Thread: 33'' do you need to change your gearing

Originally Posted by lambrover

cheers, thanks. I will be trying to squeeze a few extra ponys out of the old girl, the original engine is stuffed the valves pushrods and cam are stuffed new engine coming still 3.5 but single 320economaster holley carb and 3.9 down pipes for the exhaust, I am thinking of putting in a torque cam while its out.any other things let us know.

Your pi55ing in the wind my friend there is no substitute for cubes dont play with the 3.5 either find a 4.6 or a 4.4 i wouldent even bother with a 3.9 (unless it was a suzi) trust me ya wont be happy with the 3.5 unless ya drive it on the redline my bro has a county 3.5 running 37's and the std LT95 gearing is ok but he has to flog tha pi55 out of it to keep up with my verry tired 4.4 pushing 33's with a LT95 with the .996 high range and both trucks run 3.54 diffs

thanks mate I'll start saving my coins.

Originally Posted by lokka

Your pi55ing in the wind my friend there is no substitute for cubes dont play with the 3.5 either find a 4.6 or a 4.4 i wouldent even bother with a 3.9 (unless it was a suzi) trust me ya wont be happy with the 3.5 unless ya drive it on the redline my bro has a county 3.5 running 37's and the std LT95 gearing is ok but he has to flog tha pi55 out of it to keep up with my verry tired 4.4 pushing 33's with a LT95 with the .996 high range and both trucks run 3.54 diffs

But the power of the Rover V8

To be honest, the best thing you could do is borrow a set of 33's and go for a drive and see if YOUR happy with it

Me? I can;t stand a 3.5 on 29" tyres, I think they're woeful, but thats me

If you were local, I;d organise a set for you to try

yep that would be the best thing to do but not many rovers up in darwin this is bloody try hard cruiser country. my car has the lt85 5 speed it seems like alot of the other earlly cars had lt95 is that right do you reaken that will make any difference

When you say the rover v8 doesn't have power what are you comparing it too?.They are ahead of cruiser 6's anything hilux's have and my 3.9 goes just fine side by side with my Tdi which goes better than my work troopy,3.0 rodeo or 3.0 hilux and the Prado does go better but it has shorter gearing with an extra cog to boot.LR's handling is 10 steps above as well. Pat

Originally Posted by PAT303

When you say the rover v8 doesn't have power what are you comparing it too?.They are ahead of cruiser 6's anything hilux's have and my 3.9 goes just fine side by side with my Tdi which goes better than my work troopy,3.0 rodeo or 3.0 hilux and the Prado does go better but it has shorter gearing with an extra cog to boot.LR's handling is 10 steps above as well. Pat

Yep well they may well be ok for some and in standard trim there preaty good tho big tyres suck the guts out of any engin and rover engins have allways been underpowered for what there pushing il aggree with the handling yep rovers will out drive most and do it in comfort too but ya need more grunt if ya want to turn bigger rubber im happy enough with the 4.4 in my rangie and ive just picked upa nice fresh one so should be even beta tho id love to shove in a 350 cube or there abouts engin would make the thing just that much beta

Originally Posted by lokka

Yep well they may well be ok for some and in standard trim there preaty good tho big tyres suck the guts out of any engin and rover engins have allways been underpowered for what there pushing il aggree with the handling yep rovers will out drive most and do it in comfort too but ya need more grunt if ya want to turn bigger rubber im happy enough with the 4.4 in my rangie and ive just picked upa nice fresh one so should be even beta tho id love to shove in a 350 cube or there abouts engin would make the thing just that much beta

4.4's are the lowest level I'd stoop to, its the MINIMUM capacity that ever should of been fitted and that 4" stroke, GREAT torque