2Litre Turbo Hippo

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

Following on from my V8 thread which seems to be a major redesign and rebuild (sorry Clutchdust).

Has anyone fitted (and what are your thoughts on) fitting the Rover 220Turbo lump into a Hippo. 2Litre, easily tuned to 300BHP, and (it seems) a similar size to the 1.8 and should therefore fit alot easier?
They are easily available and apart from ECU probs would give more grunt (sorry GRUNT) and be more reliable....

any ideas on fitting to the Jatco box and other issues?

G13SJC · Sep 4, 2006

The Mad Hat Man said:
Following on from my V8 thread which seems to be a major redesign and rebuild (sorry Clutchdust).

Has anyone fitted (and what are your thoughts on) fitting the Rover 220Turbo lump into a Hippo. 2Litre, easily tuned to 300BHP, and (it seems) a similar size to the 1.8 and should therfore fit alot easier?
They are easily available and apart from ECU probs would give more grunt (sorry GRUNT) and be more reliable....

any ideas on fitting to the Jatco box and other issues?

I thought about this idea too. I have a NASP Rover 220 sitting on my drive. The car had covered 170K, but I had fully rebuilt the engine 33K ago. PG1 was used in both vehicles - all you would have to do is obtain a T series PG1 bell housing, seperate original and refit over.

I was tempted, but decided to keep with the 1.8 due to insurance reasons.

Sounds a good conversion tho - I also was tempted to buy an MPi discovery and drop in a turbo lump.

Regards,

Steve C.

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

local garage says it WILL fit. all i need to know is - will the garage fix my lump or say "it needs a new engine, mate!"

Dont wanna flog your lump, do ya Steve?

clutchdust · Sep 4, 2006

220 turbo lump is alot bigger than k series 1.8, i would have thought it will go in ok though.

just drop the whole engine and box in from a rover and just have it front wheel drive

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

G13SJC said:
PG1 was used in both vehicles - all you would have to do is obtain a T series PG1 bell housing, seperate original and refit over.

any comments Clutchdust?

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clutchdust · Sep 4, 2006

PG1 bellhousing doesnt swap over, its part of one side of the gearbox casing and being a turbo lump, i say the internals will be different to the freelander box, the freelander PG1 box is ****!!

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

that said it! I assume that the Jasco box wont fit either then?

Treev150 · Sep 4, 2006

you guys need QED or BBR

When i had my V6 Hippo i was tempted for some work off them.

But how does a 300bhp k series sound?

I will find some links.

clutchdust · Sep 4, 2006

no, the bolt pattern for the bellhosing will be different, jatco was only fitted to V6 and TD4.

i suppose you could make it fit somehow

clutchdust · Sep 4, 2006

Treev150 said:
you guys need QED or BBR

When i had my V6 Hippo i was tempted for some work off them.

But how does a 300bhp k series sound?

I will find some links.

I know you can tune the ass off a k series, saw one in a morris ital of all things and that was kicking out well over 200bhp

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

so why hgf then?

clutchdust · Sep 4, 2006

The Mad Hat Man said:
so why hgf then?

there are ways around it, the rover jobbie was never a good design

if it wasn't fot hgf then the k series would be a blinding engine but in standard form its under powered for a freelander

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

given a choice - wud yu go k, v6, t or rebuild for v8?

clutchdust · Sep 4, 2006

if money was no object and i had a decent garage id do a v8

Treev150 · Sep 4, 2006

Here's 1

http://www.bbrgti.com/RoverK.php

Here's 2
http://www.qednet.demon.co.uk/rk/kits.htm

Here's 3
Sorry can't find the KV6 link.

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

yeah - i used to know of a kv6 link - i thought it was qed, but maybe not.

Treev150 · Sep 4, 2006

Yeah it was them. All of their KV6 pages are no longer on their web-site. I guess it didn't sell to many people.

G13SJC · Sep 4, 2006

Have a look at www.V8mini.co.uk

I am breaking the Rover, so the engine would be for sale. I have a spare PG1 bell housing that fits a T series engine - in fact its brand new.

I used a freelander gearbox (S4EM) to rebuild my rover gearbox. The mainshaft and countershaft gear clusters are identical bar 5th gear which is lower. (This made my 220 do 41MPG on a run!!)

Differences - the differential has a small splined input (for CV joint) and a larger input for IRD (hence could not be used in the 220)

The diff bearings are tapered needle roller in the freelander PG1 opposed to ball bearing in the 220 box.

I actually swapped the Freelander bellhousing with an enthusiast who had stripped a brand new 220 turbo gearbox (with torsen diff) and was fitting to a k series engined kit car.

If you need any advice - post and i may be able to help.

The Mad Hat Man · Sep 4, 2006

pm me with price - cos i got a220 with noisey lump and a V6 Hippo with lump in bits (see other posts)

Clutchdust - ya thoughts?

Diesel Do · Dec 3, 2012

Sooooo, what was the outcome?

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