Factory fitted Rover V8 ????

[Ritchie6]

It appears the seller has corrected /clarified his "Factory Fitted" comment in a listing update now ! Speculation and head scratching over,

Ray

It seems that my cynicism in post 10 was justified. I get more like Fox Mulder everyday- trust no-one! Mind you my other half says it's more like Victor Meldrew!

[bullstarz]

Sorry chaps but no prototypes were ever fitted with the RV8. During early development work it is recorded that the engineering department was asked to try to fit an RV8 into a Stag but they reported that it couldn't be done (sic) and development continued with the TV8. It is said that a few factory personnel had the job done privately using the engineering dept facilities and it was always possible for a director to ask for anything they liked but it is not true that any development work was done near the end of production to try to investigate what could be done to keep the car in production - there were other, far more important issues at stake within BL than keeping a car which had only sold 25,000 in 7 years in the sales brochures, after all, there was the Jaguar XJS to fill the 'sports car built like a saloon' slot.

As I am always learning myself, I would like to see any documentation which shows that any RV8 installation was a 'factory' one but every time I have asked for any info it has mysteriously disappeared.

Peter

The Rover V8 weren't prototypes they were a attempt-to-fix-types. They happened just before the axe finally fell.

(Nice bit of cut and paste by the way)

[Motorsport Micky]

I did think a bout the Dart V8 but Im sure it was put into the Daimler V8-250 and 2.5 V8 , the one that looked like the Mk2 Jag.

I think the TVR speed eight only went into one production car, TVR Cerbera.

Also the Lotus V8 that only went into the Esprit. They did make a V8 back in the 60/70's but reversed engineered it into a 45 degree slant 4 due to the oil crisis. Completely the opposite to the Triumph V8.

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Yeah I thought about the Daimler V8-250 but that was only put into production in 1962

The 2.5 V8/V8-250 is a four-door saloon which was produced by The Daimler Company Limited in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1969. It was the first Daimler car to be based on a Jaguar platform, the first Daimler car with a unit body, and the last Daimler car to feature a Daimler engine after the company was bought from the Birmingham Small Arms Company by Jaguar Cars in 1960. The engine is the hemispherical head V8 designed by Edward Turner and first used in the Daimler SP250 sports car.

So I reckoned that the SP 250 Dart with it's designed and solely fitted V8 counted cos it can't be held against it for what happened to the engine after the Dart entered production...can it ? ?

Micky

[Paul Kelley]

And to complete Micky's post above, it was also Edward Turner who had previously designed the great Triumph motorcycle speed twin engine that morphed into the very successful 650 Bonneville engine, which was the 650 cc engine to have back then. He surely must be in the motor industry Hall of Fame. And if there isn't such a thing, well there should be!
Paul

[stag8manod]

To carry on the Stag engine possibilities, The 2.5 Daimler could have been used in a cooking version and the 4.5 in a High Performance model. Just dreaming!
Cheers Ian A

[stagx790]

While researching the Stag history over the years I was told by experimental staff that the RV8 question about fitting was put to them and quickly responded that it would not fit as they did not want Rover engine in the car. Later in the production a black Stag was purchased second hand from a member of the public to test if the RV8 would fit, yes it did unofficially but was put to one side as the company were going to stop production any way. The car was sold on to a member of the public but no record was kept of it. so yes there was a Stag factory fitted with a RV8 but unofficially and well used.