my v8 kombi has been off the road for too long now, chasing parts and odds and ends to rebuild it for a while now, thats the fun of having an old model engine...

picking up my forged 20thou oversize 8.25:1 pistons with cast rings tuesday, and new gudgeon pins and rods, as well as big end bearings and all that too,
havent gone with 10.5:1 compression as even with 98 octane it will still need additive octane booster so not to ping,
apparently the good old cast iron rings are the best for these engines as molygive up a lot earlier than cast, so i went for those,

will post photos of the gear and rebuild soon to show ya how everythiong is lookin,

kevo,

hi,i am from spain ,i have a vw t2 1976 ,i bought it to australian people
from i bought it ,ihave alot of problems or trouble of refrigeration,gets hot on the road when iam traveling and every thing works ok in the city its very strange
please i need ideas ,help me
my adress is ernestora2@hotmail.com
i could send you pictures of my vw and everything you need
here,in spain the vw coversions are not usual
i have spend alot of money already,iam tired

and did you ring Max ? for your bits

yer but i could never get through to him man, always rang out, ended up getting all my parts through a local retired guy in kingsley, real helpful and and has so much knowledge about rovers and how to build them,
changed my perspective on what kind of parts i bolt in the kombi thats 4 sure!

have got all the gear, will start posting photos tmorra

yes I know hard to get after 7pm is best

8th June UPDATE

Just finished my mid semester exams so now i can get bak to the bus,
engine came out 2day, have stripped it to the naked block to be bored 20" by some guys in Winton rd, Joondalup,

turns out some guys at 'a rover' speciallist shop cand measure pistons if their life depended on it! they told me they were oversize pistons in it, so i bought a set of 8 oversize Hypatechs, only to find that they were not guna fit in the BLOCK!!!!!

so now its a ground up, reground crank, main and big end rod bearings,

worst time to be doing this work tho, we are moving house at the moment so there is crap everywhere int her workshop now!!!

i fit all my new VDO gauges in the centre of the dash also, just underneath the head unit, new 'fully sik' tacho to haha, shood be accurate now

cant wait to drive it!!!

sorry bout late updates, exams n that eh

kevo

i hope you got the guage cups so the guages face you otherwise there just 2 hard 2c

Performance mods in ossy Park is the best machine shop I know of .I get all my work done there & never had a issue

I have a gear box here when you blow that one !

yer iv' angled the gauges towards me hey,

ill look into performance mods dude, thanks

yer ill keep that gearbox in mind neil, my mates have all bet money on it that the month i get it going i will blow the gearbox haha, ill try and prove them wrong ...

hey guys,

got stuck into the engine 2day after work, and theres just a few things i have queiries about... does anyone know how to get cam timing gear off? thats the sprockets and chain,
i cant find any chain link, or any way to loosen it off to give slack...
neways if anyone has ne ideas just shout,

sorry bout the crap pictures, there from my phone


Cam timing gear (engine up side down)




you can see how cramped it is cos were movin house n evrything is so messy !!!

kevo

There must be a link there somewhere.If your going to replace the timing chain just cut it off with a grinder.....but there WILL be a link somewhere......

whats the benefit of a new timing chain and sprockets? do ya just replace it if it has too much stretch?

Clip might be on block side of timing chain

sprockets have to come off at the same time? thats how it went on my ford v8

cheers guys,
its got a heap of play in it, and the cam can move about 2-3° before the crank turns so yer its stretched and looks like im up for a new one,

oh yer Mick H, i too like grinders,
they dont take any shit from any other car parts!!! haha


[ Edited on 11/6/2006 by kevo ]

block has been dropped off to be machined,

after inspection of the cam i found that it was f**t, as you can see by the picture showing chips out of the lobes, and then i also found that the cam bearings were rooted also with huge chips out of the centre of them,

turns out that the timing chain doesnt have a link Mick H, but it was old and stretched so i grind it off anyway,

crank is fine thank god!

so im up again for big end bearings, main bearings, camshaft (which i wont be replacing with a stock grind), cam bearings, timing chain and gears, plus a complete bottom end gasket kit.

could be worse i suppose...


here you can see the chipped lobes


crank and cam after i had taken it out,


cam before it came out

I am working on geting my subaru dub going just so I can blow you away for the hell of it .

did I tell you I have a gear box here when you blow that one ?

haha ya damn shit sturrer haha,

Plenty of room for a blower in there kevo

Kevo, I'm assuming that we're talking about a Rover V8 here....

Evidently (I haven't checked it out yet) the timing cover from a Commodore V6 (not the Alloytec) will fit on a P76/Rover V8 as they are bothed based on the old Buick design. The advantage is that it is much shorter as it does not have a distributor drive and used CDI ignition instead.

I know it's only heresay, but it may be worth checking into.

I've also heard that Holden V8 EFI systems can be modified to fit the P76/Rover V8 and returns about 14l/100kms with significantly more Hp on a 4.4 litre.

I've got a couple of P76 4.4 litre V8's sitting around at home at the moment. One is going into my P76, and I've been eyeing the other off as a possible repower for my kombi, so I'm watching your thread with interest.

hey cruzin, yer the cam timing gear i got fits leyland, buick and commodore blocks, becaust theyre all the same block i think haha,
i will have a look into the efi you mentioned, that could be interesting!

picked up all my cam gear up on saturday and have dropped it into the engine machineists to fit new cam bearings n that, got a mild street dynotech cam, flowmaster gears with roller chain, apparently you dont have near as much wear in these as you do with stardard gearing,
and new lifters with bigger oil galleries than standard, these are a must with a new cam,

sorry bout the fuzzy photos, its off the camera on my fone...

new cam


hydraulic lifters

kevo...

I still have a gear box here for you
sea
gull

yer cheers neil, i been thinking about what gearing ill run when i get a new gearbox, what has this one got in it?

given that the standard 2L has a final ratio of .83 (i think), i assume ill be better off with a final ratio of .65 or something around that mark, the engine will have the torque for that,

but keep in mind... im still a student dude so i got bugger all cash, this is why its takin me so long to build this haha, so yer dont think ill be buyin the box off ya too soon, how much u want for it anyway? what has it got in it

just sold it