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I daily drive a r56 cooper s with the same engine and it is a hoot to drive, no idea on the quality of finish on the peugeot but the engines are alright with a little love.
Tensioner is a 15 minute job and genuine ones are cheap and solve any rattles. The injectors are quite loud and it is normal for them to sound a little diesely. They use oil quite heavily with 1 litre per 1000 miles being acceptable so a sooty exhaust and oil use is quite normal, the bores oval out wuite quickly.
Mine is on near on 100k and runs perfectly everyday.
My suggestion would be a get the cooper s if you can afford one, ignore the hairdresser image they seem to have, they drive like a go cart and go like well lubricated droppings. the interior is different to every other modern on the road unlike the peugeot and the parts backing is huge, aftermarket and dealer you can essentially build a whole new car in bits. modifying is cheap full stainless exhausts can be had for £250 and there is whole heap of cooper works stuff.
They drink reasonably heavily for a 1.6 mine averages 28mpg, if i really try it will do nearly 40 on a run at 65ish.
They pop and bang on over run and sound with a decent intake the turbo noise is very addictive.
Got to be honest, although the engine has its flaws i do love it.
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Last Edit: Dec 8, 2017 10:48:36 GMT by Davey
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This is in totally the wrong place and bumping twice in a day? Sounds well sorted though.
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That is gonna take a whole lot of sanding back! Otherwise looks okay.
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That space hopper would make your eyes water. The ball wheeled bike deathtrap thing looks vaugely familiar, But most important of all wheres the 1st run video? I'd imagine from the lack of replies that the first run was a total success and he is infact dead!
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I would do many many things to own one of these MUCH WANT!
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THE DELAY BETWEEN EPISODES IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Its like waiting for the next season of Game of thrones..
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Oct 19, 2017 13:03:30 GMT
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Last Edit: Oct 19, 2017 13:05:27 GMT by Davey
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Oct 19, 2017 12:35:29 GMT
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Yes, there will be full guarding on the chains and sprockets. I'm building this with my kids in mind, so safety precautions are being built in. It's one thing for me to injure myself on some ridiculous contraption, but not them. The colour scheme isn't totally finalised yet, but the body shell and roof will be the original red and yellow, and probably with white rear wheels and a black chassis Be good children or daddy will feed you to the Crazy Coupe?
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Oct 19, 2017 11:22:20 GMT
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Where are you based? prey on here did my last piece - based in Nottingham. Quite local to me and quite handy with a welder as well, great guy!
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Oct 19, 2017 11:05:38 GMT
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Clutch pedal looks like it puts you're leg in the perfect position for some precision sprocket slicing! Is there gonna be a guard on the sprocket? Whole project looks awesome.
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Sept 27, 2017 10:36:10 GMT
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That looks like a great buy minus the alternator!
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Sept 27, 2017 10:34:05 GMT
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I am in the same boat on this, you can modify e46 stuff to fit but the top mounts for the fronts are a very large bodge!
The only issue using 75 shocks on a ZT they are much softer and don't cope to well with the firmer springs, the 75 ZT owners club gave me all this info a long while ago but i have misplaced it.
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Sept 22, 2017 15:15:21 GMT
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This is all great news, been away for a while and come back to all of this, great to see you on the mend! Car looks as good as ever.
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I was the same with my ZT never removed an old oil filter so carefully in my life. Instead I had one of those 'embarassing moments' I drained the oil out of the sump into an old washing up bowl which turned out to be cracked. Gallon and a half of curse word old oil all over my gravel drive that I had just put a tonne of gravel down on. I had to dig the oily gravel out and ditch it at the tip. What was a very quick job ended up being a long and expensive one. I literally did exactly the same thing but my drive is concrete so i couldn't just dig it up! Old oil bottle with the side cut out decided to split when it was 3/4 full.
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Seems it would be the same guy that designed the same setup for the alternator on the rover 75. Feel your pain. Changed my oil filter on my ZT the other day and was paranoid the alt would get full of old oil I was the same with my ZT never removed an old oil filter so carefully in my life.
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Jul 20, 2017 13:34:51 GMT
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That GS or Aristo with it being JDM is hilariously stuck, its like a beached beluga whale.
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Jul 20, 2017 11:06:21 GMT
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What a great set of videos.
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Jul 18, 2017 14:19:25 GMT
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Is the reason for the limited choice availability? I ask because i would be more than happy to buy oil for my daily through RR if there was the option of other grades. Don't mind helping out the people that earn it.
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I hope i'm not being stupid, but what is it? Lenham LeMans Modsport Car. Extensively modified Austin Healey Sprite floor pan with completely detachable glassfibre and alloy body. 1460cc high spec A Series engine on split Weber 45s, Belt driven cam. CR ford gearbox, 6 linked axle with LSD, Alloy coilover adj dampers all round, Historic Girling AR alloy calipers all round. Alloy tank. ducted rad etc etc etc. Thoughts are to hoick out the 1460 and use it as the basis for the Turbine car. Would save me two years (at the rate I work) and a shedload of money. Owner not calling me back though [/quote] If anything speeds up the turbine project i am all for it! Sounds like one hell of a toy.
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