Avenga's '74 Alpine V8 project Discussion

[JoKer]

Lol ya just get rid of one and start another!

mean

Project thread here : http://www.avenger.co.nz/forum/index.php?topic=548.0

[avenga]

haha. yup, it turns out 1 Avenger is not enough for me.

I just love the tough Mad Max look.

It is going to be a long project but it will be awesome.

[avengertiger]

Hi Richard v8 rover way to go,I was all set to convert my 2door to v8 in Ireland but never did get around to it,I had collected all the parts I wanted manual for road use and had a t5 Borg Warner 2wd cops worth box and the bell housing from a Tvr Griffith bolts straight on but the bell housing was 300 sterling new from Tvr expensive.
Have you sourced a v8 I believe the sd1 is the one to use early p6 are slightly less powerful.or are you going range rover?
Nice project.

[avenga]

I haven't sourced my V8 yet. My mechanic has 3 spare blocks so we are just going to use one of those as a dummy engine to mock everything up for now.

[JoKer]

sheet man cams and such~ this will be wild

[Nikolai]

Oh.My.God

[avenga]

sheet man cams and such~ this will be wild

That is the plan It will be a total monster when it is done, It will have like zero traction.

Oh.My.God

Yup, That sums it up nicely 

[Nikolai]

Yeah man. You will have to have a blast in my car to get an idea for how little traction you will have! Took it for a very small drive this afternoon and I have remembered why I love the car

20th May it's getting the tune and surge tank Can't wait.

The 1UZ is hectic. Great choice on the throttle bodies. I'm guess you will go for a LINK G4? Or Megasquirt?

[avenga]

Yeah man. You will have to have a blast in my car to get an idea for how little traction you will have! Took it for a very small drive this afternoon and I have remembered why I love the car

20th May it's getting the tune and surge tank Can't wait.

The 1UZ is hectic. Great choice on the throttle bodies. I'm guess you will go for a LINK G4? Or Megasquirt?

Awesome! it will be good to see your beast out on the road.

Yeah those throttle bodies are just amazing, photos don't do them justice. They come as a fully built up kit from OBX Racing in the states and they come with manifolds, 4AGE throttle bodies, trumpets and fuel rails. You open the box and it is just full of shiny trumpets.

I want to make an easy to remove air filter so at shows I can have it with just the open trumpets.

At this stage I am looking at going Link G4 Atom, I might upgrade to a Storm, depending on how we do the spark.

[Nikolai]

Aren't you doing this with Mal?

We used a Hilux Diff and got a pretty decent head from Steelie Gears. It was $1100 for the housing and diff head, and Mal shortened it etc pretty well.

As you may know, the problems you will have is that the diff will be unsprung weight, and at-least in my install, the diff is very slightly angled downwards towards the front, which does something but I can't quite remember what.

How much was the LSD?

[avenga]

Yeah I am doing this with Mal but I don't really want to pay $1,100.

I got the LSD for $235 inc shipping etc. quoted about the same for the housing.

I am sourcing most the parts myself so I can keep costs down.

My diff will be mounted a lot differently to yours so it should be sweet.

[Nikolai]

Hey!

How's this going? Any updates?

By the way - where did you source the LSD head? Seems like a great price.

[avenga]

V8 is sort of on the back burner for now, I have some health issues I have to take care of first.

I got the LSD from "Southern Surf Spares"

http://yellow.co.nz/y/sourn-surf-spares