A rare beauty

[steve_earwig]

Will sir be doing something nice with that or will you just take it to pieces and leave it to decompose?

[FarmerPug]

The body on this thing is rusted very severly, it was used at the seaside for tugging in a fishing boat and the salts had a good feast on the metal. But im taking out its 1.6 16v engine to put into my samurai which is sitting in an engineless state at the moment. This thing is absolutley woeful off road despite the big wide tyres it understeers like mad and just doesnt seem to have the mountain goat traction of the samurai.
Once its taken to pieces it wont decompose, ill throw the old 1.3 of the sammy and any other odd bits of trim and scrap metal i dont know, and with a scrap yard close to me i should easilly get what i paid for it in scrap value if not more.

[steve_earwig]

Sounds like an excellent plan!

[FarmerPug]

thats the plan, hope it actually works and i dont have any expensive parts to buy for the conversion. Cant wait to get the old yoke running again. Its essentially a scrapheap challenge job, the finished article will be brutally simple, but 20bhp more powerful and with a wheight of around 800kg it should make a difference

[Doggy]

It's screaming "XUD!" at you - can't you hear it man?

[FarmerPug]

I know, thats the ideal solution, and if it had an xud then i could run it on red diesel since it will never be used on the road its all legal. But i cant get hold of an xud and rwd box, all xud engines are in fwd cars and that means oddball gear linkages, and engine mounts to deal with which essentially costs money i dont want to spend on what is essentially a budjet quad, ldv pilots are too hard to come by, but even so a 1.6 16v is a lively engine, and it does keep the wheight down and xud would make the sammy nose heavy and the main advantage of the sammy is its lightness.
Im definatley putting this on the sammy:

[STALLED]

My mate had one. 400k on the clock, with the plans to put a Baleno 16v engine in it (which are good for around 100kw from memory). Sold it for a Range Rover though!

[FarmerPug]

mine has 10k on the clock since the clock only has 5 digits that doesnt really mean ive got a low miler, but i really dont like to drive this one, its too soft, the sammy might have a rock solid break every bone in your body ride but at least it doesnt understeer, and its a tad more communicative, funny though since the first suzuki i had was a vitara and i thought it was fantastic, perhaps this one has something wrong with the 4x4 system.

[TooT]

Look at this rare beast, and no rust
You never see any 800's about anymore never mind this 2 door coupe

This is tonights local rag for sale. 90,000 miles £1295 ono.

Hmmmm

[Bailes1992]

Look at this rare beast, and no rust
You never see any 800's about anymore never mind this 2 door coupe

This is tonights local rag for sale. 90,000 miles £1295 ono.

Hmmmm

I love some of the older rovers and the 75... no idea why!
Is that a vitesse turbo?

[TooT]

Is that a vitesse turbo?

Yep. 2.0 Turbo. Forgot to add it a 1997 R.

[FarmerPug]

I liked the 800 coupe did you know 60% of it was built by hand by the 'craftsmen' at rover.
Above all its a rover.

All joking aside the honda v6 in them things sounds sublime. Bolt a turbo onto a v6.

[Doggy]

Oh! I remember

Though it came in for some stick, even then.

The KV6 sounded lovely, but skin & rice pudding come to mind. I s'pose the Honda influence showed there too - they make sweet engines and if they ever manage to translate 'torque' into Japanese they'll be onto a winner.

[FarmerPug]

How unrelable was the kv6 i just would pick the bigger 2.7 honda for its reliability a big rover wasnt about torque it was about wafting around in.

'I just like the way its put together' what did he mean he liked bad electrics, and ill fitting and rusty body panels which the series 1 800s were good at. Also showing a cars rev needle isnt really an indication of how fast it is. But old ads are still great because of the ability to determine how correct they were

[Welly]

That there 2.0 turbo lump was a bit troublesome if I remember (cooling problems, HG's etc....) a mate had an 827 SLi years ago with the Honda V6 and it was sweet as....shame about the rest of the car