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Anyone know anything about them, ie power suitability , are they Salisbury make or Rovers own ? A friend has just broken one shaft and twisted another with the first application of kickdown while on the move ! He's putting power from a 318 Dodge throgh it , around 260lbs/ft compared to 190 approx of the Rover.
Trying to find out if it's a one off due to age or whether we need uprated halfshafts .
I DID tell him it would be better off with a Yank axle in there while he was still building it so trying to salvage many hours of work changing it if we can.
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Last Edit: Aug 5, 2011 7:47:10 GMT by kapri
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Dez
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Rover SD1 axleDez
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I'm not entirely sure where i got the info from, but i believe they're somehow related to land rover ones. they're not a sailisbury though.
either way, theres a reason no ones uses them for aything- apart from being a bit of a funny design with the 'torque tube' typre setup, they are notoriously weak- like breakable with a stock rover 3.5, a manual box and a little enthusiasm type weak.
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kevfromwales
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I wouldn't personally use them for the reason dez states, but a clubmate has a 4.6 rover powered sd1 (300 bhp + iirc) with a manual, and he gives it plenty of beans - and afaik it's through a stock back end?? I reckon I could break any axle given time...  |
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