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To be honest, it still amazes me just how cheap these engines are, I sold a genuine 62000 mile, SD1 Vitesse engine (reputedly 190bhp :lol: ) recently for £150, absolutely complete. And for reasons even I can't explain, yesterday I bought another one from a Discovery, again complete with flywheel, in...

After a disatrous purchase of a pair of TVR manifolds that A, will not fit, and B, really will not fit, I have been trawling Ebay for an alternative manifold solution for the SD1 Rally car I am building. P38 Rangie manifolds seem to be in abundance, question is, are they any good? If looks are owt t...

Hi, Love the project, sd1 vitesse was one of my school boy dream cars, so I'm loving it.... Just a quick note on the exhaust manifolds..... I believe that the 80's touring cars with 300+ bhp use ported standard cast manifolds.... just a thought.... Great fabrication work, going to be cool when its ...

Just a quick update for now fellas, I am still cracking on with this project, but not much time for all this computer malarkey. So, managed to get a few hours today, finally managed to get the carbs and manifolds on to check for under bonnet clearance, and to check the TVR manifolds, which didn't go...

Hi all, I have had a very quick scout around this site, but can't find what I am after, so new thread.............. I am looking for a set of new Forged, high compression (12-13:1ish) "Intruder" type pistons, for my RV8 I have tried all the regular sites, Accralite (94mm only), Omega, etc ...

Thanks Gents, i'm Lee by the way.

I am very interested in all the points that you make, and will be taking them all on board, but whan I have got all the bits together and start the build proper, I will be calling on you guys for some more tips and advice.

Thanks again.

Sounds like you have a sound basis for a high rev 3.5. Re the cam I still think that it may be a little wild for a rally car with virtually nothing under 3000 RPM also it's a mechanical cam and with need solid lifters (cam followers in english) adjustable rockers, adjustable roller rockers would be...

Hi fellas, I have mentioned my spec in another post, but here goes.......... The crank will be Knife edged and balanced, or if I can find on at the right price, a steel crank, Arrow steel rods, Ross or Cosworth Intruder pistons, my block is X-bolted, I have a dry sump system, the heads are very nice...

Just had a look myself, seems exactly what I am after..............

http://www.crower.com/products/camshaft ... appet.html

Pardon my ignorance, but what is meant by "Flat tappet"?

Hi all, I have lierally just collected my cam, from my mate that was off Marcus (HairbearTE), and the grind number is 50305. I hope that you can give me some indication now as to what C/R will be optimum.

Cheers in advance guys.

Hi From what I remember he did have a pretty wild mechanical cam up on here a while ago, is it that one? If you can get the grind nomber off the cam we can google it and see what you have. Unfortunatly I don't think there are many alternative engines that can "donate" pistons for the 3.5 ...

Rather embarrasingly, I don't know the exact cam spec, it is a Crower item that I have bought off HairbearTE off here, and if I am honest, I haven't picked it up from my mate who kindly collected it for me!

I am led to believe though that it is pretty wild, Marcus may be able to shed more light?

Thanks again everybody, every day is a school day.

As for CR, not sure yet as I am learning every day, but I have a very wild cam, and intend to use quad 45's or throttles..........

Thanks Tom, I'll get measuring.

I wasn't aware that the heads had any difference in chamber size, that will make a difference when I order my pistons, as I intend to use very high compression "Intruder" pistons.

Well, I did it, had a good day yesterday, positioned the engine and fabbed some mountings up, got the engine nicely back and down too........... In position......... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Sunbmw/SAM_1535.jpg Tack on chassis brackets.......... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/S...