RE: V8s are great!

[AC43]

AshBurrows said:

Hello I'd like all of the displacement please.

LOL.

[TheAngryDog]

V8 here. I love the noise a V8 makes. I've been very vocal about selling this, but I am becoming more tempted to put some money into and get it back to its former glory..

[AshBurrows]

AC43 said:

LOL.

???

[PapaT]

I love the rip from my VXR8, n\a 6.0 V8 tweaked to 500 bhp, there's nothing quite like it !

[akirk]

TheAngryDog said:

V8 here. I love the noise a V8 makes. I've been very vocal about selling this, but I am becoming more tempted to put some money into and get it back to its former glory..

The fact that you have been vocal about selling it, but haven't done so yet is perhaps an interesting indication of that tug of the heart strings the car has - go on - do it up

just to encourage you

[TheAngryDog]

akirk said:

The fact that you have been vocal about selling it, but haven't done so yet is perhaps an interesting indication of that tug of the heart strings the car has - go on - do it up

just to encourage you

Hahahaha, honestly I am losing sleep over it! Thing is, I just don't know if it is worth doing with the amount of money I know I need to spend on it.

[akirk]

TheAngryDog said:

Hahahaha, honestly I am losing sleep over it! Thing is, I just don't know if it is worth doing with the amount of money I know I need to spend on it.

realistically you are probably always better selling / adding the extra money and buying a more expensive one - let someone else have the cost of doing it... but... it depends if you want to improve 'your' car...

[dinkel]

CaptainRAVE said:

I love my V8 SLK55 - it is one of my favourite engines and one I aspired to own growing up. Great having it on an open top car too when you press the loud pedal

Such a shame the new 'SLC' AMG is a V6

I liked that biturbo 3 liter V6 in both the SL400 and the SLC 43 AMG. A V8 is unbeatable but hell, that 6 is a crisp thing. Drove both roadsters for a few hours and had bags of fun. I'd choose the SL400 over a 911.

Back to the V8 theme. Aston X-pack V8, late 70s or early 80s ow yeah.

[TheAngryDog]

akirk said:

realistically you are probably always better selling / adding the extra money and buying a more expensive one - let someone else have the cost of doing it... but... it depends if you want to improve 'your' car...

I have been looking, but there aren't many face lift cars for sale. I cannot be bothered to go through the hassle of making a preface lift car into a face lift, just not worth the hassle.

The choices are sell and get E55K (still V8) or keep and make nice / modify.

[akirk]

TheAngryDog said:

akirk said:

realistically you are probably always better selling / adding the extra money and buying a more expensive one - let someone else have the cost of doing it... but... it depends if you want to improve 'your' car...

I have been looking, but there aren't many face lift cars for sale. I cannot be bothered to go through the hassle of making a preface lift car into a face lift, just not worth the hassle.

The choices are sell and get E55K (still V8) or keep and make nice / modify.

There aren't - I was very lucky to get mine - but knew the previous owner which helped! Does it need to be facelift? There are few significant changes - and the core (handling / gearbox / engine / etc.) are the same...

[AC43]

AshBurrows said:

AC43 said:

LOL.

???

I was amused by "Hello I'd like all the displacement please"

[AC43]

"390 bhp? Badge delete? Stealth rims? Certainly Sir."

[TheAngryDog]

akirk said:

TheAngryDog said:

akirk said:

realistically you are probably always better selling / adding the extra money and buying a more expensive one - let someone else have the cost of doing it... but... it depends if you want to improve 'your' car...

I have been looking, but there aren't many face lift cars for sale. I cannot be bothered to go through the hassle of making a preface lift car into a face lift, just not worth the hassle.

The choices are sell and get E55K (still V8) or keep and make nice / modify.

There aren't - I was very lucky to get mine - but knew the previous owner which helped! Does it need to be facelift? There are few significant changes - and the core (handling / gearbox / engine / etc.) are the same...

Yes it does - my intravee would be kinda pointless on a none face lift car. I do not want to retrofit the 4:3 screen etc, plus my car has Mk4 nav. The face lift had extra air bags, supposedly better ring design on the engines, better front and rear lights (fronts are easy, rears less so to retrofit). A later car (I think after September 2001) had the better VANOS spring plates as well.

[sas782b]

boardinscotland said:

phil1979 said:

I am enjoying my new (to me) V8...

Did the same 4 weeks ago. God they are good.

I also did the same four weeks ago!

I went from this:



To this:

[akirk]

TheAngryDog said:

Yes it does - my intravee would be kinda pointless on a none face lift car. I do not want to retrofit the 4:3 screen etc, plus my car has Mk4 nav. The face lift had extra air bags, supposedly better ring design on the engines, better front and rear lights (fronts are easy, rears less so to retrofit). A later car (I think after September 2001) had the better VANOS spring plates as well.

Fair points I was getting confused, thinking that you had pre-face lift and were looking for a face lift - whereas you have a face lift and would look for another face lift - but only non-face lifts easy to find - makes sense now!

difficult decisions!

[culpz]

TeaVR said:

culpz said:

A decent article this. In today's world, big N/A engines definitely need to be celebrated, regardless if they're actually any good or not. Funnily enough, if i was to pick out of all of these, it's actually the Lexus RCF that interests me the most, closely followed by the Mustang.

Obviously, the weight thing does seem pretty silly. But, as a road car, as Mr Harris said on his review, it just makes for a great car to have.. I love the proper coupe looks and styling and also that wacky interior. It's just something a bit different, powered by a sonorous, atmospheric V8.

Yeh, Lexus RC-F. A car that you can truly drive hard due to a bullet proof engine. Lexus engineering is just so good.

If you can't afford an RC-F, look at an IS-F. 90% of what the RC-F has, but available for silly money.

Edited by TeaVR on Tuesday 20th June 06:51

I'd love an ISF. In fact, i'd probably have one over an E92 M3, just for the sake of the running costs but also for something a bit different.

Unfortunately, i'm nowhere near the position to buy one, i'm afraid. I do keep looking at cheap V8 ownership though. Something like a 540i, for example, i keep considering.

[liner33]

I'm enjoying my XFR even more since i fitted a Spires exhaust , now it makes all the right noises

[FelixP]

It's in the garage for long tube headers at the moment, it did sound like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRakO2F0nc

[njw1]

V8RX7 said:

The problem with 90% of the V8s mentioned on this thread is that they are tied to an automatic gearbox

Not necessarily.....

Whilst I would agree that a manual is a MUCH more engaging drive, modern auto 'boxes are very good. With a bit of practice I found I could make the autobox's in my e39's do what I wanted with careful use of the throttle. Not to mention most (if not all?) auto's these days have some form of manual control.

[njw1]

culpz said:

I do keep looking at cheap V8 ownership though. Something like a 540i, for example, i keep considering.

Get one! You won't be disappointed, very satisfying cars to own. Don't discount the 535i either, having owned both a 535i and a 540i I found that the 3.5 car used just as much fuel as the 4.4 car and didn't have as much torque off the line but in real world driving there was very little difference between the two.