I just got me a new car...
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... unfortunately it's not the 'rari or Aston I was planning on replacing the Tuscan with. In fact, it's not to replace the Tuscan at all.
The mighty 206 LX has been "upgraded" to a walnut trimmed grandad-driving Rover 600. OK, so it's a 2 litre Rover. Bored out to 2.2l. With more aggresive cams. And a proper sports exhaust system. And a turbo. An uprated turbo at that. Running variable boost. And super-chipped.
Oh lordy... I've just bought a 295BHP Rover as my "shopping car"!!!
Time to order the "SLDi" badges and "RNLI" stickers for it - I'm going to go Boxster baiting over Christmas...
The mighty 206 LX has been "upgraded" to a walnut trimmed grandad-driving Rover 600. OK, so it's a 2 litre Rover. Bored out to 2.2l. With more aggresive cams. And a proper sports exhaust system. And a turbo. An uprated turbo at that. Running variable boost. And super-chipped.
Oh lordy... I've just bought a 295BHP Rover as my "shopping car"!!!
Time to order the "SLDi" badges and "RNLI" stickers for it - I'm going to go Boxster baiting over Christmas...
good choice mate. Its a scream. Mine is debadged and is good for baiting the baby TTs and various hairdresser "sports" cars. The understeer is horrific and the torque steer when the turbo cuts in is bad enough on my standard 200bhp version. What it will be like on yours I dread to think 
The power steering is so light that its darting from side to side once the power band comes in.
The power steering is so light that its darting from side to side once the power band comes in. shnozz said:
The understeer is horrific and the torque steer when the turbo cuts in is bad enough on my standard 200bhp version.
I have very, very fond memories of my 220 Turbo Coupe. 
Am feeling quite apprehensive about really tring to hoof it with that much power in a FWD car! Think I'll be seeing about getting some uprated & lowered springs for it, and possibly look at firming the steering up. Also considering selling the fancy dump valve & alloys to help fund that and "stealth" the car a bit more (the tattier the trimmed steel wheels, the better
). Biggest problem (besides picking the car up, as the seller seems a bit shonky...) will be figuring out how to keep the air-flow (and hence BHP) up whilst losing the oversized tailpipe. 
Will also be turning the boost down to 8psi at first, so it'll only be running at 280BHP.
J_S_G said:
... unfortunately it's not the 'rari or Aston I was planning on replacing the Tuscan with. In fact, it's not to replace the Tuscan at all.
The mighty 206 LX has been "upgraded" to a walnut trimmed grandad-driving Rover 600. OK, so it's a 2 litre Rover. Bored out to 2.2l. With more aggresive cams. And a proper sports exhaust system. And a turbo. An uprated turbo at that. Running variable boost. And super-chipped.
Oh lordy... I've just bought a 295BHP Rover as my "shopping car"!!!
Time to order the "SLDi" badges and "RNLI" stickers for it - I'm going to go Boxster baiting over Christmas...
fantastic!
a rover 600 that'll do 165! 
minimax said:
[quote=J_S_G]... unfortunately it's not the 'rari or Aston I was planning on replacing the Tuscan with. In fact, it's not to replace the Tuscan at all.
The mighty 206 LX has been "upgraded" to a walnut trimmed grandad-driving Rover 600. OK, so it's a 2 litre Rover. Bored out to 2.2l. With more aggresive cams. And a proper sports exhaust system. And a turbo. An uprated turbo at that. Running variable boost. And super-chipped.
Oh lordy... I've just bought a 295BHP Rover as my "shopping car"!!!
Time to order the "SLDi" badges and "RNLI" stickers for it - I'm going to go Boxster baiting over Christmas...
You've got to bring it along for the next PH outing James! This I've got to see !!
P.S. As previously mentioned, watch out for the understeer. Its a bugger when you turn into a corner in a powerfull front drive car with skinny tyres and it happily just keeps going in a straight line. I know , been there, done that
tonto said:
You've got to bring it along for the next PH outing James! This I've got to see !!
"See"? It looks just like every other old Rover 600 that any flat-cap-wearing, pipe-smoking self-respecting grandad would be proud of. Apart from the boost guage implanted in the walnut dash, that is. (And the slightly-too-big exhaust that I've got to get rid of)
tonto said:
P.S. As previously mentioned, watch out for the understeer.
Advice well taken... been through the FWD unguided-missile thing before. 
>> Edited by J_S_G on Monday 20th December 19:10
oh dear. How to ruin the wolf in sheeps clothing approach. There is a GSI around my parts that has blinged up and quite worrying as it looks as though someone has really tried. And they own a Rover. The whole reason I love mine to bits is that its a boggo looking 600 walnut warrior that lets rip when you put your foot down and the bloke in the subaru is thinking he left his handbrake on.
shnozz said:
notice the "600" badge and tow bar
And the PH sticker. 
I do approve of the 600 badge. Will be doing similar/getting an SDi badge from the local dealer. Biggest concern is really going to be getting the tailpipe hidden... it's currently getting about 20BHP+ from the exhaust system that I don't want to lose, but this just isn't acceptable: 
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