RE: SOTW: Citroen BX GTI 8v
Discussion
Superb sotw, something different, wont lose money,love it!
Always amazes me how many ads you see where the car has just had a lump spent on it,makes no sense and screams bork but what could be that fooked on it that its not worth doing if you've just spent £600 on it yet its a problem you can hide when selling?
Guess in this instance £895 is just what the cars worth and he just needs to sell it?
Always amazes me how many ads you see where the car has just had a lump spent on it,makes no sense and screams bork but what could be that fooked on it that its not worth doing if you've just spent £600 on it yet its a problem you can hide when selling?
Guess in this instance £895 is just what the cars worth and he just needs to sell it?
Edited by nagsheadwarrior on Friday 14th September 11:51
P-Jay said:
"For the price of a Sofa"
Quite obviously never been furniture shopping with my OH...
^this^Quite obviously never been furniture shopping with my OH...
We recently did 10K on two sofas and that was with a decent discount...
http://www.arflex.it/en/prodotti/divani/455/navigl...
gforceg said:
What next? A Visa GTI? Are there ANY of those left?
I used to work for a firm that used Citroens of all sorts as company chariots. I quite liked the quirkiness and gadgets in 1988.
Not many, but this one was up for sale recently http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CITROEN-VISA-GTI-similar...I used to work for a firm that used Citroens of all sorts as company chariots. I quite liked the quirkiness and gadgets in 1988.
Truely great shed!
The 8v is the one to have as the 16v isn't a lot quicker and is far more complicated, and more difficult to work on. Hell, we changed so many clutches on these in the 90's as no one else would touch them.
Dave Walker even had one as a track day car in his CCC days!
The suspension is pretty reliable too.
Now a good BX story.
My workshop and yard is at the bottom of a hill. I was just emerging from the workshop and there was a woosh and a BX flew past driverless hit a parking pole and grounded out on a seperating kerb between ours and next doors car park. It was thoroughly stuck there with odd fluids peeing out from underneath.
Owner pitches up an hour or two later, looking un fazed. He blamed "kids" for pushing it down here. Fact was, the handbrake was u/s and he had parked it on the hill in gear. Obviously it went over compression and whey-hey look out. On its journey it missed 2 Harleys woth about £25K between them and 3 cars worth about £30K between them. The gap between said cars was little more than my Range Rover and it went plumb centre!!
The owner was still unfazed. If I had emerged 5 secs earlier it would have hit me!
Anyway, he started up he car, it rose up on its suspension and away it went.
I was so pissed, I was hoping it had done itself some terminal underneath damage.
No justice,eh?
Well, it proves that a BX is pretty bomb proof. and can drive itself without hitting anything!
The 8v is the one to have as the 16v isn't a lot quicker and is far more complicated, and more difficult to work on. Hell, we changed so many clutches on these in the 90's as no one else would touch them.
Dave Walker even had one as a track day car in his CCC days!
The suspension is pretty reliable too.
Now a good BX story.
My workshop and yard is at the bottom of a hill. I was just emerging from the workshop and there was a woosh and a BX flew past driverless hit a parking pole and grounded out on a seperating kerb between ours and next doors car park. It was thoroughly stuck there with odd fluids peeing out from underneath.
Owner pitches up an hour or two later, looking un fazed. He blamed "kids" for pushing it down here. Fact was, the handbrake was u/s and he had parked it on the hill in gear. Obviously it went over compression and whey-hey look out. On its journey it missed 2 Harleys woth about £25K between them and 3 cars worth about £30K between them. The gap between said cars was little more than my Range Rover and it went plumb centre!!
The owner was still unfazed. If I had emerged 5 secs earlier it would have hit me!
Anyway, he started up he car, it rose up on its suspension and away it went.
I was so pissed, I was hoping it had done itself some terminal underneath damage.
No justice,eh?
Well, it proves that a BX is pretty bomb proof. and can drive itself without hitting anything!
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Used to ave a 16v, wish I'd never sold it. 
How many other cars can you do this?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HK2nTRvm_s&fea...
How many other cars can you do this?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HK2nTRvm_s&fea...
V8 FOU said:
The 8v is the one to have as the 16v isn't a lot quicker and is far more complicated, and more difficult to work on.
Really?? Never found Mi16 405s harder to work on than SRIs, and they had the same engines.The D6D in the SRI/BX 8v used the same 1905cc block as the Mi16/BX 16v, it just had a different head on top and different pistons. The D6D was also only good for 125hp, as opposed to 160hp in the Mi16 so the performance difference was marked, but I can't see how an extra cam, longer timing belt and bigger head would make it far more complicated??
Fantastic! 10 out of 10 from me.
Here's the advert from when the previous owner Dom in Glos. was selling it:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C301350
And here's the eBay listing:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte...
So with what it went for a few weeks ago, and what the current owner has spent on it that's about £1300?
I only know all that as I've been quite attracted to it for a while. Shame about that slight damage on the front NS wing.
Wasn't there a big Citroen rally recently? If taken there it may have found many likely buyers?
Here's the advert from when the previous owner Dom in Glos. was selling it:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C301350
And here's the eBay listing:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte...
So with what it went for a few weeks ago, and what the current owner has spent on it that's about £1300?
I only know all that as I've been quite attracted to it for a while. Shame about that slight damage on the front NS wing.
Wasn't there a big Citroen rally recently? If taken there it may have found many likely buyers?
Didn't the LTT CAR Magazine white BX GTi 16V trash it's gearbox somewhere near Northern Italy? I remember the photos of it up in a ramp with the OS wheel of it off.
I'm not sure many get the trade off between multiple valves and differences in torque and BHP curves. Some of the debates read a bit Top Trumps to me.
There's an idea for a technical article here, comparisons of torque and BHP curves between the 944 2.5, 944 2.7, 944 16V ventilier and 3 litre 16V S2.
I really struggle when people compare large capacity 8V fours with smaller capacity 16V fours with VVT and the like and just say 'BHP' a lot. Because we can all feel and use BHP when we're on the dual carriageway to work or doing the supermarket or tip run can't we.
I'm not sure many get the trade off between multiple valves and differences in torque and BHP curves. Some of the debates read a bit Top Trumps to me.
There's an idea for a technical article here, comparisons of torque and BHP curves between the 944 2.5, 944 2.7, 944 16V ventilier and 3 litre 16V S2.
I really struggle when people compare large capacity 8V fours with smaller capacity 16V fours with VVT and the like and just say 'BHP' a lot. Because we can all feel and use BHP when we're on the dual carriageway to work or doing the supermarket or tip run can't we.
Edited by carinaman on Friday 14th September 12:16
J4CKO said:
I sort of have an appreciation of this but they were willfully ugly really, they look like a 1970's "futuristic" speedboat, not much want here for me.
You need to read the advert for it from the previous seller that mentioned Gandini and all the other stuff he'd done. 
I don't mind the looks. I like the lightness.
E reg? No need to worry about an inefficient and energy sapping Catalytic Converter there then.
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