Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:39:20 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Graham Miller
Subject: RE: Turbo- Jap Engined
I've always thought, with one bank of four cylinders already canted over at 45 degrees, that once you've fitted a front rad and moved the battery up there too, a small V8 should fit in nicely. I've heard rumours of a late fifties Grand Prix engine that was a Coventry Climax 2 litre V8, so that should do the job nicely!!!
Graham
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:29:38 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Graham Miller
Subject: RE: Turbo- Jap Engined
What's the SP250 2.5 V8?
Graham
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:29:47 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Simon Trickett
Subject: SP250 V8
Graham,
The SP250 V8.....
It is from the Daimler Dart.
Simon Trickett
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:58:27 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Graham Miller
Subject: RE: SP250 V8
That's alright then, there'll be lots of them in scrapyards ...
Graham
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 23:30:34 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Nickcleak@aol.com
Subject: Imp V8
Yes , indeed , i have seen an Imp V8 engine , it was made from two MK1 blocks and the head on one side was reversed and the timing chain end cut off and welded to the 'rear' of the head for the other side , a mirror image of the one normal head ..
it had a very short stroke ...about 35 mm . It is to be reassembled and fitted to a 60's F1 car ..one day ....
There was a photograph in IMPressions .. about a year ago ..
Now if it were done today with two 998 imp engines, 4 x weber 40 dcoe .2 litre 200 Bhp .. that would do nicely ..
nick ...
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 06:32:54 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Gary and Carol Henderson
Subject: RE: Turbo- Jap Engined
Hi Graham
A.k.a. the Daimler Dart sports car of the early sixties. The V8 also went into a Daimlerized version of the Mk !! Jaguar saloon.
Cheers
GaryH
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 06:33:14 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Gary and Carol Henderson
Subject: RE: Turbo- Jap Engined
Hi Graham
You're sort of right - there was a 2 litre Coventry Climax V8 in the mid-sixties - it was a stretched version of the 1.5 litre Formula 1 engine, made for the Tasman Series down here, which had stayed as a 2.5 litre Formula to allow use of relatively-cheap Coventry FPF engines, after F.1 went to 1.5 litres.
The BRM V12 was also first made for this series, as a different way of stretching a 1.5 litre V8.
Cheers
GaryH
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 03:08:12 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Richard Candler
Subject: V8's
Yeah, the F1 Lotus in the 63-65 era (Brabham, Clark, etc) ran with a 1.5 V8 Coventry Climax. I really don't know where you'd get your hands on one though, or how much it would set you back. I suspect a lot as they are probably as rare as hens teeth, if there are any in existance at all.....
Cheers
Rich
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 09:42:57 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Russell Maddock
Subject: Re: V8's
The Coventry Museum of Transport has a CC V8. Don't think they'd let you have it though. ;-)
Russ Maddock