A Street Sleeper is reborn! THE END

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nearly there from an outside perspective old lad, keep at it and keep breathing, you'll get there and it will feel so sweet when she finally catches

cheers matt for push on wards!

Right, how common is this swap!!!?

Last night I was driving along a nice stretch of road on the Dorset coast in the (bone stock HDI) and this metro come up behind me, I floor it best I can slowly creeping past 80 and this fucker sails straight past me! Thumbs up exchanges all good fun.

Def was not the advertised 1.4, was a very clean H reg, dark red colour.

it was very common right up till a few years ago, mind some are not all VVCs mind, some got the 1.8 non vvc engine in which is more plug and play,
it could have been a 1.4 16v those are not exactly slow cars either, 100 bhp in a tin can is quicker than a standard HDI, Due to the weight.
There is a too much shite about dropping that engine there, depending on what Gearbox you used. In the end we did it our way instead, the info was so conflicting its unreal!  I am into 6 years with this conversion!  
 

It was a very common swap back in the day, and i've been out of Rovers for 6 years already. There were always a good number of them about on the Rover forums I used, and I never went near any Metrot forums.

At the end of the day it's 160bhp in a shoebox, more if it's a Lotus derived VHPD unit.

The vvc side of things wasn't that common in the metro world, the 1.8 none vvc was due to how plug in play it was, and the cost. that's going back to the days of 2003 to 2006 It was  2007 up till about 2010 that VVC engines in metros started to be popular. That was due to the cost of the VVC engine dropping in price.
Wont be many knocking about now I tell you c2k, most of the ones I saw on the forums, were broken up for parts.

Lotus derived VHPD units in metros is very rare to see been done sadly due to the cost, I have only seen 3 good builds in a space of 12 years. All are now no longer running sadly.