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Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:38 pm
by Yanker
I have to recommend the GT kit too to just 'pip' the other contenders given your requirements and budget.
You will want the one with the RHS inlet for your carb (not compatible with a battery tray).
Trade-in the exhaust and invest the remainder in either one of the new generation Clubmans or JL3 or Fresco or similar.
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:51 pm
by simonwwfc
Thanks for replays chaps who supply the gt kits off the self
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:33 pm
by djh66
I can't recomend the gt kit highly enough. I've got a 30 phbh delly and a scootrs expension, in town its responsive, smooth without any boggyness. Will sit in 4th at 30mph in quite comfortably, but then get in on then open road it's superb, will it cruise comfortably at 65+mph with loads left.
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:40 pm
by joeswoonara
simonwwfc wrote:Thanks for replays chaps who supply the gt kits off the self
1st port of call would be GranSport ,Birmingham
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:57 pm
by Muttley McLadd
djh66 wrote:. Will sit in 4th at 30mph in quite comfortably, but then get in on then open road it's superb, will it cruise comfortably at 65+mph with loads left.
Worth noting that a GT doesn't require 8/9000 revs to do that either.
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:11 pm
by Muttley McLadd
Cool.. is that the one with Jasper Carrott doing the commentary?
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:54 am
by simonwwfc
Thanks for everyone's help / advice gonna spk to chalkie later today to find out total damage cost to fix . I think whilst he also has engine case of he may as well change sprockets gear ratio , fit new engine mounts as mine are collapsed and re shim wot needs doing plus price to fit mugello kit . Then il take it from there I'd like it back by Saturday at latest for royal standard ride out but doesn't look like it now
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:34 am
by Muttley McLadd
simonwwfc wrote:plus price to fit mugello kit .
Who has advised you to go for one of these, over a GT? And.. why?
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:21 am
by tonydevon
seeing as you dont need it until Saturday, why not have it fully airbrushed too?
think you might be pushing it a bit, full rebuild and run in for the weekend?
couple of hundred miles? to run it in, then back for dyno? I assume you cant dyno a new motor.
Re: 186 kit advice please
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:46 am
by chrisM
A tight deadline never helped me to make the right choice so far...
Maybe you can "borrow"/rent a well sorted spare engine for this run and you have time to decide about the layout that suits you best. I don't have any experiences with the GT kit, but it would be the one I would have in mind for a nice smallblock engine (and the soon-to-be-here? RT kit ...)