{"id":165,"date":"2004-07-11T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-01-05T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:51:27","slug":"12-the-black-2-0-4x4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"13 The Black 2.0 4&#215;4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/Images\/dohc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/Images\/dohc.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twin-turbo.blogspot.com\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/Images\/dohc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/twin-turbo.blogspot.com\/www.rob1tt.f2s.com\/Images\/dohc.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problems with the XR4i meant that I was on the lookout quickly for another family car. Ebay once again came to the rescue&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A 1993 Black XR4x4 2.0 ( Yes I had vowed never to own another 2.0 ) was on in the next town. I got outbid, but an email to the vendor resulted in the car being dropped off the next day ( baby toby was only 2 days old! )<\/p>\n<p>It looked clean apart from the rear arches, had all the toys late cars had, drove nicely, etc&#8230; \u00a3190 well spent&#8230; I put my cosworth wheels on, and my nice cosworth leather steerng wheel to tart it up a little&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well I spent \u00a3190&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Alarm bells started ringing when the water level kept dropping, my heart sank. This time i decided that a convertion was too much work, the car was needed. I bought the necessary parts from Fraud, and asked a freind if he colud help ( he likes his twinks ) , I set to work without him as he was commig down from glasgow ( 100m ) &#8230; And was just about to start puttig it back together when Neil turned up, good job too! he took a look at the Cylinder head and spotted the tiny crack that was the cause of the problems..  We had a spare head, but still struggled to get it back together, tensioner was loose, thermo housing snapped, rocker cover leaked, PCV was lose&#8230; But in the end it all went back together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The car ran better, used virtualy no water but smoked on startup still ( worn rings I guess ) but overall was useable.<\/p>\n<p>Then I decided it was too small for the family and it had to go, fortunatly it had reached my theoretical Value For Money which is 10 Miles for every \u00a31 spent&#8230; I had Spen ~\u00a3300 and covered 3000 miles..<\/p>\n<p>Even more fortunatly, someone in the North East wanted it&#8217;s diff for his Locost Kit car. And agreed to buy the whole car for \u00a3250.. I wanted some of the trim off the car so agreed on a price of \u00a3225 delivered.<\/p>\n<p>I had no time to remove what I needed before setting off,  It&#8217;s amazing how much of a sierra interior can be removed whilst driving&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And it was gone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problems with the XR4i meant that I was on the lookout quickly for another family car. Ebay once again came to the rescue&#8230;. 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