Pics of 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor engine installation
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Glad you like it chaps, and the T. You’re not properly dressed without one, although your mother wouldn’t like it.
Charley will be putting on the Custom Chrome Ltd exhaust sometime this week. It won’t be fully mapped for a bit longer, so putting the lpg in when he did, was a good move. It’ll make the car genuinely useable on a daily basis. The MoT should be ok, there isn’t anything wrong for it to fail on (fingers crossed).. the only hassle is from the DVLA. They always seem to send back the V5 with it inscribed; 2.7 litres. They’re obviously too busy sending porn around their intranet down there to be reading PPC.
The Rover will be running regularly down at Goodwood, so call in, we’re in one of the stands between the edge of the cricket pitch and the start line. It’s being towed down there by the Rolls, which should make for a splendidly eccentric sight. You’re right, who wants a Bugatti anyway?
(SHOCK HORROR: PPC turbo tries to suck small boy in.)
edit: Here are some more recent shots. I’ll try and post some more later.
Charley will be putting on the Custom Chrome Ltd exhaust sometime this week. It won’t be fully mapped for a bit longer, so putting the lpg in when he did, was a good move. It’ll make the car genuinely useable on a daily basis. The MoT should be ok, there isn’t anything wrong for it to fail on (fingers crossed).. the only hassle is from the DVLA. They always seem to send back the V5 with it inscribed; 2.7 litres. They’re obviously too busy sending porn around their intranet down there to be reading PPC.
The Rover will be running regularly down at Goodwood, so call in, we’re in one of the stands between the edge of the cricket pitch and the start line. It’s being towed down there by the Rolls, which should make for a splendidly eccentric sight. You’re right, who wants a Bugatti anyway?
(SHOCK HORROR: PPC turbo tries to suck small boy in.)
edit: Here are some more recent shots. I’ll try and post some more later.
Edited by Al Rush on Saturday 24th June 17:16
Its going to be difficult, unless the whole front is redesigned. There could be some hacking away of the bulkhead, but it could be that smaller turbos will work just as well. Either way, its a job for winter onwards.
The bonnet was sorted earlier this week. I don't think you'll be dissapointed..
The bonnet was sorted earlier this week. I don't think you'll be dissapointed..
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.
Yup, 2.
2 T25’s will give a steady 450bhp with little lag, but thats using every lag reduction trick in the book, except anti lag fuelling because flames out of the exhaust were deemed ‘inappropriate’ when new. We aren't as constrained though.
And what it'll do with a supercharger, who knows?
2 T25’s will give a steady 450bhp with little lag, but thats using every lag reduction trick in the book, except anti lag fuelling because flames out of the exhaust were deemed ‘inappropriate’ when new. We aren't as constrained though.
And what it'll do with a supercharger, who knows?
I tried to download it last night and was scuppered by a thunderstorm induced power cut. I lost heart after that, and drifted off to the footy. I'll finish it tonight.
Either way, come and see it for yourself mebbe?
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=285608&p=1
Either way, come and see it for yourself mebbe?
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=285608&p=1
I may have confused the issue by bringing in the issue of the Rolls into the Rover thread. Was it the Rolls you were referring to? If so, Kev is the man here scratching his head, so I'm sure direct contact would be appreciated ( kev@ppcmag.co.uk ).
We do have a couple of turbos for the Rover, but the issue at present is the size of them, they're BIG. AET Turbo's have supplied 2 turbo's (see a page or two back for pics) and Charley is busy scratching his nuts and wondering how to fit them in. Lots of scratching going on then, it must be something in the Stamford water.
Cheers,
Al.
We do have a couple of turbos for the Rover, but the issue at present is the size of them, they're BIG. AET Turbo's have supplied 2 turbo's (see a page or two back for pics) and Charley is busy scratching his nuts and wondering how to fit them in. Lots of scratching going on then, it must be something in the Stamford water.
Cheers,
Al.
Here's one earlier this summer of the Rover being mapped by Charley and Digger. Its one of the first idle runs, and the car is connected to lpg. Quality isn't great, sorry, and its far better to hear in real life.
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Yup, sometime late August I do believe, in South Witham. Theres one oop north too, tomorrow night if thats of help.
http://ppcmag.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?T
PS: Thanks for the offer, we'll be busy with a show, but feel free to put it on the mag forum.
Yup, sometime late August I do believe, in South Witham. Theres one oop north too, tomorrow night if thats of help.
http://ppcmag.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?T
PS: Thanks for the offer, we'll be busy with a show, but feel free to put it on the mag forum.
Edited by Al Rush on Thursday 6th July 09:10
'pache,
I must be getting senile, for the life of me, how did you know I was a Rockape? Was it from another thread here? Anyway, cheeky bugger.. '..good work for a Rockape' indeed.
The Rover will be at our pub meet (dv). Not sure if they do Adnams 'pach, at the Blue Cow but they do do Wobbler, which is what we were dishing out on the stand. They brew it there, it must be the smallest of micro breweries. Its a Friday too, and they have rooms at a cheap rate for us.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=271038&p=1
4WD,
We're thinking satin black, like the Rolls, but with white invasion stripes (ahem) for the trip to the 'Ring.
I must be getting senile, for the life of me, how did you know I was a Rockape? Was it from another thread here? Anyway, cheeky bugger.. '..good work for a Rockape' indeed.
The Rover will be at our pub meet (dv). Not sure if they do Adnams 'pach, at the Blue Cow but they do do Wobbler, which is what we were dishing out on the stand. They brew it there, it must be the smallest of micro breweries. Its a Friday too, and they have rooms at a cheap rate for us.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=271038&p=1
4WD,
We're thinking satin black, like the Rolls, but with white invasion stripes (ahem) for the trip to the 'Ring.
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.
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
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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