early 90/110 factory V8 engine position?

[Steve 90]

My trucks in the middle of a make over and at the same time getting a V8 fitted. The engine is being fitted in roughly the same position as the early 90's with the 4 cyl petrols, N/A diesel, Td's and lastly 200Tdi's with the short bell housing LT77 gearbox.

Were any of the Factory V8's fitted in this position?? If so what years were they and does anyone have any decent pics of under bonnet layout??? I hope to be able to source some stuff like rad hoses, rad cowels etc etc off the shelf rather than having too many custom made bits.

Also has anyone fitted an EFi V8 in this position? Other than the bulk head needing cutting to miss the exhaust headers the only issue I can see is I dont think the Air intake or the throttle and kickdown cables will clear the heater box. I think a small mod to the heater box might fix it or maybe throwing the heater box away. Not to keen on throwing it as it may help the cooling if its a bit border line. So any other problems I might run in to??

Cheers.

Steve.

P.S. Before anyone says it, Ive tried a search of the forum. lots of info but nothing specific to the engine being in this position.

[Hybrid_From_Hell]

Steve,

Er simple answer = No

Most V8 90s are LT85 and have special mounts, mine means I have a F kin HUGE airbox between bulkhead and back of engine mates who have LT77s find they have far less room.

I can take pics of the engine bay, or you can search under my logon name, most other V8s (50th Nas etc) are similar in engine well forward.

Make sure oil filer = axle = non interference fit

Glad to see you have 'extracted digit from a**e' and got that nasty sqeallzy thing out at last

MS is just but some nuts bolts and screams away

nige

[western]

Mr V8Freak has a 110 with a V8 in the as it left the factory position, maybe he'll pop up & offer some photo's.

[Dave W]

Mine was a factory V8, as has been said, all the ones I've seen factory fitted have a HUGE air box between the back of the engine and the bulkhead. If you're thinking of going EDISand/or Megasquirt it's easier (IMV) to use the Land Rover coil packs that bolt on the back of the V - that way you can get off the shelf HT leads easily. Moving the engine back would make that a lot more difficult too.

When I fitted a V8 in my old SIII I had to move it back into the bulkhead, changing the spark plugs on cylinders 7 and 8 was an "interesting" exercise...

If you're sticking with standard radiators the 2.5TD radiator is the best one for for a V8 - nice and big