R45 mk2 --> mg zs mk2

[Dan1971]

Originally Posted by Lukeus101

Thought about spacing the alloys?

Good shout ....

[Lukeus101]

That or a set of TD Pro Race 1.2

[adam]

Looking very nice!

[Dr Doggystyle]

@Lukeus101 I want to keep it with original MG / Rover parts
i do have some RVS Spyder rims which looked awesome on my Rover 400 but now i want to keep it original

thx Adam

[peterzs]

Great work, well done, looks good.

[Dr Doggystyle]

thx peterzs

[talkingcars]

Continues to look good.

How have you attached the extreme spoiler, it looks like you were bonding/glueing it but it really needs to be bolted as otherwise it will get pulled off, the lift over the length is too much for the small contact area.

[Dr Doggystyle]

thanks
its bolted with 3 on each side and glued too

[Dr Doggystyle]

long time no update...

When i thought the car was done in may 2015 my cambelt snapped and there was something wrong with the head (dont know how to explain it in english LOL) so here is a pic :



lucky someone here in NL had a donor diesel Rover 45 MK2 with the parts i needed and he fixed my R45 for me, i was very happy.
here some pics before :



















and here after :







and june 20 i could pickup my car and it felt like brand new

Another dutch MG-R forum member found out that my car was the 1st Rover 45 MK2 Sterling diesel that came from the NL MG-Rover importer and it was used in a test in the dutch autoweek magazine.
So i went looking for that magazine and found it.
Here some pics of it where you can see my car how it looked original :















this is how the R45 looked like at the british autojumble 2015 at 28 june in Waalwijk Netherlands

[Dr Doggystyle]

but the story continues.....
the car still was too low or the speedbumps here in NL are too high so we put the coilovers again a little higher with this as the result (that was july 25) :



then someone broke my left mirror and i bought a another one but it was on the RHD setting and i didnt knew how to change it without breaking it LOL
i also didnt knew how to remove my chrome mirror cap also without breaking it
lucky my friend who fixed my car did know how to do both.

then my front right brake caliper got stuck and i needed to replace it

and for the APK (something like the UK MOT) there was the flexible part of the exhaust that needed replacing

after succesfully fixing all the above i changed my mind about the wheels and i did this :



looked awesome thanks to a friend of mine who had these wheels and gave me 2 to test them
it drove awesome but every speedbump / bump in the road the wheels bumped the bodykit..

Then i again changed my mind and we removed the coilovers and went back to original shocks

it became like this :









and im very happy with it now and my young coilover days are over LOL