A friend has just got a swb s3 2.25 petrol and wants to get into trialling. The engine seems fine and the transfer box and gearbox have recently been rebuilt. All chassis also fine.
He wants to find an old Range Rover and squeeze the it's V8 into his S3, As I expect he may need to replace or at least overhaul all of his transmission I thought a 300tdi would be better (and not mind the wet so much).
However we'd both like to put a V8 into it, assuming we can get an old Range Rover what kind of work is involved fitting the engine? Should we use the RR's auto box or the S3's manual? How about tranfer box's? And should we have the axles away also (disk brakes)? Could we have it's power stearing also? How would we waterproof the electrics?
As we are working on/fitting the engine what would it be wise to do service-wise on it? oil and all filters I think. how about timing? (chain or belt?)
What could we do to modify it for more performance cheaply? carbs? fancy spark plugs? air filter?
I think we should fit a roll cage to it also, I'd just feel better that way ;o) as we want to trial it, how much money for a cage we can fit ourselves (neither of us has much cash)?
Any other advice would be gratefully recieved also.
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