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The Rover V8 engine is a compact V8 internal combustion engine with aluminium cylinder heads and cylinder block, originally designed by General Motors and later re-designed and produced by Rover in the United Kingdom. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 109 KB) Sunbeam Tiger Rover V8 engine Source: Photographed at the Bay State Antique Automobile Clubs July 10, 2005 show at the Endicott Estate in Dedham, MA by User:Sfoskett File links The following pages link to this file...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 109 KB) Sunbeam Tiger Rover V8 engine Source: Photographed at the Bay State Antique Automobile Clubs July 10, 2005 show at the Endicott Estate in Dedham, MA by User:Sfoskett File links The following pages link to this file...
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The cylinder block is a machined casting (or sometimes an assembly of modules) containing cylindrically bored holes for the pistons of a multi-cylinder reciprocating internal combustion engine, or for a similarly constructed device such as a pump. ...
General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ...
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History
The Rover V8 began life as the Buick 215, an all-aluminium engine introduced for the 1961 model year. The compact engine was extremely lightweight, at just 144 kg (318 lb), and capable of high power outputs: the strongest Buick version of this engine rated 200 hp (149 kW), and the very similar Oldsmobile "Jetfire" turbocharged version made 215 hp (160 kW) (both numbers SAE gross). The aluminium engine was very expensive to produce, however, and it suffered considerable problems with oil and coolant sealing, as well as with radiator clogging from use of antifreeze incompatible with aluminium. As a result, GM ceased production of the all-aluminium engine after 1963, although Buick retained a similar iron engine as well as a V6 that would prove to have a very long and successful life. Like its sister General Motors divisions, Buick produced its own family of V8 engines to replace its straight-8 engines. ...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...
Buick is a brand of automobile built in the United States, Canada, and China by General Motors Corporation. ...
The final Oldsmobile Logo, an update of the Rocket theme used in various forms since 1948, debuted in the mid-1990s until the final Olds rolled off the line in 2004. ...
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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
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In January 1964 Rover gave American operations head J. Bruce McWilliams permission to investigate the possible purchase of an American V8 engine for Rover cars. McWilliams realised that the lightweight Buick engine would be ideal for smaller British cars (indeed, it weighed less than many straight-4 engines it would replace). McWilliams and William Martin-Hurst began an aggressive campaign to convince GM to sell the tooling, which they finally agreed to do in January 1965. Retiring Buick engineer Joe Turley also moved to the UK to act as a consultant. For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ...
The straight-4 or inline-4 is an internal combustion engine with four cylinders aligned in one row. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
The demise of the MG Rover Group in 2005 led to a halt in production of the famed Rover V8 after 40 years. However, Land Rover desired for production of the engine to continue, and they arranged for production to restart in Weston-super-Mare under MCT, an engineering and manufacturing company. Although Land Rover has switched to the Jaguar AJ-V8 engine for new applications, MCT will continue limited production of the engine for the indeterminate future, supplying engines for aftermarket and replacement use. MG Rover was the last independent mass-production producer of the British motor industry. ...
Land Rover was the name of one of the first British civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in 1947. ...
Weston-super-Mare is an English seaside resort town in North Somerset, population 65,000 (1991 estimate). ...
Jaguar AJ-V8 engine in a 2001 Jaguar S-Type The Jaguar AJ-V8 is a compact V8 piston engine used in many Jaguar vehicles. ...
3.5 L The initial Rover version of the engine had a displacement of 3528 cc. It used a sand-cast (rather than pressure die-cast) block, pressed-in iron cylinder liners, and a new intake manifold with two SU carburettors. The Rover engine was heavier but stronger than the Buick engine, with a dry weight of about 170 kg (375 lb). It was first offered in the 1965 Rover P5 saloon, initially making 160 hp (DIN) (118 kW) @ 5200 rpm and 210 ft·lbf (285 N·m) of torque @ 2600 rpm on 10.5:1 compression. Casting is a process by which a material is introduced into a mold while it is liquid, allowed to solidify in the shape inside the mold, and then removed producing a fabricated object, part, or casing. ...
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The carburetor (or carburettor, carb for short) is a device which mixes air and fuel for an internal_combustion engine. ...
The Rover P5 series (commonly called 3-Litre and 3. ...
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As well as appearing in Rover cars, the engine was widely sold by Rover to small car builders, and has appeared in a wide variety of vehicles. Rover V8s feature in some models from Morgan, TVR, Triumph, Land Rover and MG, among many others. They have become virtually the standard British engine for hot rod use, much as has the Chevrolet small-block V8 for American builders. Insert non-formatted text here 1934 Morgan Super Sports 1936 Morgan F4 Open Tourer A Modern Morgan Aero 8 at the Scarsdale Concours Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Morgan vehicles The Morgan Motor Company is a British automobile manufacturer. ...
TVRs logo TVR 280i TVR S series 1986 TVR 350i 1986 TVR Chimaera TVR Cerbera TVR is a manufacturer of sports cars, located in Blackpool in Lancashire, England. ...
Triumph Logo (1978 version) 1934 Triumph Gloria Six 1937 Triumph Dolomite Roadster 1974 Triumph GT6 Coupé The Triumph Motor Company had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863-1951) and Moritz (Maurice) Schulte started producing Triumph bicycles in Coventry, England. ...
Land Rover was the name of one of the first British civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in 1947. ...
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Racing As the aluminium block made this engine one of the lightest stock V8s built, there were some attempts to use it in racing, including at Indianapolis. The Australian firm Repco converted this engine for Formula One by reducing it to 3 L and fitting a single overhead camshaft per bank rather than the shared pushrod arrangement. Repco-powered Brabhams won the F1 championship twice, in 1966 and 1967. For the 1968 season, the Repco engine was fitted with new four-valve, dual overhead camshaft heads. This made the engine roughly as powerful as the Cosworth DFV, but proved to be too much for the stock block, which broke on many occasions. Repco was a Formula One engine manufacturer from 1966 through 1969. ...
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Single overhead cam (also SOHC) refers to the internal combustion engine design where one camshaft is located above the valves. ...
The Brabham Racing Organisation was a Formula One racing team founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac. ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
A double overhead cam (also called a dual overhead cam, DOHC, or twincam) engine is a type of internal combustion engine where the camshafts that operate the intake and exhaust valves are mounted above the cylinders, and where there are separate camshafts for inlet and exhaust valves. ...
The Cosworth DFV V8 engine (DFV standing for double four valve) was the most successful in the history of Formula 1/Grand Prix motor racing. ...
Applications The Rover P5 series (commonly called 3-Litre and 3. ...
The Rover P6 series (named 2000, 2200, and 3500 for their engine displacement) was a group of saloon automobiles produced from 1963 through 1976. ...
1967 MGB GT The MGB was Britains best-selling sports car. ...
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The Triumph TR8 was an eight-cylinder version of the wedge-shaped Triumph TR7 sports car, manufactured by BL Ltd. ...
80-inch Series I The Series I, II, and III and Defender are 4x4 models from Land Rover (except for a few 2x4 variants built for the Royal Air Force and British Army). ...
Rover SD1 is the code name given to a series of large executive cars made by British Leyland and Austin Rover Group from 1976 to 1987. ...
A Mica Blue V8S The TVR S Series was announced at the 1986 NEC motor show. ...
1967 MGB GT The MGB was Britains best-selling sports car. ...
A TVR Chimaera sports car The TVR Chimaera is a two-seater convertible sports car manufactured by TVR between 1992 and 2001. ...
The TVR Griffith, later models being referred to as the Griffith 500, was a sports car designed and built by TVR starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. ...
See also: Land Rover Range Rover Classic and Land Rover Range Rover Sport. ...
The Discovery (now known in North America as the LR3) is a comfortable 4x4 vehicle (SUV in American-English) from Fords Land Rover marque. ...
80-inch Series I The Series I, II, and III and Defender are 4x4 models from Land Rover (except for a few 2x4 variants built for the Royal Air Force and British Army). ...
4.0 Land Rover used a 4.0 L (3946 cc) version of the Rover V8 through the 1990s. Their 4.0 was revised in 1995 with a new intake and exhaust system, extra block ribbing, revised pistons, and larger cross-bolted main-bearings. The 1995 4.0 produced 190 hp (142 kW) and 236 ft·lbf (320 N·m). The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Production of the 4.0 ended in 2001. The final version of the engine, used in the Land Rover Discovery, produced 188 hp (140 kW) at 4750 rpm and 250 ft·lbf (339 N·m) at 2600 rpm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
The Discovery (now known in North America as the LR3) is a comfortable 4x4 vehicle (SUV in American-English) from Fords Land Rover marque. ...
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1967 MGB GT The MGB was Britains best-selling sports car. ...
4.6 In 1996, Land Rover enlarged the Rover V8 to 4.6 L (4552 cc or 281 in³). The bore remained the same size as the previous 4.0, but the engine was stroked by 10.9 mm. Output was 225 hp (168 kW) and 280 ft·lbf (380 N·m). 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Land Rover was the name of one of the first British civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in 1947. ...
Production of the 4.6 ended at Solihull, UK, in 2002. The final version, used in the Range Rover, produced 222 hp (166 kW) at 4750 rpm and 300 ft·lbf (407 N·m) at 2600 rpm. Map sources for Solihull at grid reference SP1579 Solihull (IPA: , or , or some combination of the two; occasionally ) is a town in the West Midlands in England with a population of 94,753 [1]. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located south-east of Birmingham. ...
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See also: Land Rover Range Rover Classic and Land Rover Range Rover Sport. ...
The last mass-produced application of the Rover V8 was the Land Rover Discovery, up until the vehicle was redesigned in 2005. It is still used by some hand-built sports cars built by some independent manufacturers. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
5.0 A 5 litre variant of the Rover V8 was used in two models by British sportscar manufacturer TVR. These models, the TVR Griffith and TVR Chimaera used the 5 litre unit in their top-end specifications. The factory quotes up to 340 bhp and 350 ft·lbf of torque. TVRs logo TVR 280i TVR S series 1986 TVR 350i 1986 TVR Chimaera TVR Cerbera TVR is a manufacturer of sports cars, located in Blackpool in Lancashire, England. ...
The TVR Griffith, later models being referred to as the Griffith 500, was a sports car designed and built by TVR starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. ...
A TVR Chimaera sports car The TVR Chimaera is a two-seater convertible sports car manufactured by TVR between 1992 and 2001. ...
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A TVR Chimaera sports car The TVR Chimaera is a two-seater convertible sports car manufactured by TVR between 1992 and 2001. ...
The TVR Griffith, later models being referred to as the Griffith 500, was a sports car designed and built by TVR starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. ...
References - The Rover V8 Will Burble Again: Famous torquey powerplant rumbles on. Pistonheads.com. URL accessed on February 23, 2006.
- Rover V8 history on Austin-Rover site
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