Thread: 3.9 to 5.0 litre

Originally Posted by Slunnie

People that get 12l/100km with an LS1 should be forced to drive Camrys.

I better buy a Camry then, cause we average 12l/100kms in the stato. Normal driving, dont see the need to floor it all the time.

Originally Posted by PAT303

In all seriousness rovercare I'd recon alot of people would be very interested in whats involved the costs and availibility of the componants. Pat

Yep, If you had to buy everything or buy everything new and pay labour it would not be worth while, but there are a lot of people with the gear laying around and the intelligence and know how and this is where it becomes viable and maybe cheaper.

[QUOTE=Chad;1272690]HAHAHAHA...

This is a Laugh....

Talking about POWERFULL Stroker engines... Superchargers....

And Fuel Consumption???

HAhahahha...

Thanks guys, u make my night...

As stated, any amount of POWER, Torque can be MADE with the right $$$$$..

I come from a Drag racing Bunch and its a BIT like this...


FAST

RELIABLE

CHEAP

You can ONLY have 2.......

Cause if its Fast and Cheap....... Won't be reliable

If its Cheap and Reliable ......Won't be Fast

And if its Fast and Reliable.... Won't be cheap



and that is why I went down the path of the 4.6 RR motor. After about 2 years of weighing up the pros and cons I desided that i didnt have the money to go down the path of the LS1 and 4L80E, to many bits to replace to make reliable, to many adaptors and Idont have the facilities to do it myself. BUT if I get the urge to make a competition rig, that is a different story

Who said the RV8 can’t make decent hp? 600 bhp from a normally aspirated 3.5 litre Rover! Not bad for basically an old Buick design from 1959. Sure it cost. About as much as a 600 hp GrpA Commodore or Falcon race engine of almost twice the capacity…..

griff engine 3.5 rover/greyhound 600 bhp

Rover V8 most technically advanced standard bore 3.5 ltr engine ever. This engine was campaigned by Tim Garlick in a 1972 Mk3 Cortina weighing in at 2,700lbs and achieved a best time/speed of 7.70 @167 mph at Santa Pod raceway. ...

Traco , you should read the whole article , the $100,000 POS was running 300HP of Nitrous !!! What a Joke !!! (PS me mate runs a Holden 202 block in BBMD 7.7 @ 170 MPH )

Originally Posted by 400HPONGAS

Traco , you should read the whole article , the $100,000 POS was running 300HP of Nitrous !!! What a Joke !!! (PS me mate runs a Holden 202 block in BBMD 7.7 @ 170 MPH )

how well does he know jzed?

one day i'll have one of them heads for my ''other'' project.

cheers phil

discowhite , Im mortified !!! you Know Joe Zullo ? Yep . my Head porter . tuner is the same bloke who set that engine up . (Hes in the Photos at Willowbank) Joes just good at blowing them up !!! Nearly all the JZED heads that Joe sells get Ported / tuned by my Head porter . He can even take a Rover V8 head and make it double it HP potential . His 3.5 Rover V8 eats 4.6's for breakfast !! By the way he is in Sydney !!

...sorry but I just can't believe figures of 11L/100klm for a LS,or any V8!!

My X Trail does that and that is believable.

Our SCharged D1 3.9 tow truck often returns 35L/100klms when towing. It's on gas and has 130kw at the wheels. We get used to it because it can tow 3.5t with ease, legally which camrys and x trails can't, all day every day. You can't have it all, I agree with Blitz