OMG!... Eighteen litre Rover V8 on ebay..
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:02 pm
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OMG!... Eighteen litre Rover V8 on ebay..
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:21 pm
good job Gav aint into v8's anymore
Posted: 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 
Posted: 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
Mike
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:10 am
stop giving me silly ideas mike I'm already skint!
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:06 pm
Makes my new 7.6 litre toy look a little limp 
Posted: 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 
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Mike
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
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:51 pm
Cheeky sod, did one notice a certain burgandy capri in classic ford recently. . . . .thev8kid wrote:good job Gav aint into v8's anymore
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:55 pm
no sorry mate, dont get classic escort anymore,
Posted: 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.
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:45 am
Spoken like a man whose getting that V8 urge once again..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.
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:33 pm
Gav,
still got the Porker then?
still got the Porker then?
Posted: 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.
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.