naar mijn idee klopt hier iets niet, een V8 met een dieper gelegen grille en selecteerbare 4wd... Of heb ik toch iets gemist in de Land Rover History? Dacht altijd dat bij de series alleen de Stage One een V8 had gekregen.
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Series III V8???
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Hermen Vlothuizen
Re: Series III V8???
Wat je hier ziet komt volgens mij niet uit de fabriek.
"Dacht altijd dat bij de series alleen de Stage One een V8 had gekregen."
Klopt, met voor zover ik weet een uitzondering. Op [www.dunsfoldcollection.co.uk] vind je een rode 88" - je kunt er helaas niet naar linken - waar het volgende commentaar bij staat:
"VEHICLE SPEC.
THIS 88 IS TOTALLY UNIQUE. IT HAS A PROTOTYPE V8 BUICK ENGINE FITTED BY LANDROVER IN 1967. IT IS ONE OF 3 TEST BEDS BUILT FOR TESTING THE V8 PRIOR TO FITTING INTO THE RANGE ROVER. IT STILL RETAINS THE 2A CRASH GEARBOX, IT ALSO HAS LARGE BRAKES ALL ROUND AND RADIAL TYRES. MANY MILES WERE COVERED AT GREAT SPEED! AFTER ITS TRIALS DAYS IT WENT TO THE TEST TRACK AT GAYDON WHERE IT TOWED A SURFACE FRICTION TRAILER FOR MANY YEARS. IT NOW REQUIRES QUITE A LOT OF WORK TO GET IT BACK ON TO THE ROAD. THE OTHER TWO WERE BOTH BROKEN UP."
"Dacht altijd dat bij de series alleen de Stage One een V8 had gekregen."
Klopt, met voor zover ik weet een uitzondering. Op [www.dunsfoldcollection.co.uk] vind je een rode 88" - je kunt er helaas niet naar linken - waar het volgende commentaar bij staat:
"VEHICLE SPEC.
THIS 88 IS TOTALLY UNIQUE. IT HAS A PROTOTYPE V8 BUICK ENGINE FITTED BY LANDROVER IN 1967. IT IS ONE OF 3 TEST BEDS BUILT FOR TESTING THE V8 PRIOR TO FITTING INTO THE RANGE ROVER. IT STILL RETAINS THE 2A CRASH GEARBOX, IT ALSO HAS LARGE BRAKES ALL ROUND AND RADIAL TYRES. MANY MILES WERE COVERED AT GREAT SPEED! AFTER ITS TRIALS DAYS IT WENT TO THE TEST TRACK AT GAYDON WHERE IT TOWED A SURFACE FRICTION TRAILER FOR MANY YEARS. IT NOW REQUIRES QUITE A LOT OF WORK TO GET IT BACK ON TO THE ROAD. THE OTHER TWO WERE BOTH BROKEN UP."
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Re: Series III V8???
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Floris - SIIb FC (in wording)
Re: Series III V8???
Land-Rover heeft volgens de Series II club geexpirementeerd met Buick motoren. Ik weet het fijne er niet van, maar zal er eventjes naar zoeken.
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Hermen Vlothuizen
Re: Series III V8???
Dat experiment is best aardig gelukt:
"The Rover V8
Although it is usually referred to as the "Rover V8", this ex-Buick engine has also seen service in the MGB GT, Triumph TR8, Freight-Rover Sherpa and various Land Rover products... not to mention its wide-ranging applications amongst specialist sports car manufacturers.
An heroic engine
During the late 1960s, the US car industry turned to aluminium as a material to build their engines from. The reasons for this have been well documented, but primarily it was the quest for lighter weight and greater efficiency that led the producers to choose this route. One such manufacturer who embraced aluminium with both arms, and so developed a compact V8 for their Buick range of cars. The engine in its original form displaced 3530cc and because of its compact size and low weight, proved very easy to package. Of course, the late 1950s were not a time for the Americans to be countering profligacy, and this resulted in these benefits largely being overlooked by GM, and that fact made them susceptible to persuasion.
Within two years the American steel industry fought back: In the American "system" the steel industry wielded enormous influence within governmental circles and thanks in part to this "unfair advantage", along with improved casting technology and the emergence of thin wall casting techniques, many of the advantages of aluminium as a base material for engines were negated. As a result, General Motors reversed their policy of using aluminium in their new engines - returning to steel.
Whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for GM in the USA was not paramount in the minds of Rover executives and their engineers in the mid-sixties. For several years, Spen King and Gordon Bashford had been investigating alternative power units to power their top of the range cars; the 3-litre straight-six engine found in the P5 was by this time well past its sell-by date, being heavy, not particularly refined and uneconomical. As explained in Chapter Five, various engines were tried with little success, not least the gas turbine, which managed to absorb much in the way of resources before finally being discarded. Because of this development blind alley and the now pressing need to upgrade their existing 3-litre engine, the company decided to look outwards to find something suitable.
It was Rover's Managing Director, William Martin-Hurst, who managed to source the 3.5-litre V8 engine, having cast far and wide for something suitable. Knowing that the engine was being phased out by General Motors, he approached the company, offering to purchase the rights to build it. The deal was certainly an audacious one because of the fact that it involved an outright payment to the American multi-national, thereby avoiding further royalty payments in the future. The deal was hammered out during the winter months of 1964 and by the following January, the engine was the property of Rover.
Within months, the production of the engine was transferred to Solihull and the creation of the P5B ("B" for Buick) soon followed. The next recipient for the compact and powerful engine was the Rover P6 - and in the process, a minor British legend was created. It did not end there though; Spen King worked on a couple of projects, which were based around the new engine - one being the sadly stillborn Rover P6BS, the other being the Range Rover. Like the P5B, the V8 engine was the making of the Range Rover; somehow it seems hard to imagine that car enjoying quite the success that it did without the smooth and powerful V8 engine under the bonnet. In an off-road vehicle, the stump-pulling torque produced by the ex-Buick engine had found perhaps its perfect role in life."
Hermen.
"The Rover V8
Although it is usually referred to as the "Rover V8", this ex-Buick engine has also seen service in the MGB GT, Triumph TR8, Freight-Rover Sherpa and various Land Rover products... not to mention its wide-ranging applications amongst specialist sports car manufacturers.
An heroic engine
During the late 1960s, the US car industry turned to aluminium as a material to build their engines from. The reasons for this have been well documented, but primarily it was the quest for lighter weight and greater efficiency that led the producers to choose this route. One such manufacturer who embraced aluminium with both arms, and so developed a compact V8 for their Buick range of cars. The engine in its original form displaced 3530cc and because of its compact size and low weight, proved very easy to package. Of course, the late 1950s were not a time for the Americans to be countering profligacy, and this resulted in these benefits largely being overlooked by GM, and that fact made them susceptible to persuasion.
Within two years the American steel industry fought back: In the American "system" the steel industry wielded enormous influence within governmental circles and thanks in part to this "unfair advantage", along with improved casting technology and the emergence of thin wall casting techniques, many of the advantages of aluminium as a base material for engines were negated. As a result, General Motors reversed their policy of using aluminium in their new engines - returning to steel.
Whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for GM in the USA was not paramount in the minds of Rover executives and their engineers in the mid-sixties. For several years, Spen King and Gordon Bashford had been investigating alternative power units to power their top of the range cars; the 3-litre straight-six engine found in the P5 was by this time well past its sell-by date, being heavy, not particularly refined and uneconomical. As explained in Chapter Five, various engines were tried with little success, not least the gas turbine, which managed to absorb much in the way of resources before finally being discarded. Because of this development blind alley and the now pressing need to upgrade their existing 3-litre engine, the company decided to look outwards to find something suitable.
It was Rover's Managing Director, William Martin-Hurst, who managed to source the 3.5-litre V8 engine, having cast far and wide for something suitable. Knowing that the engine was being phased out by General Motors, he approached the company, offering to purchase the rights to build it. The deal was certainly an audacious one because of the fact that it involved an outright payment to the American multi-national, thereby avoiding further royalty payments in the future. The deal was hammered out during the winter months of 1964 and by the following January, the engine was the property of Rover.
Within months, the production of the engine was transferred to Solihull and the creation of the P5B ("B" for Buick) soon followed. The next recipient for the compact and powerful engine was the Rover P6 - and in the process, a minor British legend was created. It did not end there though; Spen King worked on a couple of projects, which were based around the new engine - one being the sadly stillborn Rover P6BS, the other being the Range Rover. Like the P5B, the V8 engine was the making of the Range Rover; somehow it seems hard to imagine that car enjoying quite the success that it did without the smooth and powerful V8 engine under the bonnet. In an off-road vehicle, the stump-pulling torque produced by the ex-Buick engine had found perhaps its perfect role in life."
Hermen.
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P&O109V8
Re: Series III V8???
nog een duit in dit zakje: in de LRe van juni 2004 vind je een verhaal over het eerste (amerikaanse) prototype van een V8 Land Rover, ook een series II, 'Golden rod'. (...)
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peter
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peter
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Stukje nostalgie
Re: Series III V8???
ja idd, had daar ook al eens eerder iets van gelezen.
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