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Yes saw that. Defintely a bargin and worth every penny of the asking price but I would not have spent 52K on it in the first place. I would have choosen a different engine as I do not see the point myself. When we start this little projects they often go over budget I wonder what the budget was when the guy first started this!!
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The 52k quoted refers to R+D and dyno time, a lot of labour hours at ICE too that cant be cheap. Probably "only" 20-25k in parts. £8.5k is a very reasonable asking price but whenever you spend fortunes on something which is of limited appeal to everyone or a niche project, you know you are going to do your dough. The fact that it runs on methanol and has solid heads restricts its use to pure drag racing, and only for those who have a trailer (and preferably a crew). All that said the world would be a boring place if there werent people around to push the envelope like this, we'd all be driving sbc's. In answer to Kevs question, at current exchange rates 52k could buy you 815ci all ally big block that'd make 1800-2000 bhp on nitrous. Just the thing for nipping down to tesco
I can see your point, but why bother with a RV8? Why not use an old flathead, if they wanted a REAL challengeHairbearTE wrote:....All that said the world would be a boring place if there werent people around to push the envelope like this, we'd all be driving sbc's.
Besides, only the block is actually Rover, (maybe not even that) the rest is one off stuff, so how does it get Rover v8 world records? It's rather like the 'Harley Davidson' championship top fuel drag racers, with NO actual Harley parts in the motors.