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Lexus V8 into a rover

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Lexus V8 into a rover

Post by RedlineMike »

currently @ the planning stage of my new challenge buggy which will be based on a disco chassis with a full tube spaceframe, fancyed an LS1 but they are a bit out of budget so got thinking about a lexus V8, now ideally the car needs to be an auto so has anyone out there fitted a 1uzfe into a rover & retained the rover auto box?

If needs be will use another gearbox & tbox as im planning on using LJ70 axles but ideally it needs to be an auto...

Any help/advice is much apreciated

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Post by Bush65 »

zuffen on this forum has used one of the v8's.

My memory may be off, but I think he used an LT77 at first and it did not live long so he changed to nissan 5 speed.

From that, I would not expect an ZF22 auto to last either. Maybe with 24 internals though ....
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Post by zuffen »

The LT77 lasted around 6 months but had seen a few race kilometres on it before the swap.

Went TF727 auto but didn't like it.

Finally went Nisan 5 speed with Patrol diffs.

IF I were to do it again again I'd buy a crate LSX and use an off the shelf adaptor to fit it.

The Lexus is a big lump, given its small capacity.

All that said I love my Lexus but with 600+hp who wouldn't.
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