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Re: Engine Swap out ideas and advice - LONG

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Subject: Re: Engine Swap out ideas and advice - LONG
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:02:51 -0700
on 10/7/03 7:39 PM, Don Malling at dmallin@attglobal.net wrote:

> I was wondering how long it would take for the blower to come up.
> 
> Seems like a no-brainer to me. Build a stock engine, throw another $3K
> at it, get the Moss SuperCharger, and, if you believe Moss, 5 hours
> later you have doubled the HP at the wheels.
> 
> Must be the Rover V8 does lots more than double the HP? Just curious,
> what is the HP difference between the Rover V8 and the Moss SC? For all
> the extra work, must be a big difference. 200 -- 300 HP for the Rover?

Try 135HP for the stock configuration (though it is apparently not difficult
to get considerably more out of it).

But the supercharger option has only been available recently -- it's not
like it was "competing" with the V8 option all along.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




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