M.H.

My grandmother had one of them v6 lantis, she used to nang it pretty hard, was pretty funny as little kids having her rip past cunts and the look on their face when the see it's an old lady

Does it go off the clock g

How fast was that going?

1 hour ago, ajg193 said:

Well known fact that K series from any manufacturer always goes hard for what it is.

Even a Rover k series?  Go hard at BHGs

Guess the lotus one went hard

Outboards run upto 8 cylinders into the one exhaust tuner, it's not exactly a spanny but it's a tuned length cone so would be doing the same 

usually it would have ended up a pick a part

11 minutes ago, DoBro Jesus said:

Was that that one that looked like it had a fire behind the right front wheel? 

Yea someone bought it and then put it on fb for a bit more

1 minute ago, DoBro Jesus said:

Dunno how valuable these will ever get, but ralliart diamante/magnas are rare enough, let alone a manwell one. 

God I'm tempted by it. Test drove an auto one and they are definitely no slouch so I'd imagine manual would be even better, especially as they came with an LSD whereas the autos didn't. 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/2770094836

One of those went through manheims with bugger all damage for $350

32 minutes ago, kws said:

Looking for options to use in an SD1 instead of the poxy 3 speed they come with standard.

Ive seen this article, but it shows its a lot harder to get it working with a BMW box than it appears, mainly thanks to the inhibitor switch and shifter. https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/rover/cars-brown-rover-receives-zf-transplant-part-one/

I'd like to avoid stripping and rebuilding autos as the insides of them are a bit of black magic to me.

Would you want to use the electronic or hydraulic controlled version, the hydraulic controlled version would be a very easy conversion. 

2 minutes ago, AllTorque said:

Ah, OK. I didn’t realise rovers had BMW ZF trannys.

The zf 4hp22 and 24 was used by quite a few manufacturers, land rover, audi, jag, bmw, maserati

1 minute ago, AllTorque said:

How do you get a torque converter from one trans to fit another? 

They are the same trans, 4hp22 and 4hp24

4 minutes ago, kws said:

I guess if i used an RV8 bellhousing on a bmw ZF auto i could probably use the RV8 torque convertor and flex plate too, as long as the input shaft is the same?

Yep just grab the lot from a 4.6 p38 range rover. The 4.6 had a the biggest torque converter that was used on the rv8. You can use the trans controller from the p38 too.

What are you using it in?

On 16/10/2020 at 14:27, kws said:

The electric side of it isn't an issue, more the physical mounting. 

Unfortunately "modern" rover stuff is all awd so no good in rwd settings. There is someone that has mixed a bmw and range rover trans to make a rwd 4 speed, which is an idea but a nice smooth shifting 6 speed would be better. 

If you used the rv8 bellhousing from a 4.6 on a bmw 4hp24 you can have it all working with cheap parts. It starts getting expensive when you have to make adapters and use fancy trans controllers 

3 hours ago, xsspeed said:

Ban

Mk3 golf vr6 are starting to go up in value, getting a bit harder to find a manual one esp in a 3 door

We're they the ones that suffered oil sludging in the head or something like that? Might explain them dissappearing 

Is that tomato sauce in the bottle? 

Affordable s1 rx7

Soak with penetrative fluid and get the engine nice and hot

11 minutes ago, Mof said:

Oh yeah, happens to Toyota's and Mitsubishi's all the time...

Wouldn't have happened if the old owner had replaced the gear instead of getting it welded

Just now, NickJ said:

Did it die with honour? Hoping you were out on an adventure and not in the driveway?

Na just on the motor way in to work in heavy traffic, was a bit of drama get to work as much throttle would make it pop into neutral and then have to come to a stop to get it back in

17 minutes ago, kyteler said:

That's fucking terrible advice. 

No one should be encouraged to buy a fucking Marina. 

Fucking cripes. 

What even is?? 

Whats wrong with a marina? 

18 minutes ago, Mof said:

Just skip that gear

Won’t be able to go very fast. It’s the high range gear in the transfer box so only have low range. 4th gear low is not much faster than 1st in high

I'm not going to be able to make it, 

Try out a thick gasket to rule out it tapping the head/plug?