mgb v8 cams

[sye68]

I,m thinking of buying a v8 again(had one yrs ago)
but as most have done more then 60,000 miles it will need a cam whatever i buy,anyone know how big ajob this is and also are sdi heads worth fitting 4 an extra 20 bhp maybe slightly hotter cam for an extra 10 bhp.
Can the standard gearbox handle 175 bhp?

[MGV8]

I dont think you will have to do a lot of work (on SU's) to see about 200bhp.
Like you say it is a common job on a rover to change the cam and folowers. Its not all that hard to do but just take up a lot of time.

The gear box will start to become the week link with the extra power and the overdrive will not like it too much ether.

[K4TRV]

sye68 said:

I,m thinking of buying a v8 again(had one yrs ago) but as most have done more then 60,000 miles it will need a cam whatever i buy,anyone know how big ajob this is and also are sdi heads worth fitting 4 an extra 20 bhp maybe slightly hotter cam for an extra 10 bhp. Can the standard gearbox handle 175 bhp?

How deep are your pockets?? Usually doesn't stop at a cam/head change. You'll need to refurbish the oil pump, double timing chain, electronic dizzy, SUs etc. etc.......

Try these to get some prices:www.rpiv8.com/carbs-2.htm

also Rimmers have stock items at reasonable prices:www.rimmerbros.co.uk/cgi-bin/rimmer.bat?v8engine/v8engineindx

Trev McM