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3-30-2013
Teehee! Remember Alice Cooper's "We're all crazy"?
If I keep the same rolling radius tyre and wheel as the 15" pug ones we all like then 2700 rpm at 100 kph is the cruise. Probably a bit high for 4.6l isn't it?
It would be just itching to send the 505 into orbit if I want to overtake!
I have a friend over here who has fitted 16" x 8" rims to the 15" flat face alloys which we got on the very last GTD 505. He put them on the back of his 504 coupe with a 3l V6 and BA10/5.Looks OK.
The 4.0l Thor made 250 ftlb and 4.6 was 300 at around the 2500 to 3000 rpm mark. I know we can get that easily with the better engine management and some good old compression and camshaft magic. I think I'd better start thinking of larger diameter tyres and bring the cruise down a bit! I think maybe 205/50 17" from a 307, that gets it to 2570. Ahh, see what happens first, I guess.
3-31-2013
I think my mate used a wheel man who found a rim suitable. The wheel looks std until you look behind the car and there is a big fat 265 tyre where Peugeot ran a 185. It would have been expensive, I think.
I believe the Rover engine uses the same bell housing pattern as a SBC but in the back of my mind I can recall the 264 Volvo might have had the ZF 4hp. The Range Rovers used these boxes too but the chance of adapting a Pug zf to the Rover bell housing looked too hard. I'm pretty sure the revs will be OK as the bigger Ford 6 cyl and Chrysler, Ford and Holden V8 cars of my youth in the 80's and 90's all used a 3.08 diff and only 3 gears in either BW 35 or GM 180. I'm not worried about economy at cruise as the engine management will set up for closed loop economy mixtures on light throttle any way. Should be OK.
Have you guys noticed the wheel changes done on the Indonesion 505 site? I think some of them are from 307 and 308.