Del Lines 'experimental engine'

[saabfast]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRS-TR7-with- ... 19d8a9c48d

Just out of interest, does anyone know this car and the 'experimental engine'? 350HP from the Rover 3.5 litre V8 seems quite a lot. DVLA gives the Reg year as 7.9.79 and date of liability as 1.7.97. with year of manufacture as 1979.

Alan
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[claypole1360]

At a guess, as Janspeed had something to do with the Le Mans car, I would imagine it has a turbo/tubos.

Really frustrated that there are not more photos of this car.

Clayps

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[FI Spyder]

Bear in mind, Bob Tullius got 360 hp from naturally aspirated 4 liter with Lucas FI back in the day. I think the Lemans twin turbo had 600 hp. Lanocha Racing run a 1,000 hp from a 427 ci (not Rover).

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[Chris Turner]

It does not have a turbo.

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[claypole1360]

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It does not have a turbo.

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Chris, what does it have? Clayps

What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster?

1978 TR7V8 FHC
1968 Bond Equipe Sprint Car
1962 Herald Coupe 1200
2003 Peugeot 206 GTI
2003 Mondeo Diesel

[Chris Turner]

I don't think it had 350 BHP either. In the old days that figure would be difficult to achieve.

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[john 215]

Hi,


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Unless they used the same dyno that TVR used [:D] They always seam to manage to achieve unusal outputs, I agree with Chris unless full race a 3.5 will struggle to get to that figure.

Cheers John




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[Hasbeen]

Yep, over 300 BHP was pretty hard to get out of any Rover V8.

The 2.5L Brabham Repco engine in the F1 Brabham I drove was red lined at 9700 RPM, & Repco claimed 330 BHP at 9700. We never tested ours, our contract forbade it, but one bloke, upset that his top speed was less than a much older Brabham Climax 2.5 did. The independent dyno gave only 230 BHP. I have no idea of how worn that engine was.

These engines had immensely strong bottom ends, were fitted with an over head cam head, & won 3 F1 world championships in 3.0L form. No output figures were ever released, but Repco did claim 440BHP at 8900 RPM, from the 5 liter version, used in sports cars.

Hasbeen