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 Expert Posts: 2568    Location: Up in the lakes | i found this car in october last year after once again finding out metros do not like to be faced with the side of a mountain.. (Im sure il learn one day  ) Its lived in nottingham all its life, had 2 owners from new and only had 21k on the clocks. When i went to see it i fell in love instantly, could not believe my luck, same colour, year and model as my last one.. Best colour too imo. it was owned by an old lady who didnt look after it. It had moss growing on it and looked like it hadnt been cleaned in while although the arches are original and 100% filler free  ive already had the carpets up, sound deadning stripped and welded and hamerited the floor pans above the front jacking points and given it a clean.       brakes: mintex discs and pads on gti callipers and carriers suspension: front and rear polybushed arbs mgf rear individualised hydracans up front gti rear individualised hydracans 7mm droop stop spacers on new stops interior: half leather silverstone recaro front seats silverstone gta rear bench full black plastics and carpets red belts mgf rear view mirror ax center console more to follow, some nice pics from pol to come. Enjoy! | ||
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 I'm O.K. at stuff Posts: 1405   Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours. | |||
| scarfey |
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 768 Location: Swindon, Wiltshire | |||
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 Track Slag Posts: 5060  Location: Washington | |||
| GTaddz |
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | thanks guys. Im proud of the paintwork, goes to show how fara little claybarring, polishing and waxing goes. Im the process of sorting my pics from pol so will upload them soon. Only thing that lets it down atm is the 1.1 powerplant.. its getting an engine it deserves next monday handling wise its spot on, could do with a quicker rack but thats all in the pipelines as are tf tre's, steering arms and bottom ball joints. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | managed to sucessfully upload a few pics from pol, will add other pol pics to the gallery when i upload them, great day, good weather, awesome convoy!, lots of beautiful cars and good munch after.      that little dip where im parked demonstrates nicely how the front to rear link of the hydrags units work, so took a trip down to leister to see redgaves metro (i want a tf frame) and get it individualised. This is how it sits now with mgf rear cans up front on uncut cones pumped up to 400psi and gti rear cans pumped up to 450 on uncut rods. Thanks bud.    engine goes in on monday, using a vvc manifold and have portmatched the head to suit, may not be of any benefeit atm but i reckon with a set of 135cams or vvc exhaust cams it will give decent improvement. | ||
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 MP Admin Posts: 8747 Location: Greater London \ Essex | |||
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 White R100 Posts: 1095 Location: Isle of Wight | Looks really clean mate | ||
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 purple_metty Posts: 2165 Location: leicsestershire | Having worked on this car i can say that its a very good example, adam has done a very good job with the mods... just how it should be, Handleing first, power second. Top man, keep us posted on the engine conversion | ||
| GTaddz |
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | gshaw - 27/4/2012 6:02 AM The Focus looks huuuge compared to the tro! doesnt it!, notice how i kept that nissan juke almost out of the picture got a few more pics to add of whats gone on over the last few weeks. I wanted to put my vvc inlet manifold on but people say it will loose power compared to the plastic one so i decided to portmatch the inlets to suit the manifold.  need to get it on a rolling road to see if its giving anymore power. Last time i had it in it had a 48mm tb, enclosed carbon induction and plastic manifold, made 109.5bhp at the fly them. Wonder if it will improve with 52mm tb, head portmatched to vvc inlet and ZR160 airbox.  Engine ready to go in  engine on its way in  this time it didnt start first turn of the key  had a few issues with it. Changed coil, cps and leads and she started, then had clutch issues so a new clutch later and it was running! Still had idle / breather issues but theyre sorted now... Well, as good as they'l get with the cam cover im using. Idles at around 1100rpm cold and 850rpm hot managed to damage my bonnet refitting it, it broke my heart as the car is soo clean, anyone know how i can get it put right??  heres how michelle looks now      and finally, managed to get hold of some td motorsport center caps, didnt quite fit so had to sand the edges down a few mm, im happy enough. Havnt seen this style on a metty before. looking to get some new rubber for my 14's now i have the right engine for them, any suggestions?   | ||
| scarfey |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 768 Location: Swindon, Wiltshire | |||
| GTaddz |
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | scarfey - 8/5/2012 8:27 PM Jesus Christ, how far back do you sit?! I can't stand driving a car lying down! as a rule of thumb if your heads in view of the rear window youve got it about right edit: with the weight of the engine in the front its the best position. Lol Edited by GTaddz 9/5/2012 2:24 PM | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 768 Location: Swindon, Wiltshire | Lol, weight distribution reasoning, I like it!  | ||
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 978 Location: Walderslade, Kent | |||
| GTaddz |
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | took the bonnet off as thought it would be easier for the conversion. Wont be doing it again though. Its the blending of the paint im going to find hardest. Im okay with spraying skirts ect but im no panel beater / bodyman. The wings have also seen better days so would preferably want bonnet and wings off another tahiti 100... I WISH! The bus is one of our indigo branded volvo B7R's, with leather seats and aircon good until they go wrong. They have euro 5 engines so absolutely everything is governed by ecu's and electrics. Give me an eu4 scania anyday! | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 768 Location: Swindon, Wiltshire | Mate I think Craig was talking about the VW Camper. | ||
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 'Metropower's James May' Posts: 2977 Location: Southport, North West | |||
| GTaddz |
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | MetroCJ - 8/5/2012 11:12 PM Looking good and finally with the 16v fitted! You should pop over when you are next free, would be nice to have another look as didnt get long at PoL! Will do, im up your way this weekend as a matter of fact. Got a rally in wigan on saturday. Scoobies been remapped with the smaller turbo (damn regulations) so we'l see how i do. Pop along if you want. where did you go at pol anyway?? You were around 1 second and gone the next. Didnt even get chance to show you my nice new 160 mani and downpipe i picked up haha, the other bus is my mothers. Lol its a 1959 23 window samba so pretty much creme de la creme of the campers. Fully rebuilt from ground up. Selfish bitch even told me she used mine and my brothers uni funds to buy it.. Lucky we both got apprenticships tbh didnt realise you could see that one in the pic.. Or the volvo. | ||
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'Metropower's James May' Posts: 2977 Location: Southport, North West | |||
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 | I know a lad with tahiti bonnets,wings etc in his garage | ||
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e469.jpg?memberid=3428&type=profile) dot dot dot Rally Spec Location: Northwest | Very clean tro you own.......  | ||
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Expert Posts: 2568 Location: Up in the lakes | |||
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