Rover Sports Register Forum

Hi Neil Ask as much as you like its what were here for, in a bit after breakfast I'm going down to my garage to do some work on the old girl so will check out my tyre size for you, for the speeds we do in the P3 I think crossplys are ok as the car was originally designed for them and I’ve heard that...

Hi Dirk I have seen this said about the P3 block being strong enough as it is but was not knowlegeable enough to have claimed it my self. Thats a good idea about the diff as well and I beleive one of the other things one can do is change the gearbox for an overdrive P4 box as well though you lose th...

I dont have much history of the car before I had it but Ive done about a thousand miles a year for the last ten years and all still seems in good order still. Ive even gone four or five fills and not used any additive but as I say its never pushed that hard (well ok I had a very spirited run on the ...

Great set of photo's looks like it was a good event

The whole idea of the engine design was to make an engine that would run on all types of fuel don’t forget that back in the forties the quality of fuel could be very indifferent especially in some of the far off colonies which were seen as major markets back then so I don’t think that an octane boos...

So lets get up to date on this on going carb problem. I sat in the kitchen today with the carb in all its component parts laid out before me (dont worry all the glass beads are there) now I dont know if any one knows but are the two sets of diaphragms in the accelerator pump differant as when I got ...

A good question Neil there seems no easy way of taking it apart to give it a proper clean and like you I wonder if washing it out with paraffin would just loosen up 60 years of muck with out really cleaning it, I guessed that worked back in the day but even Rover didn’t expect the cars to be around ...

No not to late, the problems still on going so any help is appreciated

Hi just had a look in the garage and I do have a P3 exhaust manifold in good condition the studs will need replacing but with a bit of heat the old ones should come out I might have a go at that later today and let you know later if they came out ok.

I might have one at home as I was given a box full of engine odds and sods in the summer from an old guy who broke one him self for spares many years ago and still had these bits and although I havnt been through it all yet I'm sure there's one in there but as I work away as a lomg distance lorry dr...