BRAND NEW brake Calipers

garethp6

garethp6

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hey i got a set of BRAND NEW front brake calipers for the rover 2.0 and the 2.2 never been used just been up my artic from jr wadhams they are about £120 so i am open to good offers please let me know garethp6@hotmail.co.uk
 
sorry john i dont have 1 spare at all i will be needing 1 soon as well mine is starting to play
gareth
 
O.K Gareth,
thanks for replying - They are still available (as original equipment) but at about £38 - Too steep for me, a second-hand one would do as long as the motor/pump works!
Regards, John.
p.s. I have a Sapphire (dark) Blue Triumph Stag ("L" reg) now, if you see me driving around Cardiff!
 
hey john yes they are a bit 2 much yea alan did say you got a stag i would always like to have 1 of them maybe in a few years
 
Hello Dave,
no, it has the original 3 litre V8 althought it has had 3 re-builds in its life, the last one cost over £5000 about 7000miles ago!
Should last for a few miles yet!
Regards, John.
 
My friend Jeff has a Stag with blown head gaskets and he can't get the heads off ,Even suspending the car from an engine crane attached to the heads won't shift them . He was thinking of fitting a Rover V8
 
DaveHerns said:
My friend Jeff has a Stag with blown head gaskets and he can't get the heads off ,Even suspending the car from an engine crane attached to the heads won't shift them . He was thinking of fitting a Rover V8
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If he's got the studs out then I can't see anything other than the gasket sticking that can stop the heads coming off. If he hasn't got the studs out, then the heads won't come off while the engine's in the car anyway.

Rover V8's don't work well in Stags as they are far lighter than the Stag lump, and so the handling gets very wayward, particularly at high speed. Different front springs have been tried amongst other things, but with limited success. I have an idea to cure it, but I'm keeping it to myself at the moment.........................
 
harveyp6 said:
Rover V8's don't work well in Stags as they are far lighter than the Stag lump,

I have an idea to cure it, but I'm keeping it to myself at the moment.........................
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Nothing to do with a bag of cement on the front bumper is it? 8)
 
pilkie said:
:? According to my info! a stag engine is 200kilo,a rover V8 is 230kilo!!! ??
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If you think about it logically, the stag has a cast iron block, twice as many camshafts, and 4 times the length of timing chain, so I can't see any way that it could weigh less, even if you reckoned on every other component weighing roughly the same.


I've actually found the same info as you Pilkie regarding the weights of both. I still don't believe it though.
 
I should never of trusted the internet or google for accurate info!
Another site says rover V8 is 185k!!
And yep a bag of cement will sort it out! :D :LOL:
Or a couple of 20k weight lifting weights bolted to the top of the suspension turrets! :wink:
 
Found another site with engine weights that lists the Rover V8 as 120lbs lighter than the Stag, which is about 55kg and a bit closer to the truth I would think.
 
"If he's got the studs out then I can't see anything other than the gasket sticking that can stop the heads coming off. If he hasn't got the studs out, then the heads won't come off while the engine's in the car anyway."

I think it's all corroded together , studs , bolts and heads but I'll have to ask him . Apparently water would pour out tof the exhaust with the engine running !

Ford V6 is another engine swap for a Stag and weighs about the same
 
I have an idea to cure it, but I'm keeping it to myself at the moment.........................
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...... make up the extra weight with a couple of turbos and an intercooler.... Then the handling really woulld be wayward ! :LOL:
 
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