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MaybeGary406 wrote:your not thinking of making a 1.9td coupe are you
I was thinking of getting a 1.9TD saloon for a donor car and just swapping the looms over. And then once it's all bedded in maybe swap it for a 2.1 lump.steve_earwig wrote:I always though maybe a 2.1, uses V6 springs on the saloon so...
There's so many variations though, it looks like it's possible to put the td wiring loom under the bonnet and mate it to the central loom but there's so many RPOs in the way you'd have to be very careful which one you got. Oh, and they're almost all no longer supplied so you can't get what you get and go to Pug for the right loom because they haven't got it. And what would the insurance company say?
Plan was to get a 1.9TD GLX Saloon or estate. And just swap the looms and engine etc over. Maybe the fuel tank and lines etc. And just snip away whats not needed for the rear leccy windows.dogslife wrote:Were you planning on transferring the saloon bits to a coupe shell, or doing it the traditional way?
one of the best car adverts ever that. i remmeber that from years agodogslife wrote:Were you planning on transferring the saloon bits to a coupe shell, or doing it the traditional way?
If I was to go ahead with it then I would get a coupe first. Strip it down to nothing and rebuild it from the begining.dogslife wrote:Get the real deal, de-FAP, remap & run it on bio
I concurGary406 wrote:one of the best car adverts ever that. i remmeber that from years agodogslife wrote:Were you planning on transferring the saloon bits to a coupe shell, or doing it the traditional way?
Don't chuck £5k+ at a D8 Coupe, chuck about £2k at a D9 HDi 2.2Bailes1992 wrote:If I was to go ahead with it then I would get a coupe first. Strip it down to nothing and rebuild it from the begining.dogslife wrote:Get the real deal, de-FAP, remap & run it on bio
I do have the money and the premises to do it.
But would I really want to be chucking £5k~ at a D8 coupe?
It would be different. And with a little fettling it would be fast. And providing I was to get the bosch pump rebuilt I would run it on waste veg oil!