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Other great looking motors,
Ford 427 cubic inch,as used in the AC Cobras.
A 347 ci with webbers,
The very pretty 351 ci Cleveland Ford V8,mainly used in Mustangs and a big favourite of the Rodders from the early 70's.
Seen here powering a De Tomaso Pantera
Another Ford Favourite was the humungos BOSS 429 Motor with its hemispherical heads, squeezed in the engine bays of some 69 & 70 mustangs
Ford 427 cubic inch,as used in the AC Cobras.
A 347 ci with webbers,
The very pretty 351 ci Cleveland Ford V8,mainly used in Mustangs and a big favourite of the Rodders from the early 70's.
Seen here powering a De Tomaso Pantera
Another Ford Favourite was the humungos BOSS 429 Motor with its hemispherical heads, squeezed in the engine bays of some 69 & 70 mustangs
ZR1cliff said:
Wedg1e said:
ihatesissycars said:
Is that an Esprit engine?
Yes. Not quite as shiny as your motors but I did rebuild it... 
shows it before the air cleaner and covers went on, but the Esprit engine bay isn't an easy place to take piccies...
Couldn't be ar53d to clean the carbs, they'd have needed about £120-worth of gaskets to strip and rebuild. I bead-blasted most of the alloy but couldn't get the engine block in the sandblast cabinet hence the speckled finish on the block. I planned to recondition the starter motor but at that stage I just wanted to get the engine running again
More blurb at http://www.wedgeneering.co.uk/Lotus%20Esprit%20p5....
Wedg1e said:
ihatesissycars said:
Big boat engine!
Your turn!
Don't want to widdle on your bondie, but that's actually the diesel engine for a power station, not a ship...Your turn!
Edited by NightDriver on Saturday 29th December 13:00
Wedg1e said:
ZR1cliff said:
Wedg1e said:
ihatesissycars said:
Is that an Esprit engine?
Yes. Not quite as shiny as your motors but I did rebuild it... Pic taken just after powder coating the cam covers and plenum.
Air balance pipes and fasteners chromed.
God I miss my old Esprit.
Tip of Iceberg said:
Tip of the Iceberg
Five months after the show (Turin 1982) at which river announced the fitting of the Italian built and designed VM turbo diesel to the SD1 may seem a little late for the announcement of the first "modern" British made car diesel.
The Perkins "Iceberg"is a turbocharged diesel adaptation of the 3.5 litre aluminium alloy Rover V8 petrol engine, a joint development between Perkins Engines Ltd and Land Rover Ltd, which will start production on the Rover V8 petrol engine building line at Acocks Green next September, to provide diesel power for the Land Rover and Range Rover.
First discussed three years ago, the project was originally conceived by Perkins as the diesel for the Rover 3500 car.
The started "speculative work" off their own bat, kept prodding BL but increasingly found that it was Land Rover/Range Rover who were their most enthusiastic listeneners. The V8 line at Solihull has never been by any means fully occupied, so Land Rover Ltd. who control the engine plant had spare capicity in plenty to build a diesel alongside the petrol unit. Design work proper started 18 months ago, and the legal agreement between the two companies was drawn up Spring 1983.
The arrangement leaves Perkins, who provided the design know how and entire development, with World marketing rights; they can sell the Iceberg to anybody other than another four wheel drive manufacturer, when the agreement of Land Rover must be obtained. Perkins have the option to build the engine at their huge Peterborough factory (claimed to be the world's largest diesel plant), but expect (and would prefer) to do without, either buying "core engines"(unfinished ones) for finishing and fitting themselves, or simply buying the entire unit.
Their reluctance is understandable;
Peterborough is a high volume factory, and this engine isn't a true high volume one.
The Iceberg is the first of three projects (the name is a project code, which unusually for Perkins has stuck - as a production unit.
It would be called the TV8.215 - Turbo V8 cylinder 215 cu inch ) Perkins, who since 1959 have been a wholly owned subsidiary of one of their customers, Massey Ferguson of Canada, decided some time ago that they needed to broaden their market by launching into the small high speed diesel market.
An advanced direct injection engine suitable for cars was planned and prototypes were built, but particularly in Britain, with its traditional reluctance to go diesel, and a car market in full recession, no one bit.
However, Perkins realised the obvious - that the recession means spare production capacity amongst the major car makers, which given collaboration like the Iceberg plan would provide the lower cost manufacturing of the car firm to make the Perkins designed diesel.
The Iceberg is the first of two such benevolently cuckoo like projects form Perkins.
The second was the recent announcement of a joint venture with Chrysler in North America to dieselize a range of 2.2 to 3.7 litre Chrysler car petrol engines, using a mothballed Chrysler factory to produce them.
Mate of mine has an Iceberg V8 in his garage. Lovely engine pity it couldn't contain the power of diesel Five months after the show (Turin 1982) at which river announced the fitting of the Italian built and designed VM turbo diesel to the SD1 may seem a little late for the announcement of the first "modern" British made car diesel.
The Perkins "Iceberg"is a turbocharged diesel adaptation of the 3.5 litre aluminium alloy Rover V8 petrol engine, a joint development between Perkins Engines Ltd and Land Rover Ltd, which will start production on the Rover V8 petrol engine building line at Acocks Green next September, to provide diesel power for the Land Rover and Range Rover.
First discussed three years ago, the project was originally conceived by Perkins as the diesel for the Rover 3500 car.
The started "speculative work" off their own bat, kept prodding BL but increasingly found that it was Land Rover/Range Rover who were their most enthusiastic listeneners. The V8 line at Solihull has never been by any means fully occupied, so Land Rover Ltd. who control the engine plant had spare capicity in plenty to build a diesel alongside the petrol unit. Design work proper started 18 months ago, and the legal agreement between the two companies was drawn up Spring 1983.
The arrangement leaves Perkins, who provided the design know how and entire development, with World marketing rights; they can sell the Iceberg to anybody other than another four wheel drive manufacturer, when the agreement of Land Rover must be obtained. Perkins have the option to build the engine at their huge Peterborough factory (claimed to be the world's largest diesel plant), but expect (and would prefer) to do without, either buying "core engines"(unfinished ones) for finishing and fitting themselves, or simply buying the entire unit.
Their reluctance is understandable;
Peterborough is a high volume factory, and this engine isn't a true high volume one.
The Iceberg is the first of three projects (the name is a project code, which unusually for Perkins has stuck - as a production unit.
It would be called the TV8.215 - Turbo V8 cylinder 215 cu inch ) Perkins, who since 1959 have been a wholly owned subsidiary of one of their customers, Massey Ferguson of Canada, decided some time ago that they needed to broaden their market by launching into the small high speed diesel market.
An advanced direct injection engine suitable for cars was planned and prototypes were built, but particularly in Britain, with its traditional reluctance to go diesel, and a car market in full recession, no one bit.
However, Perkins realised the obvious - that the recession means spare production capacity amongst the major car makers, which given collaboration like the Iceberg plan would provide the lower cost manufacturing of the car firm to make the Perkins designed diesel.
The Iceberg is the first of two such benevolently cuckoo like projects form Perkins.
The second was the recent announcement of a joint venture with Chrysler in North America to dieselize a range of 2.2 to 3.7 litre Chrysler car petrol engines, using a mothballed Chrysler factory to produce them.
.ZR1cliff said:
Oilchange said:
Well, well There I was thinking all American engines were pushrods!
This particular engine was designed by Lotus when GM owned them,so its really a british design,although since then the americans have come up with their own designs.I think they have quad cams in some mustangs.
GM did a few projects with Lotus in the 80's and 90's notably the Lotus Carlton,the ZR-1 was the american counterpart,with Corvette working with Lotus power,but GM would not allow the use of 'Lotus' on the car for some reason.
The project was called the LT5 project,i have a theory Lotus used this as an abreviation of LoTu5
The design work on the LT5 project pre-dated me by about 4 yrs, although they were still developing it when I joined, 93MY was running at 405 bhp IIRC.
Originally brought about by Dave Whitehead (one of the Chief Engineers) and Tony Rudd, the then Head of Engineering.
Here's a link to something that might be of interest??
http://books.google.com/books?id=_OfLH86BVPAC&...
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