Hiro stop trolling wiki and writing it to make out you know it, it is fvcking annoying.

 

OP: There is a guy at road and track selling a rover v8 that needs to be assembled.

Is there many of them around?

Hiro stop trolling wiki and writing it to make out you know it, it is fvcking annoying.

 

I didn't "troll" Wikipedia for it, I knew it. I was looking into the 3500s a few years ago (before I had any sense, in practice they're a horrible car). Plus, I had a Vitesse (the top-spec of the SD1) model car when I was a kid.

Is there many of them around?

 

Not as many as there used to be with rodders grabbing them, this one was meant to be going into a rod but he lost interest.

i had a rover 3.5 in my volvo wagon. simple to work on, reliable and relatively small and compact

Not as many as there used to be with rodders grabbing them, this one was meant to be going into a rod but he lost interest.

 

The MG crowd like to hang on to them as well, seeing as how they also came out in the MGB GT.

there are still heaps of rover V8's + gearboxes around if you know where to look.

 

i don't know why you'd bother tbh. i was looking into these a few years ago. with the usual mods that make a typical motor fly (ie mild cam, carb and inlet, good exhaust, decent comp etc) they only make 240-250hp.

 

for not much more than a worked rover conversion you;d be able to pick up a wrecked 2WD hilux or aurion etc and use the 1/2GRFE motor and make much more power. with an exhaust i think they'd sound sexy too.

for not much more than a worked rover conversion you;d be able to pick up a wrecked 2WD hilux or aurion etc and use the 1/2GRFE motor and make much more power. with an exhaust i think they'd sound sexy too.

 

 

Count the Aurion motor out. Its not going to mate to a rwd tranny, not even the GR series Hilux tranny from what i can tell.

Count the Aurion motor out. Its not going to mate to a rwd tranny, not even the GR series Hilux tranny from what i can tell.

 

How different would the bellhousing for an Aurion 2GR be from an IS350 2GR?

I have access to a couple of aurion motors and some auto 1gr housings and they don't connect.

 

Having never looked at a lexus 6 speed pattern from a gr series motor I cannot say. I'm pretty confident that a 2wd hilux box will not connect to the smaller Aurion v6. Aurion motor pattern is almost the same as 2azfe, which is sort of a rotated s patetrn but different around the bottom of the housing. Its all down to the camry lineage.

 

If I were looking at a lexus v6 motor for my corolla it would be the 2.5 litre thing from the IS250 JDM version, with 6 speed of course. Looking at maybe 4-5k landed here but then you need a hell of an aftermarket ecu to run the 4 VVTi systems at once. Or you need to do a hell of a wiring job to make a standard ecu work in a non standard chassis. i think you would have to integrate the full electronics to make it function.

Edited November 28, 201015 yr by LittleRedSpirit