My New (in a sense) V8!

It was standing for 12 years so needs alot of TLC! I have taken out the fuel tank which was full of black gunge! I have stripped the majority of the interior out and have taken out the engine. Its so exciting!

Stripped out and starting the de-rusting process :yuck:

Looks like you have a big job ahead of you. Good luck, there deserves to be more of these on the road.

Looks awsome! Would be great to see one of these lovingly restored and back on the road

Yes it will be an mamoth job but the motivation of the thought of driving it when it is done is amazing!
I have only ever seen 1 on the road and thats a gold 2.6 mk1 driven by an old boy so will be nice to be in a headturner and at my age!

Very nice. Can't wait to see it finished!

Welcome to the world of pourous cylinder heads and 3,000 mile oil changes, seriously Those rover V8s are an arse best make friends with your bank manager and RPI engineering rover V8 specialists Up the road from me

Anyway it's a cool project will be interesting to see how you get on once done get it on the books for a agency that supply cars for tv work lots of demand for 70s / 80s cars as they've all rotten away to nothing

Love SD1s :yum:

Presumably quite easy to work on too? Spares availability is pretty good for mechanical and body parts as well, i expect it makes a great car for a relatively easy restoration project :chin:

I was going to try and fit a V8 in my MGB, but it's not as straightforward in earlier cars like mine, and the B series engine in it was tuned, just needed a rebuild so i've done that. Probably have the same power as a factory MGBV8, but much heavier on fuel and doesn't have V8 burble.

My dad exploring the fine line of Bravery & Stupidity... :nutter:

Rear axle off and de-greased

very nice example of a rover sd1!
If you dont want a ford capri..... get a sd1
at the time these cars where the subaru and evo of its time!

I saw one of these at a car show today

This one in particular

Rob93 said:

starting the de-rusting process :yuck:

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don't do that if you are restoring it to standard, they came with that when new

dave said:

don't do that if you are restoring it to standard, they came with that when new

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It's not a Ford

Painted rear axle

i love theese efi v8's there so simple!
is yours the model without lambda sensors? I'd imagine its also a vitesse! i have a tvr(rover) v8 engine in my tr8, a rover sd1 differential and austin princess front brakes!

I remember these back in the day (just).

Family friend had one with electric rear windows - very rare back then in comparison to the cars I was used to. Referred to our friends one as 'the magic car' for years

Azzam said:

i love theese efi v8's there so simple!
is yours the model without lambda sensors? I'd imagine its also a vitesse! i have a tvr(rover) v8 engine in my tr8, a rover sd1 differential and austin princess front brakes!

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Thanks for giving me hope, need to overhaul the entire engine soon....
Haha no Cats what so ever!