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General Category => MG Sports Cars => Topic started by: mowog1 on December 04, 2014, 12:27:41 PM

Title: rover automatic to T5
Post by: mowog1 on December 04, 2014, 12:27:41 PM
Question.....A friend of mine is about to sell a Rover V8 from a Discovery that was originally an automatic.

If someone wanted to fit a T5 does he need a Rover manual bell housing....or will he need to obtain a BOP bellhousing (or an aftermarket such as available from D&D???

(I'm not sure of the bolt pattern of the Rover automatic to bell house)

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: rover automatic to T5
Post by: BlownMGB-V8 on December 04, 2014, 02:29:54 PM
The D$D bellhousing should do the trick.

Jim
Title: Re: rover automatic to T5
Post by: avbates on December 07, 2014, 08:26:12 PM
Yep, the D+D one is what I used with my 4.2
Title: Re: rover automatic to T5
Post by: roverman on December 12, 2014, 11:48:05 AM
There  "is" 215 Buick/Olds, if you can find.. Make sure it's the large hole/ big 4 speed bolt pattern. Small hole/pattern fits the early 3 speeds.   Good Luck, roverman.
Title: Re: rover automatic to T5
Post by: britcars on December 12, 2014, 01:48:38 PM
I stumbled across a three speed bolt pattern (big hole) BOP bell housing cheap and TIG welded some rough shaped aluminum billet in place then surfaced it in a vertical mill, drilled the 4 speed pattern and installed Timeserts.  Might be prohibitively expensive unless you have access to the right tools.
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