Rover 214si

[DavidA]

That doesn't sound too happy, never had any smoke from mine - even after 120k miles.

[tenwierdufos]

That doesn't sound too happy, never had any smoke from mine - even after 120k miles.

Indeed, it never smoked before the repair, might take it for a drive in the dark and see it it clears up or stays.

It is quite a lot of smoke though.

[procta]

these do smoke if they have been sat a bit, take out for a burn and it should be ok

[tenwierdufos]

IT WORKS



After a few miles of actual driving the emissions cleaned up.

Idles perfect, no wobbliness or cutting out business.

Just need to fix the coolant fill point and its all gravy. It's got a built in car battery washer at the moment

[DavidA]

Good news !

[madwelshman]

As long as it's a battery washer and not a steam cleaner, then things are improving. lol

[306Dan]

you should patent that before someone starts selling it on ebay

[tenwierdufos]

This is the thing, going to try an araldite it in. Says its ok with water (once set) plastics and rubber, so "should" be ok?!

One way to find out haha.

Ohh and that brown sludge stuff is from someone putting goo like k-seal or other in there in the past, all over the coolant system, don't do it kids!

[procta]

i will be switching mine to waterless coolant shortly, use the pink stuff for the coolant, as that's the proper coolant for these engines.

[tenwierdufos]

Never heard of waterless coolant before.

Got the blueeee 2 year stuff in there at the moment, the first lot I put in there got lost down the exhaust... so glad I went with the cheaper for now haha.

If it behaves over the next few months it might get swapped for red

[procta]

it will behave, they are not bad motors at all, metros have been little babes for me, and saved the day many a time!

[tenwierdufos]

it will behave, they are not bad motors at all, metros have been little babes for me, and saved the day many a time!

Famous last words there D:

Going to drive it to Staffordshire tommorow.

Double checked the breakdown cover and have some spare emergency water in the boot

[tenwierdufos]

We'll got it here fine, no water loss and no oil loss, temp bang on all the way here, yay.

Went for a short local journey later in the day and it did some weirdness...

Loss of powe, high lumpy idle and slight black smoke from the exhaust.

Couldn't work out what was going on but turned it off for a couple of minutes and it was fine again?!

Some strange electrical gremlin going on here...

It has electronic ignition even though it has a distributor cap, possibly related to that? Or sound fueling related?

Was wondering if maybe the hgf has ruined my lambda sensor?

Open to ideas haha

[tenwierdufos]

Ahhh been to see a mate of mine and have a nosey.

He has a theory which makes sense.

It's single point injection and apparently when the injectors start to fail they can get stuck in a position, which would explain the mega over fuelling without being able to rev.

Will just run some cleaner through it and see what happens haha.

[procta]

check the distributor system as these can go funny and make them go a little odd. Single point injector you can rob from a R100, ( if you can find one) you will be looking at about M plate to N or a metro, but you will have to pop the bonnet on metros, as injection ones are a look of the draw when you pop the bonnet, as most were carbed. but you can get the odd injection metro.

[Iceman299]

Brings back memories! First car was a nightfire red 214sei, followed by a 420 turbo, 220gsi then 216 coupe.

I think i kind of loved Rovers back then

I always wanted a nightfire red SEi and a Tahiti blue turbo coupe, but only ever managed the beige 414 SLi and a 420 GSi which admittedly was a bit of a lemon.

A bit of pic whoring but that was my 1.6honda coupe. For the money, they're decent motors

[procta]

Brings back memories! First car was a nightfire red 214sei, followed by a 420 turbo, 220gsi then 216 coupe.

I think i kind of loved Rovers back then

I always wanted a nightfire red SEi and a Tahiti blue turbo coupe, but only ever managed the beige 414 SLi and a 420 GSi which admittedly was a bit of a lemon.

A bit of pic whoring but that was my 1.6honda coupe. For the money, they're decent motors

I think there is more bits for those than there is coupes now, you couldn't sell them on sadly for some reason, so most were broken sadly.

[clarkey2010]

Just burn it nick and have done with it lol

[tenwierdufos]

Just burn it nick and have done with it lol

TURN UP THE BOOST ON YOU'RE ZX ALREADY

[tenwierdufos]

Seemed about time I updated my signature to reflect this thread!

[lolsteve]

Love it!

[procta]

Love it!

so you should! as this is a proper rover!

[tenwierdufos]

A post with too many pictures in it.

Cleaned all the goo out of the water bottle (every time you washed the windscreen more black goo came out than water :| ), replaced the wiper stalk which disintegrated and also re did some cable ties I broke on a kurb a few days ago

Also decided to disconnect the horn to do the wiper stalk seeing as the bumper was off, unless to disable the horn somehow its not possible to take the steering wheel off without making ALOT of noise haha

Mystery part package.

[procta]

looking at the column, you can fit a later R200 wheel if you wanted like this

[tenwierdufos]

Will probably stick with the original, don't have an airbag system in this car at all, would be odd to have the bag wheel haha

[procta]

Will probably stick with the original, don't have an airbag system in this car at all, would be odd to have the bag wheel haha

i don't have an airbag system in the car either, its the quality of the wheel as you can get a better grip. miles better than the R100 one and the mgf one i had.

[1616six]

This is great, I'd love something like this as a toy.

[procta]

This is great, I'd love something like this as a toy.

rovers do make great little toys to play with, My rover metro is a piece of cake to fiddle around with.
do a rocker cover gasket on one of these, 30 min job if that! 
do that job on a 306 hdi your talking a days work! ( timing belt cover has to come off etc)  

[tenwierdufos]

This is great, I'd love something like this as a toy.

Find one, they are ace toy cars. As Procta says, really easy to work on. Light too

[procta]

This is great, I'd love something like this as a toy.

Find one, they are ace toy cars. As Procta says, really easy to work on. Light too

also you forgot to tell him the engines pull and rev to 7k too!