I don't suppose...

I thought it had a spare camshaft?

Now you're talking......

Peter

Pete M raved thus:

:: or should I continue along the long and rattly road the Capri is :: dragging me along with its diesel impression? :: :: Maybe it's getting closer to V8 time..

c'mon, put the v8 in...

And Turbots, "Something fishy about that Capri". :)

Or how about a Rover V8 lump with that twin turbo kit he's got kicking about :-)

Peter

AstraVanMan raved thus:

:: Or how about a Rover V8 lump with that twin turbo kit he's got :: kicking about :-)

Bore the v8 out though.

In news:kHktc.49$yc4.48@newsfe5-win, ¤¤¤ Abo ¤¤¤ decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

tis a bit tempting to do that..

tis also tempting to put the Merc V8 out of the 500 in it. Problem is mating it to a manual gearbox. AFAICT Mercedes never used the 5.0 with a manual, so I'd have to make a bellhousing and flywheel etc :-( Thing is, it sounds bloody gorgeous..

Take yourslef over to

Now what's it to be for the zetec ? Carbs + mega-jolt-lite-junior ----or------ mega-squirt-n-edis ?

You'll never be sorry about bolting in a rover v8

I thought the rover was wet-linered, and that you needed to increase stroke to increase capacity. Or I could be talking out the wrong hole again.

In news:Xns94F76B3CEB40224267@130.133.1.4, Albert T Cone decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

To increase the stroke, there's a Chevy crankshaft that bolts into a Rover block, you need to do a little bit of machining on the big ends, but it's bolt in and takes a 3.9 to 5.2, or a 3.5 to something like 4.8.. to bore it out, you just use a 3.9 block...

Ideally, I'd like to find a late discovery 3.9 engine with the 4 bolt mains.. but that's a bit above budget. Handy having the serpentine belt to run all the gubbins off though.. shorter water pump too.