Originally Posted by
kiwirich
As a random Idea .....
It looks like the Diff is mounted at the Front ( Citroen ?), Can you mount the Rover Motor backwards ?
Obviously you'd still have to cool it etc but maybe ?
Kiwirich
I think the motor would be too big. The car was originally designed to have an air cooled flat 6 mounted infront of the axle as you suggest. Citroen went bankrupt (again ) before they could get the motor reliable enough, so the old cast iron 4banger installed behind the axle (weirdly if you look, they are actually mid engined as the motor is between the axles).
There is always possibilities. Most are expensive. Citroen owned Maserati at the time so a mirror image of this gearbox was used in the Maserati Merak (and probably a few others). This gearbox would spin the "right" way so you have a useful bunch of foward gears (rather than a bunch of reverses), but obviously "spare" maserati gearboxes aren't readily available that I'm aware of. This would be the simplest option as all I'd need is an adapter plate to bolt up the rover motor
seeya,
Shane L.
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