MG MAESTRO TURBO (G99 LKH) NOW ON THE ROAD
Discussion
hi all i just thought of showing you all wot i've been up to,after many years not been on the road and many persons trying to sort this mg maestro turbo to get it up and running as it did have a t16 lump which went pop then went back to original 8V turbo lump.
the wiring was all messed about with and could not find the problems as you fixed one then others came along and so after so after,so i said to the owner bring to my place and i get it sorted.
right the first thing i did is to rip out the wiring that was the problem and replaced it fully with original maestro turbo(from my old no:250,that car save quite a few turbos now)
then i had a problem with cutting out after runs hot due to the fan not working(replace the fan motor)then it was cutting out and would not start so i cheacked the relays and that sorted it for a time and it was cutting out again.
with a chat with a few people and said crank sencer so i change that with the owner replacement it did it again so changed it again with one of my spare sencers and now all great.
then a bit of welding had to be done on the front member(thats now done)
this had taking me over 2 weeks with all these problems to sort out and now it was for the M.O.T and its PASSED
one more mg maestro on the road at last....enjoy,enjoy you turbo now STEVE&CHRIS MOOR at sledmere house 5th - MG Vintage Car Rally
http://www.sledmerehouse.com/events
the wiring was all messed about with and could not find the problems as you fixed one then others came along and so after so after,so i said to the owner bring to my place and i get it sorted.
right the first thing i did is to rip out the wiring that was the problem and replaced it fully with original maestro turbo(from my old no:250,that car save quite a few turbos now)
then i had a problem with cutting out after runs hot due to the fan not working(replace the fan motor)then it was cutting out and would not start so i cheacked the relays and that sorted it for a time and it was cutting out again.
with a chat with a few people and said crank sencer so i change that with the owner replacement it did it again so changed it again with one of my spare sencers and now all great.
then a bit of welding had to be done on the front member(thats now done)
this had taking me over 2 weeks with all these problems to sort out and now it was for the M.O.T and its PASSED
one more mg maestro on the road at last....enjoy,enjoy you turbo now STEVE&CHRIS MOOR at sledmere house 5th - MG Vintage Car Rally
http://www.sledmerehouse.com/events
Balmoral Green said:
Nice work. Does my heart good to see this sort of thing on PH 
i was glad to help to keep this turbo on the road.....steve been waiting since 2003 to drive his car,wow thats a long time.....just seeing him with a very big grin made me very happy and would help him any time as he know's that.....I briefly owned one of these, a green one, not sure on the number, think it may be either 48 or 51, cannot remember now. Anyhow picked it up from the dealer, by way of servicing my new machine had gained some Mintex brake pads, otherwise standard. I remember driving it up the road from the dealer and hitting 3500 revs and the car just taking off. My previous car had been an XR3 putting out around 96bhp so the turbo charge on the Maestro came as something of an enjoyable shock.
The great fun with these cars was that they looked like a bit of a "sleeper", I remember upsetting many drivers at the "grand prix traffic light scenario" as you overcome the turbo lag and took off like a rocket, I out run many Mini Cooper's, Golf GTI's, 3litre Capri's, Pug 205GTi's etc. From memory the 0-60 time was 6.9 seconds which back in the day was pretty nifty.
The downside was these cars did not handle, it felt like MG uprated the con rods/pistons/gaskets and whacked a reasonable sized turbo on the side, breached the exhaust and that was that, the chassis was not really designed for the enormous increase in power, consequently going around corners you would suffer quite a bit of lift off/tyre squeal and the car had the potential to drop you in the cack very quickly.
The other slight hick up if you were an onwer was at the time no workshop manuals were available, as only 500 odd of these cars were built expertise on them (at the time) was limited so any mechanical issues were hard to resolve.
The great fun with these cars was that they looked like a bit of a "sleeper", I remember upsetting many drivers at the "grand prix traffic light scenario" as you overcome the turbo lag and took off like a rocket, I out run many Mini Cooper's, Golf GTI's, 3litre Capri's, Pug 205GTi's etc. From memory the 0-60 time was 6.9 seconds which back in the day was pretty nifty.
The downside was these cars did not handle, it felt like MG uprated the con rods/pistons/gaskets and whacked a reasonable sized turbo on the side, breached the exhaust and that was that, the chassis was not really designed for the enormous increase in power, consequently going around corners you would suffer quite a bit of lift off/tyre squeal and the car had the potential to drop you in the cack very quickly.
The other slight hick up if you were an onwer was at the time no workshop manuals were available, as only 500 odd of these cars were built expertise on them (at the time) was limited so any mechanical issues were hard to resolve.
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