Know Any Small Capacity V8

[Trev]

Hiro stop trolling wiki and writing it to make out you know it, it is fvcking annoying.

 

OP: There is a guy at road and track selling a rover v8 that needs to be assembled.

[jono1986]

Is there many of them around?

[Hiro Protagonist]

Hiro stop trolling wiki and writing it to make out you know it, it is fvcking annoying.

 

I didn't "troll" Wikipedia for it, I knew it. I was looking into the 3500s a few years ago (before I had any sense, in practice they're a horrible car). Plus, I had a Vitesse (the top-spec of the SD1) model car when I was a kid.

[Trev]

Is there many of them around?

 

Not as many as there used to be with rodders grabbing them, this one was meant to be going into a rod but he lost interest.

[dave_89]

i had a rover 3.5 in my volvo wagon. simple to work on, reliable and relatively small and compact

[Hiro Protagonist]

Not as many as there used to be with rodders grabbing them, this one was meant to be going into a rod but he lost interest.

 

The MG crowd like to hang on to them as well, seeing as how they also came out in the MGB GT.

[MRMOPARMAN]

there are still heaps of rover V8's + gearboxes around if you know where to look.

 

i don't know why you'd bother tbh. i was looking into these a few years ago. with the usual mods that make a typical motor fly (ie mild cam, carb and inlet, good exhaust, decent comp etc) they only make 240-250hp.

 

for not much more than a worked rover conversion you;d be able to pick up a wrecked 2WD hilux or aurion etc and use the 1/2GRFE motor and make much more power. with an exhaust i think they'd sound sexy too.

[LittleRedSpirit]

for not much more than a worked rover conversion you;d be able to pick up a wrecked 2WD hilux or aurion etc and use the 1/2GRFE motor and make much more power. with an exhaust i think they'd sound sexy too.

 

 

Count the Aurion motor out. Its not going to mate to a rwd tranny, not even the GR series Hilux tranny from what i can tell.

[Hiro Protagonist]

Count the Aurion motor out. Its not going to mate to a rwd tranny, not even the GR series Hilux tranny from what i can tell.

 

How different would the bellhousing for an Aurion 2GR be from an IS350 2GR?

[LittleRedSpirit]

I have access to a couple of aurion motors and some auto 1gr housings and they don't connect.

 

Having never looked at a lexus 6 speed pattern from a gr series motor I cannot say. I'm pretty confident that a 2wd hilux box will not connect to the smaller Aurion v6. Aurion motor pattern is almost the same as 2azfe, which is sort of a rotated s patetrn but different around the bottom of the housing. Its all down to the camry lineage.

 

If I were looking at a lexus v6 motor for my corolla it would be the 2.5 litre thing from the IS250 JDM version, with 6 speed of course. Looking at maybe 4-5k landed here but then you need a hell of an aftermarket ecu to run the 4 VVTi systems at once. Or you need to do a hell of a wiring job to make a standard ecu work in a non standard chassis. i think you would have to integrate the full electronics to make it function.

Edited November 28, 2010 by LittleRedSpirit