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[Chance]

Yesterday I saw a GTA local to me for sale. 

Ive always wanted one so I went to have a look today and well ended up buying it.

 

Plan is to tidy it up cosmetically and do any mechanical jobs over the next few months and use it for my daily when the minis MOT runs out. Then the mini will become my project.
 

 

 

 

Its not a 16v so someone must have put this on after? Or is this how they came originally?
 

Will be slow progress while I get my act together and decide what I need etc

 

[will_]

Some came with the 16v same as the metro gti.
Ripe for a vvc conversion that ;)

[Chance]

Ahh well this is deffo the 8v version but oh well

Haa not yet insurance would kill me

[Chance]

Right can anyone tell me any must do metro mods?

I think I want to individualise it but a guide On this would be great I'f anyone On here can help?

Or if not where is a good metro forum? Metropower?

[rally515]

Looks pretty clean Chance!, got a metro myself im currently tidying up for stock spec but i know popular mod's (i gather this from photos as speech on forums) are to lower, stick some nice alloys on and get a bodykit and rear louver thing around the rear window....oh and big POWER!!!!!!!!!

 

Cheers

Cliff

[Chance]

Yeah I went for a newer one in the end

Beem after a GTA for some time
Being a gta it's already got the rear spoiler thing around the back window

And I want to keep the alloys

Need to re fix the bumpers and maybe get a new one for the front as its dented
Need a new drivers wing

Then im just thinking individualise, maybe lower slightly but that's it for now

Just have no idea how to 'individualise' or lower lol

[Chance]

Edited by Chance, 09 July 2013 - 08:48 PM.

[rally515]

Just have no idea how to 'individualise' or lower lol

 

Well you're doing better than me chance.........i dont even know what that is  

 

Yeah i know that type, might also be called a louver but i was on about the slat thing: http://www.bing.com/...selectedIndex=0

[Chance]

Lol just what I've picked up from google

As far as I understand you take the link pipes between the front and rear cans out so all the cans are 'individual'

But what I need to go about this I have no idea

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

You have to machine down the trumpets in the ratio of 3.1 from back to front, you remove enough material from the trumpets inside the displacers that you lower the car to much, and then you pump the hydragas unit up to bring the psi higher than it would be, hence you are not only lowering the car but stiffening it to. 

 

Its really simple maths, you just remove enough metal to lower the car more than you want. If you want to lower the car by 30mm you'd remove enough metal from the trumpet to lower it by 55mm. You can then pump up to a higher psi, 450, rather than the standard 300. That way you lower the car by 30mm but gain stiffness in the process!

 

Looks a nice car. The badge is a mystery since it seems to be original, they made a GTA 16v but that was a Mk3, the 114GTA only ever came as an 8v. I am thinking its a badge from an export model but the Mk3 export Metro was called the 114GTI rather than Rover 100 or GTA.

 

Nice seat pattern in GTA's to

Edited by Mini-Mad-Craig, 09 July 2013 - 09:36 PM.

[rally515]

Ahh i see haha, im just as clever now!  

 

Might be a replacement boot haha

[Chance]

Ohh sound..cheers

I think I'll sort the exterior out first I think and see where I
want to go from there

Its untouched so I might leave it that way...we shall see

The badge confused me because I looked on Parkers and as you say the only 114gta is an 8v...
Would love to know where the badge has come from myself

Previous owner doesnt know either
Ohh well

Googled the badge and seems rimmer bros sell it
Must be used somewhere in the world

Edited by Chance, 09 July 2013 - 10:22 PM.

[Chance]

Gave it a quick wash today
Doors are caked in tar...have history to say it was serviced every year but must not have been washed very often!!!

Need to buy some proper cleaning stuff but the Mini needs some love first to keep it chugging along



There are a few rust holes at the very bottom of the valance but nothing to serious
I will use it to do my very first repair patches

That's as far as I got..need to clean it all and give it some protection
Then repair the rust and repair the scrape On the bumper somehow or replace it

That's all for know folks

[olds_kool_lews]

Stick a rear mk1 metro metal bumper on it ;)

[Chance]

I think I'll stick to the standard one haa

Can be like a mk1 rear with the 100 front

Somekind of messed up 80s 90s metro lovechild