Thread: What motor would you fit to replace 3.5V8

Sure, it's a D2, but....

Top hatted 4.6 from Turners comes with high torque cam and gas flowed heads and will bolt right in. Fit the 3.9 Hotwire fuel injection/engine management system and your distributor (or replace it a much better Scorcher dissy). Lloydd Specialist Developments are in the process of finalising a new fully programmable plug and play direct replacement ECU for the Lucas 14CUX (they already have one available for the earlier 4CU).

Well that confirmed what I thought.
If she craps herself ill go down the 4.4 p76 road if I can find one.
My dad put one in his 2 door RR and it went like stink, but that was 30 years ago.
He's not around these days so I'll start a new thread on that
Thanks to all who commented

Originally Posted by gasman

Well that confirmed what I thought.
If she craps herself ill go down the 4.4 p76 road if I can find one.
My dad put one in his 2 door RR and it went like stink, but that was 30 years ago.
He's not around these days so I'll start a new thread on that
Thanks to all who commented

That's a big IF. And the 4.4s ween't without their problems, and parts can be awkward I'm told. There weren't that many P76 V8s built relatively, and it was 50 years ago.

Originally Posted by Traco

Top hatted 4.6 from Turners comes with high torque cam and gas flowed heads and will bolt right in. Fit the 3.9 Hotwire fuel injection/engine management system and your distributor (or replace it a much better Scorcher dissy). Lloydd Specialist Developments are in the process of finalising a new fully programmable plug and play direct replacement ECU for the Lucas 14CUX (they already have one available for the earlier 4CU).

How big's the budget?? A short block from Turner's is $7K plus shipping and duties.

Originally Posted by gasman

I've had my nearly mint 2 door for 18mths now and whilst the 3.5 is running very well, I would love to have more power for the amount of $ spent on fuel.
I know I'll need to drive it for 10 years to get back the outlay, but........
So who's done what and how much?
Promise I won't let your misses know

G`day , rather than an engine possibly a cam shaft would be helpful , 3.5 in good nick is not that bad .

If a larger capacity is required , i would take the time to research what the American D1 96 -98 has .

It is call a 4.0 but is same capacity as 3.9 it is not the cross bolt motor that we know as a 4.0 .

It does not used a distributor but uses the GEMS system like the P38a 4.0 and 4.6 that we got here .

It is capable of tuning both ignition and fuel .

The other thing to do if in no hurry would be to learn the engine number prefixes and spend some time at picka part type wreckers .

I have a project in my brain to do a Barra engine (the Ford straight 6) into a D2

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

I have a project in my brain to do a Barra engine (the Ford straight 6) into a D2

There is a Turbo Barra in a D1 floating about Instagram. 600hp or something.
The video I've seen of it on the beach, I'm not sure why it's not on its roof.

Tony