Course it'll work, speak regularly with Mr. F. and I'm sure it'll be a piece of cake. You might need to ditch the weird gearshift mechanism TVR put on and get a regular T5 gear lever. Also don't forget to get rid of the CAT that sits in the big can where the two manifolds meet, no need for that!! In fact I suggest some general resarch into manifolds, not sure if all Rover V8s use that weird 'to the front, bosh together and head to the back' thing. Apparently the Ginetta G33 is considered to have one of the finest Rover V8 sound tracks, so maybe try and and see how that's set up.
Once it's in the car get a nice ACT carbon fibre twin or tripple throttle plenum on it - http://www.actproducts.co.uk/ - and a visit to Mark Adams for one of his Tornado chips and it'll be mightly impressive. These guys are probably within easy reach of you: http://www.austec.co.uk/chips.htm
Nothing personal and everyone has free choice BUT that is one ugly engine even though you will gain huge (cheap) power ! I hope other V8s look better ! Bravo for the hard work and iniative though !
Here we go again - "right noises" - for a Zed or a TVR ? And of course it matters what an engine looks like, especially an engineering project as this - the bonner will be up at ever stop as people ask what's there ! Shame if it's all scruffy with wires and bobbins and aircraft size exhaust manifolds !
Does style and finesse count for anything or is it purely numbers now - "horsepower" ?
Those Ebay manifolds look interesting. I'm guessing they're not stainless though as they seem to be coated, given what a biatch they are to get at once installed I'd be tempted to get them right first time. Also the fact that the seller states they were to wide for his trike sticks out in my mind, as they're is obviously less width available in the Z engine bay than on a trike! Don't know if you can swap sides on them though, I bet the bolt pattern will screw up any cunning plans you're hatching
Power wise the 4.0l is a conservative and unstressed 240bhp but with a very pleasant 270lbs/fit in the torque department, unless of course you were lucky enough to get a HC (high Compression) version which is rated at 275bhp-305lbs/ft. Definitely a good investment in terms of bhp/£ over th cost of upgrading an L engine to that level.
Quit being so down on everything Sean! Of course the engine looks rough, it's straight out of a scrap car. All it will take is a bit of polish and elbow grease and some fancy silicon hoses and it'll look great. Perhaps you should compare it to the hideous mess of wires and hoses that sits in a 280ZX engine bay?!!