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Location: Bromley, Kent | I have had for a long time a set of MNX Platinium silver MGF mk2 electric mirrors with intent on fitting them to the Rover. Eventually with the help of Gerrard [Gshaw] and Lee [Geraard's electric guru mate] we hacked up a MGF loom from Tony and fitted them to my car. Been handy in the icy mornings! Some photos;
I ordered ages ago some bogo spec mirror covers with no adjuster hole in, small things. 
All the wires we DIDN'T need. lol
Wiring loom for mirrors.
The car was VVC'd over a weekend in November with the help of Liam and Greg.
The engine is of about 92k miles when put into my car running MEMS3 143 from this Rover 25 GTi.
We had delays getting the converted loom but was promised it so started the conversion on the garunteed that it would have turned up on the second day when we would be finishing the conversion. The loom didn't turn up so Liam kindly leant me his for a week until mine turned as his didn't use his car for work luckily at that time.
Out comes the old faithful 51k, 1100 single point, 8v engine. Ran sweet as a nut, felt bad removing it actually. [If anyone is interested in this engine, PM me.] Seriously it's way too goog to go into a skip. Everything is done on it. HG is a new Payen one about 9k miles ago.
Had the VVC all in and ready to drive out of the garage to get closer to the hose [10m] and there was no clutch pedal, dead on the floor.     We decided after our longg day to put the car away and head home.
We came back the next day at about 12pm to start, whip the engine back out and check the clutch. This turned about to be the clutch plate was the wrong way round. Whoops. We got it all back in about 6pm and we started filling her up with coolant. It was a pain in the arse to bleed, constant air and cold heaters no matter what we tried, ongoing for hours. We then tried pulling all the hoses off and starting again filling with a hose!
We were very tired, having been working on the car for 11 hours, very cold and starting to bicker- not good!
We would fill it up, bleed, get 200m and the temperature needle would be in the red, although everything seemed ok when idling. Gut instinct was telling us that the water pump had issues, but getting to about 1AM [yes AM the next day!] we decided for ease to change the stat from my old 1100 which we knew was in good order- no difference, then thinking, hoping that waterpump was knackered [first time ever wanting something to be fooked!] we took the old water pump off to reveal this....
No wonder it was getting hot! No circulation. The spindle was turning the impeller as low revs and keeping it cool but any sort of revs and the impeller would sit still as the spindle spun at high RPM. We got the new water pump on [from my 1.1] and it idled and drove ok, so we bled it up and I then drove 60 miles taking Greg home at 3am.
Since getting the VVC running correctly and sorting the iffy water pump it had a bad oil leak from the cam carrier so Sean fixed this for me at the same time as fitting the Kent exhaust cam Liam used to have in one of his VVC engines.
Resealing the cam carrier and fitting the Kent cam;
Since living with the VVC for a couple months I am sure not to rag it whilst cold and I thought about fitting a Oil temperature gauge, to give indication of when the engine is ready for some beans. I made up a fan blank from the soft touch plastic dash surround I bought to keep the interior matcing-ish. Not wired up yet, but it is going to work with a special sump drain nut ordered from Eliseparts with a thread in the middle for a sensor. I have also ordered a Oil pressure switch that will illuminate the dash light at 12psi instead of a potentially fatal 4psi.
Will update when wired in. |
David's 118SLi
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I plan to spray the top section of the bumper behind the grille black to make the mesh stand out, what do you think? 
lol 
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