Thread: Y62 patrol

From 1nado:

A naturally aspirated v8 petrol doesnt really have that much that can go wrong. A turbo, injectors or pump failure over time in a diesel would pretty much make the running costs a lot closer than what people claim and often forget about.



This.

The thing people seem to/like to forget. The actual running costs for an average of say 20,000k per year draw much closer when you are take into account service costs including the first time a turbo goes tits up.

The auto box in the RR would concern me. I would look seriously at the Patrol for a tow vehicle of very heavy loads. Sounds like a good thing. Having said that if I were towing grey nomad style day in day out I would go a diesel for running costs and just hope that the turbo(s) hold in.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Eevo

so ur saying the more power = larger rev range = can drop back a gear and get more torque by a better gear ratio?

Pretty much. Low down torque is essential only if you run out of gears to get the revs up into the power band, e.g. as you get in high range. In a D1 300TDi for example you have to sometimes engage low range to get moving up a slope and change to high range once you're rolling, because low down engine torque just isn't there. Once it's in boost land it's OK.

1nando, you need to look more
That Dyno run wasn’t at the wheels

You know what I was surprised about though, it’s towing and GVM....

It would be a struggle to take the family away in the Y62 and tow a 3.5t van...

Originally Posted by Tombie

1nando, you need to look more
That Dyno run wasn’t at the wheels

You know what I was surprised about though, it’s towing and GVM....

It would be a struggle to take the family away in the Y62 and tow a 3.5t van...

I can't take my family away now with my rangie due to gvm!

Simples! Smaller van, or smaller family

Originally Posted by Vern

I can't take my family away now with my rangie due to gvm!

Well don’t get a Y62 then!!!

Originally Posted by Tombie

Well don’t get a Y62 then!!!

A y62 has a proper 7000kg GCM. With a gvm of 3500. Thats a payload of 697kg. I dont see how thats a small tow capacity compared to its competiton.

Originally Posted by Tombie

1nando, you need to look more
That Dyno run wasn’t at the wheels

You know what I was surprised about though, it’s towing and GVM....

It would be a struggle to take the family away in the Y62 and tow a 3.5t van...

Hows this one;
MANTA Performance 3" Cat Back Exhaust System: Y62 V8 5.6L Nissan Patrol - YouTube

Standard run; 242 hp at wheels or 180kws at wheels with 366nm before exhaust and tune. Now thats the same power claimed by the disco at the engine. Id love to see a disco run and see how it compares.

Im sorry Tombie but i reckon that if i was to load both vehciles up with 3.5ton and drive them up a long incline that the patrol would leave the disco for dead. When they had the patrol head to head with the 200 the patrol increased speed up hills with ease where as the 200 only mainted speed on the steeper hills and could not increase seped.

Im not bagging the d4. I have no doubt its better offroad and probably a better all round car but the patrol is a hd tow tug with power to boot and probably more reliable. Each to their own but the reason i posted the video originally is because i hold the d4 in very high regard so to see the patrol power up a hill straight past it is impressive; to me at least.