Sounds good. What power are you hoping for?

With heads, cam, trumpets, inlet porting and induction, you should easily see over 300 horses.

I have a 450 with V8D stage 3 heads and the inlet ported and matched, ported trumpet base and shorter trumpets, throttle opened up etc and they did a great job.

I went with the original spec cam on the reccomendation of Dom at TVR Power and I am glad I did this as I still have greater torque than BHP and it pulls in any gear. I didnt want a engine that didnt pull from low down or that I had to rev the nxxs off to get max power.

Its making 341 BHP and just over 360 lbs torque and I change at 5500 revs to keep it on max power.

Good luck with the rebuild.

I thought that combo with the 4.0 pistons gives a nice higher compression?

Megasquirt is the only way to go from a cost/performance point of view.

If not I'd have to build the engine up and then go best guess from MA or get it towed to Austec / MA for RR (£££'s). From what I've read on The Resource Megasquirt is pretty easy to tune - plus am keen to get rid of AFM/Stepper and rest of the troublesome Lucas crap!

Ryan

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3rd one down - £580 - should be ideal I reckon

All the bits and bobs plus direct fire coils so no EDIS8 module.

Well its been a while!

So far have had the block sent off to Rob to be fitted with flanged liners, original pistons pocketed, fully balanced and bottom end rebuilt.
Went with standard main cap bolts and the crank didn't need regrinding in the end.

All came back looking great:







ARP Head Studs went in









Cam wise - went with a Crower 50233 in the end. After much contemplation I decided that I did want a good degree of the power to be 'up top'

Ok so driving around town in the traffic might not as smooth but I guess it makes it a bit more reassuring when you know you're not going to spin the wheels up til you hit 3000.

Makes those tight pull aways from junctions in the wet a bit less hairy!!


Got the Cam nose ground so I could fit the retaining plate (Thanks to Rob again - PS Rob - found the plate in with the inlet manifold - which I totally forgot I'd even ordered!!)












Next up - Heads: Decided on Stage 3 Heads from V8D again - they really are a thing of beauty!









Now to the rocker assemblies. After a bit of debate it was decided to use decent second hand rockers with new shafts due to the trouble (cost) of getting hold of new genuine RV8 items (£40 a rocker!!) and the fact that the steel aftermarket rockers have misaligned oil holes and the pushrod seats are all at different heights. Secured a low mileage set from a nice fella in Bath for £25!













After a nice clean in the dishwasher, assembling the rockers was much easier than expected - a spell in the freezer for the shafts certainly helps.

I used the John Eales outrigger posts - very nice bit of kit and worth considering on high revving engines









Bracket for holding the DTI is sorted









More tomorrow - I'll mostly be getting TDC sorted and timing in the cam

Can i take it you stayed with stock valve sizes then? nice thread

Very similar build to mine.

I went for the steel rockers with adjustable pushrods, let's hope they last!

What pistons are you using, 4.6?

I was going to use that cam but the pr*t sent the wrong one and refused to take it back .

Thanks Simon - they should be larger - V8D Website states that the Stage 3's have larger valves.
How much bigger I'm not sure - I'll try and get a ruler across them later