V6 P6?

I read somewhere that the timing cover from the Buick V6 is a good upgrade for the RV8. There is at least the one turbo RV8 P6 in the UK. The biggest issue seems to be packaging everything in the cramped engine bay.
 
Maybe 25 or even 30 years ago a fella from Essex fitted a twin turbo RV8 into a Caterham 7. I used to see it regularly at shows, apparently it went like stink. He got quite a lot of press at the time, he was quite a pioneer. His other car was a Mini with Allegro 1750 drivetrain, this could out drag a Porsche ! The cars looked like cr@P, but boy did they go.
 
The Caterham must have looked like it just teleported out of your sight when it got going.
Back in the day with my first 2000TC, an Allegro left me for dust at the lights with a cheery wave. I had to pretend l wasn't trying. :oops:
 
Very soon after I bought my first White P6 I was having the previous owners dual outlet exhaust removed and replaced with a standard system. Whilst the work was being done I had a spin and afterwards got to try out a Westfield Seight with a 4.6 motor that had been given the John Eales treatment, around some country lanes in Kent. The owner warned me my four door automatic saloon would seem disappointing afterwards, but I couldn't turn down the opportunity. Hair raising! Not for the faint of heart. The guy had made his own front suspension wishbones out of helicopter grade aerodynamic tubing. The car weighed less than the owner, who was a big burly fellow. Well, okay, maybe not quite, but it would've been close. Electrifying speed and handling. It had a full race cam, solid lifters, and quad dual Weber copies down-draughting through trumpets and ITB foam filters, with a thin stainless tubular extractor set up also by the owner builder. Wish I had taken photos. Back then I had a Motorola clamshell with no camera in. 2001.
 
The Buick 3800 is legendary over here for being almost unkillable. It’s an intriguing option for the P6, light, very compact and reasonably well supported for tuning options. It probably would even fit into the four cylinder bay. One from a later Buick Century would be fuel injected and an interesting swap.
 
sdibbers said:
The Buick 3800 is legendary over here for being almost unkillable. It’s an intriguing option for the P6, light, very compact and reasonably well supported for tuning options. It probably would even fit into the four cylinder bay. One from a later Buick Century would be fuel injected and an interesting swap.
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Yes, l was thinking more of a four-pot car as it would seem a step down to remove a V8 to fit a V6. :)
 
Yes, same here. When l finally sell my Denovo V8 l will be left with Bruiser, which will be my only remaining P6. I have my P5B for 3.5 thrills.
 
mrtask said:
I read somewhere that the timing cover from the Buick V6 is a good upgrade for the RV8. There is at least the one turbo RV8 P6 in the UK. The biggest issue seems to be packaging everything in the cramped engine bay.
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Direct bolt on to the V8 and it comes with the high output pump as stock.
 
sdibbers said:
The Buick 3800 is legendary over here for being almost unkillable. It’s an intriguing option for the P6, light, very compact and reasonably well supported for tuning options. It probably would even fit into the four cylinder bay. One from a later Buick Century would be fuel injected and an interesting swap.
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A friend used to drag race back in the 80s and they used to boost the stock V6 engines with virtual impunity and then try to break them.

He got into the P6 scene a bit later and he showed me that the 3.8 V6 is virtually the same engine as the V8 with 2 pots off the end, to the extent that the heads will fit and bolt holes line up perfectly with the exception of the extra/missing cylinder, depending if it was a 6 pot head on an 8 pot block or vice versa.
He even went as far as to machine an 8 cylinder interruptor for the V6 distributor and ran it in his P6 V8, it's still there, to this day and he raced it in our local Classics scene. He said it gave a massively better spark than the stock Lucas distributor did.
 
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