Building a fast 16v Allegro (now going fully forged turbo)

oil is oil right mechanically it will be fine, only thing you might find is the MTF is a bit to good at leak finding, its about 3 times less viscous than EP90

well EP90 is monograde and the number is its 100celcius viscosity (so basically equivalent to the second number in the others)

i had a quick look at the ambient temp viscosity (random example carlube MTF94) which was 53cst, EP90 its 128cst !

i know its all rivet counter stuff, the only reason my ears pricked up is because i looked into this for rover gearboxes a while back, not just to specifically bore you to death

If it weren't so clean, that would look like it had always been in there. Let it develop a bit of ally corrosion and an oil leak or two and nobody will suspect a thing

Stop that right now. The venerable O series is *fine* and doesn't need to be jzhuzzed up with modern K series fizziness.

Here are some pictures of the clearences I have.

Alternator to front panel



Alternator / rad



Exhaust / rad - Might have to mod the manifold and make a heat shield



Protecs fitted Been busy cleaning up the drive shafts this afternoon.

Managed to get the drive and hubs on last night, luckily the Allegro track rod ends fit perfectly into the mgf steering arms, the tracking doesn't even look very far out!

Next job stick some front wheels on and find out where the suspension sits.

are you going to fit ABS?

No ABS here, I'm using an OBP pedalbox - The outer CV's are mgf so have abs rings, wondering if I can use them for my speedo pickup, current plan is weld the magnet onto the inner cv and make a bracket to suit.

Well after having a proper mare in the garage last night it's sitting on all 4 wheels for the first time in over 2 years. I managed to fit and torque up the downpipe (pain to get at). Fitted the gear linkage which now slips out of the Rover 200 steering uj so I'll weld it at some point (other end clamps onto the selector on the box just fine).

About midnight I decided to nip back in the garage and quickly chuck the front wheels on. I just could not get the wheel to go on straight, every time I did it up one wheel nut got tight before the others. I've had the hubs and discs redrilled to 100x4 by a local engineering shop and this is the first time I've tried a wheel on that hub. Spent a long time taking nuts on and off and trying the wheel in different orientations. Doing the nuts up one turn at a time spreading the load properly, every time the one corner just got tight before the others. Not good

I then decided to try the same wheel on the other side, I have had a wheel bolted on that hub before a long time ago (probably with only two nuts). Same bloody thing one side just didn't look to sit right, was starting to think the pcd must be out. Then I looked down at the pile of shiney new wheel nuts - yep one had a different taper and was slightly longer than the rest!! The pcd / wheel fitment is perfect was just the nut and poor lighting in the garage (also was tired and had about pulled the end of my finger off with the socket in the end of the drill)!!

It's happily sitting on 4 trolleys now though, front shocks want lowering and need to stiffen up the rear.

Those wheels are really nice size and offset, match up to the lines of the car really well. If you put MG centre caps on you could be fooled into thinking they might have come from an MG Metro (unless you're a total anorak, of course). Got to be pretty satisfying seeing it on some wheels after all that hard work.