Rover p6 v8 gearbox change

[llohcins]

Hi all,

I have a rover p6 v8 on the way, purchased from ebay and it comes with an auto box. I am hoping to remove this and replace with a manual 5 speed lt77 from an sd1. Has anyone done this? And if so is there anything I need to be aware of?

It will actually finally be put into my mgb. I have read that a nice combination is a 3.9 cam, the heads from the sd1 and possibly a holly carb. Obviously I'm looking to inject a bit of power.

Thanks in advance

[llohcins]

Thanks for all the replies. After a bit more research and an old engineer friend popping by I think I'm fairly sorted. I have some sd1 Viennese heads which have bigger valves, will go for a piper cam probably and a 3.9 crank. The gearbox connection is reasonably straight forward.

I do still have the p6 auto box and a standard 1.8 mgb one.

The fitting should be fairly straight forward (touch wood) with only a tiny bit of tunnel cutting. I will probably end up with a slightly modified bonnet so that it all fits plus the exhaust manifold from an rv8 so a bit of engine bay cutting and re strengthening.

Should be fun. The rear crossmember can stay standard for the time being so I'm sure I'll be spinning the rears all over the place but that sounds great as well. I'm not looking for an every day car but one to have a blast about in and hopefully the p6 engine will give me the fun injection that I need.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I didn't get any notifications of replies so sorry for my delay in response.