austin metro gta / mg metro
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please can anyone tell me if these engines were the same cheersa lee

no gta is a 16valve k series engine with 5 speed box

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Didn't some of the early GTa's still have the A series??

http://www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/fmi/statist/Pe...00/metroGTa.htm

If it's a 1990 one maybe

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At launch, the Metro GTa was the penultimate sporting model in the range: this brisk hatchback was powered by the 8-valve version of the 1.4-Litre K-series engine and served as a suitable replacement for the well-loved MG Metro 1300

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The GTa was launched in 1990 with the new Metro range. It continued on the success of the Austin metro mark 2 GTa.

yeah i mean the mk2 metro gta with the a series engine was told it was same as mk mg metro engine

i always thought the cam and possibly head were different

the vanden plas were aparently the same as an mg but with a milder cam

i read this somewhere in my youth

I always thought that the VDP used the exact same engine as the MG Metro?

not accord to miniworld a few years back, ill try and dig out my kyma 2, i think it says in there

I always thought the Mk2 metro gta was just a rebadged mg metty although i have obsolutely no evidence to support this

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the metro gta/ mg/ vdp and 1275 sport all used the 72 bhp lump but like all austin rover stuff just had different interiors whells ect, but some may have had different cams heads ect but they should be the same.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

heres one sold i know but its got a piccy

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Austin-Metro-GTA-127...3QQcmdZViewItem

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

i inspected a friends VDP engine from an 86 car, this had an MG cam and a STD (33*29) head. I had no inclination that it had been touched from new, i had been sitting in someones garage for around 10 years. My own GTA engine from an 89 car was identicle to the MG engine i have sitting in my garage.

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

The GTa is the MG Metro Turbo, without the turbo. MG block but has the same suspension setup as the turbo. I believe it was the last sporty special addition.

bugger i passed up on a gta engine a few years back

curse you miniworld, curse you

depends on what year the engine was depending on what head ect, eg early stuff had 36 mm inlets than when they went unleaded some had 33 inlets some had 36 and that goes for all models.

i once pulled a 88 mg metro head which i new the car from new and had a 33mm inlets in it !!!!!!. with a 3.1 diff

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Same suspension setup as a turbo? Didnt both torbu and non-turbo metros use hydrogas?

Makes me laugh when people sell "Metro turbo brakes" on ebay when all metros had vented four pots.

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pre 85 metros used stanard 4 pots un vented 8.4 brakes except turbo, then after85 all metros used vented 4 pots

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Ah i stand corrected i was almost right :p

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when i bought some mg metro vented discs a few years back the person there told me that the turbo had a seperate part code and were more expensive

is this more shite ive been told

Perhaps said person was referring to Pre 85 metro as hogster suggested?

My 88 1.0 metro had exactly same setup as some i savalaged of an old turbo metro.

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I was told last weekend that the Gta was one of the last austin shape metros, And it had all the same kit as the turbo because they were using all the leftover parts from the warehouse, They are actually a nice car, a mint one up the road was for salr for £500

I have been offered a VDP for 200£

I am now very excited about what I just red here because I first made the offer because of the 1275, then I thought about the brakes and it's quite cool.

Question by the way, does the front seats fit in a Mini ?

I can, depending on the state of the car, ride it for some time but I have been told it is not good looking and I am a little concerned about the Hydragas.

Anyway it would nicely do for stting up the engine before squeezing it in my Mini. One thing at a time kind of business

Rusty by nature

yes, you can make the seats fit the mini