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What's peoples opinions on keeping a car completely standard apart from a stainless steel exhaust (which is identical apart from the steel) , I'm determined to try and retain it as it came off the production line, more for originality reasons than practicality and and she's a genuine car.
Well that's basically what I am doing with NWL, the way I see it she's dome 107k hard work and it's time for retirement back to factory spec. The only thing I would do to NWL which is non factory is to fit electronic ignition, just because in my opinion it's a no brainer.
Then I have RUK which isn't exactly factory, I have a set of MGF seats, the wiring is modified and it has trackerjack brakes on, plus a radio, the door pockets and lumenition ignition. and NWL's drivetrain is about to be put in to be run in. But thats because RUK is my daily driver.
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I don't see the point of buying lets say a Dolomite then fitting very different engine because 'It will do 35 mpg and be more reliable' when a well kept car is already reliable.
Completely agree, people will always have opinions about what you should and shouldn't do to your car, at the end of the day it's your car and you do what you feel makes you enjoy it more.