Tercel 350

tercel_iceland · Post by **tercel_iceland** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:06 pm

I hope this isn't a repost.

A few years back a guy here in Iceland needed a new engine for his tercel. He had a 350 chevy v8 and a three speed manual in his backyard and thought: "What the heck."

Here is the result

He ran into trouble when fitting the exhaust. The solution is.. ahem.. creative as you can see. To begin with he used the original T4WD rear axle but wrecked three in one weekend.

More pics: http://www.123.is/album/display.aspx?fn ... -149615727

Hope you like

Typrus · Post by **Typrus** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:14 pm

lol....
I had planned on doing this at one point. Needless to say..... I didn't. lol.

takza · Post by **takza** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:53 am

Now Typrus......

I'd like to see a pic with the hood closed and with the front tires on the ground.

Typrus · Post by **Typrus** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:33 am

Don't worry. I'll make some muscle mutant sometime in the future. No worries about that. lol.

thebigbread · Post by **thebigbread** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:44 pm

WOW...

someone has too much time & money.

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:13 pm

man i think that is crazy, even with power steering it would be really hard to steer and brake

neonsport · Post by **neonsport** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:41 pm

I once test drove a MG Midget with a built Ford 302 and an automatic. The car looked almost stock from the outside, with the exception of the rear tires. Unfortunately, the transmission requires widening the tunnel till there was almost not enough room for both the brake and gas pedals. It was an amusing drive. With a light foot on the pedal, it was deceptively civil. When I punched it at 70 mph and the car went sideways, I lost interest.

One of the techs at my dealership had a Tundra 4.7 liter V8 and automatic transmission he's going to use in some sort of Frankenstein car. He talked about buying my old SR5 for the project, but he's leaning toward a 71-74 Corolla.

Typrus · Post by **Typrus** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:52 pm

They fit surprisingly well in Cressida's. There was someone who put a 4.7 into an MX32 Cressida (the MKI ones) and turbo'd it. It was pretty sick lookin. 400-some HP to the rear wheels.

takza · Post by **takza** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:56 am

neonsport wrote:I once test drove a MG Midget with a built Ford 302 and an automatic.

....saw one once with an alum block Buick V6 in it. Owned a couple of them.

keith · Post by **keith** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:20 pm

saw one once with an alum block Buick V6 in it. Owned a couple of them

Buick Aluminum block V6? Never heard of one. The only Buick V6 is the cast iron 3800. Now Oldsmobile did make an aluminum block 215 cu in V8 in the early 60's.

neonsport · Post by **neonsport** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:13 pm

keith wrote:
saw one once with an alum block Buick V6 in it. Owned a couple of them
Buick Aluminum block V6? Never heard of one. The only Buick V6 is the cast iron 3800. Now Oldsmobile did make an aluminum block 215 cu in V8 in the early 60's.

Buick made an aluminum V8 at the same time as Oldsmobile.

takza · Post by **takza** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:04 am

Buick...Olds...guy said it was an alum block and I can remember the engine because they tended to have some issues...thought he said V6....coulda had a V8!

peter_tuning · Post by **peter_tuning** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:15 am

super

keith · Post by **keith** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:17 pm

Buick made an aluminum V8 at the same time as Oldsmobile.

I don't think so. There was a lot of innovation at GM back then, each division may have shared body parts, somewhat, but each division made their own engines. Buick went with the 225 v6, Olds had the 215 aluminum v8. Pontiac cut their v8 in half to make a 4 cylinder. Pontiac also put a 326 v8 in the 63 Tempest with a transaxle and independent suspension in the rear (a la new Corvette). In 64 they dropped the independent rear and transaxle, stuck in a 389 and called it a GTO. I was a young teen at the time and very in to cars.

The Olds had problems with the main bearings. The Aluminum designs weren't very good at the time, and the really good alloys weren't invented yet.

Post by **ARCHINSTL** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:19 pm

ROVER (Wikipedia) Golden years
The 1950s and '60s were fruitful years for the company, with the Land Rover becoming a runaway success (despite Rover's reputation for making up-market saloons, the utilitarian Land Rover was actually the company's biggest seller throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s), as well as the P5 and P6 saloons equipped with a 3.5L (215ci) aluminium V8, the design and tooling of which was purchased from Buick, and pioneering research into gas turbine fuelled vehicles.
In 1970, Rover combined its skill in producing comfortable saloons and the rugged Land Rover 4x4 to produce the Range Rover, the first car to combine off-road ability and comfortable versatility. Powered by the ex-Buick V8 engine, ....
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(Wikipedia) Aluminum 215 ("Rockette")
From 1961 to 1963 Oldsmobile manufactured its own version of the Buick-designed, all-aluminum 215 engine for the F-85 compact, known as the Rockette. This was a compact, lightweight engine with a dry weight of only 350 lb (159 kg). The Oldsmobile engine was very similar to the Buick engine, but not identical: it had larger combustion chambers with flat-topped (rather than domed) pistons, six bolts rather than five per cylinder head, slightly larger intake valves, and the valves were actuated by independently-mounted rocker arms instead of shaft-mounted rocker arms. With an 8.75:1 compression ratio and a two-barrel carburetor, the Olds 215 had the same rated hp, 155 hp (116 kW) @ 4800 rpm, as the Buick 215, with 220 ftÃ‚Â·lbf of torque at 2400 rpm. With a four-barrel carburetor and 10.25:1 compression, the Olds 215 made 185 hp (138 kW) @ 4800 rpm and 230 ftÃ‚Â·lbf (312 NÃ‚Â·m) (@ 3200 rpm.

The basic Buick/Olds 215 V8 went on to become the well known Rover V8, remaining in production until the 1990s. The Rover V8 however utilized Buick-style pistons, heads, and valvetrain gear.

The Oldsmobile Rockette engine block formed the basis of the Repco 3 liter engine used by the Brabham team to win the 1966 and 1967 Formula One world championships. The early Repco engines produced up to 300 bhp, and featured new SOHC cylinder heads and iron cylinder liners. The 1967 and later versions of the Repco engine had proprietary engine blocks.

NOTE - I could not find a Wikipedia story on the Buick version as the Olds version above - but maybe I just tired of the search...
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REALLY LONG "OFFICIAL" HISTORY LINK:
http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm ... verv8f.htm
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There were differences between the Buick and Olds 215, but Rover bought the Buick version tooling - and the rest, as they say, is history. Apparently the "American" 215 is quite in demand for MGB owners in North America who want more oomph - and lots of parts are still produced in Merrie Olde.
Tom M.