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Heres my latest project, an 82 Metro HLS one lady owner, 47k on the clock blah blah.

Out of pure coincidance ive been given a free metro turbo lump so im thinking what the hey lets turbo it!

Brought the car near the end of september, done a bit of welding, a bit of painting, a lot of lowering and alot of wheel modifications.

Heres the pics









Check the thread on RR for more infos
http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cg...read=1159043757

Next stage is the engine (good bit)!

Got to be honest I've never been a fan of metros, but that looks excellent mate, looks great slammed... hope you welded those rims up well lol!

thats one tidy metro,


carl

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TIG action for those rimz! goooOOOOOo slater!

Cant wait to see this all finished whooshing and popping, with you in the drvers seat (with the beaded seat cover) flat cat, mabe even a pipe!

J

Hell yeh, love it. esp in cream. Looks pretty mint. Banded steels look tough, agree with t2clubby tho

Those wheels look great.

Nice

had a read through that link

what you want, nay need! to do is chop the struts a bit, then you can run the hydragas at std ( or a bit higher) pressure, and it'll be stiff as a vicar in an underwear factory.

also a rear roll bar from a metty turbo will help matters, oh and weld up all the subrame mounts solid.

these few simple mods will make the world of diference,

also my metro wheels of choice were std imp or mini steelies, got rid of all that nasty inset

I think i've got rid of all my metty goodies now, i'll have a look tho there might be the od jem lurking in the garage.

Double post :(

Edited by Bat on 5th Nov, 2006.

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Hi,
Keep the pea shooter tailpipe. Stick the turbo exhaust out the side. That'll make for good fun at traffic light GP's!
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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very nice sleeper, liking it lots - hope you are keeping the delux interior std as well!

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

Sweet looking car. Never been a fan of metros but that has changed my mind!!!!

Looks fantastic, my only comment / concern is that the fuel return line might be a tad small.

good man! going in the right direction!!

to stiffen the back up even more there's a couple of thing's you can do,

1) do what i did an fit rear hydragas units from a van ( there were 2 van's a 300 and a 500 this refered to the weight carying capability)

2) fit front units to the back and then you wont need the roll bar, also you can then set the cornerwights properly, bit of a pain though!! ( I suspect the 500 van had front units on the back but interconecter)

3) don't actually change the spring rate but cut the rear arches and fit some shocks.

4) put different fluid in the rear, Citroen LHM was a popular mod.

another really worthwhile mod is some form of engine steady, does yours have the 4 round engine mounts or the later 2 round 2 square? the later ones were suposed to be a bit better, but they still move loads!! Avonbar do metro steadys I think.

I think you might be pissing into the wind with the master cylinder homemade hydro pump, on this site theres info on building one from a greasegun, may be worth a look if yours dosent work

http://www.austinamericausa.com/

the last of my metro tips is put some uprated bushes on the front TCA/rolbar interface the std rubberonde fail..... constantly. I bought some from avonbar in about 96 and they were £80!!!! all they were was hard plastic!! seriously you could knock up the same from plastic or ally in about a lunchtime!!

cars cool


odd though every car in your sig i have owned and all in the same colour bar the mini

oh another tip, invest in a new petrol cap, chances are the one on there will be leaky, especialy when your wanging it around left hand bends.

theres a reason theyre up higher on the later cars

Edited by Joe C on 5th Nov, 2006.

Hi,
I remember there was a recall on the Metro filler caps as the Police kept crashing them. Well that was the excuse at the time
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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thats awesome, i love those wheels!!!

is that green thing yours? i spotted it at retro cars?

Just showed this to my bird cos she wants a metro. she loved it and said it should be called maud.
Yeh i spotted your mini at retro too, didnt u make the wheel centres yourself? think i saw that on turbosport. And Nic i met you at retro, i am the guy who lived with mr halfpenny at uni.

Edited by AL on 6th Nov, 2006.

one cool metro! i wouldnt do anything else to it except fit the turbo lump. well done with the wheels did they balance up well?

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

Yep ,yeh and the balanced up 'adequately'

The mini is in Minimag january issue i think so when that comes out take a look! I saw you guys a CARS but didnt relly know of the forum at the time!

Thats good advice Mini13!i have to kneel down to fill it up at the petrol station

nice wheels take long to make ?

1293 Turbo mini

bout a week of eavnings i suppose

Edited by slater on 6th Nov, 2006.

Those wheels look wicked! What did they start life as, 13 X 5's?

What width are they now?

Keep up the good work, I love the slammed euro look. :)

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

such a sleeper, i love it! Keep us posted. :)