Pob

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C70127#

Would you do this?

TIFF

I remember years ago at Birmingham street racing.....The Digberth era.....There was a cut down red Range Rover running i THINK a TVR engine...could be wrong. But that fucking thing FLEW

Benn 304R

theres a yello defender swb were i live thats running a tvr v8 sounds awsome and flies aswell!!!!

CosworthGuy

Its all about the torque, i used to well into landrovers and general off roading, there was a few abut then and they were so much better than the athsmatic su carbed v8's and plain efi ones.

You get another extra 100 bhp or thereabouts i think and loads more torque

craigos

loads of them had rover v8s in them anyway,the tvr used the rover v8 just tuned up so would bolt straight in

dazoriginal

300 bhp in a discovery imagine this in off - road mode !

Evey

quite a few been done, its awesome

but how do they get so little power from that V8?

3.5 in standard form is 150bhp iirc

dan escort gti

iTrader: (1)

i no a fella down my way that done it. he raced a 250bhp rst off the lights an the whole chassis twisted!!

xr4x4rs

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nope thats true mate, sure its still about aswell, think he or he had a mate with a saf with tvr lump aswell

Paulo P

I've driven a land rover defender 90 with a 4 litre V8 in it It was a bit of a crazy thing on the road with the jacked up suspension and off road tyres!

tabetha

Std 3.5 V8 in land rover or range rover was 135bhp, as was lower compression(8.7:1) version to that fitted to cars(9.35:1), the cars SD1 had 155bhp on su's 190 on injection, twin plenum injection were rumoured to be 220, but never seen anything to confirm this, and road test bear out hat there was little difference between the two.
TVR V8 = ROVER V8, they were just built at different times, but correctly called BMW built rover/tvr engines, as this is when they went over to the cross bolt a redesign by bmw, but not all were machined for crossbolt on the 3950cc(3.9/4.0) they all had close fitting caps regardless of cc.
TVR's power figures are the biggest load of bullshit going, take away 60-80bhp then you'd be about right.
The last "350bhp" powered chimera put out 286bhp, after the fitment of a better cam, owner confirmed it was "wild" after set up, with 64 bhp less !!
It was so much better an different that he nearly lost if coming out of a bend, I know as my ass was in the passenger seat that is now brown and smelly!
400bhp tvr is around 320/330, best I've ever seen on 400 rated was 338bhp.
One of the primary reasons they are crap power wise is they use a shit management like the rangey pictured, the tvr even uses mechanical distributor with old fashioned advance retard weights, a SKODA is more advanced, juts putting on a decent mappable ignition only ecu can net 35bhp.
tabetha

Porkie

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They just lie.

James

can you buy a off the shelf ignition syetm for the 3.9? if theres 35bhp to be had then maybe fuel economy might come up to with propper igniton?

Alan s1

My Disco has the Late 3.9 V8 and Sounds great without the Cats and the Middle Box
And get a boot full off road like its ment to

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sup4tergjbM

Martin-Hadland

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My mates car, it's not about anymore..

TIFF

I thought you may of known him Martin........I remember that thing used to upset a few very good spec'd cars

Rhys

Would be a great giggle. Worth the 3.5k imo

Martin-Hadland

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I have a 450i TVR engine,box & everything needed if anyone fancies a project

tabetha

I've got a ZF 4HP22/24 built by John Lovegrove of ATP in Bristol in my garage doing nothing, was for a V8 mondeo(rwd), it uses a BMW 850 tail end for 2wd with all uprated 22/24 parts, plus stall lock up to 4500rpm, and rated at 700lbft.
tabetha

CarbonRick

My brother had a 4.0L TVR V8 Disco, it shifted somewhat..