DanBMXes zt 160
 

hi all got a mg zt 160 about 2 weeks ago so this is going to be my progress thred to my car

here it is after i got it home
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dirty side
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set to work on the bonnet with my DA polisher pleased with the results, clay bard,polished, and waxed
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i then moved on to the drivers side of the car

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and then i started removeing the badges to change them
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front and rear ones done
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put them back on the car and will up load pics when i take some i also still have the other half of the car to DA polish so will also get some pics up as i go along

Very nice! Need some new badges myself, tried some cheap stick on ones from eBay but there not the best.

Lovely colour,good luck with her :)

thanks for the replys will try keep this thred up dated as i do more work on the car

Car looks great.Nice colour.Looking forward to the progress reports.Dosent look like it needs much tough:}

got some more polishing done with my DA and took a pic of the front badge
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Looks lovely!

Looks very nice :D

thank you for the replys, hopefully get some more stuff done soon

RE
 

Just about the best colour:}

goodwood green :-P FTW

ok heres an update took my front bumper off to fit the uprated fan resistor, so i got that done but i still have no air con, every thing seams to be working so i am just hopeing its low on gas so hopeing a re gas will fix it hope my compressor isnt nacked,
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can just see it here
while the bumper was off i also found this
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air feed pipe was fudged so got a replacment pipe and fitted it as the bumper was off
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then went about fitting my boost gauge in to where the clock was, was hell of a fiddle but managed to get it done and well pleased with how it looks
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and this is where i fitted the T peice
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to come next will be new bumber plates a rover 75 style rear one and also got the boot lift mod to fit once it comes, also hopeing to have a stainless exhaust fitted this week will keep thred up dated
dan

small up date rover 75 style plate fitted
before
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after
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Looks loads better. Really changes the look of them

yeah it really dose, hopefully have more updates on sat :-)

Should be made compulsory :D

Yeah, I wonder why mg/ Rover didn't put them on the mg zt was it because of the cost cutting?

long life exhaust done,
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just need to get a right ride heat shild now

Looks ace love to do this to my zt but can not get a heat shield any where :( good luck :D

thanks what i have done for now is removed the left one so it dont look so odd

Good idea :D:D

had this pop up twice now, any one know what could be causeing this?
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ok here we go with another update
a set of vibe contents speakers have been fitted to all doors
also have had my windows tinted, sorry about the pics they are not verry good because of the sun
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also have any my rear lights and front lights wraped with stuff called "fly eye" its legal for use in lights, and also fitted my front splitter
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the back pic dont look right because of the sun
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just waiting for my wind deflactors to come now
dan

Whats this off ?

Ahh OBD diagnostic ?

its a screen shot form my phone :-)

before
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wind deflectors fitted
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where u get them from mate n how much ?

look on e bay :)

small up date here
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had the car maped with z and f tuneing it now drives so much better so much more torque and pull evan off boost

very nice mate .. watching with interest :D

quite a few things there on my list to when i get round to it

thanks will be up dateing this thred as i do more :)

think ill do the same with mine :)

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...d.php?t=120739

ok so today i fitted a 3 Port Electronic Boost Control Solenoid EBC From Subaru Impreza WRX STi Turbo, also used on the Mitsubishi EVO VI-IX
heres the old one removed
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some new silicone pipes( not to fussed on them as i think they are a bit to lime green) so may change them later on
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the new solenoid fitted( yes i know i need to tidy up the wireing i just wanted to make sure it was all working right first)
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went out for a quick drive and the car now hits full boost 185kpa at 3k now and its much faster reacting then the old one and tends to hold the boost alot better, as the old one keept trying to trim it back hopefully next week get it booked in for a dyno run

good news :)

although them tubes do look abit snotty coloured :D:getmecoat:

had it run on a dyno today will post results soon ;-)

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203.2BHP at flywheel and 199.1lbft
164bhp@ wheels

Very impressive! Wish I could get my turbo hesitancy sorted!

ooooerrrr mine next

very good mate :D

alot of horses ect for a good price me thinks

yeah and still good fuel economy :D
heres the run
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what problems are you haveing?

video of the run
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The power seems to drop off when accelerating hard (approx 4k revs) sometime can be quite violent! I've changed the coil packs, re-gapped my plugs, changed the vacuum to silicone pipes and tested the solenoid by putting 6v on to it. Going to try cleaning the actuator rod next!

yeah i think that sounds like a good port of call next, make sure the rod is free

dont forget your 190 brakes now :)

how easy are they to fit? straght swap?

pretty much . have a search on here.. worth doing

tidy will look in to it :), that car had all new disks and pads fitted just before i had it though lol, but will still look in to it :)

im getting my hoses finished alloy manifold finished and 190 brakes on

then ill get the remap and solinoid as a final treat :D

awosme looking forward to you updateing the hose thred so i can also get mine sorted as they are so soft i just dont give them much time

What boost are you running now?

Is the cat still in place or did you remove it when you had the new Longlife?

running 12psi of boost now and am useing a 200cpi sports cat that i had long life put on the same time as the exhaust system so no hassle come MOT time :)

Ok thanks,I think I'm going full de-cat with a flexi when I get my Longlife :)

i did want to go de cat but didnt want the hassle of changeing it all the time for MOT

Those are excellent figures with your sports cat fitted :)

Only a small up date here, went to a local garage today so I could have the air con 're gassed as when I bought the car it wasn't working and after replacing the fan resistor still didn't work so it was ither the compressor not working correct or needed some fresh refrigerant so had it drained down today and 're filled and now I have air con that works :-)
http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...7&d=1355852010

DAN

A must at this time of year :xmas-smiley-029:

well this is my first car i have had with air con and i have to say at this time of year you can clear the front windscreen so fast with it, cant waiit till the summer now :)
and the guy at the garage doing the air con was looking around the engine bay, turned and asked me did you fit that turbo your self ha ha, just goes to show how little is known about these cars

Thats funny, 'did you fit it yourself'?. Yeah it does show that people think they know it all and actually know nowt. I have found a tidy looking zr for £400, drop a z&f tuned turbo in there and it'll be a monster. Hmm, tempting.

yeah it was quite funny and as i told him no thats how they come out the factory he looked at me quite pizzeld, so i guess hes never seen one before and was like oh i am surprised they would put a turbo on a k series, and then i told him that i had it maped and it was running around 200bhp and you can guess what he said next.....

and yes i do also think a 1.8k turbo could be quite lively in a zt and could make for a verry fun car

Makes me wish i had bought a 1.8T now :D and it looks awesome.

Thanks, hopefully more updates soon

GO on then...gis a clue :D

Wheels next :-)

If you want a good home for your current ones let me know :) How much did it cost to Tune it up?

i will be keeping them for winter wheels, as not to ruin the alloys i get winter time, do you mean what did it cost for the remap? or all the other stuff to?

Just to get the Remap :)

£230 take a look at the z and f tuning site

some fresh photos from the body shop
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looking good m8 :) ive got my alloy inlet to fit when its warmer lol

a photo of the car at the club meet today in the national botanical gardens wales

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still have my bumper spats and inlet manifold to fit, as i was busy with project OLGA, watch this space :D

You are doing a great job on this car, looking really good!, love the wheels by the way!:)

thank you :), those wheels are in need or a re furb really bad, but i have a new set of the way, and these will then become my winter wheels :)

ok so managed to get some more done to day, got my VVC colour coded inlet fitted today and also my matching coolent pipes

standard plastic inlet
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standard pipes
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inlet fitted
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and a photo of the coolent pipes and the inlet
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had a right nightmare today , all was fine yesterday after the car had been run up to normal temp and all the idle parameters reset on the T4, only had a slight leak on the bottom hose that goes form the gerry T straght down the rad and to the PRT it was weeping around the top,

so today i went out took the pipe off cut about an inch of it as the top had become very soft.
reinstalled the pipe started the car up it was idleing at around 1k :mad:
so just cracked on to bleed the cooling system and i could here what sounds like an air leak comeing some where from the inlet manifold and it wasnt there yesterday :mad:

so took a short trip to check it was all driveing ok about half way pulled over, and reset my stepper motor and then the idle seamed to be ok after that drove it back home and that lower pipe on the T peice is still weeping coolent:mad: so had a guts full today and just left it

So as you can see I have made my own bottom hose for the car to stop the weeping of the other one, so I fitted this last Tuesday and while i was underneath noticed that the PRT was hanging down a bit, so I put a big zip tie around it to hold it up a little higher and fitted this pipe, run the car for a few days and was looseing slight ammounts on water and couldn't see where it was going, on friday on my way home I could see a little steam now and agin coming out theough the grill while I was sat in traffic so keept an eye on my coolant temp via OBD, once I got home switch the car off got underneath and had a nose around and then could see that due to me tieing tje stat up a little I had upset the lower water feed pipe for the turbo and it now had split :'(, this is not what I needed as I were due to be leaving saterday to go down to brooklands for MG eara, luck enough eurorover (wyn) had a spair pipe so saterday moreing I was out side at 8:30am fitting the pipe I had from wyn hopeing that I didn't have any more problems and that the car would make it to brooklands, drove down there car was fine all the way, but just before leaving the show I spotted a small puddle under the car agin, toped it up and drove home, nothing else has been spotted yet, so I am hopeing its all good form here, will check in the morning to see if any coolant was lost on the way home, just hope I don't have any more leeks now, below is the pipe I made with a 32mm stainless steel 90 useing some on the o.e hose and replaceing the bad part, and a photo of the car at brooklands motor museum today

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...6&d=1365370444

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...7&d=1365370467

Some good improvisation there Dan.

Love the look of the new plenum too :cool:

Vrooom tishhhh.

thanks :D, i still have a small leak comeing form some where but cant find out where its comeing from gggrrrr, only after the car as been parked up for a few hours there is a small patch of water

When I first bought my 75 there were a number of small cooling system leaks.I managed to sort them all apart from one,which turned out to be external HGF.There was no sign of any leak whilst the engine was hot as it burnt off the leaking coolant, but as the engine cooled over night small puddles of coolant formed on the garage floor.Coolant was collecting along the bottom edge of the exhaust manifold.Apparently it's quite common that the heat from the turbo causes this on standard/poor quality head gaskets.Had the MLS fitted now for 3 years and no further coolant loss :)

Thanks for the input there worth thinking about, but I niped up a few of my hose clips yesterday drove home left the car had a tiny dribble on the floor the morning after, but today so far nothing at all, so I am hopeing problem sorted, will see in the morning if there's any thing under the car

Would be worth doing a pressure test if you have any further loss,an excellent way of identifying the source of leaks :)

thaanks for your input well appreciated, all seams well now, see you at POL if your going?

ok so today i wanted to get my rear bumper spats on ready for POL, the only reson they havent been fitted yet as i was wating for my new wheels to come as i have to remove the rear wheels to fit the spats i thort may as well wait untill my new wheels come and do them the same time, but they still havent come yet and i was hopeing to have them intime for POL :(, so i started to fit them today any way,
so car jacked up wheel off
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one side fitted
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then went around to the otherside and my locking wheel nut decided it didnt want to come off and it wanted to destroy itself and the wheel key :mad:, so i tryed a few things to get it to fit agin and tryed removeing the nut but wouldnt play ball, so i have to remove the side spat i had fitted as haveing one would have looked silly, so now i have to find a few wheel nut key if i want to remove any of the wheels form my car and still have to find a way to remove the one that is now damaged:mad:

but i did manage to give the car a quick detail today ready for POL, its just a real shame the state on my grid spokes really let the car down

had quite a busy day today i managed to get the wheel nut off, welded a bolt on to it, but the welder was turned up to high and blew though it opss... so turned it down and welded another one on top of it as i could get a socket over it, but managed to get the wheel nut out so thats the main thing :D
the wheel nut bit of a mess i know
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have done a bit of damage to my wheel but is dosent matter because when my new wheels come these are going for refurb and will be my winter set
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so after POL last week driveing back in the rain the car got stinking
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gave it a good wash and then a nice coat of auto glym HD wax, and now you can really see the metallic comeing though due to last weeks glaze
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also today i took my wheel arch liners out and give it a good clean behind there, i will in time underseal under here
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also fitted my bumper pods the same time
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and also have done the spy hole mod:D
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Looking better and better Dan,

Have you lowered it?

What are you doing with the Quad exhausts the bumper trims? Still looking for a second or just taking the existing one off?

hi there, no its not lowerd but noticed how the side skirts make it look lower, any funny enough not long after putting them on some one had asked me if i had lowerd it, i am still on the look out for a 2nd trim as i realy think it will finish of the back of the car nicely its just dosent look right with out them

here we go with another update,
had some mats made for the car
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started to polish up the air con pipes in the bay as they looked dull
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after
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after yet still losing coolent, traced it back to this pipe
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as you can see its not very good at all


so i got hold of some flexible silicone hose that you can bend, as seen here
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and replaced the hose with this and also done a small bit after the stat
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sorry about the bad pics but just couldnt get a good enough angel under the car to show it, so lets see how long this one stands up :D

Looking better and better Dan,I hope you intend to keep the car in the long term after all this effort you have gone to :)

i do want to keep it as long as i can, i am just trying my best to future proof it :}, going to do all the belts, and the water pump soon just for peice of mind

i cant believe that this thred has had 7,021views :hurray::party::hurray:

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a photo of the car today at the swansea vintage car show, was the only ZT there i didnt see any others, i only look one, should have taken a few more photos

That looks well, and im liking those back lights :D

thanks, hopefully get some more photos soon when my new wheels come :D

a small update for today, seen this stick on e bay and thort it would be quite funny to sick on the car, the writeing is ment to sit underneath each other,
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but i couldnt find any where it would fit like that, so i cut it in half and put it here :D
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small update today, the new wheels turned up today and went on the car today, who wants to see:D?

I do :cool2:

Get the pics up! Really like this thread by the way. Plus, I've not spotted a picture of the drivers cup holder yet?!...

will be up shortly:D

so here we go the wheels are on!!!, now as many people would probably agree choosing a set of wheels isn’t an easy task, I looked at so so many wheels before deciding on the ones I wanted, but it all comes down to personal preference, now my method in picking the right wheels and look I wanted, I always liked dark wheels on dark cars but didn’t want to do black as it been done to death now and a lot of people do it, I wanted to do something different, so I have always liked dark grey wheels on a green car it I think it contrasts the colour well and help break it up, and I also like dished wheels and noticed that if I got a stainless steel lipid wheel it would still complement the chrome door handles and they wouldn’t look to out of place form a side view of the car, as my car is quite dark with tinted windows and wind deflectors it I tort it would look odd having just a dark grey wheel and then the door handles looked out of place in chrome, so I looked though many wheels, didn’t want anything like BBS LMR's although I do like them, they have been done a lot and I wanted to be different and stray away from the normal wheel selection that you see, so I settled on these I know they won’t be to every ones taste but here we are , i also had to guess the offset as i wanted them to just end at the end of the arch and not stick out to much,
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a photo of some poor boys wheel sealant going on

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Looking good mate!

What ya gonna do with the ones you took off??? :D

Tris

they are going to be refurbed with a funky paint job for winter time :D

I get the feeling i am going to be busy soon lol!

nice pics dan of me hq lol

Eurorover headquarters ... The nerve centre.

And will be open all bank holiday weekend

Nice to know that Wyn as I need to see you about a few things.

Ahhh, so that is EuroRover HQ eh?? Cool

My wheels are desperate for a refurb - anyone have any recommendations on where to go round these parts?

TheWheelSpecialist looks good?:shrug:

Tris

Place in Port Talbot about £50 + vat per wheel. What wheels you got and how bad are they?

Saturday afternoon will be there

Hairpins. They've been curbed on every wheel and it looks as though previous owners didn't clean the wheels often because the laquer has lifted in parts on all wheels.

They are quite poorly. But look ok from a distance if you squint :)

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The car's starting to near completion now then surely Dan?

I think the wheels are alright. I know what you mean about the having dark wheels that aren't just painted black. You've made a good call with the colour there because if they were black it would look a bit underwhelming.

another busy day to day, here we have some bits to give the car a service, full belt kit, and water pump
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state on the old blets looks like i just caught them in time
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here are a few random photos i took while doing the job
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new and old water pump

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new belt and pump on
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http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps7c37b269.jpg

give my calipers a quick coat of high temp paint so they look a bit nicer and also the disk by the hub where you can normany see rust
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps7b07bd8b.jpg

some screws to replace the horrible rusting ones up front on the bumper
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psb5aff62c.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps83ccd5bc.jpg

also the ones along the wings done

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps020ff0f3.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psd5ca8de3.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps11245728.jpg


http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psb85debb8.jpg

and this one is for coolasacucumber
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps945f282f.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psb85debb8.jpg

:cool:

Tip marks for the effort that you've put into this! Love the new wheels.

cheers, there will be another small update later on :D

Car is looking really good with you :cool: and looks mint. :bowdown:

Well done,cracking work :)

done a little bit more work today on the car
took the bonnet release bits off and sprayed them, i was going to do them black but as i had a colour match can here i decided to do them body colour didnt turn out as good as i had hoped but they look ok and much better then they did
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps913f25a2.jpg

back on the car

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psd2a26649.jpg

i also sprayed up some peeny penny washers as the bolts i put on yesterday the heads wernt quite big enough
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps1c44cdb3.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps79fb4c3e.jpg

also droped the oil today
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps07b7e5ba.jpg

and changed my rocker cover bolts to some stainless steel ones that i bort for my old car but never used, new bolt on the left old one on the right, not a very good photo its to dark
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps5128afe2.jpg

i did also take off my rear wheels and paint the disk and caliper but for got to take a photo before the wheel went back on

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps99a3ef15.jpg
so there we are the car has had a full service now so hopefully should be good for many more miles of enjoyment :D

I love the car but I'm not sure on the wheels, in fact I don't like them but that's personal taste, if you do that's good because it's your car. :D

for some reson they dont look as nice in the photos are they do in real life, two firends have said to me they didnt like them after i sent them a photo but when they seen them in the flesh it changed they're minds, but i do understand that you cant please every one with wheels or we would all be boreing and have the same ones :D

I won't judge it then until I've seen it in the flesh! :D Are you on Facebook? I've got an MG Rover Wales page on there.

if i have the right page i have just tryed to join

Done matey. :)

cheers :panic:

I have just been through the whole thread and being a 1.8t owner was reading with interest, you have a great car there mate good work on engine and body top job top man...

Great car, just read the whole thread :}

It really is a nice example, and its good to see you getting stuck in! The colour is stunning, hope to see it at a meet one day. :cool:

What benefits do the alloy VVC manifolds give?

Do you have any opinions on the remap, nice and smooth? mpg? 200bhp and 200lbft sound like figures I need in my life! :}

thank you for the kind worlds guys, really dose make all the work worth while when people say nice things,

MG Tom
the vvc inlet is just less prone to warping like the plastic one dose and you can get slight coolent leaks, and they look nicer :D:getmecoat:

as for the remap i cant recomend it enough, imo this is how these cars should have come out the factory, it is very smooth to drive and just has bags more torque lower down then the standard map MPG hasnt really changed ither, get it done and i dont think you would be dissaponted :}


another up date is here:D
had a busy evening on the car tonight fitting some lowreing springs to get rid of that horrible arch gap up front and hopefully make my wheels look a bit nicer to
i didnt get mant photos along the way,

in this one i have removed the whole strut and while it was out give it a good clean up under there
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps8cddbfe5.jpg
then a nice coat of under seal
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psbab6f729.jpg
strut before i fitted the new spring
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps4a84d6c8.jpg

strut with new spring all inplace and with a nice coat of underseal :D
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps7c2a92d6.jpg
managed to get the front to done today so hopefully get the rear ones done tomorrow, but when i put the car on the floor it didnt look lower at all so i do hope as they settle in it will drop a bit

dan

Don't get your hopes up, I've often fitted springs and hoped they'd settle, they seldom do. :{

Nice work on the preventative maintenance, must get mine sorted out underneath before the winter. :)

same here want to do all my arches, and as far as i can get in to the wings ect

so today i or i should say we, with technical support form mg/rover central eurorover wyn we got the rear ones fitted to day, thank you for your help wyn :bowdown:

old spring out
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psb94783db.jpg

the easy way to get them in:D
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...pse32cbe6e.jpg

new one in
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps5cb07f22.jpg

good thing i changed these as one of my rear springs had snapped

Looking forward to seeing some side profile pic's Dan :)

went out this evening and took some photos, so will upload them tomorrow

Looking good and i like those wheels :bowdown:

here are some nice photos that i took yesterday night, i love wales :D

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps62117251.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps2b01d9dc.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps2ea63a6f.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psb2ef7ed2.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps376ea932.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps4dbc4a3c.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps30f4adbc.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps09fcca66.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps94b0128e.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps62117251.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psdabdd58e.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps6a75b79b.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps465fcb9f.jpg

and two short clips of what the car sounds like
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps7cb60615.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psec41391c.jpg

Looks perfect Dan,just the right amount of drop and you get to keep your comfort :cool:

I was hoping it would be a little more lower on the front, the back is perfect, will give it a while and see what happens

Seriously nice zt there I now to you sir :bowdown: red the thread from start to finish and enjoyed every update ;)

John

thank you for your kind words :), the car will be at a few shows with in the next few weeks so if people would like me to post up where its going to be i will, thanks dan:D

That's supposed to say BOW not now stupid iPad :getmecoat:

That would be cool, makes me wish I had the 1.8T now mind you I like mine for the comfort ;) wanna swap :drool4:

John :D

thanks for the offer bit i have spent far to much time on this car :D, will post up dats and places in a bit

sunday 9th june barry festival of transport (Cf62 5TQ)

sunday 16th june the car will be at swansea festival of transport

12 – 14 Jul Powderham Castle (with the euro rovers owners club)

21 july gwili railway

24 – 26 Aug 2013 Eastbourne Festival of Transport (with the euro rovers owners club)

Worth a try ;)

here is an update i forgot to post

i fitted some center caps to match my other badges
before
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps1e3eb0c4.jpg
after
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psf0990bee.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psffcc40c2.jpg

but because my center caps are so domed they started to fall off a few days later :getmecoat: so i pulled them all off and will have to find some flat caps the right size and then try agin maby then they will stay :D

what do you people think better with or with out?

now they look good with the new center caps :drool4:

The new centre caps are awesome! Just use stronger adhesive :)

i have thort of this but the caps really are to domed for them and they would just lift all the time around the edges, i evan warmed them up with a hairdryer while putting them on as they are like a gel type badge and evan that wouldnt sofen them enough so they would take

i am going to a few of those including Gwili Railway

done some more work on the car today
i wanted to tidy up the engine bay by spraying the fuse box cover, plug cover, air box and battry cover

he they are, now i wanted to experiment here and try something diffrent so
here are the bits
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps95b877c1.jpg

some primer and a bit of green:D
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psad3fb184.jpg

put my new sticker on that mark form z & f sent me
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps88a059ad.jpg

air box in primer
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...pse3cd921f.jpg

coated gloss black
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psd57b8117.jpg

also the fuse box, now this is where i tryed to do some green detailing, and yes it did this with a very small brush :o
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps0bd6d034.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...pseeb1a7c1.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps3f5a8405.jpg

then some lacquer coat
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps613fd2d0.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps87a164f4.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps0179e576.jpg

it didnt quite work out as good as i had hoped it to, as it was very hard to paint in the detailing, but its looks alright form a distance....

put every thing back on the car

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psdd528233.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...psf3866e1f.jpg

i am unsure with the end result

Its a lovely day down here at bary festival of transport, and we are right along side the sea

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...2&d=1370776439

Attachment 23707
http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...7&d=1370784336
Overlooking the bay

i also picked up a V8 engine today, so hopefully i can install this and make my car a zt 260 :D:getmecoat:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ps83faacc3.jpg
but on a serious note would any one like to see a progress thread on this when i build it up?:D

How are you finding the handling with the new springs Dan?

How do they compare to the OEM set up?