Petrol heads. Who owns / drives a V8 car?

srichards said:
I was never going to get one due to their unreliability but I dropped on one that had been owned by a mechanic and looked like it had been well looked after. I'd also been looking at Porsches but the engine problems put me off more than the chocolate gearbox did so I got the chocolate gearbox car instead...
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Porsche - rear main seal. Isn't that the major problem?
 
FlyTVR said:
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Porsche - rear main seal. Isn't that the major problem?
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IMS bearing, RMS plus bore scoring and cylinder block thinness in the larger engines. It's a crap shoot whether you get a good one or not. The ones that check for bore scoring are finding quite a number of the cars they check have it. I think Portia something or other in London was saying they found about 1 in 4 or 5 cars suffered from it.
 
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FlyTVR said:
Porsche - rear main seal. Isn't that the major problem?
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If the RMS fails, engine oil can leak onto the clutch / flywheel. When the clutch failed (worn out, not contaminated) on mine at 98,000 miles, the owner of the specialist I take it to said my car has a tiny weep which didn't reach the flywheel and if they replaced it the new one might be worse. It now has 120,000 miles on and oil consumption is about 500ml/10,000 miles, so I think that's more likely to be going out the exhaust after coming in past the guides or piston rings due to wear - it is a 16 year old car, after all - than leaking.

IMS failure (early 997s) is catastrophic, but very rare. There is a retrofit ceramic replacement bearing available as a precaution, but requires the engine to be dismantled. Bore scoring seems to be more of a first generation 997 with the 3.8 engine thing (mine is a 986 with a 3.2 engine so not concerned about that one).

I would suggest that anyone buying a used 911 of any type pays for a specialist inspection that would check this stuff anyway. Just because depreciation means a first generation 997 can be had for well under £20K doesn't mean it doesn't think it's still a £90K car when it needs fixing.
 
Only a V6 here too, Audi A6 Quattro 2.7 BiTurbo (petrol). A bit long in the tooth now, but still tows the caravan like stink!

In my youth I bought an old V8 Rover SD and transplanted the engine in to a 1974 VW Beetle, mated to a Renault gearbox in mid-engine configuration.
 
KernowChris said:
Only a V6 here too, Audi A6 Quattro 2.7 BiTurbo (petrol). A bit long in the tooth now, but still tows the caravan like stink!

In my youth I bought an old V8 Rover SD and transplanted the engine in to a 1974 VW Beetle, mated to a Renault gearbox in mid-engine configuration.
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I like that engine - is it with the CVT or TipTronic gearbox?
 
KernowChris said:
Only a V6 here too, Audi A6 Quattro 2.7 BiTurbo (petrol). A bit long in the tooth now, but still tows the caravan like stink!

In my youth I bought an old V8 Rover SD and transplanted the engine in to a 1974 VW Beetle, mated to a Renault gearbox in mid-engine configuration.
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In my last year at school, an Old Boy turned up in a Beetle with velocity stacks sticking up out of the front bonnet. 8 of them. The whole body was hinged at the back and there really was a V8 under the bonnet with a GRP beetle body covering the thing.
 
FlyTVR said:
And what V6 is it Alan?
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Mitsubishi's 6A12 - 2.0 DOHC MIVEC in an FTO GP Version R. Revs to 8k too which sounds bloody fantastic, like several hundred seriously p***ed off hornets.
 
I shall be testing half a V6 this afternoon. :)
 
FlyTVR said:
Just for fun, if you own / drive a V8, what is it?
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2003 C5 RS6 is my current daily driver but 899 Panigale for two-wheeled foolishness! [emoji4]

The C5 RS6 has got to be one of the best value ultimate sleepers available but like was mentioned earlier about the porshes, it certainly hasn't forgotten what it is when i see the garage bills! [emoji15]
 
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i had an S8 as a daily driver from 2006 to 2013. Awesome car. mine had just had a gearbox when i bought it at 90,000 ish miles & the car was great.
The only thing other than brakes, tyres & track rod ends i had to do to it was replace the wiper motor (wore out due to the UK weather i guess lol )
unfortunately mine suffered another gearbox failure at 144,000 at around the same time i was ill & had a near 3 month stay in hospital.
it just sat outside my garage for around a year & i sold it to some gyppo's for £350.
i was just concentrating on getting better, had use of another vehicle & just couldn't be bothered with it. still wish i'd kept it though :)

never liked autos, before i bought this & since its been gone.
however the DSG box in the Golf R ive been using this year is really good :)
 
Used to have a Land Rover 110 V8. Was a 3.9 with autobox, lovely sound particularly loud with just the manifolds lol
 
Im just going to leave this wee video here along with a drool tray for you all :D

 
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I currently own one of the press launch LR Discoveries with a normally aspirated 3.5ltr V8. I've also owned a 3.9ltr V8 Discovery 1 and 4.2ltr V8 Discovery 2 - loved them all :)
 
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