23-06-2014, 01:53 PM
More info would be happily received, so a picture would be great 
I found a Rover 418SD in the scrapper and it's quite differently mounted.
In a 306 the engine is cantered over say 70 degs from vertical ? In the Rover, it's 80 deg. ie: it sits more straight up.
This seems to be in order to clear the firewall as in the pug that's further back and the Rover has the master cylinder in the way potentially.
Holy hell, there are a lot of pipes behind that engine.
The pipe routing to the rad seems to be made worse as they picked a rad with hoses on the wrong side. Almost like they went to the parts bin than finding a new one.
PAS and vac take offs are on the cam ?!? The PSA pump sits at the back of the engine bay. Very odd.
Reasons to use the Rover box are that it's a PG1 so LSD's are piss easy to source. it uses standard Honda/Rover drive shafts so they would fit my axles without having custom shafts made up.
Only remaining issue is finding a donor for reasonable money. I could likely grab the contents of this Rover's engine bay but I've no faith the XUD7 in there is going to run.
Tho it looks complete, it's been there for a few years...
But the best way to get the parts then potentially bolt them to a XUD9.
Still quite a few differences between the engines, dipstick area, water housings (all metal!!)
Of course, it was a Lucas
I found a Rover 418SD in the scrapper and it's quite differently mounted.
In a 306 the engine is cantered over say 70 degs from vertical ? In the Rover, it's 80 deg. ie: it sits more straight up.
This seems to be in order to clear the firewall as in the pug that's further back and the Rover has the master cylinder in the way potentially.
Holy hell, there are a lot of pipes behind that engine.
The pipe routing to the rad seems to be made worse as they picked a rad with hoses on the wrong side. Almost like they went to the parts bin than finding a new one.
PAS and vac take offs are on the cam ?!? The PSA pump sits at the back of the engine bay. Very odd.
Reasons to use the Rover box are that it's a PG1 so LSD's are piss easy to source. it uses standard Honda/Rover drive shafts so they would fit my axles without having custom shafts made up.
Only remaining issue is finding a donor for reasonable money. I could likely grab the contents of this Rover's engine bay but I've no faith the XUD7 in there is going to run.
Tho it looks complete, it's been there for a few years...
But the best way to get the parts then potentially bolt them to a XUD9.
Still quite a few differences between the engines, dipstick area, water housings (all metal!!)
Of course, it was a Lucas