The V8 Owners Forum -

Hello everybody,

Just found out about this forum so signed up straight away.
I'm in the process of restoring a Land Rover Series 3 109 V8, 'Stage 1'. Right now, I'm working on the V8. It's a 1981 3.5 (11D suffix A) Range Rover engine that was rebuilt in 1996 by RPi Engineering. Before I removed it from the vehicle, it was running nice and smooth on a pair of SU carbs. However, since I'm doing an extensive restoration of the entire vehicle and have no history of it (I bought it to restore), I decided to pull the engine, clean it, and to check it for wear.
I'm no engine expert or builder, but I'm competent enough to strip, repair, amd maintain them (old tech ones at least).

Welcome!

So that should have the restrictors behind the carbs to keep power down to about 90 BHP !!

Well worth throwing those away.

Chris.

They're long gone. I'm planning on fitting an Edelbrock 500 and a cam upgrade, just trying to work out which cam for my heads, they're standard and un-ported. I assume the pistons are originals which in 11D prefix engine should be 9.35:1 compression ratio.