Pics of 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor engine installation

[Jay GTI]

The engine is sat nicely back in the chassis, but I imagine it still weighs a fair bit... will the SD1 do corners when it's finished, or is that not the point?

[m3pilot]

I remember a seeing a similar conversion based on a very old Rolls Royce chassis years ago. At the time it had no bodywork on it but did run and sounded amazing.

Best of luck in finfhing the project.

[Chris-B]

Well Charlies certainly got further on with it than the last time I saw it which was late last year

I saw him with a friend of mine late last year as my mates got a similar lump in his garage
Here we are looking at fitting it in my scorpio LOL


Only kidding



They are hugh engines .........they sound nice as well

ChrisB

>> Edited by Chris-B on Friday 3rd March 10:08

[Al Rush]

Jay GTI said:

The engine is sat nicely back in the chassis, but I imagine it still weighs a fair bit... will the SD1 do corners when it's finished, or is that not the point?

It handles ok. The engine weighs heavier then the V8, but the car is otherwise stripped out. Its no Elise, but its no cruise liner either. It'd be good/crazy/mad/suicidal to see it going up the hill at Goodwood..

[Chris-B]

johnjr said:

God..I'd love to hear that running

Right after some fiddling here it is , dunno how long it will stay until the bandwidth shuts it down but here is Charlies V12 running on Gas.
Hes a great guy and we spent something like 3 hrs and many cups of coffee chatting about whats what , and the custom built injection system is a wonder

So this is what you have all been waiting for http://media.putfile.com/Metor-runnin

As I have said its only on a free host so may crash and burn if 1000's of you look at it but we will have to see ?

A big thank you has to go out to Charlie for letting us come up and spend the morning/afternoon with him

ChrisB

[Al Rush]

No joy.. I'll come back later.

I've some non digital footage of it being fired up at the Bromley Pageant a couple of years ago, but can I find it? Can I hell.

[rhyds]

That is one serious motor

The fuel injection system was also very good, 24 rover 800 injectors IIRC, at least they've been given a new lease of life

[pentoman]

I saw this car at the weekend and posted about it here http://pentoman.blogspot.com/

There are pics there, here's one of them:



Incidentally how is cooling? I just happened to be there with guys who rebuild Merlins for the MOD and specifically BBMF - they reckoned they need radiators twice the size, with air being pulled through by the prop (on their test rig) and still have heat problems.

[Chris-B]

Al Rush said:

No joy.. I'll come back later.

mmmmm should be working , the link works here still ??? of course I might be using a cached version , its about 6meg in size so quite large for non phat banders

ChrisB

[Al Rush]

pentoman said:

I saw this car at the weekend and posted about it here http://pentoman.blogspot.com/ There are pics there, here's one of them: Incidentally how is cooling? I just happened to be there with guys who rebuild Merlins for the MOD and specifically BBMF - they reckoned they need radiators twice the size, with air being pulled through by the prop (on their test rig) and still have heat problems.

The 2 fans are from an Iveco, and Charley did the rad himself. It was running before, and seemed fine. I suppose town traffic would balls it up, but normal runs out don't present any snags.

[scared but happy]

What are the co2 and other emissions and are they required for a car of this age? Also does it qualify for SVA testing or standard MOT?
sorry if answered before

[Al Rush]

Emissions test not required (I think I'm right in saying), and it doesn't require SVA. It has run on its standard plate, insurance and MoT a couple of years ago.

[Chris-B]

Al , when we were up looking at it, an SVA test was something that crossed our minds while driving back south.
I "think" now it would require one as theres not enough of the original vehicle left, engines changed, gearbox changed, front and rear axles changed and theres bugger all left thats original about the chassis. So on that front I would suspect it will require SVA'ing ????

ChrisB

[Al Rush]

Thinking about it, you could well be right Chris. Things have changed a lot in 3 years.

[williamp]

How about the fuel tank and oil tank? I rm ember one conversion into a '30s Rolls Royce motor car which had a radiator, laid flat under the car for extra cooling, and the whole of the back full of fuel and oil.

[Al Rush]

There are 2 lpg tanks, and we're getting a racing petrol tank fabricated to go around the vertically mounted oil tank. All in the boot, behind the roll cage.

[F.M]

A race paint job surely.....

[Al Rush]

I'm liking Snapdragon, what a Q car that'd be. The wheels on that Marlborough one are something else.

[F.M]

I snapped thse magnesium jobs for my SD1`s...to go with my turbo V8 engine....drool!..

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?p=2&f=&t=231540&h=0

[AL666]

The way I understood it about the car needing to be on a Q plate was that if it still had at least TWO major components from the original car, it can still be called the original car...