Thanks for covering one of my favourite engines. I didn't realize the SC opened the valves before the TC. You stated the oil filter bleeds down. I have owned about 6 TC's. The original oil filter did hold the oil. They are very difficult to find now. Only with my last TC did the oil bleed down. That was the one I could not find the correct filter for. I enjoyed the video. Thanks again.
Have both the V8 and the 4 cylinder. Always like the 4 cylinder, very modern for its time and efficient, but a lot of work to put together again. Thank you very much for the video 👍
back in the day i had one of those engines rebored in situ when it came to reassembling i could not obtain new big end shells they were not available fortunately they were in reasonable condition the job turned out just fine and performed with no problems .
I had a 71 2000sc back in ‘87-90 and I couldn’t get new shells either , and it had spun a shell , ended up selling it to a guy who had a low mileage engine ready to go in .
Great video Graham, I wished your video was available before my strip down, you made it look easy. I guess you’ve done many times, my is the first. I’m going to wait until you’ve posted the rebuild before doing mine, hopefully you’ll be posting sometime soon?
My father taught me the ring ridge in the top of the bore breaks the rings when you force them out without removing it first he has the ring ridge removing tool too 👍
we did a compression and cylinder leakage tests on this engine before we took it apart, teh results were pretty bad so we know they were already broken
@@flatchatcharlie it would have to be a pretty major ridge. i would say its more common that a ridge will break a ring if the eengien is reved harder than it usually is
@@PenguinMotors Thanks for the reply, I look forward to seeing that. I've just bought an identical engine and am a bit worried it might have been a bad decision. I wonder if I should have held out for a 2.2 version.
the p6 4 cylinder does really need better valve inserts, if you are doing that and using 2.2 pistons you might as well increase exhaust valve size, 2.2 had bigger exhaust valves, 2.2 had a lower compression but you could always skim a bit off the block to raise it, im sure there could be some worthwhile gains by porting the cylinder head, hell you could even get the cam reprofiled!
Part 2 is likely to be a look at the engine from a performance perspective part 3 will be start of rebuild but both should come quite soon as customer wants his car back!
The engine is basically a rally engine designed to be lumpy on idle and rev like hell. Rover used this engine, in stock form, in many of their rally P6 programs in the 2ltr class. They are absolutely fantastic to drive because it's one of the few classic cars that really makes you want rev it! Rover later introduced a 2.2 l engine with smaller carbs for the more refined road user.
With those thin pressed steel side plates, it was still a heavy engine for its size. They formed the water jacket sides and could rust though if they weren't filled with the correct antifreeze coolant mix.
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Thanks for covering one of my favourite engines. I didn't realize the SC opened the valves before the TC. You stated the oil filter bleeds down. I have owned about 6 TC's. The original oil filter did hold the oil. They are very difficult to find now. Only with my last TC did the oil bleed down. That was the one I could not find the correct filter for. I enjoyed the video. Thanks again.
Great video Graham, always love to learn about a different than the norm engine.👍👍👍
Have both the V8 and the 4 cylinder. Always like the 4 cylinder, very modern for its time and efficient, but a lot of work to put together again. Thank you very much for the video 👍
it seems that this engine had some modern designs and a few awful ones, great video, love to see it, i learnt alot
back in the day i had one of those engines rebored in situ when it came to reassembling i could not obtain new big end shells they were not available fortunately they were in reasonable condition the job turned out just fine and performed with no problems .
I had a 71 2000sc back in ‘87-90 and I couldn’t get new shells either , and it had spun a shell , ended up selling it to a guy who had a low mileage engine ready to go in .
Great video
Great video Graham, I wished your video was available before my strip down, you made it look easy. I guess you’ve done many times, my is the first. I’m going to wait until you’ve posted the rebuild before doing mine, hopefully you’ll be posting sometime soon?
Hopefully, it’s just waiting for me to get the time to put it back together
Thanks !
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Thanks Graham, great video 👍
I did not know that's how you're supposed to take the head off, wish this video game out sooner. Would have saved me a lot of struggle
My father taught me the ring ridge in the top of the bore breaks the rings when you force them out without removing it first he has the ring ridge removing tool too 👍
we did a compression and cylinder leakage tests on this engine before we took it apart, teh results were pretty bad so we know they were already broken
@@PenguinMotors ok nice work. Do you agree that the ridge can break the rings?
@@flatchatcharlie it would have to be a pretty major ridge. i would say its more common that a ridge will break a ring if the eengien is reved harder than it usually is
If your are planning to rebore then you will not be keeping the cylinders or the rings. So if you damage stuff taking it apart it will not matter.
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Interesting. Have never seen a 2000 engine in pieces before. Broken piston rings in every pistons. Is that a record?
Did you do a vid of reassembling the engine?
The engine is finished and gone I just haven’t got around to making the video
@@PenguinMotors Thanks for the reply, I look forward to seeing that. I've just bought an identical engine and am a bit worried it might have been a bad decision. I wonder if I should have held out for a 2.2 version.
2.2 Does make noticably more torque, in fact you can bore a 2.0 to take 2.2 pistons
@@PenguinMotors So if I did that, and swapped the HS8 carbs to HIF6's, would I need to make any other alterations? Unleaded valves?
the p6 4 cylinder does really need better valve inserts, if you are doing that and using 2.2 pistons you might as well increase exhaust valve size, 2.2 had bigger exhaust valves, 2.2 had a lower compression but you could always skim a bit off the block to raise it, im sure there could be some worthwhile gains by porting the cylinder head, hell you could even get the cam reprofiled!
When is part 2?
I might have this to do soon😮
Part 2 is likely to be a look at the engine from a performance perspective part 3 will be start of rebuild but both should come quite soon as customer wants his car back!
What happened to the rebuild video Graham? Please upload it.
ive started to make it, trouble is its hours and hours long so im going to have to edit a lot out or make several video out of it
@@PenguinMotors Great, looking forward to it.
a very thirsty engine partly because of the very slow warm up .
So why did rover fit such large carbs to a 2.0 4 cylinder?
It has been said it was to do with damping of carb pistons later 2,2 engines used smaller carbs
The engine is basically a rally engine designed to be lumpy on idle and rev like hell. Rover used this engine, in stock form, in many of their rally P6 programs in the 2ltr class. They are absolutely fantastic to drive because it's one of the few classic cars that really makes you want rev it! Rover later introduced a 2.2 l engine with smaller carbs for the more refined road user.
What an odd little engine.
Those removable covers are probably to simplify the casting process.
With those thin pressed steel side plates, it was still a heavy engine for its size. They formed the water jacket sides and could rust though if they weren't filled with the correct antifreeze coolant mix.