Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

I would probably run it on IAT unless it's a late model?

In my case it's the neighbours who get fed up

That is a long time to keep one car, I had to scrap my first one and buy a lot of other stuff, before realising how good these are!

My experience of talking to a Honda dealer parts dept regarding bits for an R8 is that they couldn't have been more unhelpful; wouldn't do anything without a Honda reg number.

I bet you've got some interesting yarns to spin once we can all get out &about again Ron?

Some late build R8's seem to have the window glass clips [ the clip's bolt to the window regulator] not securely glued to the glass, as in the blob of sealant is partly outside of the clip.

If unused the glass can stick/seize in it's runners.

My 89 216gsi had what I assume was a dealer fit alarm immobiliser . It automatically shut the front windows & closed the sunroof!

Now scrapped

A very nice in fact concours Mk 1 MR2 went for £7.5k? on this new car show with Drew Pritchard & Paul Cowley the other day. P.C's C/D value is about 5! Must have been filmed before Corona struck though!

On my 414 the ECU died, while it was on it's way out it developed a flat spot at the bottom of the rev range; I got one of the last reconditioned ones that Rimmers had for a good price.

They didn't want the old one back either, so not really interested in the longevity of our cars.

As you've marketed the car I deleted my content regarding price; the system wouldn't let me remove the post just the content.

Good luck with the sale Rover R8's have been undervalued to date, which hampers their preservation imo.

The Rover Dealer in Beeston was selling [second hand] 214 SLi's for £7k in 1993. I hadn't thought about the cost of servicing before splashing out.... Anyway the car needed a 24,000 mile major service just after I bought it, that bleed me dry until I learnt not to turn up on a Saturday morning & pay...

Rough ball park figure £10k? my 216GSI [now scrapped] I think that was a pre-production car, anyways first registered October 1989 cost £12k

This J registered 216GSI auto that I'm scrapping was about £18k!

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The heads, or rather the camshafts differ between cat & non cat twin cam D16's, that information is straight out of the Honda Engine Overhaul Manual. I think there is a power reduction caused by the catalyst itself.

The early 1.4 K Series is a very under rated engine! I remember back in the day [1993], the Rover salesman claiming that the K Series was a better engine than the Honda!

Nice photos!