Bored is not good

[Dcsinclair22]

So sitting at home bored out my skull, weather's terrible, so has got me thinking, ive always had pretty fast cars, subarus, 2 rs4s, 1s3, ,1 s6,, I love a v8 motor, I have seen people fitting the rover v8 engines without too much of a struggle (not that I'm saying the swap is a piece of cake) but it isn't impossible, so here I am scrolling through evilbay and I'm wondering if it's possible to fit a chevy small block in the robin hood........ I know anythings possible with unlimited funds, but you can get a small block chevy v8 with heads, headers and some ancillaries for 3.5-4k, obviously would then need ignition and fueling solutions bur size wise do you reckon it would squeeze in 

[richyb66]

No

[Dcsinclair22]

Well bang goes that idea the.

[nelmo]

I've seen Rich's V8 and there isn't enough space left for his pack of Rizlas in the engine bay . i have no experience but I'd imagine a US 'small block' is not...

 

[richyb66]

You can see how my conversion went in 3 back issues of the club magazine. The first issue can be downloaded here

and the rest here

 

https://www.rhocar.org/index.php?/forums/forum/59-magazine-digital-copies/