RE: Datsun 240Z V8: You Know You Want To

[stephen300o]

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

[900T-R]

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

Maybe not in the context of a 2 tonne land yacht. In a 1 tonne sports car, if I have to have a V8 it needs to be the most compact and lightest one rather than the one that I can get a square gazillion horsepower from...

[RoverP6B]

skyrover said:

Indeed Rover has improved the engine over the years... but it's still fundamentally the same Buick engine with a few tweaks.

Yes, but the fact is, someone here said it hadn't changed since the 50s, when it didn't even exist until the early 60s and has changed a fair bit since.

stephen300o said:

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

In a Camaro or some such, yeah, but in a lightweight sports car, ours are plenty. Besides, you can get 400+bhp out of Rover V8s without too much trouble, which is enough for most purposes...

[Gary C]

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

DFV anyone ?

[stephen300o]

Gary C said:

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

DFV anyone ?

Don't usually go with an old formula 1 engine in a road car..

[HarryW]

Always liked the original 240Z, thought they were pretty rare now, how much does a standard one go for without the engine swap?

[Gary C]

stephen300o said:

Gary C said:

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

DFV anyone ?

Don't usually go with an old formula 1 engine in a road car..

Would be nice in that 280z though

Must admit though that 'no one looks to England' is a bit rich.

[stephen300o]

Gary C said:

stephen300o said:

Gary C said:

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

DFV anyone ?

Don't usually go with an old formula 1 engine in a road car..

Would be nice in that 280z though

Must admit though that 'no one looks to England' is a bit rich.

V8 have a certain tradition, that always brings me back to the US muscle cars I grew up loving, so am very biased.
In the case of this Z, a straight six from Nissan would most ideal. Suits the cars character.

[RoverP6B]

Just remember who invented the V8... the French, as it happens!

[skyrover]

RoverP6B said:

Just remember who invented the V8... the French, as it happens!

Must have been like digging up a Balrog to them. "Sacrebleu... what have we done?"

[Gary C]

stephen300o said:

Gary C said:

stephen300o said:

Gary C said:

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

DFV anyone ?

Don't usually go with an old formula 1 engine in a road car..

Would be nice in that 280z though

Must admit though that 'no one looks to England' is a bit rich.

V8 have a certain tradition, that always brings me back to the US muscle cars I grew up loving, so am very biased.
In the case of this Z, a straight six from Nissan would most ideal. Suits the cars character.

Oh, I agree a v8 is as American as apple pie.

(which is actually an English desert),

So really what this z needs is a gtr straight six then , that would be exciting!

[tch911]

HarryW said:

Always liked the original 240Z, thought they were pretty rare now, how much does a standard one go for without the engine swap?

They are not rare per se they were the worlds best selling sportscar. In the US there are tens of thousands of them. They do have an amazing ability to rust though and most of the RHD ones have gone that way or to RHD export markets. For an honest clean 240Z, you should be paying about 10,000, for a really tidy one probably about 16-18,000. It is finding one that is so hard.

[tch911]

900T-R said:

stephen300o said:

RoverP6B said:

stephen300o said:

No one looks to England for a v8, they go get a proper one.

What do you mean? We've made quite a few legendary V8s...

Folks want to go the whole hog with a V8, the little Brit ones don't really cut it.

Maybe not in the context of a 2 tonne land yacht. In a 1 tonne sports car, if I have to have a V8 it needs to be the most compact and lightest one rather than the one that I can get a square gazillion horsepower from...

Having sold this car to the vendor, I can confirm that the combination of 275 odd bhp and lightweight is a wickedly enthralling combination. If you stuck something like my 393 Cleveland into this with knocking on 500bhp it would be completely uncontrollable.

Just a shame that it's not as clean as it was when I sold it. Once the rot sets in on these it has a tendency to spread!

[Matt80M]

Think this just rumbled past my office in Clerkenwell. Sounded sweet!