I bought this at the start of the summer from phil2600 of this very forum after he bought it as an mot failure and dragged it into awesomeness. There's a build thread on here somewhere but I can't find it but basically Phil got it through it's mot then fitted heavy duty lowering spring, 2 new front wings, new sump and some very cool refurbed revo alloys wheels among many other things.
After the fluster cuck that was my old m535i I just wanted something I could enjoy without it breaking down, going on fire or being a total rotting sh1t box.
When I was a kid my Dad used to buy write offs and tatty auction stuff, which he'd do up and sell (he was a painter and panel beater and a deal he once did on a mk4 Cortina put a dormer extension on our house). One day he went to the auction and came back with an extreme povo ex district nurse spec Mini 850cc. As it did about 800mpg and my old man was tight wad it became our family car, which was fine until we needed to travel from Scotland to South Wale on our holidays.
There was just no way we here going to get 4 people plus all our stuff in that little mini so my Dad arranged to get a loan of his mates car for the holiday. When we went up to the lockup to pick the car out rolled a cleaming moonracker blue Rover SD1 2600S, which was to be our car for the next 2 years.
The Rover was my first run in with electic windows and SD1 even had a Cassette player for listening to music! It was smooth, comfy and did more than 50mph.
Since then an SD1's been on my list so when the BMW went I stuck a wanted ad on the board, which phil responded to.
I got the train from Glasgow to Harrogate to pick it up and it's been awesome ever since.
I've not created a thread for it up until now as it's been perfectly behaved. It's never broke down, failed to start and everything works. Infact it drives better than any old car I've ever owned, which is down to Phil's good work when he built it.
It's got to the point now where it needs some stuff done to it.
There's a large hole in the inner rear wheel arch, part of the boot floor's crusty and there's a few rusty bits at the bottoms of the doors. Recently the gearbox has started to give me some problems because I let the oil ran low and it's been tempramental since. I'm hoping changing the oil will help else it'll need another box at some point.
Future plans? Sort the box, do the bodywork and possibly fit some JDM type arches as the wheels just stick out from the wings.
The 2600 straight six isn't too bad. It's not fast but it rattles along okay and it handles really well. The natural upgrade is a v8 and manual box but the 2600 is getting rarer and I'm not sure how much quicker it would be.
Ideally I'd like to put a BMW m30 straight 6 in it with a manual 5 speed gearbox but I've a feeling that if I take it to bits it'd be about 10 years before it'd be back on the road.
After the fluster cuck that was my old m535i I just wanted something I could enjoy without it breaking down, going on fire or being a total rotting sh1t box.
When I was a kid my Dad used to buy write offs and tatty auction stuff, which he'd do up and sell (he was a painter and panel beater and a deal he once did on a mk4 Cortina put a dormer extension on our house). One day he went to the auction and came back with an extreme povo ex district nurse spec Mini 850cc. As it did about 800mpg and my old man was tight wad it became our family car, which was fine until we needed to travel from Scotland to South Wale on our holidays.
There was just no way we here going to get 4 people plus all our stuff in that little mini so my Dad arranged to get a loan of his mates car for the holiday. When we went up to the lockup to pick the car out rolled a cleaming moonracker blue Rover SD1 2600S, which was to be our car for the next 2 years.
The Rover was my first run in with electic windows and SD1 even had a Cassette player for listening to music! It was smooth, comfy and did more than 50mph.
Since then an SD1's been on my list so when the BMW went I stuck a wanted ad on the board, which phil responded to.
I got the train from Glasgow to Harrogate to pick it up and it's been awesome ever since.
I've not created a thread for it up until now as it's been perfectly behaved. It's never broke down, failed to start and everything works. Infact it drives better than any old car I've ever owned, which is down to Phil's good work when he built it.
It's got to the point now where it needs some stuff done to it.
There's a large hole in the inner rear wheel arch, part of the boot floor's crusty and there's a few rusty bits at the bottoms of the doors. Recently the gearbox has started to give me some problems because I let the oil ran low and it's been tempramental since. I'm hoping changing the oil will help else it'll need another box at some point.
Future plans? Sort the box, do the bodywork and possibly fit some JDM type arches as the wheels just stick out from the wings.
The 2600 straight six isn't too bad. It's not fast but it rattles along okay and it handles really well. The natural upgrade is a v8 and manual box but the 2600 is getting rarer and I'm not sure how much quicker it would be.
Ideally I'd like to put a BMW m30 straight 6 in it with a manual 5 speed gearbox but I've a feeling that if I take it to bits it'd be about 10 years before it'd be back on the road.
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