Where to get a Rover 3.5L V8 engine

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Looking at picking up a 3.5L v8 complete with a gearbox, carbs, the lot.

Wheres the best place to look?

Cheers,
Jake
 
Lashout_UK said:
eBay's your best bet. What's it for?

Either that or the V8 Owner's Forum, or Rods and Sods.

About 75% of them will have autoboxes on the end, don't know whether that's relevant or not to you, and a lot of them will be the low-compression Range Rover units.
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Not entirely sure, Dads asked me to find one, I'm sure its for the 2dr Range Rover classic shell hes just bought. Not entirely sure though, I'm surprised you don't have a spare :p
 
maccapacca said:
Try a decent breakers yard, try Bridges on the M23, all their engines come with a warranty if not try a specialist magazine or forum, it's not a rare engine but I bet there's several varieties that you'll have no idea on till it's too late and bought it.
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Nice cheers mate :)
 
Lashout_UK said:
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Yep, his current one he's restoring has a 3.9 for some reason he wants the 3.5. Again I'm guessing it's for the Range Rover, but I'm not 100% sure.

[TW]Fox;17797092 said:
Your Dad runs a large breakers yard and has done for years and no doubt has no end of contacts both national and regional through doing this.

Yet he asks you to post on ocuk and ask where he'd get an engine? :p
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He didn't specify OcUK :p

Yes ofcourse he has contacts, but hes in Spain right now and was wondering :)

Will said:
Maybe speak to these guys, friends of a friend I will frely admit :) but last time I was down at their unit (and house) there were V8 parts/engines aplenty...am sure they would be happy to give you some advice as to which variant is best suited for your use.

http://www.lloydspecialistdevelopments.co.uk/
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Awesome cheers, he's got to Somerset next week to pick up a car, he can pop in :)
 
I'll let you know Foxtrot, tis a bit far really :) - but a kind offer anyway.


And cheers Will, will do :)
 
[TW]Fox;17797530 said:
Never heard of a courier? Suspect the real reason why is this is another PhateDreamThread(tm) and you dont want the embarrasment of him realising you wont buy it :p
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Not in the slightest, Dad bought a 2dr Red RR Classic on Sunday for £500 as its got a shoddy Suzuki engine in it, he's looking for an engine for it.

When Dad picks it up I'll be happy to post pics of it :)
 
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