Re: The optimist
Dave, Simon, glad you're liking it! Thaks for the encouragement.
Chris, I wish it were that simple, but I no longer have the second engine, which found it's way into my mate's rubber bumper MG B GT that then got a 'Sebring' de-bumpered look, some 15" Superlites, my old Holley 390 on an Edelbrock intake, some 'block hugger' headers, and most importantly a wicked 'lumpy' cam, power being output through an LT77 5speed.
Ron, my eagle-eyed Antipodean friend, sorry if I'm being dim, but what exactly do you mean by 'current' transmitter and gauge? Do you mean something from out of one of the last Land Rover vehicles to have been fitted with a derivative of a 'Rover' V8 engine, say from a Range Rover, Defender or Discovery prior to the BMW powerplants? Or do you mean from the 'aftermarket', a multi-purpose item to fit various applications? If the latter, which brand(s) would you recommend? If the former, not being very familiar with those vehicles, would the more modern gauge 'fit' in my instrument cluster without looking out of place?
Is it possible to have my P6 guage recalibrated to work properly with the SD1 transmitter? Is that 'just' a case of changing the graphic on the face of the gauge, i.e. different markings? That is probably something I could do, being a graphic designer by trade. I remember reading an internet thread once by a fellow who had made his own instrument facings with dark graphics on white faces, which impressed me at the time. Can't remember if it was a P6 owner on here, or someone/somewhere else entirely. I do remember that it got me thinking about how one might cutomise the instrument fascia. Doubt that 'Ze Aussoritiez' here in Germany would like any such tampering if they noticed it though!'
I digress. My dear fellow Rover P6 afficionados, near and far afield, how best shall I proceed?
