Pics of 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor engine installation
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they're all mad at PPC .. in the nicest possible way .. great to see OTT engineering like this still alive and well .. *drool*
thetruemackie said:
What about retro thrusters or maybe an arrestor hook and cables at the end of the runway :P
Seem appropriate somehow
Seriously that's an awesome project. Out of interest what kind of power and torque does the meteor make and at what RPMs?
What gearbox and final drive are you using?
The box is from an XJ-6, and the drive is from a F150 pick up. The Meteor, in standard tune, it puts out 620 hp, at a lazy 2550 rpm. The ecu is a custom made one.
klassiekerrally said:
We bought a Shadow 1 the other week
As in RR Silver Shadow?
I can't wait to hear some soundbites!
Yup, thats the one. It'll sound good, because the stock items steal sooo much power, so we'll put a couple of straight throughs in. We'll keep the rear bench in, for getting there in style, but the front will have to come out.
John Dodd first used that engine in a road car. I believe the transmission was a one off auto box.
A bit of googling revealed
www.migweb.co.uk/forums/printthread.php?t=167947
Hugh
A bit of googling revealed
www.migweb.co.uk/forums/printthread.php?t=167947
Hugh
Magnificent effort 
At the end of each run at V-MAX the brake fluid was boiling and spewing out the overflow pipe - and that was with uprated brake fluid.
Al Rush said:I hope those are the Brembo XKR brakes. My old XKR had the standard brakes and they were not up to much, overheating badly when 'pressing on'. The tell-tale pedal-judder would happen as soon as they got warm.
Brakes are from an XK-R.. at the moment.
At the end of each run at V-MAX the brake fluid was boiling and spewing out the overflow pipe - and that was with uprated brake fluid.
flossythepig said:
John Dodd first used that engine in a road car. I believe the transmission was a one off auto box.
There is so much rubbish printed about the 'Dodds' that people are now starting to believe it.
The car was built by Paul Jammison from Dorking in Surrey, it had a Meteor tank engine and as a beautiful rolling chassis sat on Minilite wheels, transmission was via two Jaguar boxes to give a useable rev range with available final drives. Paul, King of Merlins, never fitted a body. Dodds, a wizard with slush boxes who lived in Epsom bought the bolide from Paul and fitted it with a stretched glass fibre Capri body made by FGR Mouldings of Shortlands in Kent. The super wheels were replaced by vulgar Woolferace wheels and a facsimile Roller radiaror grill fitted. Insufficient and inadequate maintenance progressively reduced the car to an oil dropping heap. It was rebuilt after the widely reported fire and eventually Dodds took it with him to Spain. There was a story that it was destroyed in an Autobahn crash at a speed greatly above that possible with the transmission Dodds had fitted but many years later Dodds was still phoning Paul for technical advice, like Mark Twain the stories of the Beasts death were greatly exaggerated.
Paul built a six wheeler fitted with a proper S/C Merlin, it was shown on the Autocar stand at the Earls Court Motor Show and later moved to a Swedish Museum, that car could really crack 200mph, Paul was working on a roadable Merlin powered car at the time of early and tragic death, his wife described him to me as an English Eccentric, how very true, a gentleman 'professor'and a long time hero of mine.
Alas even Paul cannot claim to be the father of the first Merlin/Meteor car, sprint enthusiasts of a certain age will be familiar with the Swandean Special, the Triangle Special in its later form and a number of others.
I love the idea of the SD1 Meteor and applaud it's execution, I'm sure Paul would have loved it too although its perhaps a little low key for John Dodds.
PS I'm not anti Dodds, he did wonders with auto boxes, I had loads of fun in a 1293S with a Dodds modified Autobox.
johnjr said:
BLOODY brilliant!
Same here,what a fantastic project and one i will look out for
That looks Incredible
God..I'd love to hear that running
Good Luck with such an amazing project
john
Do you know what, even in the pictures you can tell charlie is a laid back smooth operator
Brilliant.
Is there a website for this build?
Cheers,
Steve
Mr E said:
The Meteor, in standard tune, it puts out 620 hp, at a lazy 2550 rpm. The ecu is a custom made one.
I've just worked out how much torque it needs to produce 600+ bhp at 2500 rpm.
Two things;
1) You're going to need *monster* gearing
2) It will pull your house down.
It has a Hi Stall Torque Converter from Summit Racing (USA) at the back, and between that and the engine, lives an epicyclic gear train from a Leyland Leapord bus (doesn't everyone have one?). Because the engine redlines at around 2,500 rpm, the gear train generates more power. It 'accepts' 1 rpm in (from the engine) and pushes 3 rpm out, back towards the torque converter, to ensure that houses stay vertical.
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