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24-01-16, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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Celestial Blue ZS180 saloon
Hey guys thought I would post a pic of the MG. Needs a bottom end/engine and after advertising on eBay for breaking the kind MG enthusiasts have convinced me not to break this car and to restore it
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24-01-16, 09:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Nantes, France
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Stunning colour! What interior do you have?
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24-01-16, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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The interior is half leather with grey suede like centre on the seats and door panels
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24-01-16, 10:20 PM
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Yeah defo back now...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Stonehouse, Scotland
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Hi Mike!
Glad to see you have joined up  , I'm the Monogram Aurora owner.
Stephen
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LIFE'S TOO SHORT NOT TOO
Moonshine ZS 180
Glacier ZS 180
Twilight ZT 190 SE
Sunspot ZT-T 180
Dark Fantasy 75 Tourer
Blue MG5 EV
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25-01-16, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Winchester-ish
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Welcome to the forum... I'd love a monogram, but will stick with my Le-Mans ZS for now (until I get around to respraying it)
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25-01-16, 08:43 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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I love that colour!
Mike, be careful with a used motor, the early ones had coil packs and leads, the later ones pencil type coil packs.
The ZT and freelander had different sumps.
The ZS had a change of dipstick and the way it fixed in the sump at some point.
Ideally you want to have the replacement engine leak down tested first, it to have no or little gunk in the inlet and when you drop the sump for it to look like its been serviced regular.
Full service history with a motor is a nice touch, but very rare.
If your not in a rush, I have 3 motors that I need to do a leak down test on, two of the 3 have good history (1 was serviced every year/10k with evidence, I nearly sold this to scott briddlecombe with the bio green zs, glad he backed out!!), I will be selecting the best one as a base for a race car, but the other if good will moved on.
Good Luck with the car.
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25-01-16, 08:58 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Nice car. Class colour.
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25-01-16, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Waterlooville, Hants
Posts: 24,095
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Glad you are repairing it, looks stunning in that colour.
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25-01-16, 10:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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Hi Stephen. Thanks for all your words of wisdom greatly appreciated and glad to see so many enthusiasts inhere who I can turn to for advice or even moral support. Hi Mark, thanks for the offer of the engine I have another few offers and also being looking at a complete donor car with low mileage. I was even considering a full rebuild of my current engine but that all depends on what I find when I get it stripped down to be honest
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25-01-16, 01:04 PM
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promoted bloke!
Join Date: May 2008
Location: bournemouth
Posts: 16,796
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good news, too many getting broken.
Specially such a great colour one
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