Motoring inspired water feature...................

[SimonV8ster]

Having finished my pond a couple of years back I never got round to making a water feature as I had originally planned.

I have an outlet already working so just need to redirect the pipe and i'm away.

I could easily just go and buy a fibreglass waterfall or some posh bit of rock with a hole drilled through it but I want something different.

I was thinking of a motoring inspired theme to it. If I had a spare four branch stainless steel exhaust manifold I could use that - but I don't.

Has anybody got any ideas ?

[sday12]

SimonV8ster said:

Has anybody got any ideas ?

Don't.

[sneijder]

You are single, or soon about to be.

[xrv]

[Jasandjules]

A little F1 car with the waterspray coming out the back?

Something which can be moved quickly in the event you want to sell though...

[Not-All-Here]

Is it possible to get an i4 engine, stip and degrease it, set up a wanter feed into the inlet, and then have a water proof motor turning it over, so then the water gets spat out of the exhaust valves?

have this at the side of a pool and have it rotating at around idle speed, and then spurting water into the pool.


Would that be possible?

[V8mate]

Get an engine out of an old MK4 Cortina and hang it up on a post. Was never much good at holding oil, so I'm sure it'll leak water, sieve-like, perfectly competently

[R5GTTGAZ]

K series engine?

[mybrainhurts]

Job's a good 'un ---->

[Pow!]

how about you get a turbo involved in this, say having an airline of somesort fitted to it so it can make your puney water fountin be seen from miles off

[Morningside]

A V8 engine block with sequencing water jets. 1, 8, 4 etc.

[TheEnd]

rusty engine block, with water pumping through it/ coming out of it, just gently though, no huge fountains, so it looks like a naturally occurring crystal of roverviaghtite.

[SimonV8ster]

Pow! said:

how about you get a turbo involved in this, say having an airline of somesort fitted to it so it can make your puney water fountin be seen from miles off

Like that fountain in the middle of Lake Geneva ?

[Caruso]

I'm thinking front end of a mini, with water coming out through the washer jets and the wipers going.

[SimonV8ster]

Caruso said:

I'm thinking front end of a mini, with water coming out through the washer jets and the wipers going.

Or out of where the headlights are meeting at a central point in the pond ?

[zac510]

Caruso said:

I'm thinking front end of a mini, with water coming out through the washer jets and the wipers going.

Or the water splashing out the side of the wheels a'la the scene in Italian Job?

[J_S_G]

A Rover K-series head gasket? They're pretty good at letting water flow through? *Runs for cover*

Daimler V8 exhaust manifolds. Bargain:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Daimler-V8-exhaust-Manifolds...