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New toy to play with
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:11 pm
by new to this
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:36 am
by xvivalve
V8?
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:25 am
by SprintV8
No I think that’s the 2.3 or 2.6 Straight Six.
Notorious for the cams seizing in the head. (Sorry done so many partly blocked oil way)
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:47 am
by Tony Burd
Bodywork looks good, any rust?
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:04 pm
by new to this
Its a 2600cc
If you change the engine oil regularly, there's not anything wrong with the engine
for an SD1 the only rust is a little bit on both rear arches, the car needs new tyres as there old, hand brake needs looking at and oil leek on gearbox, and replaced the viscous unit
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:13 am
by SprintV8
new to this wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:04 pm
Its a 2600cc
If you change the engine oil regularly, there's not anything wrong with the engine
for an SD1 the only rust is a little bit on both rear arches, the car needs new tyres as there old, hand brake needs looking at and oil leek on gearbox, and replaced the viscous unit
Quite possibly
But on newest cars at the time that haven’t had the blocks properly cleaned after machining swarf was still present.
Blocking oilways.
Then Rover changed there cleaning process.
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:57 pm
by xvivalve
Wasn't that engine derived from the Triumph straight six?
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:05 pm
by new to this
Yes it was a Triumph engine, only ever used in the Rover SD1,a bit like the Stag V8 in the day no one liked them, but now every one wants them, today you can tune them so there almost as powerful as the V8
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 10:30 am
by Macleesh
xvivalve wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:57 pm
Wasn't that engine derived from the Triumph straight six?
Derived from certainly but much improved. The bottom end was substantially beefed up to address the known weaknesses of the OHV engine. Cylinder head very much follows the Sprint layout in concept but with only two valves per cylinder. Allegedly the 2.6 was under carburettored so as not to embarass the 3.5 V8
Re: New toy to play with
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 11:00 am
by GlenM
Derived from certainly but much improved. The bottom end was substantially beefed up to address the known weaknesses of the OHV engine. Cylinder head very much follows the Sprint layout in concept but with only two valves per cylinder. Allegedly the 2.6 was under carburettored so as not to embarass the 3.5 V8
I've read the same about the 2.6, I think it also deliberately had very restrictive exhaust manifolds. It's supposed to respond very well to a few tuning modifications.
