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Hopefully this should be an easy one for you good folks.
3.9 rover v8 going into a kit car - I'm just putting the timing cover back together and a thought struck me......should the crank driven oil pump cover have a gasket?
I can't remember one coming off it when I took it to bits...but that was many sleeps ago!
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Cheers....I wired up the megajolt on the ford pinto engine that I had in the car before this conversion but I'm starting to get a bit worried about wiring the coils for the V8 to get the right firing order!
So basicall at the moment I have 2 coil packs that arn't wired up. Am I correct in saying that I take the "coil-A" feed from the EDIS, pick whichever coil and then I need to make sure the HT leads go to cylinders 6&1 from this coil.
I then take "coil-B" from the edis to the coil and make sure these HT leads go to cylinders 8&5..
Repeat this for coil C & D (again I can pick either side of the coil pack to represent C or D)
Then this will give me the correct firing order?
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If this helps...
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Sorry to hi-jac this, but I've got a stupid question which I'm hoping somene can answer.
Does it matter which side of the coil pack you pick as being "a" or "b" / "c" or "d"? Am i correct in thinking that it is the edis unit which decides which side of the pack becomes a,b,c or d so as long as side "a" you connect to cylinders 1&6 and "b" goes to 8&5 all is okay?
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Brill! I thought it might be something like that but not knowing my rovers I thought it would be better to ask! Thank you
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With the offenhauser jwr low profile duel port inlet manifold and the deep dish filter from what I could work out it's a lower setup than injection stuff.
I wouldn't have sold the injection stuff and bought the edelbrock stuff if I could have got the injection to fit.
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my main query is the manifold / carb base plate angle....
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Fridgefreezer...my main hobby is model engineering where everything is scratch built so I wouldnt say I'm your average kitcar builder!
I've built a couple of 5" gauge locos and in the process of this 1/3 scale traction engine!
I promise that an efi system will not fit under my bonnet
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I appreciate what you are saying about the efi...but having looked into it I came up against bonnet clearence issues.
I thought that the edelbrock 500 were good carbs! I've read lots of good things about them and most v8 kit cars that I know of use them!
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Hi folks, it's me again...the lone kit car guy who has wandered into your great forum!
I'm installing a 3.9 v8 into my Robin Hood kit ca (lotus 7 type). As you can imagine, clearances are tight...especially under bonnet!
I've got an edelbrock 500 carb and an offenhauser duel port inlet manifold....but the thing is...the inlet manifold mounts the carb at a forward angle!!
I've done a bit of reading and discovered I can buy angle plates to correct this mounting angle, but the problem will be my bonnet clearance! With a 10mm thick heat insulator and a deep dish narrow air filter, I've only got about 10mm or so spare under he bonnet so I ain't got room for this wedge plate!
Can I get away without using the wedge plate or will the funny carb angle bugger up the fueling?
I would great appreciate your advice.
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Steve hiatt....what size pipes did u use to connect onto the engine block?
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thanks mickeyw. Yes it comes with a temp sensor and contoller varies the pump speed (6 volts to 12 volts) according to the temp you set it at...and then when it gets a couple of degrees over the set temp it turns the elec fan on...
Ive never had any experience with these and it's not my first choice as a solution but as you can see from the build photos, I kinda got no choice !!
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To play things safe..I've now purchased some 28mm tube and 32mm tube. I'm going to try and shape the ends of the tubes to fit the water gallery shapes and hopefully the slightly bigger tube diameter will help overcome any flow restrictions.
I'm not very hopeful that the 32mm will be any good....I think it will be too big but I've got my fingers crossed that I'll be able to do something with the 28mm!
On a side note...what a great forum! I've had no end of entertainment reading various topics! You 4x4 folks really know your stuff!
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The full build diary so far is hear incase anyone fancies a read...
http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=35307&hl=
Hopeing to be done some time in april!
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Definatly a space issue.....less than 4" from the front of the timing cover to the front of he engine bay!
Also the width and height of the engine is pretty tight as well!!!!
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Thanks guys! This is exactly what I was hoping to get....advice from people who have actually "been-there" rather than the "in theory" brigade!
The only other advice I've had was from someone who hasn't done this before and has told me he thinks that the 2x22mm connections will be too small?!?
I did wonder about leaving the water pump body on but I was concerned that the water would take the easiest path down the "bottom" water gallery of the snail shaped pump-hole. Am I just over-thinking things as usual?
You advise and wisdom is greatly appreciated as my background is cosworth & pintos....not awesome v8,s!!!
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Hello, my name is Richard and I'm from Derby. I feel a bit out of place because I'm not a 4x4er, however I'm as much of a petrol head as the anyone and hope to get to know you all.
I'm in the process of installing a 3.9 rv8 into my lotus 7 style kit car. I've spent a lot of money on rebuilding the engine and also the installation.
I've come to the point of installing a Davies Craig EWP115 water pump. I'm fine with everything up to the point of the cold water feed into the engine. I plan on using a cover-plate where the water pump used to be and feed it with 2 22mm inlets directly infront of the original water galleries (well actually it will be 22x32mm reducing elbows with the 22mm side of the elbow on the plate).
My worry is if these 2 x 22mm feed pipes will be big enough to supply enough flow through the engine.?? I can't use bigger dia pipe because it will foul the gasket so my only other option would be to use bigger pipe and square off the pipe ends to increase csa & still fit within the gasket (which I dont really want to do).
My logic is that the radiator pipes are 32mm dia which is 804mm2 csa
2 x 22mm pipes (only 50mm long max) have a combined csa of 760mm2 (94% of rad hose so not much of a reuction?)
The kit car forums don't have a huge amount of experience with this set up so I'm hoping someone here can help?
Many thanks in anticipation
Oil pump question....
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Thank you mikec! That's the bit I'm talking about.
Second question.....I've just noticed there is an arrow stamped on the oil pump inner gear wheel....do I need to line this up with anything when putting the pump back together? There is nothing on the outer gear to line up with so I'm out of ideas!