Mick Selby
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It feels meaty. Wife enjoys the seat vibrations. Ive filled it up with petrol and LPG for £140.!!!!!!! NOW WOT? :welcome2:
MY GOD-New V8 owner & it feels good!!!
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Beast o Bodmin
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burn its rubber dude.... get a big pipe too so you iz loud innit....
fett
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If its a p38 give it a week or so and then you will need to have all the electrics and suspension replaced , then another few weeks you will need the engine and box replaced and so on and so forth for the rest of your days lol 
Short fat bloke
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Im new to the V8 Lark too, but bloody love it so far,already got rid of the back box for a straight thro pipe, sounds brilliant!!
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I ran my 3.5 for a day (lol) with no boxes in, just a tube from manifolds (no cats) to rear bumper.
sounded great, but daft at the same time!
sounded great, but daft at the same time!
Short fat bloke
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I ran my 3.5 for a day (lol) with no boxes in, just a tube from manifolds (no cats) to rear bumper.
sounded great, but daft at the same time!
Now thats a bloody good plan!!!:flame2::flame2::flame2:
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larry the lanny
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Am a brand new petrol head aswel lovvvinnnnn it!
fett
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Running these crappy rover v8's is , the one in my bmw is twice as powerfull and uses half the fuel as the one in my RRC :doh:
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For sure the BMW is a great engine - but no soul at all.
It's a bit like supporting Man Utd, high performance but pointless....
It's a bit like supporting Man Utd, high performance but pointless....
fett
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Engineering excellence rather than Brummie laziness lol
Mr Noisy
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i recently found out that the efi hotwire system only has 2 injector circuits, left and right.
thus, when firing 18436572 it fires LRLRLRLR, that's 4 fuel injections for every cylinder firing, so we're wasting 3/4 of our fuel used! great HUH?!
ps. im not sure if you knew that already
thus, when firing 18436572 it fires LRLRLRLR, that's 4 fuel injections for every cylinder firing, so we're wasting 3/4 of our fuel used! great HUH?!
ps. im not sure if you knew that already
fett
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Fookin hell if your right it would explain the criminal fuel consumption on mine!
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It's true.
When examining my haynes manual I realised there are only 2 injector circuits outnof the ecu, each connected to four injectors!
It's a joke!!
As such, you would assume a well tuned carb would be more economical? And what happens to all the extra fuel? Does it just linger in the inlet mani and then get drawn in to the cylinder in one big wet vapoury overrich inlet stroke??
Seems ridiculous to me, I guess that's why I cannot run the disco for more than a few minutes in the garage without choking! Oh, and my plugs were like furry black and had only been in for a few thousand miles!!
Still love it to pieces though!
Cheers
When examining my haynes manual I realised there are only 2 injector circuits outnof the ecu, each connected to four injectors!
It's a joke!!
As such, you would assume a well tuned carb would be more economical? And what happens to all the extra fuel? Does it just linger in the inlet mani and then get drawn in to the cylinder in one big wet vapoury overrich inlet stroke??
Seems ridiculous to me, I guess that's why I cannot run the disco for more than a few minutes in the garage without choking! Oh, and my plugs were like furry black and had only been in for a few thousand miles!!
Still love it to pieces though!
Cheers
fett
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I have the same on all three counts!
Mr Noisy
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Im considering buying 4 boxes of 10 spark plugs!
thats 5 changes in total. we'll see how it goes, but i fitted uprated leads and new plugs, and it now drives through deep water like a champion, so im wondering if the sooty plugs are seriously hindering the igntion system...
thus, if it takes a set of plugs every time i go offroading it's fine by me - imagine how you'd feel if you were wearing a sweaty black furry jacket all the time!!!
anyway, cheers!
thats 5 changes in total. we'll see how it goes, but i fitted uprated leads and new plugs, and it now drives through deep water like a champion, so im wondering if the sooty plugs are seriously hindering the igntion system...
thus, if it takes a set of plugs every time i go offroading it's fine by me - imagine how you'd feel if you were wearing a sweaty black furry jacket all the time!!!
anyway, cheers!
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I was cleaning mine for a while and its my third set but fook it, I am just gonna run the bastid!
