The V8 Owners Forum -

I recently used AW Transmissions in Coventry, very pleased with. It's only a 1man operation but Andy knows his stuff.

Do the RS larger valves 1.63" in /1.4" ex fit the standard 88.9mm bore with no clearance issues (other than shrouding)?

Well I answered my own question and it's the smaller ends supplied by real Steel ie 5/32 for rhoads lifters

Hi, I'm still confused as to which pushrod end should fit my rhoads lifters for the rover V8, 5/32" or 3/16". The 5/32 fit right into into the bottom of the cup of the lifter, the 3/16 sit in the machined edge of the cup. Reason I ask is many years ago I had a pushrod and lifter fail and suspected i...

I've not had any failures with mine, but blue smoke could indicate valve seals or rings. Do the compression test like you say, is oil pressure ok? Mine originally wouldn't run, it would start but not idle firing out the holley carb but if you revved it fine above 3k, turned out to be a faulty electr...

Build is 3.5l 10:1 compression stg2 heads typhoon cam Was wondering what lifters & rockers to use... Rockers - are the v8 tuner steel feferal mogul rockers with new shafts a useful budget upgrade? Lifters - ive previously run these 20yrs ago and did have a problem with 1 liftet / pushrod which neede...

Thanks, i measured the wear line to top of block and got 7.22mm or approx 30 thou piston to deck as crown of piston is 6.5mm thick

Anyone know the piston to deck height on a std 3.5l sd1 9.35:1 conpression engine?
Just working compression out, but ultimately will measure when i get it back from machine shop,
Cheers

Ok thanks, I'll give it a go....what could go wrong

Hi all, I've made a conrod balancing jig to measure end to end weight, repeatable to 1gm. I weighed the little ends and having made them all equal i now need to make the rods all the same weight taking it off the big end. Now the largest variance is 9gms ( next one is 5gms) , am i ok taking all this...

Hi I'm rebuilding my Tr7v8 3.5 as per Real Steels article in Fast car magazine many years ago, it already has Typhoon cam, rhoads lifters, adj pushrods, holley and offy manifold. Rebuilding with RS 9.75 pistons but now uprated cylinder heads too. My question is as RS don't do cylinder heads anymore,...

I am fitting a Typhoon cam in a mate's 4,6 engibe. Hoever, there is no info about cam timing with the can and could not find it in my archives either. I believe full lift should be at 110 degrees but need to verift it. Anyone ? I've just bought one and info with the cam states Intake lobe centre 11...

I've stripped my rv8 3.5 down and now want to carry out some machining work, however my usual machine shop can't inline hone the mains, so any specialists in the lancashire area who can carry this out? Work wanted: Rebore +20 thou & hone Replace oil & water gallery plugs + thoroughly clean Conrod ch...