Are you sure you want to sell your R500 for an old fashioned plus 8 ?? You may well miss the R500 a lot !
I did look fleetingly at the plus 8's at Allon White's but saw sense and went for a modern engined Mog with Tb's and lots of scope for upgrading , my caterham service agent has just put R400 cams in !
That's a very good point, the older Plus 8s are oozing with character, but they aren't exactly powerful by modern standards, the 3.5 Carb versions put out around 155bhp and the 4.0l versions did around 190bhp IIRC, and they had a pretty prodigious thirst too - sub 20mpg is easily attainable.
The modern Plus 4s on the other hand are extremely amenable to tuning, but they go bloody well without.
