUYS AND GALS ON THIS GREAT FORUM, I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITH OUT YOU!!! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :jester :jester :jester :steering: :steering: :steering: :steering:

 

Man that is great,youve put alot of time and effort and money into that car ,its all starting to come together. :cheers: :thumbs:


[Modified by patsnitrovette, 9:05 AM 6/15/2003]

 

Alright. Now this is good news. I have been watching that 79 for some time now. Can`t wait to see the videos. :thumbs:

 

Doesn't it feel great!! Congrats!!

:hurray: :hurray: :party: :hurray: :hurray:

 

Congrats! :thumbs: :cool:

Sounds like I need to visit Järvenpää next week :yesnod:

 

That's great news. Glad you got her started....don't know if I coulda lasted 3 years though. You've done a great job on that Vette. :thumbs:

 

Jay,

That's so cool! :cool: I can't imagine you were able to sleep after hearing it run again. Is this the 1st time the engine ran with the EFI operational?

Your car is turning out 1st class! You should be very proud.

 

SWEET! cant wait to see the videos.

 

Groovy,

Congrats on getting it running. I'll host the videos for you. Are they to big to shoot over to me in email? If so, let me know and I'll setup an FTP for you to send them over to.

Later,
David

 

:party: :party: :party: :party:

GRRREAT news Jay!!! :cool: :cool:

I'm going to send you e-mail soon... :seeya

What, your neighbours don't like to hear the rumble of BB with sidepipes in the middle of the night??? :jester

:party: :party: :party: :party:


[Modified by FinnShark, 9:05 AM 6/16/2003]

 

:thumbs: :cheers:

 

Congrats!! Big blocks rule.

 

That's killer! Your car is going to be a beast! :reddevil

 

:iagree: I couldn't have said it any better. Congrats Jay :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: It must have been AWESOME to hear your baby come to life :D !

 

:party: :party:

 

:seeya :cheers: :party:

 

patsnitrovette: Thanks man :cheers:

Eddie 70: Thanks Eddie, the video clip should be up in few minutes time, stay tuned. :cheers:

80Xflags: YES!!! :cheers:

Hemmo: Thanks for hosting the video, hope to see you soon. :cheers:

1970 Stingray: Thanks man, it has sure been looooong 3 years. :yesnod: :cheers:

74-Roadster: Thanks man, I did get good 3 hours of sleep that night, I just woke up the next morning and had to go back to the carage and start it up again!!! The EFI was already inplace when we dynoed the motor, it idles sooo smoothly. :cheers:

QuickVet: The videos are coming right up! :cheers:

DavidOrr: Thanks David, I already got someone to host the videos for me. :cheers:

FinnShark: :lol: Thanks Riku. I will shoot you email tomorrow about you know what... :yesnod: :cheers:

striker427: :thumbs: :cheers:

Steve Straus: BB is the way :yesnod: :cheers:

Mystery Machine: Thanks :cheers:

SmokedTires: Thanks Mike, I can't wait to see how you new engine build up turns out. :cheers:

Avette4me: :cheers:

Alwyn678: :cheers:

 

Here's the video link:


http://www.saunalahti.fi/~taniemin/MOV00246.MPG


[Modified by groovyjay, 2:45 AM 6/18/2003]

 

That is very impressive! Congratulations. And pleased to read that life is getting back on track after the recent tragedy.