Drew's ZS180

[Drew]

been hanging around on here for a while, thought id post a few bits ive been upto on mine.

so where to start! well i bought my excellent mk2 XPG hatch in July '07 for just over £8k, with 18k miles on the clock.



first things first, power run..



not bad. best handling mg/rover id ever driven, pretty good power for a nasp. could always feel that dip in torque though.

Drew

[MG6Turbo]

Nice car and perfect graph.

When you fitting the itbs into it ?

G

[peterzs]

Good to see one thats been owned for a few years.

Wonder if the figures would have changed much???

[Dan1971]

Looks nice - That a recent pic or from when you got it ? What have you been doing to it then ?

[Drew]

sorry to keep you hanging..

still couldnt get away from the T turbo power i used to have, needed MORE!

bought myself a Sprintex supercharger kit!



Drew

[Drew]

fitted well in the bay, seemed to rub on the sound deadening though..






not bad power for the boost. pretty close to what sprintex said it would be..


but a little dissapointed. drove very well, felt really good.

Drew

[Drew]

unfortunatly the car developed a bad electrical fault. was still under warrenty so removed the charger and sent it back to the dealer.

turned out to be a loose connection in the fusebox. fixed for free!

Drew

[Drew]

re-fitted the supercharger but seemed to develop a bad knocking noise

eventually sent it back to sprintex, they diagnosed it as dirt in the oil feed, blocked and ran the bearing dry. fixed and returned aug '10!

while the charger was dead i tried some of the nasp tuning..

liked the v6 but wasnt really a roar but more of a meow!

so next was to decat and fit a bmc induction...





sounded better and not bad increase for the outlay.

Drew

[Drew]

needed more power!!

fitted a janspeed cat-back and set of janspeed manifolds..





very good BHP/£

Drew

[Dan1971]

How's it running then ... How long/many miles on the supercharger ?