240 V8 Project anyone?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Othen

At £8,000 the seller must be smoking too much wacky baccy!

Wow! The price is reduced to £7,500 - I bet they will sell like hot cakes now :-)

[Wagon Sailor]

"will need light resto for road use"
My definition must be out of date.

[Juular]

Ooft. That's some price for two broken old cars.

Otherwise I'd be genuinely interested in a 240 with a v8, even if it needed a lot of work.

I'd be cheaper just putting a v8 in my own car (1UZ anyone?)

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Juular

I'd be cheaper just putting a v8 in my own car (1UZ anyone?)

Excellent idea, especially as the A340 gearbox hung on the back of the early 1UZ engines is near identical to the AW70/1/2 box used in our Volvos. Makes mounting the gearbox and connecting the prop a spanner job. Not so sure on the engine mounts/exhaust manifolds though but sure it isn't insurmountable, after all others have already converted the 2/7/9xx cars to 1UZ power.
In fact there's a gut on YT (i believe he's in Holland, lucar-carmods i think he's called) that has done just that and even produced a kit to make fitting easier with various mounts and other things. D'oh! Got his name slightly wrong but here's episode 3 of him converting a 244 to 1UZ power :

https://youtu.be/hDmtezlc98o

Enjoy!

[heckflosse]

There was a kit to fit a SBC in 200s in the States. Effectively a cradle that mounts on the chassis legs. Id ignore Rovers and go for something cheaper to build, enter the 350 Chevy..

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Tannaton

Hmmm.....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114927250...kAAOSwoxZhD-EA

Much better to put a £500 T5 / T6 motor in there ... half the weight for one thing :-)

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Clan

Much better to put a £500 T5 / T6 motor in there ... half the weight for one thing :-)

Half the weight of what?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Othen

Wow! The price is reduced to £7,500 - I bet they will sell like hot cakes now :-)

Wow! The price is down to only £6,999 - there will be a queue forming out of the door soon :-)

[Juular]

Thinking about it, I would probably prefer something like the 5 cylinder 2.5 diesel from the V70 TDI. It would make the 240 a real daily driver car with plenty of oomph and very low running costs.

[heckflosse]

Originally Posted by Juular

Thinking about it, I would probably prefer something like the 5 cylinder 2.5 diesel from the V70 TDI. It would make the 240 a real daily driver car with plenty of oomph and very low running costs.

Not very future proof though, stinky diesels are not flavour of the month . Mind you, my idea about using an engine designed in the time before Elvis shot to fame is equally anachronistic!