watching to see how the MS installation goes. I run it on my car, and have been trying to convince my mate (phoenix on rovertech.. you may know /of him?) to ditch MEMS for ages on his coupe
Ah yeah, I know of Viv. He still got his Coupe I take it?
I forgot you had MS. I know of a few people who run it now, which is handy for if (read. when) I get stuck.
Eliot, yep that's the subframe. Some cars have one, some have two. They bolt into the chassis and then the engine, suspension etc bolt to the subframes.
Awesome Andy, love it
- Truely admire the work and effort you put into this. It was an animal before, can't wait till its done.
When do you expect a first test drive? I understand this is a long way off but you must have a rough estimation.
I'm still waiting on my lightened flywheel before I can get the gearbox back on. That's what's going to hold me back the most but with any luck, I'll get the engine in at the end of April. I've got plenty to be doing in the meantime anyway.
I'm going to the ring in June so need to give myself plenty of time to make sure it's ok before I go.
Trojan, appreciate the input but it's not as though I spent £4k in one go. 4k over 3 years is nothing IMO... certainly not when you factor in the performance of the car. The point you made about the time spent on the car is completely subjective. Some people play football or spend their time catching up on TV soaps, I spend my time (well, some of it
) working on the car.
Really? Every alternative? No. As for the money pit, I'd be tempted to say that a car that has
A combination of a leaky power steering pump, minging engine bay, patchy bodywork
Is one that is already turning into a money pit to fix.
Sorry, but that's a load of rubbish. You're going to write the car off based on it having a power steering leak, dirty engine bay and needing some bodywork. I forgot that power steering pumps last forever and don't need changing.
Engine bays get dirty over time, and as I was removing the head, gearbox and sump anyway it wasn't much more work to remove the block in order to get full access to the bay to give everything a damn good clean.
The car may not seem worth it to you and I fully appreciate that a 15 year old Rover is not to everyone's tastes... but I like the car, know it inside out and can do most of the work myself so therefore I'll carry on doing so
I'll hasten to add that before I moved closer to work, the car did 1600 miles a month for 6 months and the only time I had any problems was when I bought a new rotor arm and turned out to be faulty. I know of many cars from other prestige brands that've been much more unreliable than my car.
Looking good Andy, was wondering what happened to the green 420, saw you had a red one now, thought you might've sold other off
Yeah, the red 420 was a bit of a spare of the moment thing. I probably should have kept the Coupe as there wasn't much to go wrong with that, heh. On the plus side, I should quite easily make a profit when it comes to sell.
And in regards to your comment about selling the green one... no way! It's just been in hiding.
Considering you've spent decent money on other bits for it why didn't you just replace the engine mount whilst it was out of the car? It's very likely to split again as it's just been glued back together.
Very good point and one that I questioned myself. I had no idea that the mount had split until I removed it. I guess that as it hadn't split all the way through and with the poly stabilisers being as stiff as they are stopped it from getting any worse. I'll see how it goes.
You can remove the mount by supporting the engine and lowering the subframe so it's not the end of the world if it needs to be done in future.
I think I have enough for now... not to mention, I'm running out of room.
