----- Original Message -----
From: Lar Kaufman <lark@world.std.com>
To: <buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 3:08 AM
Subject: Manuals
>
> I've encountered a series of obstacles getting manuals for the 215. I do
> have a Chilton master manual that documents the '61 BOP engine
sufficiently
> for gross maintenance. I tried to track down the Hardcastle books, but
> apparently they've been sold to the UK division of a U.S. publisher whose
> name I forget at the moment; the website I was referred to only came up
> with an "under construction" notice...
>
> And can someone tell me whether I want "Tuning Rover V8 Engines" or
> "The Rover V8 Engine", or both, and why?
>
> I want enough documentation to span the various configurations of the
> engine, so I looked further. Curiously, it seems that if you want to
> buy from an online automotive bookstore, Australia is where you have
> to go. (Obviously the guys at Amazon.com would be clueless as to the
> contents of an automotive volume. I tried to find that great automotive
> bookstore in London that I had visited, but apparently they aren't online
> yet...) So I need some info about some volumes I ran across, if y'all can
> help me.
>
> Is "Holden Improved Performance L6 and V8 Engines", a Holden publication,
> a viable resource for the Holden version of the Rover V8? If it covers
> the engine, does it do it well? Oh, and what's the exchange rate from
> US to Aussy dollars now?
The exchange rate is around 65 cents au to $1 us
and yes the book is from Holden and it sells for around $25 au
Simon
>
> What is a "typical Brooklands publication": that is, are the Brooklands
> volumes technical or (as I fear) collections of magazine articles on
> a particular make or model of vehicle?
>
> Should I get a workshop manual for "Rover 3 and 3.5 Litre Saloon and
> Coupe", "Rover 3500 SE", "Rover SD1 1976-78", or some other workshop
> manual (including Triumph or other variations)?
>
> . . . And now for something completely different. Someone on this list
> suggested using a Datsun 510 rearend to handle Rover power in a, um,
> Spitfire conversion? I ran across an article recently in Import Tuner
> or perhaps Turbo magazine commenting that the rear differential of the
> Subaru Impreza is a drop-in replacement for the 510 rearend. This would
> make it also a drop-in replacement for the Datsun Roadster and Z cars'
> rearends as well, if I remember correctly. And it should be durable
enough
> to handle V8 power, and it incorporates a sophisticated torque-biasing
> limited slip. Note: in Impreza WRX form, the Subaru 2.5L turbo reportedly
> puts out an estimated 680hp in competition form, of which 70 percent is
> directed to the rear wheels (except when Colin Macrae (sp?) knocks off an
> axle and has to gimp around on three wheels, of course).
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> -lar
>
> "We, too, who look upon the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it
> shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it.... Ah, mortal!
> then, be heedful; for so, in all this din of the great world's loom, thy
> subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar." - Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_
>
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