Right sleepy, since we have met the owner of this 101 and he lives locally I will offer to drive down for a fee and get to visit my daughter at the same time
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which is what we used to bring the defender up from Melbourne
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i have only just discovered 101's recently (never seen one in the flesh)
would love to dive one let alone have the opportunity to own one.
your a lucky man
have fun and congrats
Nah - two would be Ok - did Canberra to Melbourne and back in one day in April in my 101 - 1400km. And did Hungerford (north of Bourke) to Newcastle 1000km in one day last year.
Easy peasy - especially as the Green one has a 3.9 and and cruise at a higher speed. when you get tired have a snooze in the back.
Sleepy is now a 101 owner - I think he needs to toughen up .
Garry
REMLR 243
2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6
1977 FC 101
1976 Jaguar XJ12C
1973 Haflinger AP700
1971 Jaguar V12 E-Type Series 3 Roadster
1957 Series 1 88"
1957 Series 1 88" Station Wagon
In 2009, I did Coffs Harbour to Melbourne in 23 hours straight in a Series 3 Diesel at 80kmh! MY HEARING IS STILL RECOVERING!
I imagine this would be a little easier.
Thanks for the offer Mrs HH, I have a quote from the lead Mick_M gave me and I think I'll go with that.
Ok, would anyone like to hazard a guess as to what mileage I should expect out of a 3.9 in a 101? Driving gently of course.
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Thanks for the offer Mrs HH, I have a quote from the lead Mick_M gave me and I think I'll go with that.
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Nice toy! Sleepy if you dont mind what are they charging you to move it (and roughly how far is it? just thinking about other things I know need moving... )
cheers
digger
(REMLR 235/MVCA 9) 80" -'49.(RUST), -'50 & '52. (53-parts) 88" -57 s1, -'63 -s2a -GS x 2-"Horrie"-112-769, "Vet"-112-429(-Vietnam-PRE 1ATF '65) ('66, s2a-as UN CIVPOL), Hans '73- s3 109" '56 s1 x2 77- s3 van (gone)& '12- 110
I doubt the 3.9 will be all that different from a 3.5 is concerned but you should do it a little faster and hang on a bit better up hill.
Cruising at 90kph on petrol I will get 14mpg (about 21l/100km) but more realistically about 12mpg - the faster you go, exponentially the more fuel you will use - I regularly see 8-10mpg. I have seen 16 mpg but the gods have to be with you.
Aerodynamics and whether you have a headwind or tailwind come into the mpg equation. For the 3.5 the sweet spot seems to be about 85kph as far as fuel consumption goes so I would expect a couple more for the 3.9.
Have you got LPG?? If so reduce by about 25%.
A standard 12v 3.5 101 V8 is pulling 89kw in good nick and a fuel injected 3.9 is about 135kw so a carbied 3.9 with 101 exhaust manifolds (assumption here) is probably putting out say 110 - 120kw - still a lot more than the 3.5 (I assume similar increases in torque) so your onroad performance should be quite good even if top speed will not increase all that much - you should manage up to 130kph but the 101 rumble from the front driveshaft will make you want to keep speed down a bit.
Lots of good information here in the UK 101 club - they had lots of spares but you have to be a club member but you can use the basic functions of their forum without joining the club.
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Garry
REMLR 243
2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6
1977 FC 101
1976 Jaguar XJ12C
1973 Haflinger AP700
1971 Jaguar V12 E-Type Series 3 Roadster
1957 Series 1 88"
1957 Series 1 88" Station Wagon
Thanks Digger, about $900, 1700km, door-to-door
Cool, And here I was thinking 90kmh would be a good speed ...I can only imagine doing 140kmh in a 101. I did 130kmh* in the 90 once! Bit of a girly when it comes to driving fast in a Land Rover.
Thanks for the info garry . I was guessing about 20l/100km so wasnt too far out.
yes I have done an intro on the 101 club forum, will join in Aug....(get a full year that way !)
* I think that must have been in NT as you would never exceed 110kmh in Victoria.
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