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einheisserschre

einheisserschre wrote: »

I drove the ZS180 V6 a few years back too. Only around phoenix park though so didn't get to test the handling. It drank petrol like it was going out of fashion!

Yeah I have a ZT180 (same engine but auto) and she likes a drop of fuel it must be said, the 1.8 ones handle better than the V6s, here she is







and the V6..........

L-M

Love that car

no1beemerfan

Limerick man wrote: »

Love that car

One of the nicest Rover's imo. Its nice to see its looked after.

MetzgerMeister

Mmmmm very nice James

I see you have the "hairpin" alloys. They look good on the ZT but horrible on the ZR. I had the 17" straights on my one. Much better looking IMO.

180 isn't much power though for a 2.5 V6 wouldn't you say? I don't think so anyway.

MetzgerMeister

no1beemerfan wrote: »

One of the nicest Rover's imo. Its nice to see its looked after.

It's an MG

einheisserschre

einheisserschre wrote: »

180 isn't much power though for a 2.5 V6 wouldn't you say? I don't think so anyway.

I agree, I had a 3SGE powered Celica that was putting out almost that. For the 2.5 tax and the petrol it drinks the performance doesn't match really. Savage comfy car with very good handling and looks (imo) though so I'm happy with her. She had more or less a full service history and was very clean so she appears to have been looked after. I have put in a K&N panel filter and given her an oil service and cleaned the engine bay. New MG badges on the way along with an oil catch tank that will hopefully prolong the life of the VIS (variable induction system thingy) motors. €600 or so for new tyres in a few weeks and she'll be all set for winter :pac:

The auto is just under 9 secs to 60 so it's not too bad for a big car, feels very nimble on the road too. Sports mode is very good, transforms the way it behaves. As Lightning says, they are not stressed. They are quite robust engines in the ZT, they were muck in the 800s but all sorted for the Zs.

no1beemerfan

einheisserschre wrote: »

It's an MG

Built by Rover

MetzgerMeister

RoverJames wrote: »

I agree, I had a 3SGE powered Celica that was putting out almost that. For the 2.5 tax and the petrol it drinks the performance doesn't match really. Savage comfy car with very good handling and looks (imo) though so I'm happy with her. She had more or less a full service history and was very clean so she appears to have been looked after. I have put in a K&N panel filter and given her an oil service and cleaned the engine bay. New MG badges on the way along with an oil catch tank that will hopefully prolong the life of the VIS (variable induction system thingy) motors. €600 or so for new tyres in a few weeks and she'll be all set for winter :pac:

The auto is just under 9 secs to 60 so it's not too bad for a big car, feels very nimble on the road too. Sports mode is very good, transforms the way it behaves. As Lightning says, they are not stressed. They are quite robust engines in the ZT, they were muck in the 800s but all sorted for the Zs.

Yeah I agree with all this. My main point really was that for what you pay for tax and petrol, it doesn't match I also had the badge fade problem on the ZR. Front and back New badges sorted that! And I must say, the facelift in 2005 made them look muscular but I'm kinda thinking the original design was nicer.

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Built by Rover

I was being pedantic!

no1beemerfan

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Built by Rover

I'd consider it more a Rover than an MG really to be honest, it's a hugely different car to a 75 in many ways but calling a spade a spade it's a factory modded 75 I reckon, they did a damn fine job though.

no1beemerfan

einheisserschre wrote: »

I was being pedantic!

I know

Voodoomelon

Is there any reason why they'd mount a V6 sideways? Purely space constraints?

EDIT: Ah, front wheel drive?

Voodoomelon

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Is there any reason why they'd mount a V6 sideways? Purely space constraints?

EDIT: Ah, front wheel drive?

Yep, fwd. The V8s are rwd.

MetzgerMeister

RoverJames wrote: »

Yep, fwd. The V8s are rwd.

That'd be the MG ZV with the seriously underpowered Mustang V8?

einheisserschre

einheisserschre wrote: »

That'd be the MG ZV with the seriously underpowered Mustang V8?

Nope, MG ZT 260, you're right about the engine though, lazy yoke in standard tune. Still savage though.

Tragedy

Didn't realise she was auto, nice. Probably a better long term bet than the manual as the JATCO boxes just plain don't go wrong. I don't find the 190 too bad on petrol, 33mpg doing 80mph, around 28mpg mixed driving.

einheisserschre, you're probably thinking of the MG SV(aka the car with punto headlights and fiat coupe tail lights) which had a 4.6 Ford V8, 320hp and 0-60 in 5.3 seconds.

The ZT260 was also RWD and had a 4.6 V8, but only pushed out 260hp. Had uprated brakes/discs all round, uprated blistein shocks all round, gearbox and engine were lifted from a Mustang. It's only a 2valve SOHC, hence the relatively low power. Very unstressed and torquey engine though, and a beautiful sound.

A good few owners have gotten Kenne Bell supercharger conversions, brings the car up to around 400-420bhp, sounds absolutely amazing and faster than an M5 in a straight line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQOlGryDcJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqMMbb76gU&feature=related

Yum

Tragedy

Tragedy wrote: »

Didn't realise she was auto, nice. Probably a better long term bet than the manual as the JATCO boxes just plain don't go wrong. I don't find the 190 too bad on petrol, 33mpg doing 80mph, around 28mpg mixed driving.

I'm getting 21mpg average from the ZT 180, my old 520i did 23mpg over the same driving and my 216 coupe did 27mpg. Over a week I'd do about 40 miles over the weekend pootling about in the city, then Mon to Fri about 100 miles which is mainly in and out of work with short trips to the gym or whatever in the evening. Spins to and from work have hills for about 30% of the spin.

Tragedy

I've done in the last month: Manchester to Coventry(including the infamous peak time M6 traffic, ****ing hell)
Coventry to Liverpool(and again, peak time M6 traffic)
Liverpool to Holyhead
Dublin to Belfast/Belfast to Dublin
Dublin to Ballybunion
Ballybunion to Cork
Cork to Dublin

Never gone under 33 on any of those, and cork to Dublin I was hoofing it back up.
You should be able to get 25mpg at least, might want to enable on board diagnostics and make sure your thermostat is operating correctly. And might want to change over to 0w40 fully synth, should get you an extra 2-3 mpg!

Yeah, I plan on using Mobil 1 fully synthetic but I want to leave the fresh 10w40 Mobil S in there for 3000 miles ish as I think she was overdue an oil change. She's running 225 40 18s too which won't be helping. I'd be surpised to see 25mpg out of her on my driving routine, as said the 1.6 4 cyl coupe only did 27mpg for me on the same routes. All of your spins were long, I'm averaging under 20mph on the trip yoke thing :rolleyes:

Tragedy

RoverJames wrote: »

Yeah, I plan on using Mobil 1 fully synthetic but I want to leave the fresh 10w40 Mobil S in there for 3000 miles ish as I think she was overdue an oil change. She's running 225 40 18s too which won't be helping. I'd be surpised to see 25mpg out of her on my driving routine, as said the 1.6 4 cyl coupe only did 27mpg for me on the same routes. All of your spins were long, I'm averaging under 20mph on the trip yoke thing :rolleyes:

I do plenty of short trips, but since I'm still enjoying the engine and exhaust note I won't mention what figures I get. It's embarrassing

Halfords are doing a good special on Mobil 1 atm, if you haven't spotted it - €48 for 5l of 0w40 fully synth

Tragedy

Tragedy wrote: »

I do plenty of short trips, but since I'm still enjoying the engine and exhaust note I won't mention what figures I get. It's embarrassing

Halfords are doing a good special on Mobil 1 atm, if you haven't spotted it - €48 for 5l of 0w40 fully synth

Ah go on tell us :pac:
This week I'm going to run this coming weekend into last weekends tank of juice to see how 2 weekends effect the weekly figure, then brim it Sunday evening and see how it works out for Monday to Friday only.

Yep, I'll be buying two jugs of that

MetzgerMeister

RoverJames wrote: »

Ah go on tell us :pac:
This week I'm going to run this coming weekend into last weekends tank of juice to see how 2 weekends effect the weekly figure, then brim it Sunday evening and see how it works out for Monday to Friday only.

Boooorrriinnggg!!

Just tell us how fast she can go!

Tragedy

Tragedy wrote: »

Halfords are doing a good special on Mobil 1 atm, if you haven't spotted it - €48 for 5l of 0w40 fully synth

Spend over €50 and you get a €10 voucher for use in a few weeks, so two 5L Mobil 1s work out at €43/each

Richie ae86

heres mine

L-M

Sleek fx?

Bad ould birds :L :P

Seth Brundle

Richie ae86 wrote: »

heres mine

What are those things hanging off the Batmobile?

2 Espressi

Airbags?

CountingCrows

no1beemerfan

^^^ Love the interior!

Kazooie

Have it almost two weeks now. Love it so far anyway!

projectgtr

My Civic SiR i personally brought in from Japan

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