Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "American Reacts to the MGB GT V8 Coupe - POV Drive u0026 Sounds" video.

  1. Known as the BOP motor as each of Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac had versions of the 215 cubic inch or 3.5 litre aluminium V8. The Oldsmobile version had an extra head stud to better cope with the turbo charging option they used in 1962. Shortly before the Corvair turbocharged air cooled flat six. All well before the turbo charged Porsche and Saab turbos that some claim to be the first turbo cars. In 1965 Jack Brabham and Repco in Australia saw the possibilities of the Oldsmobile block and created a three litre overhead cam version that won the 1966 F1 championship for the Repco Brabham car and was developed to win again in 1967 for both the drivers and manufacturers championship.
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  2. Italian Pininfarina design from the early sixties based on his Ferrari California styling.
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  3. Actually from the AC Ace when AC were struggling to find a replacement for their Bristol six cylinder motor based on a pre war BMW motor.
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  4. Not just based , GM sold the tooling to Rover.
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  5. Carrol Shelby put the small light Ford V8 in a UK sourced AC Ace to create the Cobra built by Shelby at Venice Beach but with Ford approval and sold in Ford showrooms to attract the crowds to buy something they could afford. The Cobra was such a success , that Rootes approached Shelby to help doing the same conversion to the Sunbeam Alpine to later create the Sunbeam Tiger although it was nowhere near as good as the Cobra or built by Shelby. Both started with the 260 but later went to the 289. Later Cobra went 427 with huge improvement needed to handle the power.
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  6. G'day Ian. Interesting US origins of that small 3.5 litre V8. It was originally a GM all aluminium small V8 that GM could not cast reliably so was taken out of production. The UK Rover company bought the tooling and worked out how to make it reliably. Then got used in many Rover cars, but most well known in Range Rovers. Known in the US as the BOP motor as each of Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac had versions of the 215 cubic inch or 3.5 litre aluminium V8. The Oldsmobile version had an extra head stud to better cope with the turbo charging option they used in 1962. Shortly before the Corvair turbocharged air cooled flat six. All well before the turbo charged Porsche and Saab turbos that some claim to be the first turbo cars. In 1965 Australian Jack Brabham and Repco in Australia saw the possibilities of the Oldsmobile block and created a three litre overhead cam version that won the 1966 F1 championship for the Repco Brabham car and was developed to win again in 1967 for both the drivers and manufacturers championship. No current or future F1 driver is likely to ever make their own F1 car let alone win a championship driving with it.
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  7.  @darthwiizius  Triumph three litre V8 only used in the Stag I believe. A few other V8s also under Leyland with the Daimler 2.5 litre V8 with hemispherical combustion chambers and a different larger 4.5 litre that may have been out of production. Then from 1973 the less known 4.4 litre version of the Buick/Rover that was used in the Australian Leyland P76. Many Stags in Australia had the problem Triumph V8 replaced by the 4.4 with a big upgrade in performance and reliability. Cheap Leyland surplus V8s were everywhere for a while.
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  8. Healy 3000 was a 2.9 litre six and not a V8 though.
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