Having spent the afternoon at a classic car show with my father I can only think of one thing, getting a nice old P5B V8 and swapping the 160bhp 3.5l rover V8 for something from the TVR range with a little more grunt. Tax exempt/ lenient MOT emissions tests and huge fun watching a big old barge with 300bhp. If anyone knows of a nice padded room for me, let me know.
I may finaly have lost any grip on sanity.
Jun 18, 2006
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Always something I've dreamed of, and something others have done. Maybe not a TVR spec, but much later higher powered versions.
keep the engine and get used to the grunt of the V8 THEN go and pick up a bigger engine :)
keep the engine and get used to the grunt of the V8 THEN go and pick up a bigger engine :)
Drop an LS2 in it on straight gas.
Fraser
The standard V8 has less torque and power than my daily drive(1), if I'm going to get used to grunt I want to be getting used to more not less. :)
(1) Ok it's not a lot less.
Some how I doubt that would be as easy a conversion as removing one all alloy Rover V8 and dropping in another with a new gear box. It's also a bit less British to use a GM motor (ok yes the Rover V8 was developed by Buick).
F*ck easy. And LS2 in one of those things would be animal. And by putting it on straight gas it would be cheap to run too.
Fraser
Or an LT1.
Very nice.
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