Postby Hasbeen » 05 Jun 2008 01:22
I quite like the thing, & it would not be too big a deal to remove
the spoiler. The thing is in Darwin, where the temperature rarely
drops below 24oC, [75+ degrees F, even at night] so would have had
to have good cooling. The scoops probably work.
Darwin has a very wet "WET" season, so the chance of rust is greater
than Oz in general.
At 4.4 stroked to 5L, that would be the local BMC P76 engine, which
is 1 inch higher in the block, hence the second scoop I would think.
I don't know if these have any disadvantages against other Rover V8s.
The worst thing, & probably why it hasn't sold, is the distance.
Darwin is about 2200 Km from anywhwre, [other than Singapore], & a
little over 3500 Km from here. It would be quite expensive to fly up
there, just to look at it. It would take a lot of faith, in someone
else's engineering, to drive it home, with the first real township
1475 Km from Darwin.
You could send it by train to Adelaide, but for me, I'd be no closer
to home, just in more settled areas. I did think about a nice 7 from
Darwin, once, but these things put me off.
Fuel is a bit pricey, out there in the "never never". If the thing
has good "cruising" economy, you would have between A$900, & $1000,
just in petrol costs, to get it here.
I think I'll give it a miss.
If you look at the prices of the other 7s, listed with this one, you
can see why we think about importing them from the UK, or the US.
Hasbeen
