Project Penny

A Rover 3 Litre (P5) from 1964.

  • A new axle for the Rover P5, part 2: the housing (2025-04-15) - Things escalated, again.
  • Remaking Rover P5 rear leaf spring perches (2025-03-30) - I couldn't find any leaf spring mounts for my Rover P5, so I made them.
  • I don't like working with 304 stainless (2025-01-03) - Many tools died to bring you this information.
  • Overkilling the Rover P5, part 2: the gearbox (2024-11-21) - Let's put a BMW gearbox on the Corvette engine in the Rover.
  • The one where Lewis totally, irreversibly loses the plot (2024-10-10) - Doubling down on some fairly questionable life choices.
  • A fully-dressed Chevy LS1 engine weighs 215 kilograms, or 474lbs (2024-07-08) - No need to even read this page. It's in the title.
  • Let's play: "remove suspension bushes", on easy mode (2022-04-29) - How to remove suspension bushes with random junk you have kicking around the workshop.
  • Experiments within a project within a project (2021-09-26) - In which I experiment with electrolytic cleaning.
  • The little things (2021-06-25) - An appreciation of the Rover P5 workshop manual.
  • In which I explore just how bad a decision this P5 was (2021-03-24) -
  • Introducing Project Penny (2021-03-18) - In which I acquire a Rover P5.

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