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I am also in South Africa, have 3 x Rover SD1 V8s. 1 is an Historic race car, other has 4.6lt with Edelbrock carb and then a stock 3.5 with SU's, all manual .

I am also a Land Rover fan, V8's especially

Weber 500 CFM definitely has problems on track with fuel surge. My race SD1 when I first fitted the Weber battled in the corners with surge on its first race. I imported high flow off road needle and seats from the US and also fitted a fuel surge tank with a facet red top fuel pump and problem sorte...

The company in South Africa is Gilo Engineering, they do a bell housing and flywheel to Toyota gearbox (the Cressida W57...) http://www.giloeng.com/ I had a quote last year to fit a W57 gearbox to my RV8 race car as that gearbox is 13kg lighter than the LT77, have not gone that route as yet Maybe yo...

Fortunately I have a proper double roller chain with vernier pulley so the cam timing can be set properly

Greetings all. My SD1 race car is now back from bodywork and full re spray so it is now time to assemble it. I am contemplating what to do with the 2 engines I have and after trying the SD1 cover on the interim 3.9l I decided I will go that route for now. I need to install my new cam kit as well, do...

Yip, always watch it on TV a few weeks after the event. awesome to see

will post some pictures up soon of the build.

It would be great to run at Killarney, never been to that track as yet

Thanks for the replies guys, gives me a good idea now what to do. I have 2 spare engines, 2 spare g/boxes, 2diffs with different ratios, loads of parts used and plenty new in packaging as well as a brand new 3.9lt block still in its crate and 3, SD1's to play with :D I might just remove the LSD unit...

Thanks for the reply Mike. I run the car in Historic racing in a road legal class called Marque Cars. The engine is not full race as the car gets driven to the track. Basically I am looking at torque and will not rev over 6000rpm anyway. My 3.5l has been very good over the last 8 races but I fall sh...

Morning everyone. I need some expert advice please. My race Sd1 full bare metal re spray is now complete and I can start assembly. I was going to fit my spare 9.35-1 comp 3.9lt efi motor (but with Weber 500cfm) to the car keeping the serpentine belt system etc but as I run an electric water pump I t...

Thanks Guys, nice to be on here. Hey Paul, yes remember you from the SD1 site, I was lucky to get the ex Police car, drives like a dream, used it to go to work today. The spares package I got with the car is a site to see. I have gone through everything twice now and 80% of the items are still new i...

Thanks Guys, nice to be on here. Hey Paul, yes remember you from the SD1 site, I was lucky to get the ex Police car, drives like a dream, used it to go to work today. The spares package I got with the car is a site to see. I have gone through everything twice now and 80% of the items are still new i...

Good day everyone Been looking at this forum for awhile now and decided to register. Very informative forum you guys have. I am also a RV8 nut but like most V8's anyway Cars I currently have. 1986 Rover 3500 SE (full Vitesse spec but with a 4.6lt) was an ex London Police car, previous owner immigrat...