Saved From The Scrapheap? Will this 1997 Rover 114 1.4 GSi Run & Drive after being sat for 10 years?
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- In this 2 hour resurrection special I dive deep into a cult classic Rover 114 GSi, I love how these little cars have aged and when was the last time you saw one?!
Lot's of challenges faced in this one, a lot more than I initially thought but it was a lot of fun getting over all the complications.
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That's a very nice thing to say thank you!
@@tastyclassics your very welcome. I’d like to donate something to you. Is there anything you need? Tool wise! With in reason though haha
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The whole cash for bangers deal hurts when i think about what got crushed.
Some of the cars they scrapped are worth a bloody fortune now. Specially the Japanese stuff, and the fords.
How Right you are such a shame all those Great cars Distroyed at the time
If i had the cars i scrapped back in the day i would be rich. Gutted
@@isaacsrandomvideos667the reality is they’re worth a because of the amount that got crushed.
I have a near concours 114 sli same colour with 29,000 miles. Only thing I’m missing is those alloy wheels. It’s a great fun modern classic I’ve just had all new refurbished hydragas units fitted so it drives just as it did when new
There’s a man in the south who started a small business refurbishing hydragas units he was in practical
classics magazine not long ago
I had a Rover Metro 1.4GSi - it was a fabulous motor. My understanding is that the early K series engines didn't suffer from HGF and if some Land Rover head gaskets and bolts were fitted, the later ones would be OK too.
I love the horse strapped to a trailer idea, your definitly onto something 😂
How about inventing 'drive through' bar'b'ques (basically someone's garage 'on fire' with the doors open and the back wall missing !)
The crime is that there is in fact a photo .Real or fake we all saw it. So you love a crime.
@@ruivaleriano9273 wtf are you smoking, sort ya head out
Why stop at horses. I'm thinking of the wife!
People say the k series is that bad but if they are maintained properly correct coolant etc there actually reliable the Corsa d engines are more prone to head gasket failure I have a rover 45 51 plate on 72k miles now and never blown a head gasket I know because it's been in my family since brand new
Were the gaskets not thinner on some of the tuned engines like that used in the MGF? I had two go in those over the years.
Love these videos, can’t be bothered with all the restoration guff on the tv now. Now many of us can relate to ex F1 mechanics but can to someone who has to improvise, ask for help and occasionally drop washers inside the engine 😂. Keep them coming Ben
Haha I couldn't agree more cheers mate!
Hello Tasty Classics I love ❤️ watching your videos they are exciting and never get boring.
Thank you for being on RUclips as I am disabled and suffer with mental health issues it’s always a joy to watch you do your cars/and all sorts of other wonderful stuff.
I love old cars and my dad loved his cars but he died when I was a teenager and I have always loved working on cars and I used to buy bangers and do them up and sell them for a little profit when possible.
Anyway take care
From Richard in Dronfield Derbyshire
Hi Ben,another great entertaining video,we do not need wheeler dealers or car sos anymore, just an hr video from you once a week, much more fun to watch,and thank goodness half of your videos are not taken up with a " car vertical" check.
Not bad for £300 , the K series once the head gaskets been took care of it's rather reliable. I drove 280 miles and back in a 1.8 k series Rover 45 no issues. The car done me proud!
The smaller 8v K Series weren't half as prone to head gasket failure as the 16v and larger variants.
K Series twin cams engines were quite revolutionary all aluminium strong revy units and once the HG was upgraded and done properly gave little problems there are far worse engines out there, I have three K Series cars and have had no issues with any HG’s.
@@Captain_Scarlet_SIG Agreed great engines when properly serviced and looked after. In my opinion its the marginal level of cooling system content rather than the engine itself which didn't help head gasket failure - any small loss of coolant and the engine would instantly run hot with inevitable results. I had an early 8v K series 1.1 powered Metro followed by an R8 214 16v and they were both trouble free.
Your content is awesome! Love what you do… I’ve watched 4/5 of you videos now f***ing brilliant I’d rather watch you than any shit on the tele 😂
A few notes for you TC, all those BL/rover dash boards fitted all vehicles Layland/ rover/ Land Rover so if you owned a metro your Discovery had the same switches and dash...another flaw with the dash was the fuel gauge stopped and stayed in place so someone walking past your car at 3am could see if you had enough fuel for them to get home to a different town. the immobiliser could be bypassed in 3 mins and even quicker if you had forgotten to blip lock it.
As for rust bearing in mind I was the second nearest MOT tester to the rover factory in Swindon we was failing Metros at 3 years old for rust, some of the problem was the body shells were pressed and semi assembled at Swindon then trucked 28mies to Oxford with no paint on, oh and then the workers went on strike lots of times...this meant your brand new car sat as a naked body shell somewhere on the line or out in a truck stop in the rain just Passed Farringdon on the A420. We pre cut repair panels and templates to weld in.
A thing I miss MOTing is when you get a metro, open the door, put your thumb on the door seal and fingers into the bit where the floor meets the inner seal and squeeze !! crunch and Fail!! LOL Anyway owned 2 or 3 the last one I was doing 70 foot flat on the floor when the asleep taxi driver on cruise control hit me up the back end on the motorway, I was expecting him to race left passed me to the loos at the service station but he was sleeping and ploughed into the back of me, we did the most amazing slide with the o/s/r locked up the actual stopping distance of a metro thats hit up the back end on a motorway is the same distance from the slip way to the service station and I was still on the motorway luckily with 3 lanes to spin across. only the drivers door opened even the sunroof popped out the boot lid had popped and the glass was gone, the rear doors never opened again and I had to yank open the wife's door to open it, it folded like paper! and that was a rear end shunt at speed in the same direction 20-40 mph difference ?
Ben you really are the patron saint of lost cause s bless you only on the tasty channel love it pal
Had a Metro 1.4GL, the radio went funky, so i unplugged it while driving. The Engine then Earthed through the accelerator cable and set the throttle at full. FUN!!! Then it got nicked while i was at college, What really gutted me was that the police found it and made me take it back :(
Makes you proud to be British, we could make cars that rust faster than the Italians. Great video.
Always a “Metro to far” for me. To be fair Austin Rover had designed a very nice super mini but BAE Aerospace (owners at time) said it couldn’t afford it. So we got this instead.
On the plus side it got the interconnected suspension that the Metro should have had from day 1 and a more modern engine than the ancient A series that was plonked into every BL car possible.
Love the channel. Your a natural!
Thanks you Matt!!
Good Vid Ben, on the point of the K series engine, yes they blow head gaskets, yes the reputation did contribute to Rovers demise but a good sorted K series engine can prove to be a very reliable, revvy, tuneable engine, from experience of owning 4 cars with the K series engine and still own one currently , look after it and it will look after you.
Loving the videos. Discovered your channel a few months back and slowly working my way through all your old ones. Nice one tasty 👍🏻👍🏻
I hope this channel explodes with new Subscribers!
I really enjoy your content, keep up the great work 🍻
Haha so do I! thank you ❤
Your story of what you did as a young driver made me think how i used to behave on the road when i was 17. Its amazing that im still alive to be honest! On another point my mate had a rover 114 and it was a proper rapid little thing!
Them GSI's went pretty well - brings back memories trying to jack up my '87 Metro in around 2003. Crunchy crunch.
Loving the content mate, shame it wasn’t able to put this one back on the road. Looking forward to the next video
Have to say the best bit for me is The RAD the rover alarm dance I had to watch it again 😂 good stuff Ben great video thanks
Well done for getting it running!great video
I love your videos Ben. Your presenting style cracks me up 😂👏👏
Thank you mate!
I had a 111i (think the I was for I saw you coming). Great car up to 70mph, after that it was a martini shaker, lost most of my fillings. Loved seeing one last hurrah for the Rover/metro/100, cheers Ben.
Just scrapped a Hyundai matrix GSI lol, another great vid mate 👌🤙
Really enjoy these long start to finish will it runs. Good content again.
A lot of fun and nicely done. And you have great hair!
You have some great items. Looking forward to seeing the Shakespeare Express running. I have many memories of travelling on the HST trains. Thanks for showing regards Paul.
Great video. Very entertaining. The crap we had to drive back in the day!
So glad its running buddy 😁
Also, "The power steering doesn't work..." did make me laugh 😅
Ben ; The things you do for your viewers , amazes me ! Adore your accent and sense of humour ! Always a pleasure to watch your antics , from Canada .
Another brilliant video, loved the suggestion about horse transport 😂. What a shame the underside of the 100 is so bad.
A great entertaining video again Ben. Such a shame these rotted like hell! The interiors are pretty cool though and look quality. I had a rover 214sei and it was quite a sporty thing. But the car through its history had 3 engines again highlighting the mechanical issues 🚙🚙🚙
Good night everyone I love your videos of you and your cars that you rescue and get back on the road
The Metro Clubman next to it doesn't look too bad. It needs rescuing.
Only been watching you since the wasaabi vid,watched a few vid,especially the mv6 as I have one,fantastic Commentary fantastic repair work generally evrything is fantastic,keep up the great work(got sick of using fantastic)👍👍👍👍👍
Might ask if the guy who sold the car would like the art back, unless it isn't his either!
What a random find! Lol
Brilliant vid TCUK. I learnt to drive in an D reg metro back in the 80s, grandmother had one which I had a few spins in, and later my dad got an 95 M GTA version very nippy. All rusted to dust. Keep it going man. Your dry humour is great. Looking forward to the next left4dead 😊😊
oh my days brings back the memories ,had a couple but the one that makes me have a giggle is the one i procured of a mate? told me it got moted driving it back home and the rear sub frame decided it wanted to go in the opposite direction ended up in a field minus the rear wheels but totaly beaming ear to ear thoes were the days thanks man for the giggle fest
Brilliant 1st video. You've set the bar high lads 😅
Leave diesel down the cylinders of a seized lump for a few days works wonders loving the video
Good afternoon. Yes, what a lovely little Rover 114 GSI Hatchback. Unfortunately, she has come to the end of her Life. Just spare parts for other Rovers. Your video's are very Entertaining and Educational. This is what your Amasing channel is all about. very much Tasty Classics. Sadly, you do not see these on our roads anymore. The modern day car, just seems to be a Blob and four wheels. No Life, No Soul, No Character. What has happened to the car industry?? You have a really Great channel my Friend.
The K series engine did have a terrible standard head gasket, but that is resolved with an upgraded modern head gasket, freely available.
The actual engine aside from the head gasket is actually very good.
I don't hear too many people criticising the series 1 Lotus Elise for having a terrible engine !!!
I worked for a classic car parts supplier, and the upgraded head gaskets were always in stock, and not too expensive either, so it's not an expensive job.
So, I think you are just repeating 'myths' about the K series without any real context or fact matey. A sorted K series is a brilliant engine, very revvy, very reliable.
Who knew taking the wheel off also frees up a seized engine. A couple of patches and it’ll be right as rain! Good stuff Ben.
It was a first for me! 😅
Great videos - so informative for us total mechanic novices - also love the fact that you don’t swear consistently like many others - pop over for a coffee and see if you can get my 1956 beetle started that’s been sitting for 20 years 😃🤣 keep up the good work
You have to do a short of the old boy walking into the hanging basket.
His reaction was like he had been shot.
Hilarious.
I was in tears and watched about 6 times again.
50:56 "Glove box"... "Starter Motor"... easy thing to confuse...😂
Excellent as always sir! How about sticking that k series into Robs copen!! 😂😂
R and B I used to call rovers Rust Bucket 😅😅😅
Awesome!!! Just gone on my break 😁
Great video again, engine sounds good, very entertaining ,so funny
Ah, the Rover 100... I love these little cars. Best handling little car ever! And way better in every way than the Mk3 Polo...
Fortunately, it's a non-airbag car. The airbag equipped cars probably would score zero on the NCAP test as it will likely kill you in the event of a crash. The airbag would direct you into the collapsing A post... It's a nice steering wheel though...
My little 100, a 1.1 Kensington called Kenny was amazing! No anti-roll bars but incredible fun! Rust kills them though...
I would have a GSi or a GTa in a heartbeat! 😊
Now seen the whole video. Shame it's too rusty. But it's not surprising. Rot claims them all. Loved the video though!
Keep up the good work! Very entertaining
Nowt on tonight and then Tasty Classics popped up. Time to make a coffee settle down .
You can buy updates gaskets for the K series these days. I’ve got an 03 MG TF which has only had it changed once… So far
I'm 100% sure these never had power steering. Well done getting it running in any case, I had nearly 80k on a 1990 Metro 1.1S from nearly new with no head gasket issues ever, great car.
Fantastic! Really enjoyed it!
‘Built by people who didn’t want to build it ‘ classic 😂
#bitofblue #waitingforthebus loving the blue for the dads!
Entertainment as always. Top job 👍
Another successful mission.
That was a whole load of fun. It was like you managed to raise the titanic and get those big steam engines fired up. As it crashed into a 2 post lift I think it's encap has now slipped to 0 now. 😂
Love the videos keep them coming
I looked at buying one of these brand new back in the day (GSi with leather) but it cost more to insure than the GTi 16v, crazy times 😂
Nice looking wee car,,,shame it's so rotten, another great enjoyable video,,,
How appropriate you decided to do a Metro - in honour of one of its designers; Harris Mann who died 3 days ago on 14th August, aged 85. He'd be proud I'm sure that his little baby the Metro, lived on for 18 years, from 1980 till 1998 pretty much unchanged apart from a few tweaks to the original design. By 1998 though it was so old fashioned compared to the competition, but strange to think that the car it was intended to replace, the original Mini, outlived it by a couple of years.
I had a Metro in the early 90s, basic B reg 1985 model 1.0 City X - was not a bad car, but ideal for those who are not on a great income, and for old grannies, who were the predominant drivers. Indeed my Granny did have more than one Metro, she had 3, one after the other. At least the early Metros had the A series engines which were OK.
I love your reaction when something starts up 😅😅
ooooooh that crunching, those red cornflakes, the deformation!!! That thing is pooched!!! Definitely a spares car, that's for sure!!! :S
And a couple suggestions; clip the mic onto the side of your cap, all the cool kids are doing it (and keeps it from being sat or rolled onto!), and; acquire one of them poppy-uppy gazebo tenty things to add shade outside so you don't end up looking like a chicken leg on the barbecue... :P
Great idea! Red cornflakes aswell 🤣🤣
Great content Benjamin ❤ X
I didn't appreciate that those were plastic sill covers. I thought the sills were painted black and they didn't look too bad. So very crunchy. Great video and lovely paintings. It would be good to track him down and maybe some of the models..
I've messaged him!
Cool little cars the metros when they were running and behaving right. I had a G reg gti 16valve when I was 18yr old. Thought I was ayrton senna with my cherry bomb exhaust,alpine head unit and a 1000watt bass cannon. Extremely unreliable because of electrical issues. Swapped it for a Renault 19 chamade. Terrible car but it made a lovely noise coz of the K&N 😈 lol. Another great video Ben mate 👊 really enjoy your channel
I have the exact same motor same colour everything but done the engine conversion 1.8 vvc turbo, absolute pocket rocket.
Sparks could catch the car via fuel pump alight
Metros, always good in terms of nostalgia.
Borrowed a mates d reg once , horrible driving position, engine was ancient.
I know let's put plastic cill covers on they will protect the metal work , not hid all the rust trap mud and hold moisture 😂😂.
Remeber those paisley seats from my short time as a valeter.
Video was a blast from the past , cheers.
I love your videos. Thank you 👍👍
Hi burt do you use the mondeo in the back ground love that mk2 I have the mondeo mk3 st220 that Jeremy clarkson drive round the track
the belt squalling reminds me of when my dad starts his truck up right after theres been the morning dew on the ground
Imagine having to try and strap an horse down to a trailer! You might be able to do it once but that same horse isn’t going anywhere near a trailer again!! 😂
Holden had GSi cars too, but I guess they were Opel/Vauxhalls
I have really enjoyed this video because I used to have an Rplate rover 114GSI in British racing green and it was a proper little pocket rocket and I absolutely loved it thanks for bringing me back some really good and a few bad memories
Another brilliant film TC.
When I saw the two front lift arms literally going through the floor I was like "get the hell out of there" That degree of rust is shocking.
The biggest problem with the K series engines was that owners would generally use the cars as cheap transport and skimp on maintenance leading to the cooling system clogging up with silt (due to not changing the coolant frequently enough and topping up with tap water).
That coupled with a decision to fit the cars with a radiator without a sufficient safety margin and some cost cutting with the later cars head gaskets (nylon dowls to locate them which also double up as a coolant passage) lead to them getting a reputation for constantly blowing head gaskets.
I'l drove it once but it was 114 GTI, Honda engine 1993,105PS.
And when you floored it was an knockaut -700kg. !And a death trap! SLOVENIJA, SLOVENIJA!!!
My dad loves this era of rover mg .He owns a mg tf 1.6 k series on nearly 100,000 miles and on its 4 headgasket 🙈
Loads of memories, really enjoyed that but it’s such a shame it’s so rotten.
My first car was a 1995 111i & it was a fantastic little car, did 40000 miles all over the country in it in just over 2 years, it never missed a beat & it was an absolute hoot to drive.
I don’t think they had power steering, mine certainly didn’t & to be fair they don’t really need it. Also I’m 6ft5” & remember having enough space but it became strictly a 3 seater!! 😂
Pat pending, let's work on it ! Awesome
You're a good welder, you just have to get that car back on the road!
He’d need a magic wand, not a welder!
@@ianpreece2739 Hehe, he can do it, I have confidence. 🤣 It would be pretty awesome, all that work and money for a car that would be worthless. Would make for a good RUclips series ...
I enjoyed the video greatly. Lon from Ohio...
New subscriber and loved this
Very good and Entertaining farmer ! I do like your sense of humour
Not impressed the way you let them hanging baskets die ! Does mum & sis know 😮
Great video,
If That has foxfileld rover on the plate under the sticker I may have made that plate whilst I was there, I remember rolling loads of p reg plates😊
I had p313 ndu and what is Foxfield the car was scrapped many years ago due to the suspension collapsing and the fuse box melted and caught fire
Hi what do you do with the cars when you have finished with them. Do they just go for scrap ?
i learned to drive in one AA driving school of choice car, and looks like Hydra gas shocks have died, fun little cars if the cylinder head has not blown that would be a win
Is that a collective for “men in sheds”? Amusing seeing the neat old men come over to see what’s going on in the neighbouring shed. Would be interesting to see what they are all up to as well
I absolutely loved my metro 1.1s in blue was a great little car.It was so much better than my pals 1.1 Nova far quicker and handled great😊
i love metros always have done
great save
atf mixed with acetone to soak the cylinders and/or acetone light on fire after to expand everything. But the last option iv only seen with cylinder head off, maybe a mix of both. But right volume of compressed air in each spark plug hole while lighting it on fire would be a thing i will try in the future. I got 2 Mini different size engines who is stuck that i want unstuck cause lack of money and money located to other problems like rust fixing. Sadly only a 998cc and a 1098cc and not the originat 1275cc GT. Started to write this long before i heard life from the engine, but still what i wrote might be a tool for the future.
Pour red diesel into each bore, let sit overnight then take a blowtorch to each.