Pics of 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor engine installation

[mackie1]

AFAIK there is a multiplication gear box in between which effectively reduces the torque output of the engine but means the output revs are more like a normal car engine. Then there's a torque converter, autobox and then the axle from an F-series truck.

[Adz The Rat]

Just found this thread and WOW, its amazing!!!
I love this car, its just, WOW!!
Will it be at any shows this year where I can see it?

[D-Angle]

I just thought I would resurrect this thread to say, that I have just read this month's PPC, and that new inlet manifold is positively pornographic.

[Kieran2006]

D-Angle said:

I just thought I would resurrect this thread to say, that I have just read this month's PPC, and that new inlet manifold is positively pornographic.

Yeah, looks great! I hope it works as good as it looks, I wanna see that car painted up and on the road!

[Maxwedge]

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

[mybrainhurts]

Maxwedge said:

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

Having considered that for a second, I'd like to say bollox...

Carry on....

[deevlash]

Maxwedge said:

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

You do realise that this is pistonheads?

[F.M]

Verdict...40 lashes....I think they happen to make a fine couple....

[Zad]

"We are all of us in outhouses, but some of us are looking at a Merlin"

as Oscar Wilde didn't say.

[cyberface]

Maxwedge said:

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

Fool

[Carfiend]

Maxwedge said:

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

You are the weakest link, goodbye.

[apache]

Maxwedge said:

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

An outhouse is the best place for a Picasso IMO

[gorvid]

Maxwedge...

Way to alienate 70000 people

[mig25_foxbat2003]

Maxwedge said:

I like the idea of butting a 27 liter motor in a car but a Rolls engine into that car is a bit like putting a Picasso into a outhouse

With a name like MaxWedge, perhaps he's a jealous Princess fan?

[Zad]

Damn, I thought when this thread appeared that there was more news. D'oh!

[loose cannon]

lol same here, i still love sd1's cant wait to see this naughty boy on steroids go out to play

[ianthebruce]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sIqRiQVmeA&mod...



I found some interesting footage of the beast.



this too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jfBxQP4ZI

Edited by ianthebruce on Tuesday 22 May 19:48

[SamsonV8]

This is truly the most outrageous Rover of all time. I can feel the love all the way over here in Oz.(And I thought a Twin-turbo Lexus V8 SD1 was OTT.) Any word on latest developments? Looking forward to more!!!!

[sadako]

This I would like to see also, having not found a local PPC vendor and too skint to subscribe. Have those flow issues been sorted and will we see this beast completed?

[aww999]

Having just read my subscription copy cover-to-cover (good work as always guys, and I thought your Mk3 Supra review was very well done last month btw) I can fill in a few details...

The reason the engine wasn't running right was because the people who Charlie contracted to grind the cams for it knew the square root of all about Meteor engines, and got the valve phasing totally wrong, ie if you timed up cylinder #1 then the cam timing on some of the other cylinders would be out by about 10 degrees. All the time spent on building, mapping, rebuilding and remapping the fuelling system was for nowt because it was never going to work right.

New cams have been sourced, and need refacing before being run.