i nearly fitted a granada cosworth engine to my mk3 XR3i.
top boss performance love them.
Wow, that would have been a big job. What transmission/suspension were you thinking of running?
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Wow, that would have been a big job. What transmission/suspension were you thinking of running?
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would have been a case of chop the floor pan out and weld a sierra one in complete with transmission tunnel. i think that it's possible the suspension towers would have needed to be modded too. would have been a stock 2wd sierra cosworth box with either wide arches or shortened drive shafts.
it helped that under the rear seats a lot of the car had gone rotten - it looked the dogs though i though which is why i was considering it. every man and his dog has done the 1600 turbo route.
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Certainly no shortage of bits to bolt on.
I would love to know where all these 300 / 400bhp Rover engines arethey start to get very expensive over 250 bhp (for the 3.5) the 4.0 & 4.6 are easier to get a bit more from, but the heads just dont flow the figures to get much from them
the 300bhp one i worked on was in a stripped down land rover for 4x4 events, its was 302bhp at crank.
NA but with good headwork, my understanding was that the bulk of the power came from a aggressive cam profile not really suited for the road. the cam isnt a easy thing to replace though. it had a separate injection profile simply to hold idle.
another important aspect is the room you can give it, the angle of the exhaust manifolds is a hefty flow restriction on some models.
i believe there are decent supercharger kits for them as the engines lazy nature is good for offsetting a superchargers demands.
personally if it was simply power i was after with little concerns about an engines weight i would be looking more at a more easily tuned yank big block.
Wow, yeah that certainly would have been something different! I guess my only worry would be the weight of the V6, the car may have been pretty nose heavy and handling could be an issue.
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are these engines exceptionally cheap or something? if not not sure why you wouldnt want to use something like a nissan VQ35
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was looking at a car with one in thats all. est power of the car was 150bhp which for me seemed crap with a 3.5v8 in it compared to a 2.8v6 knocking out the same power...
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it handled like a bag of crap anyway even with 30mm drop and 16" wheels on it. pushed the front too much.
sold the car to a mate when i got banned and couldnt afford the insurance.... 2 weeks later it got nicked and he found it stripped at the side of a road. turns out someone had been watching it for a while and was waiting for it to be parked somewhere less secure i.e. my mates flat carpark.
because a VQ35 is covered in electronic gizmos, and probably needs to be attached to half a 350Z to make it work. tuning it is also expensive.
small-block V8s on the other hand can be started with a hopeful look and a jerry-can of fuel, and can make really impressive power for buttons and fluff.
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torque of a rover V8 pails in comparison put next to a Ford or Chevy small block, both Ford and Chevy's are easy to strip and rebuild, parts are plentiful and as cheap as Rover bits (especially for the Chevy) plus in my opinion the Rover V8 doesn't sound nearly as strong as the alternatives.
300-400hp from a Ford or Chevy is easy as pie
300bhp is very easy if you are TVR, you just make up a number and put it on the spec sheet.