Classics left to die/rotting pics

[daveenty]

RoverP6B said:

They didn't use 4-valve-per-cylinder heads like the Dolly Sprint, though, did they? What was the issue with those engines (I forget)?

Apologies if I'm wrong, but wasn't the sprint a single overhead cam on one side driving a rocker shaft on the other? As opposed from DOHC?

[Sardonicus]

Triumph 2000/2500 2 valve per cyl push-rod eng were known to drop crankshaft thrust bearings back in the day causing massive crankshaft end float and if you was lucky and the car was auto it would stuff the gearbox too if initially undetected the SDI 2000/2300/2600 was absolute st camshaft failures and oil gallery woes I seem to remember

[Cliftonite]

daveenty said:

RoverP6B said:

They didn't use 4-valve-per-cylinder heads like the Dolly Sprint, though, did they? What was the issue with those engines (I forget)?

Apologies if I'm wrong, but wasn't the sprint a single overhead cam on one side driving a rocker shaft on the other? As opposed from DOHC?

Yes! Clever, wasn't it?

[rolando]

RoverP6B said:

rolando said:

OHC

Dreadful things.

They didn't use 4-valve-per-cylinder heads like the Dolly Sprint, though, did they? What was the issue with those engines (I forget)?

The one I had (2600cc) was horribly unreliable having an appetite for head gaskets and a propensity to catch fire. Bought from a Rover "specialist", locally known as Coronation Street Motors.


For those who can't work it out: The Rovers Return

[rolando]

rolando said:

RoverP6B said:

rolando said:

OHC

Dreadful things.

They didn't use 4-valve-per-cylinder heads like the Dolly Sprint, though, did they? What was the issue with those engines (I forget)?

Single OHC, 2 valves per cylinder, nothing exotic. The one I had (2600cc) was horribly unreliable having an appetite for head gaskets and a propensity to catch fire. Bought from a Rover "specialist", locally known as Coronation Street Motors.


For those who can't work it out: The Rovers Return

[Sardonicus]

rolando said:

The one I had (2600cc) was horribly unreliable having an appetite for head gaskets and a propensity to catch fire. Bought from a Rover "specialist", locally known as Coronation Street Motors.


For those who can't work it out: The Rovers Return

Gave me a chuckle did that

[finlo]

RoverP6B said:

They didn't use 4-valve-per-cylinder heads like the Dolly Sprint, though, did they? What was the issue with those engines (I forget)?

Yes they did, cam and buckets on one set of valves rockers on top to operate the others.

[three five five]

our friend in Cabana Portugal has a fe VWs, including two rare Brasilias, two minis, Lancia, audi all rotting in the field.

[three five five]

Oops , double post.

Edited by three five five on Thursday 30th October 07:03

[RoverP6B]

finlo said:

Yes they did, cam and buckets on one set of valves rockers on top to operate the others.

So the SD1 2300/2600 engines were actually 24-valve, at a time when BMW, Mercedes-Benz were still only 12-valve?

Sardonicus said:

Triumph 2000/2500 2 valve per cyl push-rod eng were known to drop crankshaft thrust bearings back in the day causing massive crankshaft end float and if you was lucky and the car was auto it would stuff the gearbox too if initially undetected the SDI 2000/2300/2600 was absolute st camshaft failures and oil gallery woes I seem to remember

The gearboxes should be fine - BW35/65 or ZF 4HP22 in the SD1. How on earth can a camshaft fail? They're bloody great lumps of metal! Surely they can't just bend, crack or snap?

daveenty said:

Apologies if I'm wrong, but wasn't the sprint a single overhead cam on one side driving a rocker shaft on the other? As opposed from DOHC?

Yeah, SOHC 16-valve, not sure exactly how it worked.

[klunkT5]

SDI 2300 and 2600's were 12 valve, And yes they did suffer camshaft failure, They had a 1 way valve fitted in the block on the oil feed to the head (To stop the oil draining back when switched off) This used to fail starving the top end of oil, We just used to remove them!

Edited by klunkT5 on Friday 31st October 08:14

[finlo]

RoverP6B said:

Yeah, SOHC 16-valve, not sure exactly how it worked.

Sorry your right, I was'nt refering to 4 valves per cylinder but to the same cam setup as a dolly sprint.

[finlo]

RoverP6B said:

Yeah, SOHC 16-valve, not sure exactly how it worked.

Sorry your right, I was'nt refering to 4 valves per cylinder but to the same cam setup as a dolly sprint.

[MADMAX2]

In paralimni cyprus a Mitsubishi spyder GT V6 convertible imported from the US been sitting for at least 12 months flat tyres paint lacquer pitting rubbish in the interior roof looks the best part on the car


Shame

[ULTIMA69]

Aston Martin Lagonda in Hedge
I don't know if car is for sale but have some details which may enable you to contact owner.

[ULTIMA69]

Another pic

[Jam Spavlin]

Borrowed info....

Over Dinsdale - Private Farm(54.29.20.50N / 1.26.25.58W)
WM145 Gloster Meteor NF-11 cockpit WM145 Moved from Gatenby black scheme
WZ557 De Havilland Vampire cockpit 15116 Dismantled, was stored temp at Leeming Jan 11
XH563 Avro 698 Vulcan B2 (MRR) nose only SET 17 Moved from Gatenby before 08/10 (inside a barn)
XR718 English Electric Lightning F395201
Anthony Harker Coded DA, stands on u/c minus wings and tail

555JWR said:

This lot has been left to rot on a farm near where i live.

Behind the scrap Rolls-Royce Avon's is an old Renault Laguna.



Better view of the Renault and there's some old Hunter cockpit under the tarp



A Meteor cockpit


Oh and a lightning in the field


And behind that is a Vulcan cockpit

F

[Evoluzione]

Ford Pop 100E equipped with Fred Flintstone footwells seen yesterday:

[E24man]

ULTIMA69 said:

Aston Martin Lagonda in Hedge
I don't know if car is for sale but have some details which may enable you to contact owner.

ULTIMA69 said:

Another pic

Oooof. That would be a hefty and interesting resurrection.

[RoverP6B]

E24man said:

Oooof. That would be a hefty and interesting resurrection.

I'd reuse the engine/drivetrain in something interesting and scrap the rest of that abomination, penned by William Towns, the second-worst designer in British automotive history (the worst, of course, being Harris Mann).