Any more SD1 owners out there?

[chassis 33]

Well are there???



Regards
Iain
SD1 2600 Auto S

[scared but happy]

Not any more (check my cars).

BUT if anyone wants them I have a rover 3500se owners manual (tatty but there). and somewhere a 3500 haynes workshop manual free to anyone - subject to postal costs
Email me if intrested.

>> Edited by scared but happy on Friday 2nd December 15:53

[pecuk]

Yes - mine - look here to see one of the best..www.pantherclub.co.uk/Georges/rover/rover.htm
George

[stone]

pecuk said:

Yes - mine - look here to see one of the best..www.pantherclub.co.uk/Georges/rover/rover.htm George

That's clean

[peterhut]

I would have thought going from the SD1 Club news we get there are lots there in the UK. We have around 40 in the club here in Melbourne. I have a 1985 SEII manual, slightly hotted up.
www.rovercarclubaust.asn.au/ctw.jpg

Cheers,

Peter H.

[iantaylor]

i have an SD1, well sort of. it looks like an vitesse, but runs a 5.8litre chevy with a ford T5 gear box and various other mods to suspension and brakes.

[t0ny99]

One over here!

'85 Vitesse (SP), all original - pics to follow.

BTW, I stumbled on pictures of a Merlin-into-SD1 conversion, but cannot find it again - anyone else seen this?

>> Edited by t0ny99 on Monday 5th December 15:32

[chassis 33]

iantaylor said:

i have an SD1, well sort of. it looks like an vitesse, but runs a 5.8litre chevy with a ford T5 gear box and various other mods to suspension and brakes.

Ah a car in the Mr Clothier vein of anything other than an RV8 will upset the handling then

Regards
Iain

[350zwelgje]

SD1 2300S 1981 here (LHD - Dutch car), owning it now for nearly 12 years. Originally bought (like getting it nearly for free cannot be considered buying perhaps) to put a V8 in, but when meeting up with the SD1 friends club in Holland was convinced to keep it original (not many around of the 1.5 series.... Not many around at all when I come to think of that!).
In the end putting a V8 in is more expensive then just buying a 3500. Instead of buying a SD1 V8, bought a TVR 350i wedge (LHD - Dutch car) with the lovely V8 in it.

Is this becoming a 'coming-out' forum? Rover being the pipe and slippers type of brand. At least my age is now catching up on me so I am allowed to be seen in one. Shame the brand is gone (for the moment), but still running a 75 as a daily driver. Although it didn't keep the company afloat.

Rob

[iantaylor]

Ah a car in the Mr Clothier vein of anything other than an RV8 will upset the handling then

Regards
Iain[/quote]




not if the engine is mounted lower and further back in the chassis it doesn't

[Chassis 33]

I just remember getting a right royal bollocking for suggesting putting a LS1 into my car a while back on the yahoogroups email list.

Regards
Iain

[NiceCupOfTea]

t0ny99 said:

One over here! '85 Vitesse (SP), all original - pics to follow. BTW, I stumbled on pictures of a Merlin-into-SD1 conversion, but cannot find it again - anyone else seen this? >> Edited by t0ny99 on Monday 5th December 15:32

One of the writers in Practical Performance Car magazine is putting a Meteor 27 litre tank engine into an SD1 (similar to a Merlin I understand)

[RR Cerbera]

Sadly I'm not any more but maybe one day. Sold the fantastic E-reg Twin Plenum I'd had for 11 years to fund my first Cerbera and still miss it like mad. Now if only Cerberas didn't cost so much to run.....

[t0ny99]

NiceCupOfTea said:

t0ny99 said: One over here! '85 Vitesse (SP), all original - pics to follow. BTW, I stumbled on pictures of a Merlin-into-SD1 conversion, but cannot find it again - anyone else seen this? >> Edited by t0ny99 on Monday 5th December 15:32 One of the writers in Practical Performance Car magazine is putting a Meteor 27 litre tank engine into an SD1 (similar to a Merlin I understand)

Maybe that's the one...don't remember it being on any PPC website though, but there cannot be that many people attempting this conversion!

[NiceCupOfTea]

It's an "ongoing project" that appears in themag from time to time.

[Duke Thrust]

I've got one, '86 TP Vitesse - great motor!

(Under going a very slow restoration)

[francis mcquaid]

HI!! I have three sd1`s. A LHD biege 3500se from Oman in the middle east...57000kms. It belonged to a british consulate who worked for the sultan of oman. A gold 2600 vandenplas..69000miles and a blue 2600s. They all need bits + bobs. I have just aquired a janspeed V8 turbo engine and I am looking to drop it in one of my 2600`s...I can`t wait!

Edited by FM on Monday 10th May 22:00

[monkfish2]

Chassis 33 said:

I just remember getting a right royal bollocking for suggesting putting a LS1 into my car a while back on the yahoogroups email list. Regards Iain

did you ever do the conversion? I have been umming an areeeing for a while about this, in order to finish off my five year restoration!

[chassis 33]

No sorry, got way too many other projects on the go at the moment to consider anything more than 'just' keeping the old girl on the road.

Regards
Iain

[L.Allen]

Another one here.... I got 4 of the damn things. Love em to bits. If you are in the Rover SD1 Club, Im sure you would have heard of 'Blu-Belle'????

Regards, Lee

1986 2600 VDP auto ('Blu-Belle')
1986 2600 VDP auto (Project 'Sally')
1986 2300 manual ('Baby-Blu')
1976 3500 manual ('Grandad'= because its old, crusty and seized up)

P.S has anyone got a standard V8 engine they want rid of? Beer tokens on offer!