Model: Wartburg Knight 353
Year: 1982
Tax: 30/11/10
MOT: June 2011
Location: Colchester
Price: No longer for sale...
with great sadness, I offer up my 1982 wartburg knight for sale.
I could ramble on, but you'd be better reading the build thread retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=37494
the good-
its a 2 stroke car! 993cc and cheap tax, it drives really nice on the open road, can return 37-38mpg (without oil). its torquey, and kinda comfy when you get used to the offset. Its LHD as it was previously a hungary car, column shift makes LHD easier to cope with I find.
Its dropped about 4.5" with BMW E39 rear springs in the front and 2002 bmw rear springs in the back. its got four pot disc front brakes as standard, with new pads this year. it had a new clutch this year too. Its fitted with some unique gotwood made PCD addapters taking it down to 4x100 and vw centre bore. its got renault espace alloy wheels, 5.5x14" et39 with 165/65 fronts tyres (new last year) and 175/65 rears. Its been fitted with a brake bias valve due to the screwball rear brakes which are evilly good! freewheel works lovely on the gearbox too. MR2 headlamps are great for night driving. I fitted it with ignitech mapped ignition and electric fan this year, runs stronger than ever (previous dyno at 51bhp and 75ft/lb of torque stock, should be more now) is running a base map from a wartburg rally car and cruises at 70 no hassle. also has a top flite 90's pioneer cassette deck in the dash and remote control for it. had a new water pump repair kit a while back, thats 75euros.... had a new screen before registration, laminate one made by autoglass (pilkington) £194....
four speed gearbox with rose jointed linkage, fourth is 0.92:1 overdrive!
the bad....
well, its left hand drive collumn shift with offset pedals
(but I like it!) its got a rip in the drivers seat and the rear bench is sun bleached. I use a cover TBH. you can't get the original cloth pattern but you can get cloth very close to it. the original stuff is curse word, every wartburg owner will tell you this.
paint is not brilliant, its the best I could lay down without bare metalling the thing, expect a few runs
the really bad, it needs an engine rebuild. I thought it was the fan shaft bearings and has been rattling for over a year now, only now I thought I'd see to it and found its not them and seems to be the crank rumbling
you can have it pressed apart and fitted with new bearings, I am led to beieve they are a standard size. or buy a crank built up ready to go from here- www.ldm-tuning.de/en/artikel-6116.htm. or speak belgian and get one from olbrechts who are not online and are ex wartburg main dealers and will do you a crank for about 350 euros I'm told. or get in contact with the iFA club and track down a secondhand engine.
I don't for one minute believe it won't last a zillion more miles rattling, but its not doing her any good. I drove it 600 miles earlier in the year in 40 hours, making the same noise it was when I drove it home from the retro-rides gathering months later....
starter sometimes refuses to play ball too, this might be a switch prob, but I honestly haven't looked.
Front valence is buckled to hell so I don't fit it, catherine tate ran down a barbed wire fence with it so blame her
£900 please. tax until end of november, MOT until begining of june 2011.
I will be kicking myself for doing this, but if I spend the cash on this, I won't have the readies for the project that is replacing it anyway, so I thought you may like to buy it at a really silly cheap price.
also my car mojo is well low right now so I haven't been on here at all. but chuck me a PM and I'll try and reply
seat badness-
headunit goodness-
Year: 1982
Tax: 30/11/10
MOT: June 2011
Location: Colchester
Price: No longer for sale...
with great sadness, I offer up my 1982 wartburg knight for sale.
I could ramble on, but you'd be better reading the build thread retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=37494
the good-
its a 2 stroke car! 993cc and cheap tax, it drives really nice on the open road, can return 37-38mpg (without oil). its torquey, and kinda comfy when you get used to the offset. Its LHD as it was previously a hungary car, column shift makes LHD easier to cope with I find.
Its dropped about 4.5" with BMW E39 rear springs in the front and 2002 bmw rear springs in the back. its got four pot disc front brakes as standard, with new pads this year. it had a new clutch this year too. Its fitted with some unique gotwood made PCD addapters taking it down to 4x100 and vw centre bore. its got renault espace alloy wheels, 5.5x14" et39 with 165/65 fronts tyres (new last year) and 175/65 rears. Its been fitted with a brake bias valve due to the screwball rear brakes which are evilly good! freewheel works lovely on the gearbox too. MR2 headlamps are great for night driving. I fitted it with ignitech mapped ignition and electric fan this year, runs stronger than ever (previous dyno at 51bhp and 75ft/lb of torque stock, should be more now) is running a base map from a wartburg rally car and cruises at 70 no hassle. also has a top flite 90's pioneer cassette deck in the dash and remote control for it. had a new water pump repair kit a while back, thats 75euros.... had a new screen before registration, laminate one made by autoglass (pilkington) £194....
four speed gearbox with rose jointed linkage, fourth is 0.92:1 overdrive!
the bad....
well, its left hand drive collumn shift with offset pedals
(but I like it!) its got a rip in the drivers seat and the rear bench is sun bleached. I use a cover TBH. you can't get the original cloth pattern but you can get cloth very close to it. the original stuff is curse word, every wartburg owner will tell you this. paint is not brilliant, its the best I could lay down without bare metalling the thing, expect a few runs
the really bad, it needs an engine rebuild. I thought it was the fan shaft bearings and has been rattling for over a year now, only now I thought I'd see to it and found its not them and seems to be the crank rumbling
you can have it pressed apart and fitted with new bearings, I am led to beieve they are a standard size. or buy a crank built up ready to go from here- www.ldm-tuning.de/en/artikel-6116.htm. or speak belgian and get one from olbrechts who are not online and are ex wartburg main dealers and will do you a crank for about 350 euros I'm told. or get in contact with the iFA club and track down a secondhand engine. I don't for one minute believe it won't last a zillion more miles rattling, but its not doing her any good. I drove it 600 miles earlier in the year in 40 hours, making the same noise it was when I drove it home from the retro-rides gathering months later....
starter sometimes refuses to play ball too, this might be a switch prob, but I honestly haven't looked.
Front valence is buckled to hell so I don't fit it, catherine tate ran down a barbed wire fence with it so blame her
£900 please. tax until end of november, MOT until begining of june 2011.
I will be kicking myself for doing this, but if I spend the cash on this, I won't have the readies for the project that is replacing it anyway, so I thought you may like to buy it at a really silly cheap price.
also my car mojo is well low right now so I haven't been on here at all. but chuck me a PM and I'll try and reply
seat badness-
headunit goodness-
