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My Metro is my first car. It used to be my mums and I had use of it for nearly 2 years before it became mine. It started out as a Rover Metro 1.1 Miami. It had a 1.1 k series carb engine, sunroof, gta seats and a radio cassette. Pretty soon I got my hands on it and started to give it a little bit more of a modern look by colour coding the bumpers, handles, wing mirrors, vents and other bits. But this wasn't enough though, so I got a spoiler and fitted that to the rear hatch, and with the addition of a stainless steel tailpipe to set it off, it was looking pretty cool. I then got some replacement wheel trims as the rover ones just wern't with the whole new look of the car. These wheel trims have become pretty popular now, its the wide 8 spoke ones from halfords. Also it had had the suspention pump up to 4x4 level just recently and would roll like a barge round corners, so a little dabble with the valves at the back and it was sitting at about the right level (in my opinion) the tyres just filling the arches nices. I was quite pleased with it and for the engine size it was very respectable 60bhp and 0-60 in 13seconds (or less if you were lucky). Unfortunately one day I got a phone call from my mum that she had broken down, her explanation was "it just stopped and wouldn't restart". I assumed the worse would be a broken cam belt and would spell disaster for the little beast, unfortunately this turned out to be the case and my parents were looking at a �600 bill to fix it, and at the time the car wasn't worth much more than this. Whilst at uni, I managed to pull the car from the scrap at the last second by chatting to a few friends of mine from the Performance Metro Club (PMC from now on) and sourced a new engine and got organised a date when we could repair the car.
After a weekend of beer drinking, cursing, a gallon of WD40 and plenty of head scratching, the beast once again sputtered into life.
I had decided I fancied something more than a 1.1 this time, and the opportunity was ripe. A lovely 1.4 8v carb GTa engine
now sat "purring" under the hood and I couldn't wait to take it for a damn good thrashing. Read more about the rebuild in
Rebuild of K780 BNF
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