A day at the workshop...

MrSix said:
So how much do you think you'll get for this once you've done the work mate?
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Not much in all honesty.

Probably £300-£350, perhaps a little more at a push. One of the guys is thinking of buying the two of us out anyway as he really likes the hatches so not sure what's going to happen.

Really impressed with the engine though. It was sat 6 months and started first turn of the key. It's very smooth, very strong and idles absolutely perfectly!
 
agw_01 said:
No, there's a Turbo badge to replace the 16v badge on the turbo models :)
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Ah right.
So why aren't the turbos more popular then, given how cheap they are and the peformance of them. I was very impressed by yours and although I do think they look like slippermobiles, that kind of adds to the enjoyment of them.

Are they particularly unreliable? I know they suffer head gasket failures, but that's easily remedied with the new tripple layer ones.
 
The T series (NASP or Turbo) doesn't suffer HGF as such, just on earlier gaskets, an oil way at the front right corner of the block tends to weep a bit. That was fixed with the release of (you were spot on with this one) the Klinger triple layer gasket. Mine's been fine reliability wise... it's covered about 10k in the past 6 months and apart from the bits I knew about for the MOT, I've not had to spend anything on it bar oil changes and petrol.

I'd say the Turbo's are more popular (have a look on RT and see how many turbos there are to NASPs) but due to availability, the changes of seeing a Turbo parked up full of mould is quite small. I've only seen one other 220 Turbo while out of my travels (excluding RT meets or friends who own them) and that was last month 5 minutes from my house. The 620Ti's seem to be getting ever more popular though.

I'd love to find one in the same state we found this 220... "Argh, this thing needs a lot of work doing to it. I'll give you £50 for it" ;)
 
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agw_01 said:
I'd love to find one in the same state we found this 220... "Argh, this thing needs a lot of work doing to it. I'll give you £50 for it" ;)
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I know what you mean, I would definately be tempted by one if it only cost me a couple of hundred quid, because if it goes wrong then at least you've paid peanuts for it.

There's a lad over the road with one at the moment actually, rusty as hell on the rear arches though - made me chuckle at the thought of hooning around in yours with the gearbox in the boot that time.
 
If you get a known good one, I see no reason not to pay £800 for it. Mine was £600, but that was only because the guy wanted to get rid of it.

After I've sorted the bits of bodywork and rebuilt my TorSen box, I see no reason why it wouldn't fetch top dollar on PH and the like. But that's boring and I'm not going to sell it until I've tinkered with it ;)

haha, the gearbox is now down at the workshop. I removed it from the boot after an incident involving a tight corner and a dented bootlid :o
 
Thats not a lot of space for £250 pm like. But i guess it will do. how did you get the car back to the workshop after starting it?.. im guessing it had no tax / mot ;)
 
ZG002 said:
Thats not a lot of space for £250 pm like. But i guess it will do. how did you get the car back to the workshop after starting it?.. im guessing it had no tax / mot ;)
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The £250 includes water and electricity too, so it's not all bad :)

My mate added it to his insurance... and, yeah. Not that I condone doing that.
 
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;) ;)

Yeah i guess. wouldnt mind a lock up like. We just use my mates garage at the moment.. but its not ideal
 
agw_01 said:
The £250 includes water and electricity too, so it's not all bad :)

My mate added it to his insurance... and, yeah. Not that I condone doing that.
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omg think of the children:p

fail! AGW did a ninja edit and I quoted the revised post..
 
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