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Offline tweed

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #10 on: 13 April 2013, 21:00 »
My first car was a Rover vitesse EFi with a 4.2 v8 TVR motor.. manual box and a weber 4 barrel carb conversion... drank fuel but did 156mph on the M1 at  four in the morning.......22 years ago....them were the days.... :grin:


Epic  :cool: :cool:

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #11 on: 13 April 2013, 23:00 »
Lol wish it was like that now i bet u didnt care about having a heavy foot as fuel was cheap

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #12 on: 13 April 2013, 23:09 »
My old man built a Toyota hilux with a rover 3.5 v8 and a 6" lift kit.

Infact I remember a lot of his cars being v8's mainly the rover v8.

3.0 red Capri was epic. Would of been good to be born in the 60's  :undecided:

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #13 on: 13 April 2013, 23:20 »
My old man built a Toyota hilux with a rover 3.5 v8 and a 6" lift kit.

Infact I remember a lot of his cars being v8's mainly the rover v8.

3.0 red Capri was epic. Would of been good to be born in the 60's  :undecided:
yeh a old boy who i used to work with told me he used to have a vauxhall viva and he dropped a v6 init with a blienstine head and twin webbers and used the vauxhall viva van axel as it had disk brakes the only problem is it was to powerfull and would break the gearbox after a while as it would twist from the power from the engine he used to keep a couple of gearboxes spare u could proper modify cars back then

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #14 on: 13 April 2013, 23:27 »
Was easy back then with carbs.

No looms to cut and splice. No immobiliser and sh!tty sensors.

Just big carbed engines and a manual choke lol

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #15 on: 13 April 2013, 23:34 »
Lol wish it was like that now i bet u didnt care about having a heavy foot as fuel was cheap
Fuel was cheap..insurance was cheap..and speed cameras were pretty thin on the ground too.. :smiley:

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #16 on: 13 April 2013, 23:37 »
Was easy back then with carbs.

No looms to cut and splice. No immobiliser and sh!tty sensors.

Just big carbed engines and a manual choke lol
yeh lol aslong as you got air fuel and spark u was ready to roll lol insurance is steep now i pay 1200 a year for my golf o have to pay up fron other wise its 2500 a year

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #17 on: 13 April 2013, 23:41 »
My old man built a Toyota hilux with a rover 3.5 v8 and a 6" lift kit.

Infact I remember a lot of his cars being v8's mainly the rover v8.

3.0 red Capri was epic. Would of been good to be born in the 60's  :undecided:
A friend of mine had a hilux with a Rover V8 in it, pretty popular conversion back in the day..i remember it being quick off the mark but bloody lethal in the wet.. :grin:

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #18 on: 13 April 2013, 23:51 »
Wernt the hilux 4wd back then or was it rwd

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Re: Does the vr6 have a flat spot
« Reply #19 on: 13 April 2013, 23:53 »
It was 4WD but you'd convert it to RWD on a V8 transplant.