Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

damn thats a hella press

Yeah she a beast have to go easy and watch gauges one of the juniors managed to split a brake drum by trying to press the bearing out the wrong way

A little cosmetic update for change since ive got no new parts to fit finally got round to doing a job thats been bugging me since got the car. It have various rust spots on the drivers door where i would guess its been opened against something and knocking the paint off so thought i would address it now before they become holes....

Took it down to metal to grid out the rust....

2019-03-31_08-14-02 by John Quincey, on Flickr

Then i put on some rust treatment, a good coating of anti rust primer and a coat of high build primer followed by a flatting off to smooth the surface....

2019-03-31_08-14-50 by John Quincey, on Flickr

Than the top coat, unfortunately i just used a tin of the Halfords paint so the colour match is a bit off (to light) but im not to worried as its not a show car just glad not to be looking a rust every time get into it .....

2019-03-31_08-15-06 by John Quincey, on Flickr

Little update on the 200, not done anything with it for a while now unforgivably but finally got the L/R brake master cylinder on and all the brake pipes made etc. Ive used the Rover reservoir as the L/R unit is to close to the throttle bodies....

IMG_20190530_185803 by John Quincey, on Flickr
IMG_20190530_210526~3 by John Quincey, on Flickr
IMG_20190530_210540~3 by John Quincey, on Flickr
IMG_20190531_200730~2 by John Quincey, on Flickr

WhAt are those adapters

I’ve just put a Land Rover 300 tdi master cylinder on
Used the lr reservoir too

It’s close on the t series to inlet

It's a M10x1mm through bulkhead adaptor

Thank you

Great thread. I like the gearbox pics.

Touch wood the gearbox Seema to be working ok so far

Another little update since its been June/July since the car has been started or even moved I decided to let the little Rover have a break over end of summer and put the Evo on the road for a while....

IMG_20190915_091420~2 by John Quincey, on Flickr
IMG_20190915_083815~2 by John Quincey, on Flickr

Any way back to the R8, made a few changes to been it into line with the regs for the race series i want to run in. The major one is the fact i have to run the factory size wheel from the range so shes finally back on 15" wheels ....

IMG_20191027_151425_2~2 by John Quincey, on Flickr
IMG_20191027_151357_2~2 by John Quincey, on Flickr

That being said brings a few good points, looks better and i can set the car lower but the on the negative side means i cant run the big brake kit so im down to ZR160 282mm discs and calipers Im also going to have to use the 216 GTI wheels (which are heavier than the 17's) because the Turbo wheels rub on the 160 brake caliper carrier. Back on track next month with this set up and stiffer coil springs for a bit of test time to see what happens

JOHNDQ wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:34 pm Yeah she a beast have to go easy and watch gauges one of the juniors managed to split a brake drum by trying to press the bearing out the wrong way

I bet it came out though...*laughs*