Pics of 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor engine installation
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Well Charlies certainly got further on with it than the last time I saw it which was late last year
I saw him with a friend of mine late last year as my mates got a similar lump in his garage
Here we are looking at fitting it in my scorpio LOL
Only kidding
They are hugh engines .........they sound nice as well
ChrisB
>> Edited by Chris-B on Friday 3rd March 10:08
I saw him with a friend of mine late last year as my mates got a similar lump in his garage
Here we are looking at fitting it in my scorpio LOL
Only kidding
They are hugh engines .........they sound nice as well
ChrisB
>> Edited by Chris-B on Friday 3rd March 10:08
Jay GTI said:
The engine is sat nicely back in the chassis, but I imagine it still weighs a fair bit... will the SD1 do corners when it's finished, or is that not the point?
It handles ok. The engine weighs heavier then the V8, but the car is otherwise stripped out. Its no Elise, but its no cruise liner either. It'd be good/crazy/mad/suicidal to see it going up the hill at Goodwood..
johnjr said:
God..I'd love to hear that running
Right after some fiddling here it is , dunno how long it will stay until the bandwidth shuts it down but here is Charlies V12 running on Gas.
Hes a great guy and we spent something like 3 hrs and many cups of coffee chatting about whats what , and the custom built injection system is a wonder
So this is what you have all been waiting for http://media.putfile.com/Metor-runnin
As I have said its only on a free host so may crash and burn if 1000's of you look at it but we will have to see ?
A big thank you has to go out to Charlie for letting us come up and spend the morning/afternoon with him
ChrisB
I saw this car at the weekend and posted about it here http://pentoman.blogspot.com/
There are pics there, here's one of them:
Incidentally how is cooling? I just happened to be there with guys who rebuild Merlins for the MOD and specifically BBMF - they reckoned they need radiators twice the size, with air being pulled through by the prop (on their test rig) and still have heat problems.
There are pics there, here's one of them:
Incidentally how is cooling? I just happened to be there with guys who rebuild Merlins for the MOD and specifically BBMF - they reckoned they need radiators twice the size, with air being pulled through by the prop (on their test rig) and still have heat problems.
pentoman said:
I saw this car at the weekend and posted about it here http://pentoman.blogspot.com/
There are pics there, here's one of them:
Incidentally how is cooling? I just happened to be there with guys who rebuild Merlins for the MOD and specifically BBMF - they reckoned they need radiators twice the size, with air being pulled through by the prop (on their test rig) and still have heat problems.
The 2 fans are from an Iveco, and Charley did the rad himself. It was running before, and seemed fine. I suppose town traffic would balls it up, but normal runs out don't present any snags.
Al , when we were up looking at it, an SVA test was something that crossed our minds while driving back south.
I "think" now it would require one as theres not enough of the original vehicle left, engines changed, gearbox changed, front and rear axles changed and theres bugger all left thats original about the chassis. So on that front I would suspect it will require SVA'ing ????
ChrisB
I "think" now it would require one as theres not enough of the original vehicle left, engines changed, gearbox changed, front and rear axles changed and theres bugger all left thats original about the chassis. So on that front I would suspect it will require SVA'ing ????
ChrisB
I snapped thse magnesium jobs for my SD1`s...to go with my turbo V8 engine....drool!..
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