Well, thought I better make a thread about my car, and it's pretty long journey to it's current state.
I bought the car in October 2009, and since then I've been working on it, trying to take off some of it's 113k, and doing little itty bitty jobs like cambelt changes etc.
The car is a 2003 reg'd ZS+ TD in Le Mans Green, it has 4 electric windows, air con but oddly enough... no foglights! No matter...
First job, get that cambelt changed. This is a simple afternoon job... if you don't go and order the wrong belt! I got 114 teeth, instead of the 112 teeth I should have ordered. The tensioners seemed OK, a little play, but 20k later, the idler has started whining. I'd therefore replace them whenever you do a belt change if in any doubt.
I also fitted a Powerflow exhaust, as the original had rusted through in several places at the mid and backbox.
The charge pipe was loaded with gunk...
So I burned it out.
Then, after a little debating, decided to buy these!
A set of SDi injectors with just 60k on the clock. ?25 from eBay, scoooore.
About 8 weeks after getting the car, I lost all drive while out at 3am, and had to rely on my trusty breakdown service to get home. Clutch cylinders were fine, so it appears I've broken something pretty well...
Anyway, I set about pulling the gearbox off, and found lots of metal dust, bits of black metal, and friction material. Oops!
This is what the clutch looked like when I got it off...
That'll be the problem then!
Nice new Valeo to replace it (people have used upto 300 lb/ft OK with OEM units)
Everything nice and greased up.
You can see the scoring on the bellhousing caused by the flying bits of metal!
It's worth noting this clutch failure was caused by the release arm being seized, and thus overheating the clutch and causing catastrophic failure as seen.
After all this, time for a dyno run!
Made 141.8bhp at the flywheel, that's just with SDi injectors.
Recently I sold my 620ti, which was my 2nd car, so I've been after more power from the ZS. The Zed had been sat in my garden for the last 3 months (if you've had a 620ti, you'll see why... so much fun!) so it needed a good clean up. The downpipe was also blowing a little... lmao!
I've also developed a clutch pedal bracket to lower the high clutch position that plagues the Rover 400/45/MG ZS, fitted this and it's a lot nicer to drive. You don't have to be double jointed to reach the clutch pedal now!
More info:
http://forums.mg-rover.org/showthread.php?t=374061
Much more work coming soon, I'm going to be aiming for around 160bhp when I'm done, currently at about 150 estimated.
Hope you enjoyed reading!
Mat
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