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Re: Stag Engine (was: Rover V8 prices...)

To: Kai Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>
Subject: Re: Stag Engine (was: Rover V8 prices...)
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:16:57 +0000
Cc: Robbie Anderson <Robbie@rie.net.au>, MGB-V8 List <mgb-v8@Autox.Team.Net>
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Reply-to: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Sender: owner-mgb-v8@Autox.Team.Net
This was a common conversion, in the UK at least, due to the problems
with the Stag engine.  The conversion usually necessitated bonnet
louvres.

PaulH.

Kai Radicke wrote:
> 
> >I know it sounds like nit-picking but a stag V8 is actually closer to two
> >triumph four cylinder blocks, joined at the waist at birth. It is not a
> rover V8.
> 
> You're correct, as someone mentioned to me earlier.  I was recalling a
> particular Stag, that I see at the local LBC shop often, which does have a
> RoverV8 and just made the assumption (without looking into it) that this was
> correct.



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