Magazine Articles About the BX (PICTURE HEAVY Dialup beware)

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:17 pm

Post by **Tim Leech** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:47 pm

BX PORN!

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:38 pm

And more.... Car mechanics buying guide as promised.

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:21 pm

And now an Autocar roadtest of the BX Sport ...

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:52 pm

Here's some pictures from a BX Break Brochure that I found on a Czech web-site. They're huge but they're good! Hope they don't make the web-site implode - I don't know how to re-size them! ( Someone up there in BX Brass?)

BX Bandit · Post by **BX Bandit** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:16 pm

That was the colour of my dads 1st 19RD B148UYD - Spinx Gold! It cost him £6k in 1984 0r 1985 and was the ex-demo of the local cit garage! Brilliant car until my stoopid sister scrapped it!!!! 210,000 trouble free miles except a clutch cable and a pedal box!

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:37 pm

Erm, on that car mechanic one....

19GTi's can easily be tuned to 185bhp, and 16v's to 230bhp

Are they on fire??!?

BX Bandit · Post by **BX Bandit** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:52 pm

/\ I read just this week that someone had turbo'd a D6C and was good for 250 BHP! I have no idea if con rods and gubbins needed to be uprated but it'll be quick enough! (for me anyway)

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:21 am

Erm, on that car mechanic one....

Quote:
19GTi's can easily be tuned to 185bhp, and 16v's to 230bhp

Are they on fire??!?

Well, not my area, but there is al least a disclaimer

tuned engines don't last as long as standard units....

and perhaps the words "easily attainable" were a bit over-tuned too. It seems to me that most to-the-max tuning is likely to end with a bang and not a whimper, unless the whimper is the sound of the modder or moddee checking their bank balance afterwards....

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:58 pm

It's been a while

I love this thread! - Shame about all the missing pics

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:33 pm

The Selection for wheels and covers for the BX as available in Germany

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:12 pm

What I wouldn't give for a flap off of wheel trim No. 9 above...

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:24 pm

scarecrow wrote:What I wouldn't give for a flap off of wheel trim No. 9 above...

I have one. But I would never sell it

Might be persuaded to start making copies though... I keep meaning to drop the towing eye cover thingy from the 16v into a cast and a make a few.

I could start re-manufacturing rare parts that nobody ever wants or needs

I experimented with resin casting in my model building days... really easy, but quite expensive.

Post by **mat_fenwick** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:47 pm

Matt H wrote:I could start re-manufacturing rare parts that nobody ever wants or needs

Like tailblazers, headlamp covers and door handle protectors?

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:59 pm

mat_fenwick wrote:
Matt H wrote:I could start re-manufacturing rare parts that nobody ever wants or needs
Like tailblazers, headlamp covers and door handle protectors?

Could do the door handle protectors... but the other two are transparent/reflective. Beyond my resources sadly. And lets face it, most BXers begrudge paying used prices, what are the odds they'd want to spend lots of money on re-manufactured parts??

Anyway, I don't like trailblazers or headlight protectors... so it'd be in my personal interest not to make them