Pics of 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor engine installation
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I like it Al Rush said:
Look forward to seeing you there. We have 5 litres of Millers Oil and PPC T Shirts to give away to new subscribers too.
Will and I are driving down in the Rolls on Thursday morning, and Kev and Charley and following up in the Rover. It should make for an interesting convoy. We took the Rolls down the strip at the Pod on Sunday, I'll try and put some footage of that up later. It also did the Autotest there. Which might explain why Kev is fixing a Rolls Royce driveshaft tonight..
We took her to Le Mans where a very nice man indeed, gave us a supercharger for it. Since then, another very nice man indeed seems to have given us two T25’s turbos for it as well.
Will and I are driving down in the Rolls on Thursday morning, and Kev and Charley and following up in the Rover. It should make for an interesting convoy. We took the Rolls down the strip at the Pod on Sunday, I'll try and put some footage of that up later. It also did the Autotest there. Which might explain why Kev is fixing a Rolls Royce driveshaft tonight..
We took her to Le Mans where a very nice man indeed, gave us a supercharger for it. Since then, another very nice man indeed seems to have given us two T25’s turbos for it as well.
people like you are the reason this country was great your legends keep it up
this animal makes my vr6/r32 conversion look pathetic hehe
what time did the monster get?
how did you find the traction? (its always been awefull for me)
im seriously in love with this car heres me thinking a golf vr6 is a fairly big motor haha
ps PLEASE paint it british racing green and get it on top gear
Edited by eatthis on Friday 14th July 08:29
I caught the Rover at Goodwood and just want to say a big 
for it!
Glad to see there are still people doing proper things with proper engines and not just sticking on shocking bodykits. It sounded awesome and warmed me ankles nicely
I would love to see it runnnig, Kevin was telling me you took the opportunity to take it up the hill in the morning - I imagine it's requires strong arms to steer that weight?
Also enjoyed my free copy of PPC - can't believe I haven't spotted the magazine before, but like the attitude of 'just stick a V8 in it'!
for it! Glad to see there are still people doing proper things with proper engines and not just sticking on shocking bodykits. It sounded awesome and warmed me ankles nicely
I would love to see it runnnig, Kevin was telling me you took the opportunity to take it up the hill in the morning - I imagine it's requires strong arms to steer that weight?
Also enjoyed my free copy of PPC - can't believe I haven't spotted the magazine before, but like the attitude of 'just stick a V8 in it'!
We're on press week Heavy, so I haven't managed to stick the vid up yet, but yeah.. we took it up the hill with the Rolls as chase. It handles surprisingly nimbly and was a blast.
Glad you like the mag. Yeah, we haven't been able to afford massive distribution because we're poor and hone our finely crafted prose from a small barn, but now that Tesco's has taken us on from August (if you can't find us in Smiths where it tends to go quite quickly) you can always find a copy of PPC to read as you follow the trolley around the aisles.
Glad you like the mag. Yeah, we haven't been able to afford massive distribution because we're poor and hone our finely crafted prose from a small barn, but now that Tesco's has taken us on from August (if you can't find us in Smiths where it tends to go quite quickly) you can always find a copy of PPC to read as you follow the trolley around the aisles.
Must admit to being very impressed with the 27 litre Rover especially when you fired it up, I wasn't expecting the side exit exhausts as they almost blew me off my feet!
Have to say thanks to Charlie (?) for the sample of local grog that tasted very nice! Not often a stand offers free beer as well as a friendly chat and magazine. Good read too.
CET
Have to say thanks to Charlie (?) for the sample of local grog that tasted very nice! Not often a stand offers free beer as well as a friendly chat and magazine. Good read too.
CET
Al Rush said:
We only got 17 seconds or so out of the Rolls. The twin turbo's go on soon.
We've got a Turbo R buyers guide in the next issue. The line: "Buy the right one, and you may never want/ need another car in your lifetime" speaks volumes.
The Rover is going to be satin black too.
We've got a Turbo R buyers guide in the next issue. The line: "Buy the right one, and you may never want/ need another car in your lifetime" speaks volumes.
The Rover is going to be satin black too.
17 secs im shocked at that i got 14.7 with a puny 198 bhp lol what was the terminal speed?
ps im gonna buy the mag tomorow if theres any in wh smiths
pps please post up when ur goin santa pod again il do my best to get down i REALLY wanna see this animal
ppps lol the guy with the turbo mx5 has he ever thought to get at least a low comp head gasket and maybe not just drilling a hole in the wastegate hehe
Al Rush said:
We only got 17 seconds or so out of the Rolls. The twin turbo's go on soon.
We've got a Turbo R buyers guide in the next issue. The line: "Buy the right one, and you may never want/ need another car in your lifetime" speaks volumes.
The Rover is going to be satin black too.
We've got a Turbo R buyers guide in the next issue. The line: "Buy the right one, and you may never want/ need another car in your lifetime" speaks volumes.
The Rover is going to be satin black too.
It will look the biz in satin black, but, if you're going to launch an invasion on Le Mans with the beast then shirley it has to be BRG complete with enamel union jack badges on the wings and 3 white invasion stripes across the bonnet
Hi all.
eatthis,
It was the Rolls which got 17 secs, not bad for a so far enigine untouched 35 year old tank weighing as much as a small village. We expect great things though.
Cross Eyed,
The grog is from our local.. he has a micro brewery out back and its where we're having the pub meet next month. Charley will be taking the Rover.
eatthis,
It was the Rolls which got 17 secs, not bad for a so far enigine untouched 35 year old tank weighing as much as a small village. We expect great things though.
Cross Eyed,
The grog is from our local.. he has a micro brewery out back and its where we're having the pub meet next month. Charley will be taking the Rover.
Here's the link.. we're having a meet there on Friday 25 August. Its at the start of the BH Weekend.. and as many PHers as poss are welcome. Charlie should be driving the Rover there.
Its a great place to spend a day or two too.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=271038&p=1
Its a great place to spend a day or two too.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=271038&p=1
I seen the bonnet bulge on the blue bonnet..your right ..I do like it...
...As regards the blowers...I wonder if a custom manifold could be made to mount the blowers either above or below the manifolds as otherwise they would perhaps intrude into the suspension struts and inner wing...? Mountains must surely need to moved in order to fit`em as it would be rude not to...
Any good more recent pics...?
...As regards the blowers...I wonder if a custom manifold could be made to mount the blowers either above or below the manifolds as otherwise they would perhaps intrude into the suspension struts and inner wing...? Mountains must surely need to moved in order to fit`em as it would be rude not to...
Any good more recent pics...?
Ok, a Rover update. Its electronic brain has now been fettled too. Digger (my mate) has returned from mapping the deep and has now turned his attention to mapping the Rover. Mapping 27 litres may seem a piffling amount compared to mapping 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 litres, but it still caused him grief. We didn’t have a problem on gas, it seemed to run quite smoothly, but to use the car every day we need to be able to rely on petrol. It was a bugger to sort.
It wouldn’t fire right, and it wasn’t until we realised one of the injectors may be fouled, that the ball ache of fixing it dawned on us. Luckily, we turned over the office and came up with half a dozen Colortunes to help. Anyway, we got to Goodwood FoS eventually, Kev’s Mk1 Rangie pulling like Adrian Mole at a Liz Hurley lookalike convention. We had taken a couple of barrels of Witham Wobbler from the PPC pub (The Blue Cow) and were even almost sober enough to finish setting up the stand by the time the show was half over.
It was at this point, that I discovered how Rock and Roll the crazy world of small magazine publishing could be. The course officials had decided that the Rover wasn’t quite what they wanted, going up the hill. So, we hatched a plan. We’d take the cars up the hill anyway before the event opened, and damn the consequences. Being ex Royal Air Force Regiment, Al started to take it very seriously, so the plan was soon all sorted in a way that made the invasion of Iraq seem like nipping down to the supermarket. Going up the hill first would be me, with Al in the passenger seat. He decided to arm himself with a video camera to record the historic occasion.
Playing wingman to my Maverick, was ‘Goose’ Leaper in the Rolls. Riding shotgun with him, and armed with another camera was Andy Monaghan, without whom our time at the show would have been far more hectic (cheers Andy). Wing Commanders Will Holman and Dale ‘Lovemass’ Lomas were deployed as cut offs, their role was simple on that fateful morning. They were in place purely to give us advance warning of any chasing race marshalls. They were expendable, and we all bade each other an emotional farewell before mounting up and moving under cover of darkness to our start points.
I wished that the Rover matched the stealth like qualities of Kev’s matt black Rolls. The bloke who owned the place must have heard us coming through his 15 foot thick walls, let alone the sleeping marshalls through their canvas tents. We turned onto the hallowed circuit and at the pre arranged signal, I floored it. The signal was supposed to be a ‘go go go’, from Al but I must have been too quick off the mark, because all I heard from him was ‘go go gghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ as I shot off and his video camera started filming the ceiling.
The Rolls was soon a speck behind us as we made it to the top, whistling past gaping early birds. The car sounded superb on the throttle and made a great noise going inbetween those walls and around that first bend. Going down the hill was even better, the car behaved perfectly. We got somewhere close to 3 figures and the engine note of the engine hardly changed as we leapt there, but typical, we lost concentration and as we got to the end of the mission we got bumped.
There they were, the flashing lights of the marshall’s wagon reaching out to us like flak. Al must have had a flashback, because he screamed at me to start weaving, so I slapped him, told him to get a grip and reminded him that we weren’t over the Ruhr, we were in Sussex. The Rolls couldn’t help, because they limped for the cover of the nearest exit (.. you know who to count on when the going gets tough, don’t you?), so off we went again, with the course feds getting smaller in my mirrors. “Where now?” I shouted down at Al over the noise (we had no windscreen in and were for some reason, now moving quite sharply. Al’s head was buried deep in the cockpit map and he looked up and screamed ’20 metres, hard left!”.
Now that thing can handle, and the brakes work too.. people don’t believe me, but when it has to- it can. In a blur, we found ourselves.. in the supercar paddock, surrounded by million dollar exotica. I looked at Al, like Arthur Lowe would look at Pike. “Well, where would you hide an oak tree?” Al reasoned, so we poodled and tiptoed (as well as a 27 litre car can poodle and tiptoe) around £130 million worth of car. I felt like an elephant at a cocktail party I can tell you.
Thankfully, a nice man on one of the F1 cars came up to us and offered us sanctuary. I was half expecting to reverse the car into a hayrick, as the marshals walked around with pitchforks. Of course, they found us though. I waited for the metallic sound of the bolt softly sliding a round into the chamber and calmy awaited my fate (Al was hissing “Don’t let the bastards see you’re frightened” but instead, all they could say was “We read the mag, great car, great car!”. Great blokes, all of them.
Anyway, the show went brilliantly and we managed to let loads of people hear the car. If there’s a better car show here, I’ve yet to see it.
Ok, quickly up to date then. The car needs a new brake caliper to get it through the MoT. Jon at Bigg Red had a reconditioned caliper in stock, and I went down to collect it. His calipers are probably better than many new ones I’ve had, so by the time you read this, it should have passed the MoT.
Digger gets mapping.
Goodwood or bust.
24 Injectors need mapping. Digger has provided custom made hardware.
Digger at work.
My dad had one like that Mister! (Oh no he didn’t.)
Wind in the hair, aaah. You can’t beat it.
Andy Nicholl from AET Turbos offers turbos which could suck the chrome from a chav’s tailpipe.
Exhausts seem to be working then..
Work starts on the bonnet.
It wouldn’t fire right, and it wasn’t until we realised one of the injectors may be fouled, that the ball ache of fixing it dawned on us. Luckily, we turned over the office and came up with half a dozen Colortunes to help. Anyway, we got to Goodwood FoS eventually, Kev’s Mk1 Rangie pulling like Adrian Mole at a Liz Hurley lookalike convention. We had taken a couple of barrels of Witham Wobbler from the PPC pub (The Blue Cow) and were even almost sober enough to finish setting up the stand by the time the show was half over.
It was at this point, that I discovered how Rock and Roll the crazy world of small magazine publishing could be. The course officials had decided that the Rover wasn’t quite what they wanted, going up the hill. So, we hatched a plan. We’d take the cars up the hill anyway before the event opened, and damn the consequences. Being ex Royal Air Force Regiment, Al started to take it very seriously, so the plan was soon all sorted in a way that made the invasion of Iraq seem like nipping down to the supermarket. Going up the hill first would be me, with Al in the passenger seat. He decided to arm himself with a video camera to record the historic occasion.
Playing wingman to my Maverick, was ‘Goose’ Leaper in the Rolls. Riding shotgun with him, and armed with another camera was Andy Monaghan, without whom our time at the show would have been far more hectic (cheers Andy). Wing Commanders Will Holman and Dale ‘Lovemass’ Lomas were deployed as cut offs, their role was simple on that fateful morning. They were in place purely to give us advance warning of any chasing race marshalls. They were expendable, and we all bade each other an emotional farewell before mounting up and moving under cover of darkness to our start points.
I wished that the Rover matched the stealth like qualities of Kev’s matt black Rolls. The bloke who owned the place must have heard us coming through his 15 foot thick walls, let alone the sleeping marshalls through their canvas tents. We turned onto the hallowed circuit and at the pre arranged signal, I floored it. The signal was supposed to be a ‘go go go’, from Al but I must have been too quick off the mark, because all I heard from him was ‘go go gghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ as I shot off and his video camera started filming the ceiling.
The Rolls was soon a speck behind us as we made it to the top, whistling past gaping early birds. The car sounded superb on the throttle and made a great noise going inbetween those walls and around that first bend. Going down the hill was even better, the car behaved perfectly. We got somewhere close to 3 figures and the engine note of the engine hardly changed as we leapt there, but typical, we lost concentration and as we got to the end of the mission we got bumped.
There they were, the flashing lights of the marshall’s wagon reaching out to us like flak. Al must have had a flashback, because he screamed at me to start weaving, so I slapped him, told him to get a grip and reminded him that we weren’t over the Ruhr, we were in Sussex. The Rolls couldn’t help, because they limped for the cover of the nearest exit (.. you know who to count on when the going gets tough, don’t you?), so off we went again, with the course feds getting smaller in my mirrors. “Where now?” I shouted down at Al over the noise (we had no windscreen in and were for some reason, now moving quite sharply. Al’s head was buried deep in the cockpit map and he looked up and screamed ’20 metres, hard left!”.
Now that thing can handle, and the brakes work too.. people don’t believe me, but when it has to- it can. In a blur, we found ourselves.. in the supercar paddock, surrounded by million dollar exotica. I looked at Al, like Arthur Lowe would look at Pike. “Well, where would you hide an oak tree?” Al reasoned, so we poodled and tiptoed (as well as a 27 litre car can poodle and tiptoe) around £130 million worth of car. I felt like an elephant at a cocktail party I can tell you.
Thankfully, a nice man on one of the F1 cars came up to us and offered us sanctuary. I was half expecting to reverse the car into a hayrick, as the marshals walked around with pitchforks. Of course, they found us though. I waited for the metallic sound of the bolt softly sliding a round into the chamber and calmy awaited my fate (Al was hissing “Don’t let the bastards see you’re frightened”
but instead, all they could say was “We read the mag, great car, great car!”. Great blokes, all of them. Anyway, the show went brilliantly and we managed to let loads of people hear the car. If there’s a better car show here, I’ve yet to see it.
Ok, quickly up to date then. The car needs a new brake caliper to get it through the MoT. Jon at Bigg Red had a reconditioned caliper in stock, and I went down to collect it. His calipers are probably better than many new ones I’ve had, so by the time you read this, it should have passed the MoT.
Digger gets mapping.
Goodwood or bust.
24 Injectors need mapping. Digger has provided custom made hardware.
Digger at work.
My dad had one like that Mister! (Oh no he didn’t.)
Wind in the hair, aaah. You can’t beat it.
Andy Nicholl from AET Turbos offers turbos which could suck the chrome from a chav’s tailpipe.
Exhausts seem to be working then..
Work starts on the bonnet.
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