Beside all of the other BX's around here, especially lookin' on Dave's hot black Nightmare... i think i will just put mine in at the end of the row of "Forums Top 600". As stated before, its the complete oppositive of the car i mentioned, its complete exempted from any feature which has a connector or wires that were available for these cars. Its just naked, and for a red car not the red-est, dont mind the bumpers, i will overhaul them in this winter (my car is licensed only from april till september, so a "summer car", rest of the time it sits in its garage and chill his ass out) and maybe try to polish the painted parts, which is no easy job to do on a red acryl-paint-based car...
Some generals: It had run 116ooo kms which isn't that much for 25 years in service, paintjob is "furio red" (Code EKYcS), and has - in the license papers - FOUR preowners. While looking at the vehicle papers it turns out, all of them preowners use the same surename. Uncle bought it, drove it 8 years, brother in for 5 years then, after that grandma was in service and after that a guy from which i got that car. Its funny, because everyone of the preowners had same surename AND same adress. If you want to see it that way, it may not be first hand, but first-family. That worked out for me, especially the car is in a stunning good condition on the inside and used to chill indoors more than standing outside. As you know, its a late 1360 engine, TU3/M with 75 bhp. Its a lovely engine because if you loose your tools out of your hand it will be surely be found on the garage floor, there is much space under the bonnet and you can maintain and repair in effect everything on that engine. Cambelt is changed in 45 minutes with waterpump, and the gearbox goes of in 2 hours, including its drive shafts and all that stuff. Its that easy you could fix it with tape, cableties and some tools right on roadside. At night. In Winter. With windspeed seven and a hurricane above you. Really, its so f*cking easy to operate, and as a mechanic i love that.
In its papers, it is noticed as a total mass of 906kg. But the 90' BX14 of my friend, which has much more extras like powerwindows, rollerblinds, fog lights and so on in it, has same mass in its papers. So i guess - mine should be lighter as stated there. Therefore i also removed the spare tire, the rear window washer container, and some other little stuff like the cold/warm air distributor for a simple hose. I want to make it as lightweight as possible without loosing comfort. In my eyes, nothing makes more fun than a very light car with a rev-joyous engine. With some minor adjustments, you can easily tune that KDY Engine to a very nice power output in upper revs (while accepting that coldstarts are a bit rough then), it all goes in with small adjustments at the ignition coil and the idle-pots. So, atm, it kicks in like a "phantom-turbocharger" at about 4000 revs (lack of rev-gauge) on operating temperature which is just fun to drive. You think about to shift up, and then, little TU in front puts some more in. So much fun to drive. Its not about topspeed (mind that i am saying that as a german), but quickstarts and corner roads handling.
I also decided to fit some "comfort"spheres in it, to soften it a bit on really rough roads (which i have lot of, around me). Turns out that this isn't helpful if you decide to accept a spontanous hill-up-race with another speedhead. Maybe i gonna change them back. Btw, the complete hydraulic system is in a very good condition, and all the badmark places are in good condition yet. That sayed, here in germany, if a car is 30 years old since first registration, it got a special "oldtimer" status. Which means, insurance and taxes are fixed to a given level (which isn't that worthwhile for my little engine BX, but:) plus you get an "H" on the end of your licence plate, because you are driving an "historic" car now. Thats what i am planning to do. I want to make it an Oldtimer. There are some requirements given to get that - very germans. "Car must be in better condition than the most of them are at this time". Yeah, thank you. I'll do my best. So 5 years to go - and giving my best to make this one better.
Additional to say - i had some thoughts what to do and what not, on my car. Some extras like an armrest and yellow fog lights are just needed, in an old french car. Then, there came personal flavour - like some more audio, some lowering (which is pretty easy, hue hue hue) and some accustic tuning exhaust sided. But all in all i want to keep it as original as it will work out. Fyi - i bought the car for 1100 Euros. Without "MOT"; a "worn clutch" and "major ignition failures". Turns out - the worn clutch was just a misadjusted pedal /Clutch cable, the ignition failures were done by installing that missing capacitor (why the hell was it missing?!) and the MOT, the "TÜV", was an easy going, just some minor rust at the typical edges in the bonnet and below the front fender, which is to be done this winter. No more rust. And other things don't broke on a BX14. Hue hue hue.
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Anyway, here you go! And thank you for patience. I just wrote that much - in that time you could have fitten valves timing on a TU3.
Cheers! Steve
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