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Hey i'm james recently picked up a 1994 1.1 metro quest

as the story goes i went to the garage my dad works at for an mot and it was parked in the show room, dad quickly decided it was good idea to talk me into buying it.

so here we are lucky really as my tdi powered series 2a landrover now has a sliping clutch,i have few plans down the line but nothing major atm other then probably an exhaust and some alloys now onto some pictures of the old girl

Good arches as well, top job

Well things have progressed ever so slightly, other half nicely supprised me with a hornet bomb, was originally going for a sportex system but this fits the bill for some noise and a nicer look



also picked up a set off mpi gti wheels need a refub mind you
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boot spolier was also brought an fitted this massively changed to look of the rear end



and some snowww so photo opportunity with my series 2a


dropped the gti wheels down the poweder coaters so decided to give the metty a wash and try to clean up the engine bay




gti wheels picked back up from the coaters applied a couple of coats of wheel sealent



sent them round to the tyre place nextdoor to have some 175/60/13 toyo cf2s fitted and got them on



this one was a verry verry impulse buy i wanted these little bits eventually but didn't expect to pick them this soon hoipefully get them painted soon and fitted




would have been rude not to get an updated picture at longbride



and the last little bit of this update a pal of mine found a colour coded fuel cap insert while having a clear out

BIIG update

so this one starts with me replacing upper and lower balljoints as i noticed some play when fitting the alloys




then fitted some mgf front calipers



found a gti steering wheel on ebay was abit grubby but looked great after a good clean



long story short i did a thing


1.8vvc and pg1 was all thats left


gave the engine a good scrub with some mr muscle



painted the block


painted the exhaust manifold and fitted stainless studs and nuts


mike at K-looms supplied me with a gti engine loom and converted my vvc loom


painted the gearbox


replaced the timing belts and oil filter with genuine items





replaced the spark plugs, dipstick tube, dipstick gasket and dip stick again with genuine item


found a local lad breaking an mpi 1.1 so grabbed all the bits i needed


new ap clutch


picked up a zr160 airbox for that oem look



repalced the leads with a nice 8mm set for Mr reto leads



upgarded the front door speakers and fitted a sub somewhere along the line


aqquired one zs pg1 gear linkage


then took metty on a 450mile road trip to the lates


painted and fitted some center caps


then decided it was time to pull the 1.1 out felt a little bad as it ran amazing on the trips to the lakes



cleaned the engine bay
before


after


painted the subframe and removed the pedal box



got a new exhaust system and that included a 6bolt manifold its 2.5" to the center box then drops to 2.25 when it goes over the axle



painted the new downpipe


started moddiing the pedal box to aceept the mgf slave cylinder



refitted the pedal box


one makeshift carport made and the engine was in



mgf rad fitted


rover 25 top hose fits niceee


shortend the zs linkage and got that fitted


back on the floor with the new gti splitter fitted


then my clutch pipe arrived from hel for anyone going hydro the fittings are m12 the banjo thread pitch is m12x1.00 and a meter is perfert lengh


then first drive to the petrol station


replaced the chrome strips for some black ones


then its time to collect the parts to sort the very soft suspension
gti arbs

and indivialising valves


fitted some red seatbelts aswell



and heres a competed engine bay picture

hiya mate, did you make the adaptor wiring loom?