My Rebuilt Rover V8 Dyno Run

[skinnymathew]

I was going to say that these photos remind me of mine, but your before ones are much dirtier (which is saying something) and your after ones are much cleaner; very nice.

[Happy Jim]

That’s a very satisfying set of photo’s!

[Chris1]

193bhp and 221lb-ft, see readout attached. No stump puller but happy with the gains I made with a higher lift cam, higher compression pistons, Edelbrock manifold and 4 barrel carb. Baby V8 but should still be fun and it was always planned to be a stepping stone for greater things! It was a complete baked, oily mess when I bought it for £50.

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That's what you would get from a standard SD1 Vitesse, you can't moan at that.
That car would do 0 - 60 in about 7.5 seconds, that was good back in the day in
a fairly heavy vehicle.
You have done a good job of getting rid of the nasty Black Death that was present.
Also I would not have been suprised if the engine was a runner to start with ?
Chris.

[GDCobra]

That's what you would get from a standard SD1 Vitesse, you can't moan at that.
That car would do 0 - 60 in about 7.5 seconds, that was good back in the day in
a fairly heavy vehicle.
You have done a good job of getting rid of the nasty Black Death that was present.
Also I would not have been suprised if the engine was a runner to start with ?
Chris.

Aye, need to get mine on the Dino once I’ve sorted the ignition.
Compared to a Vitesse, I’ve got another 400cc capacity, later injection, less material in the ports better ignition (hopefully once sorted) and free-er exhaust.
Better be over 200BHPs

[Chris1]

Aye, need to get mine on the Dino once I’ve sorted the ignition.
Compared to a Vitesse, I’ve got another 400cc capacity, later injection, less material in the ports better ignition (hopefully once sorted) and free-er exhaust.
Better be over 200BHPs

Same as you, I've got another 400 cc. I am using 270 2 Piper cam with Rhoads hydraulics, 4 barrel Holley with
good flow headers and side pipes exhaust system.
Have no clue of any dyno figures but this seems to work for me .
I would have thought it should be giving around 220 BHP .
Chris.

[KugaWestie]

You should be very proud of what you have achieved.

It is very satisfying to rebuild an engine yourself, good work!

[Grumbleweed]

Thanks. Just hope it isn’t too long before it can be fired up again!

[GDCobra]

Out of interest what it the engine from? Looks like an early block, P6 or early RR?
Is it runing later, larger port heads?
What's the spec'

[Chris1]

The heads look like SD1 type, as for the block, if it was an early P6 there would
have been a rope crankshaft seal as apposed to the neoprene type.
Block numbers would be 10a and SD1's, 11a .
Chris.

[Grumbleweed]

Its a 14 bolt 3.5 from an SD1. 11a block number.

- Standard heads/ports. (skimmed to allow for composite head gasket)
- Viper Hurricane cam
- Re-bored with higher (10.5:1) compression pistons
- Edelbrock performer manifold - 2198
- Edelbrock/Weber 500 carb (i refurbished this but probably needs replacing at some point)

Got LOADS more images of the build if you need/want to see anything specific.