About *&%^$^ time...!

[wedg1e]

Well, it was out of action for a year but yesterday my Esprit fired up for the first time post-rebuild!



Just for a few seconds mind, because I haven't put the exhaust back on yet, but the main thing is that it runs!

Dunno why I'm so bloody cheerful, next it'll be an MOT and then it's up for sale..s

[anonymous-user]

wedg1e said:

Well, it was out of action for a year but yesterday my Esprit fired up for the first time post-rebuild!



Just for a few seconds mind, because I haven't put the exhaust back on yet, but the main thing is that it runs!

Dunno why I'm so bloody cheerful, next it'll be an MOT and then it's up for sale..s

There's nothing quite like the excitement of a first fire up after a rebuild!! Congrats!!!!!

[dodgey_rog]

wedg1e said:

Well, it was out of action for a year but yesterday my Esprit fired up for the first time post-rebuild!



Just for a few seconds mind, because I haven't put the exhaust back on yet, but the main thing is that it runs!

Dunno why I'm so bloody cheerful, next it'll be an MOT and then it's up for sale..s

I had a look at your website, there's no pictures of the interior etc? Congrats on your start up though, good luck with the rest of the project.

[wedg1e]

dodgey_rog said:

wedg1e said:

Well, it was out of action for a year but yesterday my Esprit fired up for the first time post-rebuild!



Just for a few seconds mind, because I haven't put the exhaust back on yet, but the main thing is that it runs!

Dunno why I'm so bloody cheerful, next it'll be an MOT and then it's up for sale..s

I had a look at your website, there's no pictures of the interior etc? Congrats on your start up though, good luck with the rest of the project.

Interior is about par for the course for a 23-year-old Esprit that's had a dozen owners
Externally the paint needs at least a bloody good clean and polish if not a respray, I haven't washed it for almost a year...

[kylie]

Great news its a shame you want to sell it once its all sorted Another Esprit perhaps?

[wedg1e]

kylie said:

Great news its a shame you want to sell it once its all sorted Another Esprit perhaps?

No, but perhaps another TVR

[wedg1e]

STOP PRESS! Unconfirmed sightings of my car on a private test track suggest that everything works as it should... and bizarrely, the gearchange is the best I've ever known it. I made new bushes for the linkages but I really didn't think the old ones were THAT bad, it was just an excuse to use the lathe
I suppose I ought to put the airbox and bellmouths back in, even though the induction noise is

[wedg1e]

... and now it has an MOT.

Rear brake balance was within 1Kg!!

[dieselnut]

wedg1e said:

STOP PRESS! Unconfirmed sightings of my car on a private test track

So I have to pay you a toll now to use that bit of the A66 ?