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  1. Crallscars

    Crallscars F1 Rookie

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    That looks cool. :)
     
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    Then you need is a set of bar stools made out of some long crankshafts
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    Yea, that would work, just need 4 rods & pistons and your favorite shape piece of glass, wine bottles optional.

    Doug
     
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    very cool
     
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    Too Cool
     
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    it's from a rover V8
     
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    Looks like an alloy/aluminum block, odd looking rods
     
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    Looks like he can rest easier knowing it is parked safely away from car theives and shopping carts
     
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    And the best part is that it will "never" need a major service.
     
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    It's a Rover V8 as fitted to dozens of cars.....the Range Rover being an example, bet you wouldnt have difficulty in locating one in a salvage / scrap yard
     
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    We don't see too many Rovers here in the states, Probably easier here finding a 454 chevrolet or 460 ford block in a machine shop for cheap

    And a big block, you might be able to store Magnums on the cylinders!
     
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    Dont ever do a belt change in you f-car and you can have one too
     
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    US iron= twice as heavy, no nice surface finish. But isn't the Rover V8 based-on/licensed-from a sixties Buick engine?
    This I have in my old Alfasud, the engine that is:
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    If I dont do regular maintenance, including tha belts, I will be able to use the whole car as a table. I can see where it could easily be more expensive to repair than replace. Besides, after this one gets sorted out, I want to try a different Ferrari

    Doug
     
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    That don't look like any Buick I have ever seen
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_V8_engine
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    The Rover V8 began life as the Buick 215, an all-aluminium engine introduced for the 1961 model year. The compact engine was extremely lightweight, at just 144 kg (318 lb), and capable of high power outputs: the strongest Buick version of this engine rated 200 hp (149 kW), and the very similar Oldsmobile "Jetfire" turbocharged version made 215 hp (160 kW) (both numbers SAE gross). The aluminium engine was very expensive to produce, however, and it suffered considerable problems with oil and coolant sealing, as well as with radiator clogging from use of antifreeze incompatible with aluminium. As a result, GM ceased production of the all-aluminium engine after 1963, although Buick retained a similar iron engine as well as a V6 that would prove to have a very long and successful life.

    In January 1964 Rover gave American operations head J. Bruce McWilliams permission to investigate the possible purchase of an American V8 engine for Rover cars. McWilliams realised that the lightweight Buick engine would be ideal for smaller British cars (indeed, it weighed less than many straight-4 engines it would replace). McWilliams and William Martin-Hurst began an aggressive campaign to convince GM to sell the tooling, which they finally agreed to do in January 1965. Retiring Buick engineer Joe Turley also moved to the UK to act as a consultant.

    The demise of the MG Rover Group in 2005 led to a halt in production of the famed Rover V8 after 40 years. However, Land Rover desired for production of the engine to continue, and they arranged for production to restart in Weston-super-Mare under MCT, an engineering and manufacturing company. Although Land Rover has switched to the Jaguar AJ-V8 engine for new applications, MCT will continue limited production of the engine for the indeterminate future, supplying engines for aftermarket and replacement use.
     
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    Actually, when Rover bought the rights to the Buick 215 they also bought the production machinery. If you examine the block you'll find a blanking plate bolted to where the mechanical fuel pump should go (Rover used an electric pump) and the camshaft still has the lobe up front for actuating a mechanical fuel pump as if it's still going into an old Buick. This is the case on the few engines I've examined at least.

    It's a nice little engine. At one point, years ago, I had plans on installing one in a motorcycle.

    Cool table. I was in a guy's appartment in Manhattan, back in the eighties, who had a Ferrari 250 V12 engine with a piece of glass on top sitting in the living room. I'll bet when the prices went through the roof the engine wound up back in a car.

    Wil
     
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    I was in an office in Reno Nevada where a man had a taken his exoctic car, it was long ago could have been anything, that he had wrecked and had it crushed it into a cube, placed a nice piece of glass on it for a table in his office. Made an interesting table, you could still recognise some of the parts

    Doug
     
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    Most of the Buick engines I have seen are large displacement by comparison. Although I am old enough to remember a lot of their smaller ones from back in the early sixties.
    Was it Buick that had the 4 cylinder engine that was 1/2 of an eight cylinder, even used a 8 cylinder distributer cap with 4 of the spark plug connectors blanked off?


    Doug
     
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    Can't say I've seen that one. Anything with less than 8 cylinders usually starts getting less interesting to me unless it's a real performer.

    Of course trying to make an eight cylinder out of two fours, like the Triumph Stag engine, can be less interesting than one good four banger if you happen to own a Stag.

    I've got a slightly bent Maserati straight 6 billet crankshaft and lots more Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati reject parts if anyone is looking for a potential art object.

    Wil
     
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