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Old 17th May 2009, 04:46 PM
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hi every1

as you can tell im new to this forum, but iv nearly finishd my chassi. in now at the point of needing to mount my engine and after a lot of thinking my engine choice is a 3.5 rover v8. there are 2 resons for this, one is that the engine was free and secondly it looks and sounds good. my question is do i need to modify the sump to lower the big lump?. all help will be gratefull thank.

matt
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Old 17th May 2009, 05:22 PM
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best way to work it out is to put the engine in and see how far the sump is out the bottom of the chassis. you want about 100-110mm ground clearance to clear speed bumps.
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Old 17th May 2009, 08:24 PM
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chears ash i think i can work with that
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