OMG!... Eighteen litre Rover V8 on ebay..

HairbearTE · Post by **HairbearTE** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:02 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rover-Meteorite-M ... 286.c0.m14

Post by **Coops** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:21 pm

good job Gav aint into v8's anymore

chodjinn · Post by **chodjinn** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:01 am

found that last night as well! Would love to see a transmission that could cope with that torque! Jesus, imagine bolting on two turbos hehe

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:33 am

To deal with the torque a 2:1 or 2.5 to one transfer box immediatly after the flywheel (to gear it up and spin the gearbox faster than engine speed) then into a torque converter and into a power glide should do it. Or go transfer box, clutch into a TKO 600. Either should work.
Mike

chodjinn · Post by **chodjinn** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:10 am

stop giving me silly ideas mike I'm already skint!

Post by **Rossco** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:06 pm

Makes my new 7.6 litre toy look a little limp

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:04 pm

Hi Chodjinn
With the transfer box approach it would let you drop the crank below the rest of the drive centre line, with a shallow dry sump pan you could get the whole lot pretty low in the car

, I'm not saying it would be easy to put it in an MGB . . .

. I think you would need to make a set of headers that spilt into two after the collector so you could fit 4 turbo chargers as sizing them might be tricky otherwise but it would look cool with four turbos just sticking through holes cut in the front wings

.
Mike

ihatesissycars · Post by **ihatesissycars** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:51 pm

thev8kid wrote:good job Gav aint into v8's anymore

Cheeky sod, did one notice a certain burgandy capri in classic ford recently. . . . .

Post by **Coops** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:55 pm

no sorry mate, dont get classic escort anymore,

ihatesissycars · Post by **ihatesissycars** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:57 pm

Pffft! Well if you did you'll see my old car featured in there, albeit with a dinky iccle cossie four banger in but pretty much identical everywhere else.

HairbearTE · Post by **HairbearTE** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:45 am

ihatesissycars wrote:Pffft! Well if you did you'll see my old car featured in there, albeit with a dinky iccle cossie four banger in but pretty much identical everywhere else.

Spoken like a man whose getting that V8 urge once again..

kev_the_mole · Post by **kev_the_mole** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:33 pm

Gav,

still got the Porker then?

ihatesissycars · Post by **ihatesissycars** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:20 pm

Yup the urge is still there but it won't be satisfied a good few years now!

Hey Kev!

Err no, I do have a mondeo though. . . . .

I've left cars alone now and taken up my old hobbie of mountain biking plus some dirt jumping and just recently road riding. I won't being satisfying the car bug for a quite a while now as I'm saving to go to uni in a year or two now.