Club 80-90 Forums

I seem to have a love affair with these cars, and the 1979 to 1990 buses are especially cheap nowadays.

I just bought my third one with a 50hp diesel engine, and that awfully poor performance might just be the kick in the back I need to start a V8 conversion I have been wanting to do for years.

Now, I have read alot about v8's in pre -79 Aircooled versions, and I know KEP has flywheel, adaptor and clutchkits, but I wonder if anyone have any experience trying this on a 79-90 model?

I've searched all over the net for years, without finding any info on this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

had a guy in hastings years ago reconed his v8 was the nuts . was pissed when i went past with my 2.7 porky crewcab

Test drove one once as I was going to buy it, monster, engine stuck out ofback all polished up. Very nice. Decided not to buy.

Bumped into new owner a few months later and he had taken it to germany, clutch failed on him, bad conversion apparently, cost him a fortune over there, he was gutted.

I have decided to go down 2.9iV624v route now, using winkler conversion.

can't tell you if its the right choice yet but i will keep updating this forum with my project and make a website about it.

D I C K spanner

before you go down the rover v8 route check out the figures,their not as powerfull as you think,the ford v6 is a better engine,but if you must go v8 fit a 350 chevy or 351 ford,cj.

I have a lovely 3.0 litre V6 will all ancillaries stuck in workshop I was going to stick in a spitfire. PM me if yu are interested.

tilstad wrote:I know KEP has flywheel, adaptor and clutchkits.

who? i'm going down the same route so any info would be great

Fancy a ride out?

This is on Ebay Germany:

http://cgi.ebay.de/FORD-V6-Motor-fuer-U ... 0065837692