Supercharged MPi For Sale/Inquiry
[b]Make and Model: Rover MPi VMax Supercharged[/b]
[b]Year: 2000[/b]
[b]Price:£9500 ono (insurance agreed value)[/b]
[b]Location:North East Hampshire[/b]
[b]Colour: Thaiti Blue[/b]
[b]MOT Expiry: April 2009[/b]
[b]Tax expiry: April 2009[/b]
[b]Mileage: 95000[/b]
[b]Manual or Automatic: Manual[/b]
[u]Additional Information (if known)[/u]
[b]Number of previous owners: Only me, since new[/b]
[b]Available Service History: 2 years Rover FSH until I realised they cant service a car for toffee. Since then I have done all the servicing. It has passed everyone of its MOT's so I must do someting right...[/b]
[u]Description[/u]
The story...I have had this car from new, got it through my Brother who worked for BMW (pah) at the time. It really is my pride and joy and I am very reluctantly putting it up for sale (subject to getting the right money), I am reluctantly putting this ad up I can tell you. The car is no longer practical for my job. I am considering keeping it as a luxuary weekend warrior, hence the money has to be right to sell and the home its going to has to be right.
The car is almost nine years old and as we know Minis rust. So here is a highlight of the not so good bits. I have frequently cleaned the car (in the important places) and added waxoyl to box sections/sills. The scuttle [b]had[/b] a fair amount of surface rust so I removed the screen cleaned it back to bare metal, primed, and repainted (see picture below).
The paint job on the scuttle was only meant to be temporary as I was going to have the whole front sorted. So this part of the car is far from perfect and way below my normal standards.
Both wings have some small creasing in them - its not particularly noticable. This is down to a numb nutz who helped me change my gearbox at 45000 miles.
The Drivers side A-Panel needs replacing.
Under the headlights is rusty too.
Other than that the rest of the body work appears sound. Doors fine, Roof fine, Rear Quarters fine.
NOW for the good bits.
Just over a year ago I had Stuart Gurr at VMax rebore/rebuild the engine and Supercharge it. WOW. It is fantastic to drive and has been used everday since the conversion. It does need some tinkering from time to time, but what do you expect with 150 BHP on a 40 year old engine design. I have covered 8000 fabulous miles since the conversion.
Engine 1293cc Eaton M45 Supercharger.
18cc Omega Dished pistons - no decompression plate.
Lightened Flywheel.
VMAXScart cylinder head.
36mm inlet valves and 29mm exhaust valves.
Bronze valve guides. Swiftune SW5i Cam.
1.5.1 Roller tip rocker arms.
Custom charge cooler.
Green cotton airfilter.
Twin core MPI radiator.
Kenlowe electric fan.
Custom alloy header tank.
Thirteen row oil cooler.
Emerald M3D ECU Active mapping with Wideband lamba controller.
Custom inlet manifold
Custom Stainless exhaust manifold.
RC40 Exhaust.
Gearbox
Standard 4 speed with 2.7.1 final drive ratio (suits the charger lovely).
Central oil pickup pipe.
Minispares Cross pin differential
160BHP rated clutch plate
Suspension
Front: Adjustable tie bars.
Standard bottom arms.
Rear: Adjustable track and camber.
Hi-Lo's with red dot rubber springs & adjustable Spax dampers.
Brakes
8.4 vented discs KAD four pot alloy calipers.
Black Stuff pads.
Standard rear drums.
Goodrich braided hoses
Wheels/tyres
6x13 alloy rims
175/50/13 Bridgestone Potenza RE720 tyres (front) - plenty of tread
175/50/13 Yokohama A539s (rear) - about 3mm remaining
Interior
Standard Rover Sports pack interior.
Alloy three clock dashboard.
Centre console.
Arm rest.
Drilled alloy door furniture.
Fire extinguisher.
Exterior
Standard MPI bodyshell complete with some rust.
Tahiti Blue with Silver roof.
Union Flag on the boot.
Ice
Sony MP3 head unit. Kenwood rear 6x9 speakers.
Pictures
Outside of car (front): [img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/coopertrooper2001/IMGP2231.jpg[/img]
Union Flag (rear): [img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/coopertrooper2001/unionjacknormal.jpg[/img]
Interior: [img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/coopertrooper2001/IMGP2233.jpg[/img]
Engine/Supercharger/Alloy header tank: [img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/coopertrooper2001/IMGP2224.jpg[/img]
In MiniWorld: [img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/coopertrooper2001/MiniWorldMay2008.jpg[/img]
Scuttle repair: [img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/coopertrooper2001/IMGP2348.jpg[/img]
Engine tuning: [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pB0DvQBi1bE"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pB0DvQBi1bE[/url]
Please email me if you have any questions or want to arrange a viewing.
Posted: Dec 29, 2008 11:26 PM