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V8 Conversion
| Welcome to my V8 Conversion page: |
| From a lazzzzzzy
1.6 Laser to a......... Tarmac chewing, rubber burning V8 Street Sleeper |
| The Photo's below can be viewed in larger form by clicking on the photo of your choice. |
As
you can see in the photo, the Alloy Rover 3.5 V8 Engine fits a treat
under the Bonnet of the Capri with very little under bonnet modifications.
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The
removal of the original radiator support has to be done, this is
to allow room for the new radiator to be placed up behind the front grill. Modification of the lower inner engine bay valance, (pic on left) this is for clearance of the Rover front pulley. |
The
removal of the top of the gearbox tunnel to allow Rover 5 speed
box to be fitted then new tunnel top to be made and fitted.
And the corner of the battery tray has to be removed to clear the front of the exhaust manifold. Most of the above mods can be done over a weekend. Then you can go ahead and purchase your V8 conversion kit. |
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Here you
can see the Ford Clutch Cable, to Rover hydraulic master cylinder
conversion. The way it works is as you depress the pedal the cable pulls the arm in which the clutch master cylinder is attached to, thus operating the hydraulic clutch slave cylinder in gear box, A Simple but effective set up. |
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And not
forgeting the propshaft, this |
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The
Exterior of the Body shell was mainly left standard as from the
factory, The only additions are: Replica fiberglass Turbo Tail boot spoiler and a replica RS Ford Motorsport front spoiler. As you can see the wheels are not standard from when the car was first made. |
The
wheels are 7jx16" Alloy Team Dynamic Monza's, They are fitted with 205x45zr16 tyres, |
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| Here
is the new engine a 3.9 efi V8 Rover, The engine has been built
by Caprisport, and was used in their V8 Capri track car until I
bought the engine with a suspect liner fault, (only turned out to be a leaking head gasket), It has a piper 285 fast road/ rally cam, high rev anti pump up lifters, a lightened flywheel, And factory 3.9 hot wire injection system. Along with a green cottom race induction filter and a rising rate fuel regulator. This is what the 3.9 looks like now under the bonnet of my Capri.( pic on right) |
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As
you can see the finished
Product, new 3.9 V8 engine, full respray and
a
N20 kit and what a real Street Sleeper it is, A wolf in sheep's clothing as a few people have said who have been in my Capri. Next on the list is the possibility of a twin turbo set up, as long as I can make enough room under the bonnet ! !. , |
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