Development V8 Auto VIN 07

[Phil]

Will this be the only MG badged auto then Tony?
Is that how it started its life?
If it is, then surely Rincewind would have some memory of it.

By the way, are you having to respray the car?

[SH4RKY]

Will this be the only MG badged auto then Tony?
Is that how it started its life?
If it is, then surely Rincewind would have some memory of it.

By the way, are you having to respray the car?

There are a few Auto MGs in Oz...?

[colintf]

There are a few Auto MGs in Oz...?

thats also my belief

[greeners]

Auto's in OZ

well I've done a bit of Googling and found this

If you scroll to page 5 you'll see that lot 127 is an auto MGZT 260.

Andy - you might want to make a note of the VIN's for the register
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[greeners]

Auto's in OZ

well I've done a bit of Googling and found this

If you scroll to page 5 you'll see that lot 127 is an auto MGZT 260.

Andy - you might want to make a note of the VIN's for the register

and it does indeed come back as

VIN:SARRXXLGJ5D000783, MG Rover, Rover 75 V8 and MG ZT260, Class 5.1, 4 door, Saloon, Normal Aspiration, V8, MPi, Petrol, 4600cc, 4 Speed, RHD, Automatic, Model Year: 2005, S/N: 000783
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[Keith]

Toms silver ZTT in Lituania was an auto

[colintf]

possibly politically incorrect, but is this any good to you Tony?
http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...ewpost&t=54335

[tonybubble]

Hello Phil,

I received this note from one of the development engineers (I have left his name out for reasons of privacy).

Firstly may I introduce myself, my name is ***** ***********, I was the Powertrain Project Leader for the X12/13 programme, namely the V8 ZT's.

The car, or at least what is left of it, was the first usable auto V8 built by MGR, not the first V8 auto built, but certainly the first capable of being driven. Nic Fasci is correct it was never Supercharged. It is due to this car that the RD12 (Rover V8) programme was born.

The car was in essence a skunk project, I think the difficult birth of the whole V8 project is fairly well known and during the time that the project was 'shelved' this car was engineered by a few of us kept on the project.

This car (I cannot recall the SDV number, T7 I think) was originally a manual ZT, we took the car, removed the powerunit, cut out the trans tunnel, fitting the wider tunnel necessary for the auto trans, installed a new powerunit, electrical harness etc and made the remaining modifications required to complete the car.

The car was then presented to the Board for assessment, the results were far more favourable than expected, the original remit was to produce a V8 Auto MG, but the refinement of the car was such that the decision was taken to engineer the Rover V8.

This particular car was then used for a number of engineering activities including pass by noise certification in Idiada, Spain. Whilst this was taking place a new 'Rover' body was being prepared and ultimately the powerunit, being unique, was transplanted into the 'Rover' derivative and NVH/Interior trim work continued.

So there you have a little history, if you are to restore it to its original state you will have an MG ZT V8 Manual, alternatively you could restore it to the one and only MG ZT V8 Auto that ever existed.

*****

PS the auto ECU's are unique, a manual ECU does not have the hardware to control the Auto Transmission.

[scooter]

Now you see the reason we do not do the Auto

[tonybubble]

By the way, are you having to respray the car?[/quote]

Forgot to answer this bit. The body is in good, certainly useable, condition so probably we will only be respraying the front bumper and bonnet (which needs replacing anyway).