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| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851  Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Finally got the brakes bled so I can get the welding done fairly soon and get it MOT'd and on the road. Want to get my MGF suspension units fitted next, just need to get the cones cut down - probably about 7mm. Found out it needs a new reversing switch too.    Have got a set of better doorcards for it now aswell and picked up these MGB aftermarket door-pulls for it too.  | ||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Well I finally fitted the MGF Rear suspension units on the front and individualised it. The cones are cut down by 7mm, the rear rods were already cut down by 8mm and its running about 400psi all round.      The stance looks a whole lot better now! Got the welding done and then got it Mot'd....It went straight through with no advisories!! :D     Well chuffed. It's currently my daily driver as I've had to sell my Nissan Primera GT as I'm pretty broke. The VVC conversion is going to have to wait a little while longer! Next job is to fit the MGTF subframe mounts, the front anti-roll bar and the polybushed Gti lower front suspension arms. Also gonna finish modding the new dashboard and get the rest of the interior fitted. Edited by Dave Aston 19/9/2012 8:51 PM | ||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947  Location: Bromley, Kent | |||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | |||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | |||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Dug the bonnet vents out the shed and refitted them at last.  I've started fitting the interior. Have fitted some laminate flooring underlay under the carpet as its cheap and has quite good sound deadening quality.     Fitted Rover 100 Knightsbridge doorcards with the Jaguar XJ6 door handle surrounds, aftermarket door pulls and the doorbins with the electric window switches, the electric windows aren't actually fitted yet though and I'm probably gonna fit some alloy window winders till I fit the electric ones.    Haven't fitted the front carpet or rear seats yet:  Got the front carpet new on ebay! (rare in blue)  The dashboard I've got to go in is originally from an Mk2 Austin Metro so it needed some minor mods.  Had to cut this bit out as the steering column is in a different position in the Rover Metro. The fusebox cover hides it though.  Got a front fog lamp switch from an Austin Ambassador! The wood capping is from a Rover 114gsi dash.  To fit the Rover Metro dash surround to the Austin dash I needed to drill some holes in the top of the dash. I used an old dash surround as a guide and drilled the holes on the inside all the way through to the outside and then used that to align the holes in the top of the dash.  The finished result:  This dash has an unused ashtray!  And a Lined glovebox! - Steady on!  Next job after the interior is to fit the front anti-roll bar, solid subframe mounts, gti lower suspension arms and maybe fit the mgf steering rack if its not to hard to do with the front subframe still in the car. | ||
| 111Sli |
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Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | Liking this! Different. A series blue seat belts maybe?  | ||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | |||
| Saxokid100 |
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dot dot dot Rally Spec Location: Northwest | Luv the blue carpet,nice to be different!!  | ||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Have now fitted the dash, it needed a bit more hacking about round the steering column and the heater controls to fit but I'm very happy with the results! I even have a lighter now!    Tried to fit the Austin 130mph rev counter clocks but found that I neede to re wire the plugs for them as the headlight lamp and the gauges seemed to work the wrong way round! Painted my front anti-roll bar, solid subframe mounts and Gti lower suspension arms.  Only got round to fitting the lower arms, the car does feel better with them fitted. The poly bushes do make a difference! | ||
| mr gotta hava metro |
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 666 Location: Bicester - Oxford | looking really good! and glad to see my old boot build floor put to good use! like the contrast of the blue and grey btw, gotta love polybush and i think i'm going to have to get some of them mintex 1166 as my greenstuff are rubbish when cold, work well for a while then overheat! Also do I see a vauxhall astra head unit? | ||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | mr gotta hava metro - 31/10/2012 2:01 PM looking really good! and glad to see my old boot build floor put to good use! like the contrast of the blue and grey btw, gotta love polybush and i think i'm going to have to get some of them mintex 1166 as my greenstuff are rubbish when cold, work well for a while then overheat! Also do I see a vauxhall astra head unit?Cheers! The boot floor really helps it look tidy I think, you did a nice job on it. I had greenstuffs on my Gti and wasn't happy at all with them! I'm not sure of the origin of the head unit but I've got a better one to replace it but I need to sort out a cage for it. | ||
| Saxokid100 |
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dot dot dot Rally Spec Location: Northwest | Nice to fit all new parts | ||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Well before Christmas I finally got round to fitting the front carpet, tried it with the sound deadening in but in the end I've gone for just carpet as it gives my big feet more space round the pedals! Had to hack it around a bit round the gearstick and steering column as its A-series carpet and they were located slightly differently.     While I was in devon at my parents' for Christmas, Richard my brother and I changed my steering rack and arms and fitted my front anti-roll bar. We also fitted solid MGTF subframe mounts but in the end only fitted one as I didn't have enough of the correct bolts! I had one MGTF bolt and the rest were metro ones which don't have enough thread on them for the MGTF mounts!    I made sure I bought some steering arm dowels off ebay before I started as they tend to get corroded into the steering arms or hub when you take the old ones off.  Metro steering arm off.  New dowels in.  MGF steering arms fitted.  Disconnected steering column from rack and Unbolted metro steering rack from subframe. Disconnected exhaust system from downpipe, removed old metro subframe mounts and unbolted gearbox mount. We then lowered subframe enough to slide rack out using a trolley jack and a shoddy old car jack!! We had to jack up one of the lower arms to get one of the subframe bolts out as the driveshaft got in the way.   Metro rack out, then we fitted the MGF rack.  Bolted that in and then had to faff around dropping the gear linkage and exhaust heat sheild to slide the front anti-roll bar in!!  Finally in!!  Re-connected eveything, fitted one MGTF subframe mount on one side and one metro mount on the other and finished at 3AM in the morning! Re-connecting the steering column at nearly 3am started to try my patience a bit but we got there in the end!!  Drives real nice now!! | ||
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| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Just been doing a few little mods: Got some MG flag badges for the front wings:     They would look better with these side repeaters I have but they're just not bright enough for me. I am thinking of just wiring the blue repeaters into the side lights and putting some orange repeaters on the door mirrors instead.  I bought a set of 130mph rev counter clocks from an A-series metro a while back but have since realised that the although the connectors are the same, they are wired differently. I wanted to use them because they have the low fuel warning led that the later clocks don't have and also because I like the font for the numbers better on the older ones. A while back I bought some K-series 130 mph clocks to nick the 45K speedo from as the A-series one was on 79K. The actual speedo units are the same so I just swapped over the speedo faces and sold on the K-series clocks with the higher mileage speedo replaced in them. If only I'd known that the printed circuit on the back is different I would have kept the K-series unit and just swapped over the rev counter/fuel gauge/temp gauge section from the A-series clocks as that complete unit is interchangeable with K-series rev-counter clocks with horizontal temp and fuel gauges.   For now I have just swapped the speedo into my current non-rev counter unit. I wound the speedo on to match my current mileage to keep things legit!!   The original clocks had these crappy bulbs illuminating them:  Replaced them with blue led bulbs:  Much better!  Just need to find some more k-series horizontal gauge rev-counter clocks so I can have the A-series gauges and faces with the K-series warning light centre section with clock in the middle! | ||
| 111Sli |
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Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | A series MGs and GTas that match your speedo dial have the high temp and the low fuel LEDs anyway... On the K series the low fuel LED is snapped off, but the high temp one is there. BTW Dave, let me know if you ever want to sell those seats! Ill have dibs please! | ||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | |||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Finally got the rear seats in.    Got a vintage mountney steering wheel off ebay, could do with a bit of a refurb. Its smaller than the standard wheel so it means I've been able to move my seat forward a bit more for a better driving position. My knees fit under the steering wheel now and getting in the car is easier, I'm 6"2!     Fitted an aftermarket blue lighter socket to match my dials   I wanted to replace the rear number plate lights with Led bulbs and ended up having to replace the whole boot handle as the screws that hold the bulb holders into the boot handle had corroded solid into the inserts. The led bulbs are nice and bright!  | ||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Thanks to shep123 I've now got B-pillar covers and the clocks I wanted!    Have fitted the rev counter/gauge section and speedo sections from the A-series clocks I've got into the casing from some Gti clocks! Now got low fuel led  Rover were so tight with the Rio model that it didn't even come with a vanity mirror in the sun visor so i got one off a r100 on ebay!  Got some MGB window winders and am awaiting delivery of some chrome bezels to go with them.    | ||
| 111Sli |
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Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | |||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | |||
| Dave Aston |
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: Kingsbridge, Devon | Finally treated the bonnet to a badge just before I went to POL:  Replaced the boot badge with a new one:  Have spent a bit of time being a bit anal and replacing fixings in the engine bay with stainless replacements. Bought this kit off ebay for £14.50, intended for MGF/MGTF it has most of the bits you need for a metro engine bay. You do end up with a few bit left over but I'm sure they'll come in useful somewhere.                  Have been gathering a few more bits for my vvc conversion. Got this steering U/J that going to replace part of the gear linkage on the PG1 gear linkage I've got.:   Also got short-shift lever that I picked up at POL:  Got these angled grease nipples with dustcaps for the new upper arms that will go on my VVC subframe. Came from the same ebay shop I got the engine bay kit from: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mgf2tf/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686    Previously to fit my rear subframe brace I had to hammer the back box so that it would fit which wasn't ideal:   My solution was to get rid of the backbox completely!    The guys at http://www.styledynamics.co.uk/ in Hayes did a really nice job on the exhaust. Before:  After:   I'm currently running a 1.1 exhaust system til the cat and then I've got a GTI middle box and the stainless pipe is welded to the remains of a GTI rear box section chopped just after the subframe. Its quite loud but probably quieter than a sportex!! | ||
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 White R100 Posts: 1095  Location: Isle of Wight | Looks good glad to see bits of my old metro on something else them dials look amazing! | ||
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