project stupid!

this is my new daily! its a 1997 rover metro 1.1 been after one for a while but needed a certain model and had to be cheap. anyway i got this for free and its exactly the model i needed.

all im looking for now is a 1.8 16v k series engine, ecu, alarm box and key fob. then 120bhp in a car that weighs the same as a kitkat!

her she is when i picked her up last night


and here she is after 10 mins of owning her

gonna be a beast M3 eater FTW

like mine!

now gone!

lol on hydraulics ent they ? there is a bloke in my village that can get silly speed out of his it keeps with me to 85 on my ninja.

whatalotafun wrote:

like mine!

now gone!

i had a 5 door one of these for my first car! it was a winner! 1.1 L haha

seriously though, this sounds pretty beast!

yes joe! a 1.8 would eat most things on the road

lol not quite but will be damn quick anyway, put the VVC in it?

shove a T-series turbo lump in there mate!! 200bhp ftw!!!

not going down the vvc route as there going for £500 +!!!!!!! plus also need the wiring loom modded and cant be arsed!

t-series turbo as in 2.0? if so it doesnt fit without extensive mods. they do a 1.8 k series turbo but thats mega money!

i wanna keep it cheap and simples! power and reliability is the way forward! well it is when its a daily.

How about the 1.6 130bhp lump from the 216gti/honda concerto i-16? plenty of them around for a couple of hundred quid.

This looks like a fun project. My mate had one as his first car and he let all the suspension fluid out so it was slammed. It only lasted a week until he got fed up of not being able to get anywhere! Was a laugh though

yeah was gonna say fun till you think yeah i can make that speed bump lol

my mate had one same thing dumped out all the snot so it was on the deck i liked it alot actually bumpy as fook round town but looked wicked was gonna buy it off him cheap then he smashed the sump into the bottom end goin over a speed bump and that was the end of that lol handled like a mofo in the bends though gonna fly with that engine in man

i'm sure one of my customers had one of these recently, said he stuck a lotus lump in it (Elan is think but i'll check)

STRASSE KRIEGER wrote:

yeah was gonna say fun till you think yeah i can make that speed bump lol

my mate had one same thing dumped out all the snot so it was on the deck i liked it alot actually bumpy as fook round town but looked wicked was gonna buy it off him cheap then he smashed the sump into the bottom end goin over a speed bump and that was the end of that lol handled like a mofo in the bends though gonna fly with that engine in man

my brother and i are masters of getting over speed bumps

nelds wrote:

i'm sure one of my customers had one of these recently, said he stuck a lotus lump in it (Elan is think but i'll check)

Probably the rover 1.8 VVC lump which is used in the elise

this will be a good sleeper, i was on my way to southend on the A12 once in my old polo gti, i see this metro, 1.1 badged with a f**king great jap can on the rear!! slamed on its arse on the standed steels! my mate said to me, cream it!! i pulled up next to it with mine in 3rd went to floor it, and this metro took off, totaly creamed me!! he was garn! when i court up with him he was larthin at me, we see it down the sea front but he wouldnt tell us what he had in it! but it was f**king Quick!!!

dark blue one by anychance?

If its any use to you and you are looking for an engine still.......
My mate andy has a honda civic thingy which he would like to sell, 1.8 with vtec complete car he'd take £200 for it, cheap for 170 brake.

Pm me if you want his number.

now have a 1600 engine ready thanks to nineiron. will be stripping both cars next weekend and fingers crossed will be up and running sat evening.

will be nice to have a daily drive again as the metro is currently sat in my carpark with a blown engine. my bug has been my daily for the last 3 weeks!

chav

.......so i guess i better start saving for some mg mods, getting over taken by a metro is not something that is easy to live down.

68bug wrote:

.......so i guess i better start saving for some mg mods, getting over taken by a metro is not something that is easy to live down.

haha i want you to video joe passing fat craig in his new audi please oh and video his face as he realises he got done buy a metro, and blip too, and skinny and mitch...

and a video of him being rammed off the road buy a brown mg.

just got home from work started at 1 left work at 8 got both engines out and the 1600 now wears a metro box, wiring loom, engine mounts, new cam belt kit and new water pump. going back to work about 3pm tommorrow to fit the new lump and get it running! it has to be running tommorrow as its blocking up the ramp!

69rat wrote:

just got home from work started at 1 left work at 8 got both engines out and the 1600 now wears a metro box, wiring loom, engine mounts, new cam belt kit and new water pump. going back to work about 3pm tommorrow to fit the new lump and get it running! it has to be running tommorrow as its blocking up the ramp!

you work to fast, will die of a heart attack soon, please PLEASE blow craig away in his new audi ill pay for your petrol to do it