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This is my 1990 Henley Blue Austin Metro City 1.0, it's my second car and my second Metro, I bought it in September with 12 months MOT for £375.
Since buying it I've had to carry out a few mods.
On the inside I've fitted a Pioneer head unit with uprated speakers, Rover 220 Turbo front and rear seats converted to fit with Metro sub-frames, a Mountney steering wheel, remote central locking, and a Rover Metro parcel shelf.
Mechanically I overhauled the ignition with Powerspark electronic ignition, uprated HT leads, and a new ignition coil. I've also fitted EBC green stuff brake pads, and I fitted 12X5 Minilites with Yokohama A539 tyres, it handles really well now.
Some pictures:
With the old wheels, these were MK1 steel wheels with Vanden Plas chrome trims:
And here's with the Minilites:
Next week I'm going to make some big changes, because not long ago I picked up this:
It's a 1982 MK1 Metro 1.3L. I bought it to swap the engine into my blue one as I've been itching for more power.
The engine in the yellow 'tro has a pretty sweet spec. It's got 1.5:1 roller tip rockers, a Kent 266 cam, a ported unleaded cylinder head with 36.5mm inlet valves and a 10.5:1 compression ratio, plus it's got a MG Metro electronic ignition, a high pressure oil pump, a lightened and balanced flywheel, and a pretty fancy K&N air filter arrangement with a alloy inlet manifold and a Maniflow LCB exhaust manifold. I've got a couple of rolling road receipts for the engine and it had 90BHP at the flywheel around 4000 miles ago.
I've already gotten the engine out of it, and painted it ready to be thrown into the blue 'tro:
After some cleaning and some paint:
After more paint:
I'm hoping to have it in next week.
I've got a brand new Maniflow twin box exhaust system on the way which should arrive tomorrow, and I've heatwrapped the LCB I removed from the yellow Metro:
Also when I have some spare cash I want to replace that awful yellow rocker cover with a Minisport rocker cover, such as this one:
Thanks for reading.
This is my 1990 Henley Blue Austin Metro City 1.0, it's my second car and my second Metro, I bought it in September with 12 months MOT for £375.
Since buying it I've had to carry out a few mods.
On the inside I've fitted a Pioneer head unit with uprated speakers, Rover 220 Turbo front and rear seats converted to fit with Metro sub-frames, a Mountney steering wheel, remote central locking, and a Rover Metro parcel shelf.
Mechanically I overhauled the ignition with Powerspark electronic ignition, uprated HT leads, and a new ignition coil. I've also fitted EBC green stuff brake pads, and I fitted 12X5 Minilites with Yokohama A539 tyres, it handles really well now.
Some pictures:
With the old wheels, these were MK1 steel wheels with Vanden Plas chrome trims:
And here's with the Minilites:
Next week I'm going to make some big changes, because not long ago I picked up this:
It's a 1982 MK1 Metro 1.3L. I bought it to swap the engine into my blue one as I've been itching for more power.
The engine in the yellow 'tro has a pretty sweet spec. It's got 1.5:1 roller tip rockers, a Kent 266 cam, a ported unleaded cylinder head with 36.5mm inlet valves and a 10.5:1 compression ratio, plus it's got a MG Metro electronic ignition, a high pressure oil pump, a lightened and balanced flywheel, and a pretty fancy K&N air filter arrangement with a alloy inlet manifold and a Maniflow LCB exhaust manifold. I've got a couple of rolling road receipts for the engine and it had 90BHP at the flywheel around 4000 miles ago.
I've already gotten the engine out of it, and painted it ready to be thrown into the blue 'tro:
After some cleaning and some paint:
After more paint:
I'm hoping to have it in next week.
I've got a brand new Maniflow twin box exhaust system on the way which should arrive tomorrow, and I've heatwrapped the LCB I removed from the yellow Metro:
Also when I have some spare cash I want to replace that awful yellow rocker cover with a Minisport rocker cover, such as this one:
Thanks for reading.
