At work I just recived this months copy of AI mag. (Automotive
Indiustrys??) and there was a small artical about MGB (I belive) is going
to attempt to break the 255mph land speed record at the salt flat's. I have
been planning on bringing the artical home and retyping it to get the
fact's strait and will try to remember to do this tommarow but in the mean
time what I can recall is they mention Triumph, Buick, Twin Turbos and 900
HP! Yes there using an (obivously modifyed version of) the die hard 215
aluminum V8! This leads me to belive it is anything but dead and gave me
something to boast about As I have one in the shop with about 2k invested
waiting on the head mod's to get done! For parts avalability To the best of
my knowladge anything you want is avalable. You just need to find your
sources and the local parts store probably wont be it. Mostly the
"youngsters" at the parts stores arround here tell me triumph never offerd
a V8, Buick never made an aluminum V8, and the Rover uses a 3.5 liter not a
215cu. I grew tired of arguing/explaining and found a source that was older
than 18!
Find Woody!
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> From: OP <oliverp@gte.net>
> To: buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net
> Subject: Performance Questions
> Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 5:08 AM
>
> Hi,
> Just heard about this list today. I have had a 63 Buick Hi Output 215 for
> about 10 years. I just haven't put it back together. I have a 64 TR4 I
was
> planning on putting it in, but decided not to ruin a nice car with a
swap.
> Now I'm getting into SCCA autocross and am looking around for a new
engine
> to put in a small chassis, I had decided to not use the buick because of
> age and parts availability, also I'm missing the flywheel. I do have the
> bell housing though. I wanted to go with a turbo 2.3 ford or turbo quad 4
> or mazda turbo. I also considered the Meredes Benz SOHC V8. I'm looking
for
> about 300hp. as for the 215 I was considering resleeving the block,and
> putting in heads and a crank from a 64 300. But in the meantime all these
> really hot engines have come out and are readily available at junk yards,
> while 215 are very hard to find. How is the 215 in racing, can the bottom
> end take sustained revs? is it worth spending money on to bring to 300
cu,
> or will it over stress the block. Any inputs or answers would be very
much
> appreciated. I am hoping someone will show me this engine is not an
orphan
>
>
> Oliver Praudisch
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