Recent content by MADPOM

Very sorry to hear that Pilkie, Rainbow Bridge is there for him.

Do you have a picture of the part you are chasing?

The old sollihul self lubricating chasis system. remember if a 215 V8 isn't leaking oil, there's none in it! :mrgreen:

Surely the cost of cleaning them would be higher than buying a bag of them?

Cheers. We don't have door mirrors here on the s1's :mrgreen:

I feel like I should know the answer to this, but having a blonde/senior moment. Are the s1 & S2 panels interchangable aside from obvious cosmetic differences? Particularly doors and rear panels?

Thanks John, The oil filer is of no concern, it clears the existing cross member and will certainly clear the new one. We have a slight hold up now, the dipping tank liner has sprung a leak which may take a few weeks to resolve; things might get awfully quite around here until afterChristmas.

If that doesn't work out Koni Classics are awesome!

Top Down Would anyone be able to post a top down picture of the P6B engine bay in high res? Ideally one with the bonnet off, but beggars can't be choosers!

There's a good chance we'll remove it entirely and refabricate it; it's only really the shape of the cross member that's the issue. Fortunately we have a plasma cutter in the workshop :mrgreen:

When you look at a top down shot of the Rover motor in situ there is not a huge amount of room in there anyway.

The promised top down shot The next shot has the 1UZ exhaust manifolds and engine mounts removed. the engine can come forward about 50mm, so next task is to move engine forward a little and determine whether Alternator and AC compressor can clear the cross member. If it can't then there...

At this stage we are invetigating modifying or replacing the crossmember, but we'll see once we drop the headers and engine mounts off! :mrgreen:

Conveniently the original bonnet has a fire sized paint burn in it that will have to be removed as it will never be paintable. This occured when my younger brother came home into the driveway one day quite distressed telling me about how the engine back fired and caught fire. I know this...

Sure does fill the hole! 1UZ suspended in mid air. Quite probably the front cross member willl need "modification"