MULLEY wrote:Nice to see a car being saved rather than scrapped, fingers crossed for the MOT

mat_fenwick wrote:...and was it a TU or XU?
Passed MOT second time around. Fail first on headlamps (too high).
Its an XU 1.6. The 1.4 was getting a little tired at 145,000 and I had an lower milage 1.6 with a brand new cylinder head fitted lying from another abandond rebuild of a Mk1 TRS i bought in south London. (Excessive rot, lack of funds and changing circumstances at the time meant it was abandoned).
Tim Leech wrote:Was it much of a faff fitting the 1.6?
Was relatively easy changing over apart from the botom engine mount bracket, which had to be modified as it bolts on in a diferent place on the subframe. Other than that was fairly simple.
Mothman wrote:Well done bud, looks like a mega mount of work but worth it in the end. I hope to be learning how to mig weld myself soon.
If you want to swap the Mk 1 wheel trims for very similar Mk2s in VGC let me know.
Andy
I learned to weldproperly when I was 16, when I restored a Dyane 6 my mum used to drive that was abandoned at the side of our house. Its an essential skill imo. Also those wheel trims are actually Mk II trims that I painted in anticipation of finishing the Mk1 project. Theyre brand new off ebay so I thought i'd put them to good use.
The Imp is my brothers. Salesman at the car dealer he used to work for found it in a shed a few years ago with 1500 miles on the clock. 100% rot free, just needed new brakes, water pipes and a re spray.