Hi all,
Recently entered the strange world of French cars by way of a crazy rare barn find. A friend was selling a 1990 405 Mi16x4 on behalf and after figuring out what it was I jumped straight on it. Now, it has been off the road for ~12 years and in needs a lot of love, but I've already started on that.
I'll start a build thread later, but in the meantime things I've done are: stripped out most of the interior to remove an awful alarm system and get to the heater core which is leaking; replaced the compromised AFM with a new chinesium one; started rebuilding parts of the... interesting... Bendix ABS system after a bleed screw snapped and I found rust around the base which has also gone through the firewall.
Currently it looks a bit worse for wear and I'm actually looking into either doing a full resto or just swapping the Mi16x4 bits into a good Series 1 SRi if I can find one.
Anyway, hello all.
P.S, here's a couple pics from when I first got the car. I'll put more in a build thread.
Cool car - good luck with the rebuild!!
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Cool! Love those things, good luck!!!
Cool find good luck with the build :)
Enjoy - it's fun!
Welcome, and cool car. Will be interesting to see the rebuild.
There was a couple of good 405mi16 bodies tucked away by someone on here - not sure but he may have binned them recently though. If not could be good donor body for ya...
Wozzers great barn find, I have a few 405 mi16 that you can pillage any parts you may need for beersies, Im located in Feilding
Thanks for welcomes guys.
@cams16v, thanks for the offer, there doesn't seem to be too many 'highline' 405s or parts up for sale. Maybe I just don't know where to look. Pity I'm located down in Chch though, else I'd trade you a lot more than liquid for a clean chassis. ;)
Getting a body shipped down and swapping parts in may be better economy than running around trying to find parts from all over, plus painting it if pics of your bonnet & bootlid are anything to go by...
One of the cars was mine that I stole the engine out of for my 205. Pics of it immediately before and after engine removal:
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I refurbished the wheels and still have them in my garage (along with some 17" gti180 rims) if you're interested.
Yep if i could remove this 405 mi16 without the rims I currently have on it that would be even better ;D
Quote from: cams16v on November 07, 2016, 06:11:41 PM
Yep if i could remove this 405 mi16 without the rims I currently have on it that would be even better ;D
;D :-X :-*
Oh wow guys. This is super tempting because I actually have a car trailer and would totally justify driving up myself. I'd even bring my own wheels, haha. Most important thing to me is that it's a series 1.
If there's another car I'd love to see some more pics of both.
Yes this is a series 1. Even has most of the dash if I remember correctly. It was meant to have been put back on the road already...!
Other car was just a stripped out rolling body, if he still has it that is.
The other mi16 is a wreck, that one above is the best one
Sorry to slightly hijack this thread but do you still have the loom from either of those wrecked 405s Cam? The engine I got came from a BX and a 405 loom would be easier to splice into the 205 one.
^ if you have a bx loom, most of the 'how to' wiring diagrams are based on this loom. i think it's a little easier to deal with or something.
jap imprt looms are often whack as though
Yeah I was sure the bx is a easier wiring loom to deal with as well, but yes I'm sure there's a 405 wiring loom some where in the garage
I chopped up one from silver car to slam that mi in my 205.
^rough
Yeah the howtos usually say the BX loom is good as it is all self contained, basically just give it power and plug a few things in. But the Fast Master (Simon) reckons the 405 loom is better/easier to graft into the 205 one and it will be him I run crying to when the whole thing doesn't work so I figured I'd roll with what he thinks is best ;D
Lovely cars those Mi16x4's. I have fond memories of the one I owned many decades ago. It was red too!
Remember seeing an indicated 200kph on the speedo going over the Waipuna bridge one quiet night...not sure how accurate the speedo was, but she was still pulling like a schoolboy when I thought it's probably time to jump on the anchors ::)
Welcome along and good luck with the resto!
Welcome along. I've had two of these, so if you need any advice I might be able to help.
I've always been under the assumption that the floor pan of the AWD 405's was different from the FWD ones, so you would need to check that before committing to a swap if it's not another 4bie shell.
Chur
I've actually been looking into that fact. It seems the tunnel is enlarged near the front to fit both the drive shaft and the forward exhaust resonator. I'm still trying to compare the two properly, but I might be able get away no resonator if I do a chassis swap. However, if I do need to modify a 2WD chassis I might as well fix my 4WD chassis. It's not that much rust...