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Graceland

posted on 4/9/04 at 05:33 PM Reply With Quote
Just bought my engine - mmmmmm V8

stuffed the V6 idea off and won an auction for a V8 on ebay

27.80p was the winning price and even if it needs a rebuild, which i suspect it will get anyway, is a bloody good price for a whole engine

woohoooooooooooooooo

collecting tuesday night - pictures will be taken then

glad i built the bigger chassis with the taller and wider engine bay now hehe






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Ben_Copeland

posted on 4/9/04 at 07:54 PM Reply With Quote
Nice one mate... jammy get !





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JoelP

posted on 4/9/04 at 09:49 PM Reply With Quote
auction was on £8 for a while! nice one paul.






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mangogrooveworkshop

posted on 4/9/04 at 11:00 PM Reply With Quote
There aint no sub 4 cubic inches.






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Graceland

posted on 5/9/04 at 08:28 AM Reply With Quote
there aint no replacement for displacement






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stephen_gusterson

posted on 5/9/04 at 08:35 AM Reply With Quote
four cubic inches is about 70cc








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Graceland

posted on 5/9/04 at 08:45 AM Reply With Quote
200 CI then for the 3.5 rv8 - not bad that i rekkon






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twinturbo

posted on 5/9/04 at 04:54 PM Reply With Quote
Now find the SD1 Five speeder or the ford conversion Bell housing kit

TT

p.s. there was a BH on ebay last week..

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Graceland

posted on 5/9/04 at 05:55 PM Reply With Quote
gonna get my mate who is an ally welder on the case and we are going to modify an MT75 gearbox to fit






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sgraber

posted on 5/9/04 at 09:02 PM Reply With Quote
oooooo! Brumble, bruuuuumble! I love the sound of a v8 with some decent headers and exhaust.

Congrats on your good luck.





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wilkingj

posted on 5/9/04 at 09:35 PM Reply With Quote
I too will be getting a Rover V8 in a weeks time, I remembered a mate changes his Range Rover from V8 to diesel a few years ago.
He Still had it in his Shed. £70 including everything bar the starter motor. It was running fine when it came out. He just became a diesel demon.

I have a SD1 bellhousing, but need that Elusive SD1 gearbox in working condition. They are getting a bit more scarce.
Basically they are an LT77 (Leyland Transmission with 77mm between the shafts) these are not the best of gearboxes and not behind a V8. They also suffer from poor Lubing of the output shaft. I have one in my Diesel Land rover, and they are not cheap to replace.
LT85 is better in a Landrover, but I dont think its any good for 2WD.

Does the Team think / know of any other boxes that will fit with a convertor plate, (except the T5).

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Graceland

posted on 5/9/04 at 09:48 PM Reply With Quote
i'm going to be getting an MT75 to mate to the V8 - should be pretty easy






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blueshift

posted on 5/9/04 at 10:13 PM Reply With Quote
Welcome to the club
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Hugh Jarce

posted on 6/9/04 at 05:39 AM Reply With Quote
The Toyota Celica 5-speed is a really good box. It's amazingly strong with a HUGE input bearing. They're small and aluminium so quite light.
You can buy bellhousings to mate it to just about any engine ever built. I put one behind a RV8 in a 4 cylinder MGB. The stick came up in almost the exact same place too.





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