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mattyprice4004 said:
I don't see how it's horrendous, if it does the job, costs a lot less than an OEM part and sees me through the winter what's the problem?

I don't fancy going under the car when it's cold and wet outside for 5 hours and spending £50 on the part alone, when this will do the job.
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lol at you getting all defensive you little tike you :p

Its a proper ***** bodge and you know it. If you leave it like that the next owner of the car would be calling you all the names under the sun when he found that.

We've all bodged stuff temporally to get by until we can afford to fix things properly so theres no shame in that. But don't try and pretend its something its not ;)
 
MrLOL said:
lol at you getting all defensive you little tike you :p

Its a proper ***** bodge and you know it. If you leave it like that the next owner of the car would be calling you all the names under the sun when he found that.

We've all bodged stuff temporally to get by until we can afford to fix things properly so theres no shame in that. But don't try and pretend its something its not ;)
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Defensive is my thing. :p

It'll have a new one in Spring. :)
 
Today I tackled a proper **** of a job - replacing the clutch master cylinder.

It's original on 175k, feels a little ropey, and they're known for failing. All this added to the fact I'm going to Germany in this car soon meant it's time was up.

Original, in situ:
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As you can see, leaking fluid quite badly. When I refilled and bled it last month, I cleaned it up to see if it was leaking - evidently so!

Absolutely zero room to fit a ratchet in - had to use my Draper slim 1/4 for this.
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After about 45 minutes of fighting, I had the old one out. New LUK unit and old AP unit:
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It seems the rubber seals had deteriorated inside the unit, as can be seen by this load of gunk at the bottom of the reservoir.
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Working peachy now.
Total cost was about £110 for the parts, a garage quoted £300 so I saved a fair packet. :D

Oh, and finally:
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:p
 
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Just got back from a trip to Germany and Scotland, now rocking nearly 180k.

Booked in next week for a proper remap, and a stainless steel turbo-back exhaust. I also have a different MAF sensor in the post, which should help with low-down power.

Should then be rocking just short of 200bhp and around 370 lb/ft of torque, which is where it will stay for the foreseeable future. The issue I have then is the clutch - they don't really like over 200bhp.
 
200bhp from the earliest variant of the M47? It's not even commonrail is it? Are you just trying to blow it up or something, even with commonrail and 10 further years of development BMW felt 200bhp needed two turbos. Do you know something they dont?
 
It's commonrail, and it's been done before, someone on the owner's club was running around 190bhp for a good year or so. A hybrid turbo is something that is classed as 'nice to have' when pushing the M47R that hard, but it's been done without. I'm planning to have an EGT probe fitted to the new exhaust to keep an eye on the temperatures, out of interest more than anything else.

The real limiting factor is the clutch in this instance.
 
mattyprice4004 said:
It's commonrail, and it's been done before, someone on the owner's club was running around 190bhp for a good year or so. A hybrid turbo is something that is classed as 'nice to have' when pushing the M47R that hard, but it's been done without. I'm planning to have an EGT probe fitted to the new exhaust to keep an eye on the temperatures, out of interest more than anything else.

The real limiting factor is the clutch in this instance.
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For a year, why not longer? ;)
 
But the 1951cc version - the first version - of this engine wasn't commonrail. CR technology was added with the second gen, where the capacity also changed.

All the Rover owners seem to think it's CR but I can't see how it can be unless Rover redesigned the engine and why would they do that?

I can't see how its sensible to take a first gen M47 to over 200bhp :confused:
 
I'd say it was brave pushing for more power on a car that's almost on moon mileage, seems to me it's pretty much asking for something to break!
 
Jamesy P said:
It seems from google it most certainly is a common rail and google images confirms that.
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So his car doesnt have the 1951cc version of the engine? The later commonrail variant BMW introduced had a capacity change. Did Rover change the design of the engine - this is the bit I genuinelly don't know as Rover is not my subject of interest. I'd be suprised if they went to the trouble of that, though.

All I can find on google is people assuming its commonrail.
 
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