can imagine something like am Ultima with one of these would be good fun!

£660 not exactly cheap or 'locost'

And probably the "ecu and auxilliaries" will cost a bundle after the auction!

Caber

"better than the Rover V8 engine"

In what way exactly!

ATB

Simon

Definitely a nice engine but you can pick up complete cars with all the stuff needed to get it running (ecu, engine loom etc) for less.

as said you could probably get a whole for near the same money and that way you'd have everything from the gearbox and diff to all the electrics

but what a nice engine, wonder how fast it would be able to get the aerodynamic brick to

From what I've heard, they have a problem with cooling such that the 4 rear most (2 per bank) don't get warm enough after starting and hence they tend to oil up/foul up and the result is that most people with these engines end up driving around with a V8 anyway.