A Street Sleeper is reborn! THE END

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Ok a bit of an update, I had a right bother with the exhaust side of things, with the car. As I did buy a new 16v centre section and that went know where near the piper system at all. The piper system is a larger bore, so I decided to say f*ck it and moth ball the piper unit, ( might sell that on tbh and go from scratch again) So I rang my motor factors again about a back box. Now cast your minds back to the days of the red one when I had this system on.
 
 
well for the love of money now, you cannot get that system anymore, in fact metro exhausts are getting very hard to find now! Its looking now I may have to bite the bullet and get a custom stainless steel one built for the car.
Anyway my motor factors had a right old job sorting out the two parts for me, that managed in the end. 
Laugh is the centre section is a gti unit, now here is the bit you lads might love. 
The back box that is on the red one, is a later metro gti one.
They were giving, a Unipart MG metro/ MG metro Turbo
 back box!!




I said to the lad, that's fuckin rare that one!! As Unipart used to do allsorts, and a few odds and sods for the mk1 and mk2 metros.
The back box is tailored to fit around the rear Hydro can, compared to the Metro gti one, which for some reason didn't really fit all that well.
Anyway me and my dad gets the car back up on the ramps, and could we hell get the two to fit!! 
Turns out that the back box and the centre section were the same bore, ( where you join them, the sleeve section)
My dad tried to get the back box to fit over, by increasing the sleeve section. Still didn't work! Then I said, I will try the 8v centre section, and guess what. The two slotted together with out a bother at all!!
The 8v and 16v pipes may only have a few mill differences, for the 8v one to go straight onto to an MG back box.
After an hour with the spanners, we had this

Adds to the more sleeper effect, and also for some reason the car pulls better of the piper unit that was one!
my dad got gunned down in flames over the piper system, as all I had from moody arse, was how loud the system was etc, etc. Well the noise wasn't the piper system, its a rear wheel bearing, like I told him and a mate suggested.
Some times you could give my dad a slapping for not taking listen to people!
Anyway My dad took the car for a f*ck off run, after I took it for a test drive. I bleed the system up and introduced antifreeze to the system as it was still air locking after I had changed the coolant hose.
The car is back to its old self, if not better than when it was in the GTA, as I don't have blowing system. Or a one with a bit DIY made up section, thanks to the Sportex Decat pipe been adjustable.
The car took a little bit of bedding in as the ECU had to reset it self, with the new system.
Then to top it all off, I put the car in for its MOT and tracking,  before the 306 this time. Guess what happened, It went through with out a bother! Only for a fuse to pop on the indicator and brake light system, just as I pulled away from the garage!
A fuse replacement later, and its as good as new!!
Also a here is a taster

On that note, I am going to use this as a daily for a few weeks, as the 306 is getting some love for a change.  
A few more things are on the cards, but not much more now. As I am coming to the end of the project now, not much more I can do to the car bar enjoy it, and maintain it.

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Sad thing now, with these clocking on, and rover been history now. Bits for these have come a harder than they were 2 to 3 years ago! Mind though the prices are starting to really jump up! The 16v one I had, the self model was on ebay for 1000!! I paid 180 back in 2008!
This model, has been advertised for 1500 and that's with silly low mileage! that was on a K plate.
Sadly Modified metros now, no one really wants anymore. Its all about standard ones, just how the scene has switched in the last 3 years,