4.6 with Wolf Conversion :twisted:

[Jezzaol]

HI All,

As a lot of the WA Aulroians know if fitting out my 96 v8 Ser 1 Disco with a 4.6 and Wolf engine managment (full 4.6 timing cover and coil Packs!) So I thought I would keep a bit of a Photo Diary with pics on here as we Go.
Special Thanks have to go out to Luke and Taff for there help with this project !
We have been building up the bottom end of the 4.6 for the last 3-4 weeks and last week the Disco came off the road to have the mods completed.

Below are the pics of the Engine coming out and the heads coming off, I have since had the heads checked and they are 29cc (so its just a clean up for them !:D
I have also started striping out the engine bay as I am re-wiring everything while the donk is out ! puting in a independant battery system, shower/heat transfer system the wolf loom, coil packs, ignitors and new fuse box coving all the on board accessories inc fridge, solar system stereo, DVD system etc etc. I also want to finally get the front H/Duty Axels in(thanks JBELL) Pull out my Scorpion racing cones and coils and convert it to full air with cab control and fit sill water and fuel tanks. (just for a start :twisted:)

For people that are not aware of the existing mods here is the list all-ready done :
Ser 1 Disco V8i, Scorpion Racing Winch Bumper Bar, 10,000lb Haudraulic Winch rolled with 50m of Plasma, Tough Dog Suspension Kit, Scorpion Racing Evolution Kit, Sumo Front arm with steering dampner re-location Kit, RTC Steering dampner, Tough Dog Adjustable Panard Rod, Dual batteries, 80W Solar Pannel, Twin Blue Tounge Pumps, 50lt Waeco Fridge, HID Headlight Kit, Light Rail with Lightforce HID Driving Lights, Snorkel, UHF, DVD Player, Rear Detroit Locker, Front Detroit Trutrack Locker, 4.11 final drive C&P set, Diff Guards Bash Plate ,40mm Body lift, 100mm Scorpion Racing flares (guards cut), Rock Crawler Rims, Staun Beadlocks, 35" Maxis Creepy Crawler's, Custom rear Bar rock sliders, Chassis slider/trailing arm bush support and checerplate side protectors, H/Duty rear Axels.

Will being getting stuck into it this week so hopfully by next weekend we might have some more pics for you.

Cheers

[SPROVER]

Great looking Disco.I will be watching this with alot of interest.Wouldnt mind doing a 4.6 conversion if i could.The extra power and torque is the way to go:D Cant wait to see it all finished.

[Lucus]

*cough* engines almost completed....*cough cough* wirings just about done too.....



wheres the Pics Jezza?

(oh and we are DEFINATLY doing my headlight adjustment tommorow night.....:D)

[tempestv8]

What is the advantage of going with a Wolf computer? Is it better tuneability?

Also, what gearbox are you mating to the engine? Stock ZF auto gearbox, or will it be strengthened?

Sounds like an awesome project. :)

[stuart]

Gezz Jezz all out! Looking good...

Stu



HI All,

As a lot of the WA Aulroians know if fitting out my 96 v8 Ser 1 Disco with a 4.6 and Wolf engine managment (full 4.6 timing cover and coil Packs!) So I thought I would keep a bit of a Photo Diary with pics on here as we Go.
Special Thanks have to go out to Luke and Taff for there help with this project !
We have been building up the bottom end of the 4.6 for the last 3-4 weeks and last week the Disco came off the road to have the mods completed.

Below are the pics of the Engine coming out and the heads coming off, I have since had the heads checked and they are 29cc (so its just a clean up for them !:D
I have also started striping out the engine bay as I am re-wiring everything while the donk is out ! puting in a independant battery system, shower/heat transfer system the wolf loom, coil packs, ignitors and new fuse box coving all the on board accessories inc fridge, solar system stereo, DVD system etc etc. I also want to finally get the front H/Duty Axels in(thanks JBELL) Pull out my Scorpion racing cones and coils and convert it to full air with cab control and fit sill water and fuel tanks. (just for a start :twisted:)

For people that are not aware of the existing mods here is the list all-ready done :
Ser 1 Disco V8i, Scorpion Racing Winch Bumper Bar, 10,000lb Haudraulic Winch rolled with 50m of Plasma, Tough Dog Suspension Kit, Scorpion Racing Evolution Kit, Sumo Front arm with steering dampner re-location Kit, RTC Steering dampner, Tough Dog Adjustable Panard Rod, Dual batteries, 80W Solar Pannel, Twin Blue Tounge Pumps, 50lt Waeco Fridge, HID Headlight Kit, Light Rail with Lightforce HID Driving Lights, Snorkel, UHF, DVD Player, Rear Detroit Locker, Front Detroit Trutrack Locker, 4.11 final drive C&P set, Diff Guards Bash Plate ,40mm Body lift, 100mm Scorpion Racing flares (guards cut), Rock Crawler Rims, Staun Beadlocks, 35" Maxis Creepy Crawler's, Custom rear Bar rock sliders, Chassis slider/trailing arm bush support and checerplate side protectors, H/Duty rear Axels.

Will being getting stuck into it this week so hopfully by next weekend we might have some more pics for you.

Cheers

[Jezzaol]

What is the advantage of going with a Wolf computer? Is it better tuneability?

Also, what gearbox are you mating to the engine? Stock ZF auto gearbox, or will it be strengthened?

Sounds like an awesome project. :)

Hi MAte,
Yes the main reason for wolt id tunability, dash control to know whats going on and getting rid of the fairly basic and problematic land rove ECU, Air flow etc etc

Im using the original ZF box 4.6 just bolts in place nothing else Changed to the drive line !

cheers

P.S ..... Posting an update and pics now !

[Jezzaol]

ok, Engine is complete and back (awsome work from Luke and Taff.............Thanks Guys !) its all bolted back up and all compeentry fitted up.
*We have mounted the wolf computer in the New dash pod along with the hand control mounted to the face of the pod with the air suspenson gauges and sub tank fuel gauge.
*Made new bypass pipe for the spot where the MAF went before.
*Mounted the coil packs and heat transfer for shower on firewall.
*Mounted the igniters next to the start battery.
* Adapted and fitted a trigger wheel to the crank.
*Made a braket to mount the crank sensor
*We are now Re-wireing a complete new loom for everything including the New Bosch Injectors, Ignitors, Coil packs, crank sensor and all the other Wolf ECU Components.

Getting close now.

Water pump pully still needs a spacer to space out 20mm inline with other pully's !, Due to using 4.6 timing cover.

Here's a few pic's.

[Siska]

Looking awesome.

[Taz]

Fantastic pics but the color balance on your camera is awful !

Just wondering where you sourced the back shell connectors for the injectors on the new loom?

[Lucus]

Alanco - Alanco Home (http://www.alanco.com.au/view/pg?command=cman_view_webpage&webpage_id=263&pkey=alanco&inp_item_id=CMP-BRP1)


:D

[mike 90 RR]

Jezzol
Is it alright to see it up close & personal in Midland? :)

Mike

[Jezzaol]

Yeah Mike call on in and take a look see !
Ohhh and the camera colour !!..... It just the camera on my mobile...not very good !!.......but always handy ;)

[blitz]

Jezz did you turn it back to a dizzy or has it got the coils still? I am seriously looking at putting a 4.6 in my old girl but I'm not to keen on converting it to a dizzy

Blythe

[Jezzaol]

I Picked up a 4.6 block with the 4.6 timing cover and Alloy sump :D:D I wanted to get away from Dizzy and run coil packs with the wolf ! But you can put the 4.6 in with the 3.9 timing cover and still run the normal landrover injection system or leave the Dizzy there for an oil pump and convert to coil packs !!... I opeted to run completly as an aftermarket injection system getting away from the Dizzy alltogeather ! (but it helped That I got hold of all the parts I needed with the block!)

Cheers

[Jezzaol]

G'day Everybody,

I have finally got the Disco almost back on the road (had 3 weeks holiday;))
just replaced a couple of oil Hose's, New Kick down cable and serviced the ZF last night and added some wiz-bang lube guard Additive (keep trannie cooler).
thanks to luke we have done an initial dyno run up and getting close to having it running right !, Had a little problem getting the extractors a bit hot!! :twisted: but all in all we have finished the job !!

Plan now is to fine tune the V3 Wolf and sort out any bugs as we go ! once we have a few thousand Km's on it we will get her Dyno-d again and see what sort of specs we get.
Here is a few pics of the Engine bay now and the Dash pod with wolf hand controller and gauges fitted.

Cheers

[Siska]

That's looking awesome!! I will have to have a bit of a chat with you at Mudgutsglory. Would love to do something similar.

[matbor]

mmm.... looks nice, where is the video, love too hear that exhaust on the 4.6 !!

[jezz]

That is bloody awesome mate , i wonder how much horses your talking now!

[DirtyDawg]

Great thread ...do you guys sell anything at OL midland or spend most of the time enjoying yourselves working on your cars (jealous smiley need now)..I need a new Hi lift jack I will pop in for one, help fund your next project.;)

[long stroke]

Great work Jezza:thumbsup:
I love your winch bumper and flares...all we need now is a vid of that 4.6 in action:twisted:

CHEERS TIM.

[Jezzaol]

Great work Jezza:thumbsup:
I love your winch bumper and flares...all we need now is a vid of that 4.6 in action:twisted:

CHEERS TIM.

Hi Guys,

Vid : YouTube - Mud Guts and Glory Disco (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-r17wSivDks)

Sorry I have not checked this thread for a while, Been too busy at work and fixing up other stuff on the Disco !

Just a quick report : had her all tuned up and shining for MUD GUTS and then just hammered her all weekend !, We did well, we were 47th in the Grid and had some HUGE 40" tyre holes to contend with at the back of the field, I managed to make a start at every stage and came 15th with my baby 35's and NO BREAKAGES ! After the event I found I had a gearbox problem :mad: found out I caused it by not running a Kick down cable :mad::mad::mad: (run out of time !) so pulled out the Auto swapped it over only to get her back rolling and then blew a HEAD GASKET :confused::twisted::o:mad:: It turns out that when I had the trigger wheel set up 1 tooth out in the set up and test run / dyno her I got her hotter than I should have ! :twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted: Off comes the head (after a month in the corner while I had the ****s :eek::eek:) Finaly today I have her running again with most of the problems fixed !! I am fixing the brakes and everything else that seems to be stuffed from the deep slurry of SALTY MUD from MUD GUTS !:twisted::twisted:that got into everything possible and stuffed it :(



Great thread ...do you guys sell anything at OL midland or spend most of the time enjoying yourselves working on your cars (jealous smiley need now)..I need a new Hi lift jack I will pop in for one, help fund your next project.;)

Cheers Mate, Mainly just long NIGHTS ;) make sure u say G'Day when you pop in !Have to Give you a AULRO discount !


That is bloody awesome mate , i wonder how much horses your talking now!
He Jez, Hows things, Been a while ?? call in for a chat some time !
Before Mud Guts on the DYNO she Pulled 148KW and 366nm, there is about 10deg timing more there when I re-design the crank angle sensor !, once I get her happily rolling again Mat from united is going too run her up and set up a separate ECONOMY & POWER map in the wolf, so I have a more fuel effective option when traveling !

Cheers
Jeremy

[SPROVER]

The beast looks like it was going great.They were some decent size holes you had to go through:eek: Sounded bloody good to.:D

[stuee]

So have you got the air suspension going on this thing yet? what springs are you using? Its a mint disco you've got :twisted:

[Jezzaol]

So have you got the air suspension going on this thing yet? what springs are you using? Its a mint disco you've got :twisted:

g'day, have all the gear ready to go ! just spent all my time fixing everything else :mad: i am using 2" raised 80ser landcruiser Air Bag Man bags bolting up to the original coil spring housing, and put a single shock on the outside of aftermarket quad shock turrets!

[Jezzaol]

Spent this afternoon fixing the front brake caliper and tiding her up, gave her a polish fixed a few odds and ends and went out on the highway for a 45mins to make sure all was in order !

So far so good !:D no oil leaks and everything seemed to behave itself ! Temp was good and no PRESSURE in the cooling system !!!:D:D:D

And it still sounds good !:twisted: