New to this forum, I have looked at some of the cars owned by some of the members and hope mine, which is a bit newer than most, will fit in.
I love V8 engines and in the past I have had a mk5 cortina with a 3.5 rover v8, and a capri with the same engine, but strayed of the path for a little while as I wanted more power, so I have owned up untill last year a 400bhp saphire cosworth which I had for 8 years.
But I still yearned for that noise, the V8 burble.
So I stripped the sierra and sold for parts (worth more that way), and decided to biuld the car that would hopefully give me the power and noise that required.
My wife has owned a BMW 323i 1998 for about 8 years so when the head gasket went again (185000 miles) I thought thats it, she didn't want to scrap it as it's still a good car, so the donor car had arrived.
The plan is for a rear wheel drive 340 - 350bhp saloon car that burbles, not many rover derivatives get that kind of power without spending more money than I had so another make was required, cheap and powerfull.!
I found the engine by pure luck, switch on the computer, on ebay and bought an 4.4ltr V8 7series engine for £300, and 15 months later and here we are......
Some pic's hope you like.
Hope you like, will post more pic's soon.
