Yes Mick it's an adapter plate, big old lump too! It's a semi standard pg1 so I guess rover decided it was easier to put an adapter plate on instead of redesigning the box itself. Lazy lazy sods lol

looots of work gone into it so far, loooooads more to go sadly! But either the end of this weekend (or maybe next weekend!) I want to get her running!

The seats are great, totally worth their money!

Looking forward to seeing and hearing this sometime soon.

looking good! rather liking the painted black i have to say, good on you for taking the time to make it look brilliant

Bit more of an update for people on how the project is coming along!
I deemed that the oil cooler behind the block is pretty much pointless, especially with the 620ti sump on the engine, however to make best of a bad situation i decided to move the cooler to right up front with the radiator and intercooler (not shown yet.)
It took a bit of messing around, but after i had the pipes and brackets made up it was easy, now not only does it look the nuts, but it should keep my high boosting engines oil at a decent level to aid with cooling. The take off's being straight off of the pump itself.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...x/IMG_0114.jpg
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Now for the REALLY cool part, i sent my car down to Kevin at Zero Exhausts, the guy is a legend and more helpfull than i thought anyone ever could be!
I've gone for larger tubular manifolds, external wastgate and free flowing downpipe straight to a 2.5" straight through system, 4"inwardly rolled tip out of the back. It certainly wasn't cheap but the results speak for themselves.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...x/IMG_0132.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...x/IMG_0134.jpg

Thats right he has literally moved my entire turbo position, (normally infront of the block behind the radiator)
I've never seen another rover manifold like this atall, ford do this alot in their racers but this sort of design has never been seen on a Rover (may be a very good reason!)
I've got a little bit of messing around to do with regards to piping, oil feeds, and guarding other components from heat soak and heat damage, but that of course isn't a problem with a piece of kit like ^^^ that causing it all.
Im sure people will have mixed reactions about the manifold, pipes to long, exhaust gas temp drops etc etc.... and i'll admit im having the same worries, the only way im going to know if there are any problems will be to try them, and let the rollers do the talking!

Sadly the head is coming back off tonight due to a leak, knocked the project back a bit....but what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger!

this is looking ******* brilliant!!! nice tidy looking job your doing of it too:)

What a machine!

That exhaust mani looks the buiness has he done the entire exhaust ? Bet you can't wait to fire it up!

yup he built the entire lot, absolute legend of a bloke, so impressed with his work, cant wait to hear what she sounds like :evil:

Kevin is an absolute legend!

Did he show you the system he made for his 190 ZT-T? It's beautiful!! :)

I really like the way that moves the turbo, when you look at it it's amazing no one thought of it before, a really clever bit of thinking.

I dont bother running a oil cooler, but I'm only a bit over standard boost, and the car is mainly for road use, on a track car with high boost it's a good idea.