Willie,
Of course the British-built Jag v6 and v8 are also possible replacements.
The Land Rover engine bays are big enough to hold just about any motor -
the +8 bay is not... Do you think the BMW or Ford v8's are compact enough
for the old Morgan? Are they light enough?
Harvey
>At 11:23 PM 3/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Harvey,
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>>If, as I suspect, Ford buys BMW, Morgan will continue to have access to the
>>4.4 Litre BMW V-8 for the Aero since the Works has a very good,
long-standing
>>relationship with Ford. The Rover V-8 has for some time only been built by
>>Land
>>Rover in Solihull, and deliveries should continue through 2002 after which
>>time
>>it WAS scheduled to be replaced by a jointly-developed BMW/ Land Rover V-8.
>>I see no reason for these plans to be changed, although these days one can
>>hardly tell the players without a score card.
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