FFS: Someone Stop Me

FFS indeed but i'm not gettin into this with you again ;)

-- Chet

I would but i'm skint as f*ck :) Then my monitor exploded (literally) and now i'm even more skint, then my mate offered me a cheap CPU to replace my aging 1.2ghz Duron, so now i'm EVEN skinter :D

On a completely seperate note, when cold, surely with no choke it would be a bastard to start?

I'd love to have such a little beast, tear out anything adding weight (and lets be honest, there isn't much), stick some decent brakes on (the brakes on these are S**TE), maybe stick buckets in the front (obviously the back seats would be binned) and use it as a crazed country lane thrasher and maybe track day warrior.

Nah, couple of prods on the gas before you fire it, then hold the throttle at high idle till it will hold itself.

What the Sidedraught boys need to do all the time.

Just as a matter of interest, from the front, on the outside, how would I identify a BX GTi 16v?

A house near us (infact 2) is getting cleared, and it's rotting gates have been pulled down for stuff to get hoved into a skip.

I noticed, in one yard, amongst the trees, the remains of a US Dayvan style ambulance they were going to transform into a camper, before they disappeared to wales.

In the next garden, sprouting out from amongst the trees and weeds is a Citroen BX.

Haven't had too much of a look as it is in the garden, and it has been mainly dark when I passed, partly buried in undergrowth, obviously near flat on the deck, with the nose and the windscreen visible.

What are they like for rot? What about longevity? Thinking about making an offer, and finding a lockup, if it is a runner.

You've never started a TU3S engine from the cold have you? ;)

Nope, but if you want to break it, i'll have the head and all the bits attached to it (after you've fixed it :))

Nope, but I have started a Skoda 1.3, with a DGAS38 from a 3 litre Capri, with the Autochoke dismantled, and the the jetting only vaguely played with.

In a Rapid Autograsser.

Something up with yours then mate ;-), I used to run my old GT with the choke removed was always fine in winter, just pump the pedal a few times before starting. Was a bit tricker when I went to twin 40's (I never got em jetted up right so a tea spoon of petrol down each trumpet was occasionaly needed to get it firing and then it used to start on two cyls and spit back out the other two). BTW the Z2 on the GT is a right bastid of a carb, is it the same one on the XS or did that get a webber?

Matt

Phase one had the same kit as the GTI but with sideskirts (these are the giveaway for the valver) if theirs a join line halfway along the skirt then its a fair bet its a pukka 16V.

Phase two had a rather nice subtle rear spoiler and deep front and rear bumpers with fogs. A Phase 2 will also have 14" Antractite Speedlines on it. Both the Phase 1 and 2 come with vented discs rather than the solid ones on all other models and rather tasty Rearo stlye'e seats (think big lumbar support) or tasty leather but thats very rare.

They don't rot unless they've been stacked. Little bit along the inner edge of the front wings is normal unless the stone chips they all pick up there are kept in check. Aside from that their very tin worm resistant

If the cambelts done on time and the hydro's looked after they run forever.

If its a runner and a pukka valver get it. There not as quick as the Saab (quite a fair bit less torque) but only weight circa 1000kilos. FUN FUN FUN

The 8v GTi has solid discs ?!?!?

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Same old s*it on the XS. I really do hate it. Mind you, the i'm sure mine isnt set up right anyway. Its a real bitch when cold, although normally starting it on half choke, then a few blips of 4krpm sorts it out, but dont want to upset the new neighbours at 6.40am when i go to work (the downpipe isnt really attached to the manifold anyway!)

I'd like to stick a weber (maybe just a single 40) on it, but that would require money!

Good news is the rear brakes are well sorted now though. After replacing literally everything attached to the rear hubs i can now lock them from ridiculous speeds ;)

I'm guessing Matt meant models below the GTis/16v. I'm sure i saw a normal Gti in a scrappie with vented discs (since i was gonna steal them). From my experience the BX brakes are pretty amazing on the lower models (mums 19DTR has discs all round and stops v v quickly).

Actualy only the 16V got Vented discs. Everything bar the 16V incl the GTI had solid discs. Can get confusing though cause the Phase 1 GTI 16V and the GTI look the same until you open the bonnet.

Matt

Fairy snuff. Bit surprising though!

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Looks like this one ha been sitting for a while, whatever it is.

Had a bit better look in Daylight. Can't see much. Seats looks like standard cloth (what i can see through the crap covered windows) and not particularly sporty.

Also don't know if has alloys or trims, but you can see the wheel bolt heads, unlike other BX's I've seen which had smooth trims.

Did all BX's have colourcoded bumpers/air dams?

Bad sign prob a GTI rather than a 16V

Likely to be allys then. Are they antracite?

Pretty much. Are they plastic ones of larger "straight down" rather than sloping in ones?

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OK

White

Not sure. But the leading edge bottom corner of the drivers foor has bubbled up quite badly, so probably not much metal left there to rust through