Its difficult to know where to start describing Julian's car, he has done so much work on it!
The original car is a 618i Limited Edition, it left the factory almost as the picture above,
except for the front fogs and Espace splitter.
Modifications at this stage were
SMC body kit (factory fitted)
17" Team Dynamics (factory fitted)
lowered via Apex springs on standard shocks (factory fitted)
Renault Espace front bumper splitter
Ti front brakes
Black Diamond combi brake discs all round
Black Diamond brake hoses all round
painted brake callipers
de-cat pipe and K&N panel air filter
electric mirrors
electric rear windows
clear side indicators
cream leather interior (from 620GSDi, see other Rover 600's)
cruise control (from 623GSi, see other Rover 600's)
one off hand made top front strut brace
2.2 VTEC Engine conversion
A Honda Prelude 2.2 VTEC (a J reg Jap import) provided Julian with the 200bhp H22A Honda engine for the conversion.
h22a fully rebuilt by hand everything replaced and sprayed red lightened flywheel and balanced oem clutch balance shaft adaptor fitted to stop seal from coming out rebalanced crankshaft with new bearings head fully ported and polished by myself inlet manifold fully polished and mild porting by myself vortex throttle adapter fse with guage ARP head studs stainless bolts everywere on engine manifolds nuts bolts are aircraft grade as they handle extreme temp manifold fully wrapped in heat proof wrap aem fuel rail with custom fittings custom fuel line thanks to hampshire hose top people blitz air filter behind bumper induction pipes wrapped in heat proof wrap mugen manifold and down pipe modified to suit stealth exhaust stealth dual twin exit exhaust specially made thanks to simon at stealth exhausts
- cat bypass
uprated fuel pump 255litre
one off top strut brace hand made
rear strut brace
lower strut brace
18 inch k2 team dynamics
full abs conversion using 623 gsi loom
modified sump plug to suit sensors
oil cooler with custom oil lines thanks to hampshire hose
red rocker cover from the states well done ebay
boot lid liner hand made by my self
goodridge brake lines
lsd m2b4 gearbox fully rebuilt and sprayed red
Abs fully fitted
goodridge clutch line one off
full goodridge overbraid on the water pipes with coloured hose ends one off power steering hose vafc2 vtec controller nos fitted but was never used speedo delimiter fitted tested by pacing against Ti
hand built ecu adapter loom pics sent to boomslang
custom drive shafts mix and match from prelude and 600 greenstuff pads all round headlite washers rover 800 and honda accord
new chassis
Rebuild in progress...
Julian lived with his car in a garage for 2 weeks,
there's a bed upstairs somewhere!!
bilstein shocks all round
apex springs 35mm drop
predator body kit
air con
dual air bags fitted from 623 gsi whole dash fitted to suit full cream leather with electric seat
prelude short shifter modified to suit rover gear stick
rover 75 wooden gear knob welded to gear stick and droped and customem cream gear gaiter hand made p38 land rover walnut handbrake
auto meter oil presure
auto meter oil temp
auto meter fuel air mixture
auto meter fuel pressure
auto meter volt meter
custom windscreen pod and stitched and covered in headlining material to suit rest of car lock wood white dials door puddle lites wired in clear indicators headlight covers standard car fully sprayed under neath with underseal stainless bolts used every were cruise control with rover 400 paddles steering wheel contols for ice modified airbag to suit cruise contol fully dynamated reversing sensors bought but were never fitted all black parts of dash covered in wood covering to suit walnut trim
ICE
krc 579r with wood face
9044 graphic with wood face
kenwood a
amp
s201 cd changer interface
2x cd changer
ipod
2x 10 inch subs one off boot build
fully re-uphollstered boot lining
kenwood 6x9
infinity componnet speakers at front
hand made ice leads with broadcast spec cable
