Know it well. My little engineering shop of 1962-84 machined 2000 of those
V8 crankcases for Leyland Australia. The power unit was fitted to their P76
saloon, an excellent car but poorly marketed. We got the job at the end of a
downturn in the metal trades industry in Oz (early '70s) and we were just
about on our uppers when the contract was won. Leyland had commenced
production of the engine but were short a few units on the new transfer line
in their main machine shop. We had taken delivery of a new NC horizontal
machining centre which was lying mute with no work. Within days we had two
shifts going and within two months the business was up and running again.
Halcyon days!
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <msparks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT]silica/silicone
> You all do realize that the V8 in the Rover and Land Rover is the old
Buick
> engine. Rover bought the tooling almost 40 years ago.
>
> Tom
>
> > Hi Morgan & folks
> >
> > > GM made a small aluminum V8 for one of the new "compact" Buicks in '62
> or '63. I
> > > don't think it worked out too well.
> >
> > This Buick V8 is still highly sought and valued as a high performance
> light
> > engine in NZ - for cars and jet-boats.
> >
> > Brian
>
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