My white car fetish

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:25 pm

Yes, i am in competition with Trev. I have bought another car.

An extremely clean Rover 100 non sunroof shell and this under the bonnet

A low mileage 2004 MG TF160 VVC lump

It has a Talon loom conversion, converted MGFTF solid mounted front subframe with PG1 gearbox and Quaife LSD, Bilstien front shocks, individualised hydrogas and polybushed all round, rear disc conversion, 6 point cage, Cobra buckets, Sabelt harnesses plus some rare 14" KN Dytec wheels.

Had it on the rollers

Pleased with the figures of 165.9 ponies and 127.1 torques, but this car is circa 30kg heavier than my current 'Tro so if i get it down to a similar weight we are looking at 210hp/T. With cams, pulleys and remap we are looking at 180+hp so 230hp/T.

If i can get it handling as well as my other car, we are looking at Exige performance for around

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:28 pm

How do you find these things!
And it's not as if you needed a faster Metro now was it?
Good addition to the fleet though

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:56 pm

Ooh, i think i have put this in the wrong section. Mods, please move this to Cars/projects.

Thanks

Eddy

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:58 pm

Moved Eddie, looks a nice project mate.

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:29 am

That looks like a lot of laughs. Easy decision about Cadwell mate; take the new one and have some real fun

Not sure about 'Exige performance' but I take your point about power to weight.

Any reason for taking the front bumper off for the dyno run?

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:02 pm

stuart wrote:That looks like a lot of laughs. Easy decision about Cadwell mate; take the new one and have some real fun Not sure about 'Exige performance' but I take your point about power to weight.

Any reason for taking the front bumper off for the dyno run?

Firstly, the bumper was being resprayed at H Tech and was still wet so had to drive to Dyno with number plate cable tied on lol.

I am very happy with the weight distribution & suspension set up on the old Metro so will take the new one if it is sorted.

Yes, exige performance on paper perhaps, but probably not handling lol.

Eddy

Post by **Ben** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:27 am

sweet - where did you find that? .. someone has put an awful lot of effort into it.

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:07 pm

Oooh i missed this.....Eddy you are a metro whore!:D Lets hope it does nt snow too hard this winter in norwich or your entire car collection could be lost!:D