ZS-X is back!

[carmadbaker]

Originally Posted by ZS

I do believe you are correct as I remember trying to contact eaton superchargers at the time to get hold of a charger for my blue 180...

IIRC the reason the charger was removed was because there was some sort of agreement that eaton wouldn't make chargers for the KV6 after MGR went bust or something... but thats only from a vague memory fragment lol

Im sure Ralph told me the charger got removed because it insisted on popping engines! Was on engine number 3 as one of the directors cars but got put back standard to sell on when the last one gave up the ghost.
Boot hill bandit did have the mould for the bonnet vent aswell fyi

[ZS]

Originally Posted by carmadbaker

Im sure Ralph told me the charger got removed because it insisted on popping engines! Was on engine number 3 as one of the directors cars but got put back standard to sell on when the last one gave up the ghost.
Boot hill bandit did have the mould for the bonnet vent aswell fyi

Interesting, I was sure that engine had different internals to cope with the charger... I guess Ralph would know for sure though

I wonder if he still has the mould, I quite like that vent and wouldn't say no to making one up...

[Stev180]

Looks stunning! I have emailed 2007 pictures over!

[john180]

Originally Posted by Lukeus101

Its good to know mate that someone who has been trying to track the car down for so long gets it in the end. All that hard work pays off


And having a sad ass mate that has nothing better to do than trawl the gumtree ads...

You are the reason I have no money now!!!

It's all good though!!

[john180]

Originally Posted by Stev180

Looks stunning! I have emailed 2007 pictures over!

Got them! Thanks mate

[hansligg]

Originally Posted by ZS

Interesting, I was sure that engine had different internals to cope with the charger... I guess Ralph would know for sure though

I wonder if he still has the mould, I quite like that vent and wouldn't say no to making one up...

So is this bonnet purely cosmetic or was it formed to hold something more under the bonnet when originally designed...

wouldnt mind a bonnet scoop similar to this on my 180

[john180]

It was designed to house and allow a supercharger to be cooled. The car was a factory development car for a supercharged zs that never materialised. It was code named the zs-x.

[hansligg]

Originally Posted by john180

It was designed to house and allow a supercharger to be cooled. The car was a factory development car for a supercharged zs that never materialised. It was code named the zs-x.

very interesting. So basically a prototype ZS which never materialised?

i didnt know this!

any other ZS prototypes that have been sold on?

[ZS]

Originally Posted by hansligg

very interesting. So basically a prototype ZS which never materialised?

i didnt know this!

any other ZS prototypes that have been sold on?

I think the WSR prototype still exists somewhere

[Lukeus101]

Doesn't someone on XPF own that?