Rover V8 3.9 Conversion by Mc Tool
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:19 am
Hi all,
Hamish is in the process of doing a very exciting Rover V8 conversion in his Capri and he's very kindly emailed me a heads up on what he is doing. Only thing is he is having troubles getting some pics copied over and posted up from postimage so I asked him to email them to me along with the details of the work involved and I will get them up here for him. So here is a copy of the email he sent over to me for all to see. I am sure Hamish will add more to this thread as he does more. It does look rather tasty indeed !!!
The plan is to get a rover 3.9 into my Capri without changing Crapi ( as its known among me, Dianne and friends)at all so I can go back to the original motor /trans set up . 1st pic is the home made clutch lever , idea is to use Crapi existing cable clutch set up , following pix are my way of using original engine mounts on cross member , right hand side gets around the steering shaft , starter ( gunna get one of them gear reduction jobs , not for space issues but coz they sound so coolWinking smile emoticon ) brake booster and the engine mounts. The mounts on the block are a bit of 50mm box (6mm wall thick ) with a bit of 50x10mm bent flat bar welded on alligned to suit the original mounts on the cross member , they are bolted to the block existing 7/16" holes , crush tubes fitted inside the box section
I have actually had the engine and gearbox in place , that's how I did the mounts and exhausts . I don't yet have a pic of the gearbox mount but it uses the original mount on the floor pan which might need a bit more thinking . Only real hassles are sump capacity ( about 3.5l ) but with the addition of a couple of big oil filters remotely mounted should go to a total of about 5l , and just needed to make sure the front pulley and the roll bar wernt fighting for space . The only real cock up so far is going to some trouble to make sure I could get the heads off with the engine in place .......completely forgetting that the end product would have a head stud kit fitted so now with the studs fitted I cant slide the heads off . Since these pix I have added a EFI manifold and a Megasquirt ecu which does the fuelling and ignition , still undecided weather to go for EDIS Eye-rolling smile emoticon just a matter of time before I cant live without it . Next step is to get a radiator ..... probly go for a custom made job as the radiator man reckons he can "do one " that will fit in the original position and easily cool the thing, More to come.
Hamish is in the process of doing a very exciting Rover V8 conversion in his Capri and he's very kindly emailed me a heads up on what he is doing. Only thing is he is having troubles getting some pics copied over and posted up from postimage so I asked him to email them to me along with the details of the work involved and I will get them up here for him. So here is a copy of the email he sent over to me for all to see. I am sure Hamish will add more to this thread as he does more. It does look rather tasty indeed !!!
The plan is to get a rover 3.9 into my Capri without changing Crapi ( as its known among me, Dianne and friends)at all so I can go back to the original motor /trans set up . 1st pic is the home made clutch lever , idea is to use Crapi existing cable clutch set up , following pix are my way of using original engine mounts on cross member , right hand side gets around the steering shaft , starter ( gunna get one of them gear reduction jobs , not for space issues but coz they sound so coolWinking smile emoticon ) brake booster and the engine mounts. The mounts on the block are a bit of 50mm box (6mm wall thick ) with a bit of 50x10mm bent flat bar welded on alligned to suit the original mounts on the cross member , they are bolted to the block existing 7/16" holes , crush tubes fitted inside the box section
I have actually had the engine and gearbox in place , that's how I did the mounts and exhausts . I don't yet have a pic of the gearbox mount but it uses the original mount on the floor pan which might need a bit more thinking . Only real hassles are sump capacity ( about 3.5l ) but with the addition of a couple of big oil filters remotely mounted should go to a total of about 5l , and just needed to make sure the front pulley and the roll bar wernt fighting for space . The only real cock up so far is going to some trouble to make sure I could get the heads off with the engine in place .......completely forgetting that the end product would have a head stud kit fitted so now with the studs fitted I cant slide the heads off . Since these pix I have added a EFI manifold and a Megasquirt ecu which does the fuelling and ignition , still undecided weather to go for EDIS Eye-rolling smile emoticon just a matter of time before I cant live without it . Next step is to get a radiator ..... probly go for a custom made job as the radiator man reckons he can "do one " that will fit in the original position and easily cool the thing, More to come.