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lexus v8
« on: February 07, 2012, 05:37:13 PM »
good idea or bad idea anyone thort of useing one in a bedford
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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 05:41:28 PM »
to wide, a friend of mine started to fit one in a cf, bascially had to cut the floor to the steering column on drivers side and most of the passengers floor out, he gave up on it
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "watch me"

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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 05:44:05 PM »
thanks mate that would have been a disaster did have a 350 chev having trouble finding a v8 to put in her
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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2012, 06:32:12 PM »
 >:(    buga ... was thinking of going that way if my rover rolled over and played dead .. why most the passengers side ? the throttle body .. what if it was carbed

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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2012, 03:38:04 AM »
They are just really, really wide. those quad overhead cams have to go somewhere. I looked at one once as someone suggested that to me as well but I only looked the once. I could tell just by looking at it that it wasn't going to work.

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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2012, 05:16:05 AM »
It's wide... it would be nice mid-mounted...


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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2012, 05:46:33 AM »
he had cut the floor chassis rail to chassis rail
had to widen the firewall hole
had to move the steering and couldn't run alt in factory spot
and there was something else big but can't remember
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "watch me"

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Re: lexus v8
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2012, 08:07:37 PM »
Why not use the 350? Cheap, powerful, and small.. the 350 measured across the valve covers is amongst the smaller motors out there..
 No need to re invent the wheel.. Can stroke them to 383 & easily get 400 horsepower, more than a Bedford would ever need.

 

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