Graceland
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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
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| posted on 4/9/04 at 07:54 PM |
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Nice one mate... jammy get !
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JoelP
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| posted on 4/9/04 at 09:49 PM |
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auction was on £8 for a while! nice one paul.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 4/9/04 at 11:00 PM |
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There aint no sub 4 cubic inches.
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Graceland
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 08:28 AM |
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there aint no replacement for displacement
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 08:35 AM |
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four cubic inches is about 70cc
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Graceland
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 08:45 AM |
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200 CI then for the 3.5 rv8 - not bad that i rekkon
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twinturbo
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 04:54 PM |
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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
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 05:55 PM |
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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
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 09:02 PM |
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oooooo! Brumble, bruuuuumble! I love the sound of a v8 with some decent headers and exhaust.
Congrats on your good luck.
Steve Graber
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"Quickness through lightness"
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wilkingj
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 09:35 PM |
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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).
Best Regards
Geoffw
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Graceland
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 09:48 PM |
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i'm going to be getting an MT75 to mate to the V8 - should be pretty easy
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blueshift
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 10:13 PM |
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Welcome to the club
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Hugh Jarce
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 05:39 AM |
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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.
The pay isn't very good , but the work's hard.
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