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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 02:45:06 PM

Title: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 02:45:06 PM

How do you fit one in a CJ7 :017:

Just curious

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: j33pky on May 05, 2014, 03:04:25 PM

What?   And why?

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 03:15:18 PM

 Just curious.

Seems to be a lot of Rover powered CJs about.

Three positive things you could say.
It's a V8 and sounds like one
Light
Comes with an EFI as standard

But the best ones are only as powerful as a std AMC 360

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: wildwood on May 05, 2014, 04:03:19 PM

One of the Doncaster boys had one......now owned by a CF entrant not sure if a Birty......
He always called it a Buick 216....... Guess it made him feel better...... Made his Hotchkiss go really well with T98 and lower ratios in the tc

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 05:24:24 PM

What I was really hoping to find out was just how the thing had been mated up to a Jeep transmission :017:

Can't see the logic in it if you gotta buy an expensive conversion kit from Novak or whatever.

Surely better to pull the AMC V8 out of some rotten Wagoneer?

OK maybe not for a flat fender but deffo in the case of a CJ 5/6/7/8 :017:

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: dieselj20 on May 05, 2014, 06:08:29 PM

put a Chevy in it much easier

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: JamesH on May 05, 2014, 06:51:32 PM

Now someone speaks sense. First time I read the post a little bit of sick came up  :icon_eek:

Or go Lexus V8 with full electrickery  :icon_twisted:

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: bigjeepzj on May 05, 2014, 06:59:24 PM

 :iagree:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lexus-Ls400-Engine-V8-4-0l-With-Auto-Box-X2-/261471511899?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3ce0eaa55b

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: dieselj20 on May 05, 2014, 07:48:06 PM

in the past i did a few like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rover-v8-bell-housing-adaptor-plate-to-ford-scimitar-fomoco-box-/111343875871?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item19ec9cb71f

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 08:02:18 PM

Please excuse my ignorance.
So that gets a Rover  V8 into a Scimitar.
Will the bolt pattern on that bell housing pick up on any of the Ford based Jeep transmissions like T150 or T176 :017:

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: dieselj20 on May 05, 2014, 08:13:15 PM

no the idea is use a rover bell housing make an adapter plate to suit

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 08:31:28 PM

Ahh
Loads cheaper than Novak or whatever then.
Just wondered how it was done on the cheap.

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: dieselj20 on May 05, 2014, 08:54:35 PM

Buick bell housings don't fit rover unless you find a pre 63 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-V8-to-T5-Gearbox-Borg-Warner-Tremec-Not-Ford-World-Class-Bellhousing-/310941166478?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item486589ab8e

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 09:04:30 PM

Learning all the time.
I never realised that Rover had altered the bell housing pattern from BOPC.
Anything pre 1963 is Buick not Rover?

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: dieselj20 on May 05, 2014, 09:31:13 PM

rover pattern is pre 63 Buick pattern be for bop

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: ferretjuggler on May 05, 2014, 10:31:24 PM

Now I'm more confused than ever.  :017: :017:

So the Buick 216 ci engine was never BOPC pattern in the first place?

FFS I'm glad I never tried to fit one :banghead:

Title: Re: Rover V8
Post by: dieselj20 on May 05, 2014, 10:46:39 PM

Buick Oldsmobile Pontiac pattern came  after 1963