Remember when you could work under the bonnet -

 

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1115803_ls7-related-crate-engine-delivers-750-naturally-aspirated-horsepower

If standard from the factory with just 505bhp will do, £13,194 including VAT in the UK.

 

@Ryeman I don't see why a crate engine (complete new $engine from $factory) means you can't work under the bonnet?

Just now, KenONeill said:

@Ryeman I don't see why a crate engine (complete new $engine from $factory) means you can't work under the bonnet?

Maybe because my hands seem to have grown too much for the free space, such as it is.

I remember being able to stand on the Morris Minor’s chassis rails ........with the engine still in it.

 

(for some reason a coffee table or ‘blender’ come to mind. )

6 minutes ago, Ryeman said:

Maybe because my hands seem to have grown too much for the free space, such as it is.

I remember being able to stand on the Morris Minor’s chassis rails ........with the engine still in it.

 

(for some reason a coffee table or ‘blender’ come to mind. )

Well, the story (true) about the Morris Minor being stretched several inches wider after production of parts had started springs to mind here. As does how one of the prototype engines for it was a horizontally opposed 4, and one of my mates had one that he'd put a Buick V8 (Same as the Leyland P76 engine) in...

1 minute ago, KenONeill said:

Well, the story (true) about the Morris Minor being stretched several inches wider after production of parts had started springs to mind here. As does how one of the prototype engines for it was a horizontally opposed 4, and one of my mates had one that he'd put a Buick V8 (Same as the Leyland P76 engine) in...

Ah yes, the days of the bean counter.

I had no problem working on my P76 V8, you could almost stand on its chassis rails too.

You couldn't when it was in a Rover P6b, mine was like a Gurkha's Kukri, it drew blood or burnt me every time I laid a spanner on it.

Buying new Crate Engines makes life so much easier, especially for TV programmes. Working on a tight budget, just sell the parts you remove, 

and ask the production team / producer for more money....& for you time, no labour charges, and look at the profit selling the dodgy built vehicle.

 

Edited 19 March, 20188 yr by AwaoffSki

@P6bJOHN - Well, the Rover P6B actually had a narrower engine bay than either of the vehicles I cite.

5 hours ago, KenONeill said:

@P6bJOHN - Well, the Rover P6B actually had a narrower engine bay than either of the vehicles I cite.

That was due partly to it's over engineered suspension for a family saloon, which answered a question that nobody asked. It was a car that I had a love/hate relationship with, I loved to hate it.

Edited 20 March, 20188 yr by P6bJOHN

12 minutes ago, P6bJOHN said:

That was due partly to it's over engineered suspension for a family saloon, which answered a question that nobody asked. It was a car that I had a love/hate relationship with, I loved to hate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_DS

Comparing cheese with trees, two totally different animals the DS and the P6. Or are making a point of another over engineered car for it's time?

The original Rover P6 (2200 SC) is the only 1950s/60s car I've ever traveled in that could come close to matching the long distance comfort of the DS, which asked questions no-one had an immediate answer to about ride comfort and handling.

Comfort was the reason I sold mine P6b, my wife has a 37" leg and sitting twisted due to the tapering footwell because of the enlarged transmission tunnel on a V8 auto was putting her back out. I'm not sure about the handling either, I had Police spec springs with uprated shocks, and I was told I had a front wheel in the air on a hairpin I took on a road event which the Rover experts say doesn't happen, it was a bit rolypoly for me when pushed. On an early driving course I preferred the Triumph 2.5 for handling, it also had more room, and of the 3 cars we drove, the Holbay engined Hunter was more fun on a twisty road and urban environment.

But back on topic, I prefer to work on classic cars as they are simple, like me....

@P6bJOHN - Well, I've never seen a P6 (any engine) wheel-wagging but there is one famous photo from the Monte of either Jim Clark or more likely Roger Clark "fully investigating the limits of roll" in one, with the outside sill more or less scraping the ground, and the inside a foot or so up in the air. That seems to support your "roly poly" view.

Old Skool V8's are lovely as RPI will build you and running on LPG makes them much more affordable.

http://v8engines.com

See their projects and builds. Range Rover, 110, Rovers etc.

Think id hold tough and save up the extra few quid for the 9l 1350bhp v8 in a crate also mentioned in the OP link

 

Reckon one would go in a Citigo?

14 hours ago, mac11irl said:

Think id hold tough and save up the extra few quid for the 9l 1350bhp v8 in a crate also mentioned in the OP link

 

Reckon one would go in a Citigo?

 

Does it have Varioflex seating?