Engine swap options..

[Graham]

There is a certain appeal to keepit a v6 as thats what it started with.. I'll have to pop over to redditch with a tape measure

[chassis 33]

Let me know how you get on!!!

Regards
Iain

[Tony427]

There was a guy at the last Wythall car meet with a very early TVR Tasmin ? ( Cortina MK1 rear lights) with a Chevy LS1 and the installation looked really good.

Now that would go a bit!!

Cheers,

Tony

[love machine]

Tony427 said:

There was a guy at the last Wythall car meet with a very early TVR Tasmin ? ( Cortina MK1 rear lights) with a Chevy LS1 and the installation looked really good.

Now that would go a bit!!

Cheers,

Tony

Sounds like an S1 Vixen. If you're going to re-engine a car, you're going to do it once. Don't do half a job. You have 2 ways of doing it, get a massive V8 and shoehorn it in there, open the ports out and fit megasquirt or get something like a Vaux Redtop lump and give it about 2.5 bar boost from a huge turbo! A v6 is a half measure in anything but a fiat 126.

[Boosted LS1]

Tony427 said:

There was a guy at the last Wythall car meet with a very early TVR Tasmin ? ( Cortina MK1 rear lights) with a Chevy LS1 and the installation looked really good.

Tony

That's interesting to know because I measured up a 400se and concluded it wouldn't fit because the top rails were to narrow. Is the early tasmin different in the chassis department?

Boosted.

[JR]

Boosted LS1 said:

Is the early tasmin different in the chassis department?

Yes, it's narrower, lol! (Hi Mike.)

[love machine]

Sure it's not a vixen?

Incidentally, my mate has an S2 vixen (1968) which is a bit shabby but works which he's going to get rid of. Goes like stink and legend has it, the best of all handling TVR's. I have firsthand experience of it being very fast and dangerous

Edited by love machine on Tuesday 19th September 13:17

[Tony427]

Its a Vixen, ( I wasnt sure hence the ? after Tasmin in my original post).

Sounded very nice though!!

Cheers,

Tony

[Shirley Temple]

cossie 24valve with aftermarket management should give around 250bhp, in an XR4x4 that a customer of mine built a few years back, he had 230-240 on the stock injection system, with a decent airfilter(K&N) and big bore exhaustt (stainless jobbie, not sure of make)

seriously torquey and howled like only a multivalve V6 can

[bmgm3]

Shirley Temple said:

cossie 24valve with aftermarket management should give around 250bhp, in an XR4x4 that a customer of mine built a few years back, he had 230-240 on the stock injection system, with a decent airfilter(K&N) and big bore exhaustt (stainless jobbie, not sure of make)

seriously torquey and howled like only a multivalve V6 can

Yep,plus you can get the whole Granda donor car seriously cheap.If you are on a budget,this is the way to go.

[Graham]

The 24v cossy does have the advantage that I've already got a complete one sat in the corner of the workshop. all that it neads is a new water hose and a refresh.. problems with is are its a bit wide making manifolds interesting and not exactly a light engine...

[Boosted LS1]

JR said:

Boosted LS1 said:

Is the early tasmin different in the chassis department?

Yes, it's narrower, lol! (Hi Mike.)

Just seen your reply JR. Pick a pub, any pub midway and lets have a meet. Is a sunday lunchtime any good or an evening?

Boosted.

[Mr2Mike]

GavinPearson said:

I would hope you seriously consider a Duratec 3.0

Nice engine but certainly not cheap compared to the old Cologne/Cosworth V6's being considered in the opening post. The other possible downside is the lack of reasonably priced gearbox options. Power Torque Engineering do a custom bellhousing to mate it to (I think) a Jag S-Type box.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Sunday 1st October 13:38

[ELAN+2]

bmgm3 said:

Shirley Temple said:

cossie 24valve with aftermarket management should give around 250bhp, in an XR4x4 that a customer of mine built a few years back, he had 230-240 on the stock injection system, with a decent airfilter(K&N) and big bore exhaustt (stainless jobbie, not sure of make)

seriously torquey and howled like only a multivalve V6 can

Yep,plus you can get the whole Granda donor car seriously cheap.If you are on a budget,this is the way to go.

to use the stock ford management system you must get a BOA engine loom, not the later (sulking frog scorpio) BOB, apparently the looms are interchangeable (seperate management loom on BOA engined cars, integral with main harness on BOB types). Use the MT75 gearbox as it has an electronic speed output that the ECU must see, or it wont accept any engine load.

To make up the gearbox, get a twincam 2wd jobbie from a sierra or scorpio/granada, and a 4x4 box from a sierra and swap the front caseings over. A local gearbox reconditioner to me charges around £100 if you can't do it yourself. Both boxes (good twincam around £100 and shagged 4x4 around £50 from local scrappies). This box will handle 400bhp on cossie escorts, (plus extra 4wd grip induced loadings) so should do well in a 2wd set up. the twincam box has both electronic and mechanical outputs too!!.

hope this helps

Mark