Show us your Maestro/Montego...

[D87SMW]

Ho hum...

Well sorry for using the correct name for my car.

Suppose I'll be calling 'GGT a Maestro Clubman next, as it is the same mechanically.

[John S]

As someone once said regarding Diesel cars: the " i " in " TDi " isn't necessary, as all Diesels are "injected."

"Di" can also be the abbreviation for 'direct injection' however, although this isn't exactly as 'cutting edge' now as it used to be.

I don't have an EFi, although yes my 2.0i will be undergoing a "conversion" in the near future.

Obviously not everyone *wants* a turbo as Matthew Semple has pointed out in another thread, but I'd recommend converting an EFi engine to Turbo. It sounds one hell of a mod and performance is equal to the Montego Turbo with the added bonus of smoother throttle response over carb cars. Pity Motobuild don't carry out such work anymore....

John

[Jonathan]

Does it really matter?

This is the sort of pedantic hot debate over not much that gives "enthusiasts" of anything a bad image to everyone else. This is wandering dangerously into the realms of green anoraks, thermos flasks and notepads now.

[D87SMW]

Does it really matter?

This is the sort of pedantic hot debate over not much that gives "enthusiasts" of anything a bad image to everyone else. This is wandering dangerously into the realms of green anoraks, thermos flasks and notepads now.

:laugh:

No there shouldn't be a hot debate over simply pointing out, and using the correct name for a car.

[G51 NAV]

Wish I'd just kept my bloody trap shut

[Beaker]

Unless I am reading wrong, my car tells me, in bright red badging that is a.........

That looks like faded red to me.

Sorry! But that did crack me up :laugh:

[D87SMW]

Sorry! But that did crack me up :laugh:

Things with no depth to them usually do. By the way, I didn't say it wasn't faded, just bright red.

[MGTurbo]

Sorry, I can understand where you got that from, but we already know that it's electronically fuel injected, as the " i " in " 2.0i " states.

As someone once said regarding Diesel cars: the " i " in " TDi " isn't necessary, as all Diesels are "injected."

I think the 'I' in your case stands for irritating.


However, on a TDI, it could quite easily be 'intercooled' for example.

And yes, everyone knows the 2.0i is injected, but i'm still confused, why convert to 'Efi' spec when you already have it????

[E_T_V]

Things with no depth to them usually do.

Oi behave!. No flaming allowed remember.

[Guest]

Pity Motobuild don't carry out such work anymore....

Good Job they dont imo

[D87SMW]

And yes, everyone knows the 2.0i is injected, but i'm still confused, why convert to 'Efi' spec when you already have it????

I'm not. As you said, it has the same mechanics... I was only on about the name being 2.0i rather than EFi. Perhaps Skatiechik didn't realise it's just the same model with a slightly different name...

BTW, does anyone have a Montego/Maestro MKIII dashboard and center console going spare?

[Guest]

BTW, does anyone have a Montego/Maestro MKIII dashboard and center console going spare?

Would that be K-reg? If so you're welcome to come help yourself to the corpse of my Maestro. I'm in Telford.

[MGTurbo]

Good Job they dont imo

Too right. Think the only people who think motobuild are great are people on here that read their £5 catalogue which came out about 15 years ago. If they were so great they would have made the Efi system work properly with the turbo, the reason it didnt was because it was bodged...

Gareth

[John S]

Too right. Think the only people who think motobuild are great are people on here that read their £5 catalogue which came out about 15 years ago. If they were so great they would have made the Efi system work properly with the turbo, the reason it didnt was because it was bodged...

Gareth

Still think the concept of an EFi turbo is great though, pity that it's hard to get a gearbox totally up to the task. Yes, I have been reading the catalogue (year 1995/7). Whilst Motobuild are expensive and not exactly a flawless company it appears that there were very few other specialists for Maestros & Montegos during the 80s and 90s so you can't knock 'em for supplying tuning parts that the average person may never have got hold of.

John

[steve smith]

and here is my monty vdp (fingers crossed this works) :laugh: