THE ROVER SD1 FORUM

K5 · Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject:

Nothing as far as i'm aware.

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gillberry · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

As k5 says that hole is not meant for anything its just like a lot of the panels with holes in .

Lehto · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

Ok. I had some idea in my head that they made it there for some race use. Like if some class said you arent allowed to cut the stock chassis so they just put a hole in there so you can run rollcage turbing through there.

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savagewidearch · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject:

Looking good mate Cool

I am really looking forward to seeing this car come together Cool

And glad to see your putting so much effort into it and doing a proper job Exclamation

Are you planning on going wide arch with it?????? Question

As has alraedy been said,that hole is not for anything as far as i am aware. And the other one is indeed the speaker hole Wink

Keep the pics coming,its excellent to see this being built Very Happy

P.S. In my opinion you should stick with a Rover V8 Rolling Eyes

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Lehto · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

Yea maybe I should go with RV8 but I doubt I can make 300bhp under 3000£. Its just not that tempting engine. I want to be able to outrun most of the rice burners around here that have some 200sx or old supra which I doubt the RV8 can do. After all some of those imports are crazy fast.

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CptPugWash · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:01 am Post subject:

garages still to clean
needs some tools n oil bits laying around Laughing

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Lehto · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject:

Been busy with other stuff like making my 820si passing the next MOT as I need it still this winter. Only things I have been able to do on SD1 has been that I have used body-tin to smoothen out the few small dings caused from the transition process. After Im done with that its time to start wrenching the technic out from the old chassis.

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Lehto · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject:

Been mad long the last time I posted anything to my topic. That's all because its been so cold that there was no possibility to roll the chassis outside for high pressure washing. BUT!! Something really interesting was found laying under the stairs...

Unused Quaife TorSen differential.

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kerosene · SD1 Regular Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 266 Location: IRL

savagewidearch wrote:

P.S. In my opinion you should stick with a Rover V8 Rolling Eyes

Damn right! Cool

. I believe V8's are good cars for tuning

Lehto wrote:

I want to be able to outrun most of the rice burners around here that have some 200sx or old supra which I doubt the RV8 can do. After all some of those imports are crazy fast.

Watching too much fast and the furious eh? Very Happy

. Make believe world Rolling Eyes

.However I loved those muscle cars in 1,2 and 3.

Lehto · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

kerosene wrote:

savagewidearch wrote:

P.S. In my opinion you should stick with a Rover V8 Rolling Eyes

Damn right! Cool

. I believe V8's are good cars for tuning

What I meant was maybe the RV8 unit isnt good enough for reliable 350bhp+ So maybe I should look into alternatives. Sometimes you just have to think about using engines like this.

kerosene wrote:

Watching too much fast and the furious eh? Very Happy

. Make believe world Rolling Eyes

.However I loved those muscle cars in 1,2 and 3.

Yep... I have seen them all atleast twice.

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kerosene · SD1 Regular Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 266 Location: IRL

Lehto wrote:

Yep... I have seen them all atleast twice.

Whatever engine you decide to put in, I hope it works out for you.Keep us posted!

Lehto · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject:

Okay... its been long again that I havent been able to do anything to the SD1 mainly because ive been busy doing other things... Now that I fooked up some school stuff... i dont have to go there until autumn so I got plenty of time messing about with my SD1. Started the project of unbolting all kinds of necessary stuff that needs to be removed to get the engine / transmission out with least pain.

In this pic you can see how my finnish stupidity overcame the lack of chassis stands. You can also see a little of rolls rear end.

No its not trying to do a wheelie...

Range Rover style...

I was removing the part after exhaust manifold... first I thought i just needed to remove that "middle part" in the left exhaust side to get easy access to the cardan shaft bolts. but then i thought "ahh fook that... im just dropping it out as a whole. As I had already unbolted that left upper-middle part out its separate.

Heres radiator, fan thingy (stupid mechanical fans... has anybody made an electrical fan conversion?) and some random parts.

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rover v8 · SD1 User Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 103 Location: Finland

Lehto wrote:

Yea maybe I should go with RV8 but I doubt I can make 300bhp under 3000£. Its just not that tempting engine. I want to be able to outrun most of the rice burners around here that have some 200sx or old supra which I doubt the RV8 can do. After all some of those imports are crazy fast.

You can make over 300bhp easily if you budget is 3000£
Depending how mutch your bottom end cost? And how mutch you can do yourself?
I carantee if my budget is say this 3000£, I can build home tuned stage 4 speck head + 4,6 bottom end witch give over 330bhp..
My 4,6engine gives now ~300bhp at flywheel with home ported heads, with stage 3 valves and cost is 3/4 because bottom end is very expensive to buy in Finland (year´s ago).
Hope to get with my new home build stage 4 heads over 330bhp at 4,6engine.
And my goal is 5,3-5.5engine witch give near 370-400bhp. Very Happy

Ps: you dont need a flow bench to porting head. Its only a stupid number. And flow bench is not a real condition.. Very Happy

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Lehto · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:36 am Post subject:

Pretty illegal thing to do. I dont think you can get the 4.6L into papers... If its not possible then I just do it and dont tell anybody Very Happy

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savagewidearch · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:49 am Post subject:

It is possible to make big power from the RV8 indeed.
With the right ignition set up and fuelling set up on a 4.6 you can be looking around 280/300bhp at a push.

The 5.5 can be good for 400bhp but the bhp talk is useless,its the torque you really want and set up properly the RV8 is hard to beat Wink

Anyways,keep the updates coming,they keep me going Laughing

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