<![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8 - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8 - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> @MurileeMartin:
Why yes, yes it is. Buick couldn't give the damn things away and sold the design rights to whatever bunch of idiots owned Rover at the time.
Funny aside: I worked for a man who had much more money than brains and who bought a Rover with this little aluminum V8. I used to look him in the eye (with a straight face) as he would tell me " there's no sound like a European motor". What a tard.

phoghat

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Ted, aluminum. I had one of these in a similar state of disassembly that I never got around to installing in neither my MGB nor Rover TC2000. But I did keep it through 3 changes of address, and never once had to ask for help lifting it. The box with the heads and miscellaneous parts weighed more.

lascauxcaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> I guess it would be hard to use it as a doorstop or paperweight.

Senshi

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Pushrods 4 life

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Without the iron crank and rods that block like 60lbs. Ages ago in a Hot Rod article there was a pic of a guy carrying one bare block under each arm.

HoubaHouba!

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Having suffered with this engine and losing thousands of dollars in the adventure I can say that a boat anchor would be a more appropriate application. Can you say cylinder liner slip? This is/was a common problem with this engine.

I do find utilization of tossed off technology as furniture/decorations as interesting concept, but I prefer aviation based themes much better. Automotive stuff is just too common.

firekat

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> If I were to never have to move and had enough money to get the creditors off my back and also buy more than a pack of cigarettes a day, I'd buy this instantly.

TexansAreHot

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Oh gads yes, moving day would certainly blow. Not to mention the abuse to the floor. If you rent there goes your security deposit.

HDC

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Mickey Thompson used the aluminum Buick engine for his Indy 500 cars, I believe... you'd think Rover would be using that as a marketing angle. Well, except Mickey's cars didn't win.

And, dculberson, I know all about the Prince Of Darkness- when I was young and optimistic I attempted to use an MG as a daily driver. Holy undiagnosable electrical problems, Joe!

MurileeMartin

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Murilee, absolutely, although the claim is it was much improved. I agree that the mechanics of it were - I have personal experience with three of them and over 300k miles (200k on just one of them) hasn't resulted in any physical failure. Electrical, though .. well, let's just say Lucas is usually involved.

dculberson

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> No. No. Sacrilage.

The heart of a hoonmobile, creating unreasonable amounts of power by exploding the remnants of Earth's ancient past with the very air we breath is not something anyone should daintily fill with spoiled grape juice and put under glass like a dead pheasant.

It should be placed on mantle custom-built to display it. Better yet, mount it over your headboard.

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Isn't this engine the direct descendant of the old aluminum Buick V8 of early-60s cracked-block fame?

MurileeMartin

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Didn't I see a Ferrari Enzo V12 lying on the middle of California Route 1 some time ago? That would make an impressive piece of furniture!

starlightmica

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> A good glass top probably weighs as much as the block.

Miscellanea, now on the main floor!

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Looks pretty sweet, but can you imagine moving day? It's gotta weigh a couple hundred pounds at least.

Ted Striker

]]> <![CDATA[Things To Do In Your Living Room With A Rover 3.5-Liter V8]]> Heh - I've got an Olds version in my garage awaiting the same fate!

HoubaHouba!

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