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Rover V8 is NOT Triumph V8
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Posted by Eric van Spelde [Email] (more from Eric van Spelde) on Sun, 24 Nov 2002 04:00:13 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: I saw a pic..., jak [Profile/Gallery] , Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:11:53
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Rover V8 = all-alloy pushrod engine, former Buick 215 bought by Rover in the late Sixties for propelling their P6. Examples of fitments: Morgan Plus 8, TVR Griffith and Chimaera (4.0, 4.3, 4.5 and 5.0 litre developments by TVR Power, best sounding engine in the world!), Classic Range Rover (3.5, 3.9 and 4.6 litre), Marcos, MGB GT V8, Westfield SEight (a Seven with a V8 - mad!). Very popular engine, quite reliable, the backbone of British sports car production for decades until it ran out of homologation in most European countries recently (Euro IV Emissions).

Triumph V8: this is essentially two Saab/Triumph 4 inlines on a common crankcase. Only OE application: Triumph Stag (early Seventies). Why? Because basically, it sucked. Lots of Stags had Rover V8 engines replacing the unreliable Triumph engine by their owners, but aftermarket development has finally given Stag aficionados the chance to retain the original engine of their cars and give it some basic reliablility. Saab did fit a few 99's with Triumph V8's back then for assessment, but with hindsight, luckily, decided against it when the oil crisis of 1973 came.

Seriously, you don't want to replace your virtually bulletproof B20, B201 or B202 by this piece of cr*p. And what you -really- don't want to do, is apply forced induction to it. Given the mechanical and thermal issues with that engine even in its modest, original 145 bhp state of tune, it'd be a recipe for disaster.
Why you want to convert a Saab to a V8 is beyond me anyways - the Saab 4 cylinder can be made to put out far more than the rest of the car can realistically take, without straining it. And in the 99 and classic 900 turbo's it even rumbles uncannily like a smooth kind of V8 through its exhaust...

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