pandamonium Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 One of our club members has just obtained this car.I thought AS deserved to see it!
pandamonium Posted February 21, 2010 Author Posted February 21, 2010 Listen to its V8 rumble! He plans to restore it and ditch the rover v8 for something more reliable. (Think LS1)
pogweasel Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 Wowser, that's not the FB-wagon-with-V8 I was expecting. Super cool!
trigger Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 I was just looking at that on RR!, He should just roll it as it is, maybe just adding a few disabled stickers on it for added effect. It's a proper sleeper!.
Pete-M Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 Zackly. carb Rover V8s are hardly unreliable..
pandamonium Posted February 21, 2010 Author Posted February 21, 2010 I'd say air filters would be a cheap and easy mod for reliability.Well, durr. It has just been pulled out of a barn, so is incomplete.Zackly. carb Rover V8s are hardly unreliable..Really? Not what I heard.
wuvvum Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 I really, really like that. I would agree with keeping it as it is.I have to say I've never had any problem with carb'd Rover V8s. As long as the cooling system's been done properly it should be fine.
pandamonium Posted February 21, 2010 Author Posted February 21, 2010 Biggest problem is the dimensions, such as the fan pulley trying to wear its way through the radiator. A chevy LS1 lump is 3" shorter and 4" narrower. Here is how the engine bay looks now.He will be running it with the rover lump for a while, but I doubt 130bhp will be enough.
pandamonium Posted February 21, 2010 Author Posted February 21, 2010 ... as this is his last project! and this.
Pete-M Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 Zackly. carb Rover V8s are hardly unreliable..Really? Not what I heard.Yeah, really. The cam will rattle if you don't change the oil often enough, but that's about it. What kills Rover V8s is people who don't know what they're doing with them - the kind of muppet who'll chuck a set of points in without setting the dwell angle. Another killer is people who try and run the 10.5:1 engines on cheap unleaded without adjusting the timing. The P6B I had last summer was a perfect example, bloke had done his best to be good to it, paid a garage a fortune to service it, but the garage obviously didn't know what it was doing. I picked it up and it was pinking badly, idling badly and didn't have much poke. After an afternoon of setting it up it was sweet as a nut - and stayed that way for as long as I had it. Started first turn of the key, idled happily and smoothly at 650 rpm, pulled like a train and wasn't that bad on fuel.They're a dead simple engine, ignorance and laziness is what kills 'em.
whitevanman Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 ... as this is his last project!AH!! Our Mark.....didn't realise you were one of the Nightmares.........
whitevanman Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 Aye.Knowing Mark 130Bhp will not be enough Guaranteed
pandamonium Posted February 21, 2010 Author Posted February 21, 2010 ... as this is his last project!AH!! Our Mark.....didn't realise you were one of the Nightmares.........Yup, have been for two years now. Which reminds me, memberships are due!I'm also a member of the Lada owners club, which is a bit silly as I don't own one ...... yet.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT
lovejoy Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 hey, yhose old 215 cu.in lumps are bloody good old motors, originally a Buick (GM) design, the Septic Tanks were just no good at casting ally blocks in those days, whereas we had more experience in UK with that, and solved all the bugs, but it is a wide lump for its capacity.That's why people used the 289 / 302 Ford lump in Alpines to create fake Tigers (Algers) as they are physically smaller in size to the 3.5 Rover lump, yet 1500 cc more in capacity.But the proof is in the pudding in that that old Buick design has made it out to 4.6 and even bigger over the years.As Pete says, bloody good motors, it attended to properly.Yay, do i Luurve V8's, may they go on for ever...... I think an LS1 in that Vauxhall would be total overkill though, and a bloody nightmare to install. 400 bhp from a ford small-block should be enough for him, and the car, surely? !!
lovejoy Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 Now that looks very sweet ! Thanks, Saabhappy
saabhappy Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 Saw it at an evening pub meet at The Ketch, Kniveton, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
saabhappy Posted February 21, 2010 Posted February 21, 2010 I meant to add those pics are almost 2 yrs old now. It was a work in progress and the bloke who owned it and his lad were good to chat with.
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