I am rebuilding the Rover 4.9 (it actually 4887cc) V8 to make it a fresh built engine, and then I'm selling it. It will be for sale as a complete supercharged Drag Race engine minus the WoN of course
The Rover has done me proud, but the stupid big wheelie caused some damage because the engine wasnt set up for running at that angle. I'm happy that the run itself would have been an 8 if I had been able to keep my foot in from the start line. This isnt a FOR SALE advert by the way ! I'm just explaining what I'm doing for the end of this year. The Rover spun some bearings and damaged the crank and some rods. So I'm having a new crank offset ground and fitting new Chevy Conrods which will be machined to fit the Rover Crank and pistons as before. The block will be re honed and I'll fit new rings and bearings and then put it up for sale. I was going to fit the engine and then bed it in on track, but that will waste me several weeks, so I'll sell it as a fresh build.
I am now in the process of building a small block chevy for the MGB. I found a fantastic deal on 3 SBC lumps for silly money. They have all done no more than a few miles and they are like new inside. Sadly, non of the internals are any good to me. I'm going to bore and stroke the 5.7 litre lump out to 6.3 litres with a forged 383 crank and fit all forged rods and pistons, Solid cam, roller lifters and roller rockers etc. All the bells and whistles I need to see the engine make an easy 650hp on the carb (s) only. As the blower is going I will be fitting a tunnel ram inlet manifold with 2 holley 600 carbs so I can still have a lot of metalwork sticking up out of the bonnet in between Zoomie exhausts. I will be fitting MSD digital 7 programmable ign system (which is in a box on my stairs right now) There are lots of other goodies going on the Chevy lump in order to make this the last engine I will need to build for the MGB. And when its all bedded in it will make the MGB run high 8's without stressing the engine once its had a bit of charge cooling added by using ????
And when i have done this my good mate FRED will do his job and push me on to mid to low 8's in 2016. And thats where I intend to leave it. Mid 8's is a great number and I will be happy with that in a 40 year old steel bodyshell.
The transmission and rear axle upgrades over the years have all been done to accept this Chevy powerplant when the time was right. And the time is now
I should have the Rover newly remanufactured and ready for sale by the end of April. Hopefully it will be sold by the end of May. Then i can start buying new stuff for the new engine. This should see the Chevy lump built by the end of June and in the car for shakedowns by Mid August.
Thats the plan so far ??
Regards
Perry