my birthday is tomorrow

Well, I should clarify: it looks like a Citation that is v8 powered, stick shift, and RWD, so I would love to have one. If it was reliable. (snicker)

Reliability can be fixed with megasquirt and parts swaps (says the guy with a Bitrouble that hasn't moved in almost 2 years)

m4ff3w wrote:

tuna55 wrote: Yes - this. Plus, I think it's not an aluminum V8. I think the 215 was bought from Buick in aluminum but all Rover displacements were iron, but I cloud be mistaken. But yeah, it's clean. It's about as desirable as a clean Pontiac 6000.

They are aluminium indeed. I don't think the brits ever made an iron version. GM, though, made a V6 from the 215 V8 and only ever made it in iron. This was what eventually became the 3800.

Oops

Since when do we discourage people from buying old, unreliable or hard-to-get-ze-parts-for cars around here?

conesare2seconds wrote: Since when do we discourage people from buying old, unreliable or hard-to-get-ze-parts-for cars around here?

THE END OF THE WORLD IS HAPPENING!!!!!!

for reals

dculberson wrote: Well, I should clarify: it looks like a Citation that is v8 powered, stick shift, and RWD, so I would love to have one. If it was reliable. (snicker)

They were very good at locking people in the car and shockingly for a British car they well enough made to keep weaker people inside the car...

But I REALLY want one.

m4ff3w wrote: Reliability can be fixed with megasquirt and parts swaps (says the guy with a Bitrouble that hasn't moved in almost 2 years)

Uh, Happy Birthday to both of you?
(ducking, running away serpentine)

m4ff3w wrote:

tuna55 wrote: Yes - this. Plus, I think it's not an aluminum V8. I think the 215 was bought from Buick in aluminum but all Rover displacements were iron, but I cloud be mistaken. But yeah, it's clean. It's about as desirable as a clean Pontiac 6000.

They are aluminium indeed. I don't think the brits ever made an iron version. GM, though, made a V6 from the 215 V8 and only ever made it in iron. This was what eventually became the 3800.

can you quote a design lineage? how did they get a 3.8 liter V6 out of a 3.5 liter V8?

Joseph D. Turlay, Buick's top engine designer of the period, responding to Buick's need for an engine for the new small car, said he could build a 90-degree V-6 quickly by simply eliminating two cylinders from Buick's aluminum V-8. "We got it into full production in less than a year," Turlay said. "It had a new crankcase (and a cast-iron block instead of aluminum), but the rods, pistons and valves were nearly the same as those of the V-8." The new engine resulted in the Special earning the "Car of the Year" award from Motor Trend magazine for "pure progress in design, originative engineering excellence and the power concept for the future expressed in America's only V-6 automobile engine."

GM sold the tooling to AMC and then bought it back at the beginning of the oil crisis.

tuna55 wrote: But yeah, it's clean. It's about as desirable as a clean Pontiac 6000.

Mmmmmmm Pontiac 6000