Thinking about a V8 upgrade for mine. Wouldn't touch a rover v8 - chances of finding a clean enough one that's not going to cost you a
bomb to bring to a decent power is very slim. Rather put my money in a more modern unit and incur the smaller cost of configuring...
If you pay peanuts...
Mentale, yar? Yar, mentale!
Drive it like you stole it!
I have a Rover V8 in my Viento. I would recommend a RV8 because it is just old simple tech and is easy to learn to build an engine. There is
plenty of help online and virtually every problem has been encountered before. There are many doubters on here but they forget that not everyone has
built a car before. My car weighs 750kg with 210bhp. Plenty of power and it makes the most glorious noise.
If you are a experienced car builder/engineer then I might go for a 1uzfe but there are no manual gearbox options. A adapter plate needs to be bought
or fabricated. Again plenty of people have done it.
Hi Chris
Thanks for your input, looking at achieve your built is fascinating, yes I do agree with the simple buit. Would you please tell me if the sump had to
be shorten, would you be so kind to post pic, and what did you do radiator?
Built my locost with a RV8 10 years ago and it was a right laugh. Decided it needed more so twin turboed it but that had issues so chucked a 3.9 v8
in - pics in archive.
Would i use another RV8? It's a brilliant engine - tough as old boots and when it dies it'll be because it is properly knackered and
because some bit of software says so. No
I'd go for a diesel. Similar power available from a diesel but 40 - 50+ mpg, which given that you'll be pootling around with the rest of
the traffic for 99% of the time (and you won't hear you v8 above 30 mph makes it a no-brainer for me.
I wonder how much the TDV8 in the current Range Rovers weighs? Being a Ford Duratorq, it might even be easy enough to bolt up to Ford inline boxes?
Ironically, it's much more powerful than the old RV8 petrol engine, despite being a diesel, which just goes to show how far technology has
come...
I've got a Range Rover with one in, and with the windows up and all the sound insulation you get in modern RRs's, it actually sounds
really nice - it's only when you wind the window down that you can hear the diesel death-rattle.
quote:Originally posted by axle
Hi Chris
Thanks for your input, looking at achieve your built is fascinating, yes I do agree with the simple buit. Would you please tell me if the sump had to
be shorten, would you be so kind to post pic, and what did you do radiator?
When I said cheers Chris I was thanking the original poster of the videos, not signing off. If you want info on his car you'll have to U2U
him.
I didn't have to alter the sump in my Rover V8 powered Viento. I used a radiator from a TX1 taxi. It was the biggest radiator I could get into
the nosecone.
quote:Originally posted by Sam_68
I wonder how much the TDV8 in the current Range Rovers weighs? Being a Ford Duratorq, it might even be easy enough to bolt up to Ford inline boxes?
I'd be inclined to use a four cylinder bmw from a 120 etc, though I did toy with using a 330d donor. Alternatively, the Jag V6 diesel can be
chipped the 260 bhp and tons of torque (same as LR engine but twin turbo) and prices are coming down
Yeah, I've never weighed one, or even seen one out of the car, but I'm sure that the TDV8 is a hefty lump of a thing and I'll bet
that the packaging of the turbos would cause problems in a 'Seven' too.
Definitely better with a 4-pot in such a small car (though that arguably applies to petrol too) - the suggestion was fairly tongue-in-cheek!
for the radiator. nothing special.. It probably could do with a bit more cooling, but it got me round France end of march this yr with the skcc.
I bought the car with the v8 in it and it had been taken to bits and rebuilt.
Sump is standard, but the Xtreme is probably a bit higher than some anyway - tho from when I had one with a pinto in, the standard pinto sump fitted
too.
I essentially changed it from carbs to EFI using bike TBs- mainly for fun! I got 195hp and a fairly flat torque line 216 IIRC.
One good thing in my mind re the rover v8 is that it is not tooo wide at the top. When you get to DOHC on both sides, the engine would never have
fitted in the xtreme.
v8 - you know you want to
(oh have to say that sadly with the air filter on and the bonnet, the inlet noise is dulled far too much.., but giving it some you can still hear it
along with the exhaust, which is mad, and it is sweet )
ha, my post and the above went at the same time, same point re width.
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Rv8,s make a lovely noise but they don't make much power even when tuned but they have the advantage of being relatively straight forward to get
a manual box for .
Mine has a rover v8, pretty wild spec on the engine as it came out of a dragster and is fantastic. Sounds great and very very quick. My other car is a
4.5 TVR cerbera and the Lotus 7 is quicker in every way. Grip is fine in the dry as mine has 245's on the rear and 215's on the front.
Biggest issues is cooling. I ended up removing the mechanical water pump and using an electric water pump along with the biggest custom radiator I
could squeeze in. Engine runs at 75 degrees which is perfect for a rover v8.
I also changed the chassis quite a bit and the engine sits much closer to the middle but I still have room for my clutch foot to the side of the pedal
!!
