Ph2 Flamer
Just curious. My ph2 172 is on 95k (bought it at about 78k and did belts, aircon delete and v6 induction almost immediately at JMS).
Love driving it, still pulls well, epic fun to drive (pms strut brace and solid top mount and rear arb) but have been thinking about a new car, spent weeks researching S3's, R32's etc but all seem too grown up and ended up really fancying a mint 182 lol.
But then I've been thinking I love the flamer and why not just spend a couple of grand on making it a bit faster and getting the little niggles like the minor bodywork issues sorted, whack a 182 exhaust on it (maybe do something like the 519 Automotive 438 cams deal (cams, ported manifold and remap along with belts etc). But if I do that, even though it seems in good working order now is it going to explode or suffer massive everything failure at 115k miles or do these cars go and go if kept well?
Basically at 95k am i better to chop it in for a nice low milage 182 or, for the sake of a few years till sprogs force a family car spend perhaps half of what a nice 182 would cost on making it really smart and quick. I know if the engine did give up or something it's not much to drop a good used one in but I think if the engine or gear box gave up i'd probably not bother. You see the odd 120,000 miler up for sale, but how much longer do they keep going? Should probably say - its a daily driver, b road fun but not a track toy or anything.
Love driving it, still pulls well, epic fun to drive (pms strut brace and solid top mount and rear arb) but have been thinking about a new car, spent weeks researching S3's, R32's etc but all seem too grown up and ended up really fancying a mint 182 lol.
But then I've been thinking I love the flamer and why not just spend a couple of grand on making it a bit faster and getting the little niggles like the minor bodywork issues sorted, whack a 182 exhaust on it (maybe do something like the 519 Automotive 438 cams deal (cams, ported manifold and remap along with belts etc). But if I do that, even though it seems in good working order now is it going to explode or suffer massive everything failure at 115k miles or do these cars go and go if kept well?
Basically at 95k am i better to chop it in for a nice low milage 182 or, for the sake of a few years till sprogs force a family car spend perhaps half of what a nice 182 would cost on making it really smart and quick. I know if the engine did give up or something it's not much to drop a good used one in but I think if the engine or gear box gave up i'd probably not bother. You see the odd 120,000 miler up for sale, but how much longer do they keep going? Should probably say - its a daily driver, b road fun but not a track toy or anything.
) esp when its clean. Why so against the 182 exhaust? Sadly i inherited a powerflow piece of junk with the car and the next job is to replace it. Got one bumper cut out so perhaps not as subtle as it should be so a big part of me things a nice looking twin would be better than the stupid pos i have currently. Not fussed on buying a new bumper just to have a stealth. Probably wrong but to me if you have a rusty metro the exhaust should be hidden, if you have an exhaust that costs 400 quid it should stick out the back, not pretend there isn;t one....
