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Re: V8 RA celica Mon, 24 February 2003 02:24 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Another thing...

With the ALLOY Rover motor my car understeers like a dog on grass, its OK untill about 30 Kmh then she just pushes like mad. I think that this has a lot to do with the standard suspention geometry. I got some K-Mac camber/castor plates, wound the radius rods as far forward as they could go, dropped the top of the struts as far in and as far back as they could go and it seemed to help a bit.

You can stroke a Rover motor out to 5 Lt but as mentioned before the damn things cost a bomb to work on. Plenty of room in the engine bay though.

Given the option and knowledge when I got mine rebuilt, I would have gone UZ-FE for sure...

Oh well, theres always the next car Smile

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