I was expecting to see a 350 or 455, not a baby nailhead! Odd choice, but plenty of torque I guess.
No torque here. Just a baby 215 V8 that Buick unloaded on Rover in the 60's because it didn't make enough HP for American buyers.
It was too expensive to make which is the reason it was shelved. Rover bought the rights for a song. I bet if you were to get out the calculator you would find that the power to weight ratio was the same or even better than the SBCs at the time. 150HP and 220lb.ft @2400 for the 2V and 185HP and 230 lb.ft @2400 for the 4V with only 215 cubes sounds pretty torquey to me. The engine wasn't a dud. Buick kept on using the 300 cube cast iron block version of it until it came out with the 340/350 small blocks. Like I said the alloy block was too expensive.