I have the "Tuning Rover V-8 Engines: How to Get Best Performance for Road
and Competition Use, Vol. 8" book and found it quite useful as I built up a
Rover engine from a pile of parts. It covers all the important detail bits
like the fact that my stock Rover PB series engine had the good pistons and
10.1 compression, but had poor heads. The book recommended heads from any of
the SD1 series engines, so I got a new set of heads with the improved port
and valve sizes. I would recommend this book along with advice from people
like Dan at D&D.
Hope this helps,
Dave Herr
V8 TR4A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris & Kelly Sharp" <4sharps@cox.net>
To: "Rover V8 Mail List Members" <buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net>; "TR8 Mail
List Members" <tr8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: Rover V-8 Engine Books
> Found a couple of books on tuning the rover v-8 engine by David
Hardcastle.
> One is titled " Rover V-8 Engine, Vol. 8", the other appears to be an
older
> version of the same titled "Tuning Rover V-8 Engines: How to Get Best
> Performance for Road and Competition Use, Vol. 8". Both list for over
$40US
> new. I was wondering if any of you have the book and if either or both
are
> worth getting.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris
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