Originally Posted by
Andrew D
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Personally not into re-engineering a motor with top hats etc. Just doesn't sit right that that's what the consumer has to do to make the product usable/reliable.
You could say that about many vehicles, and a lot of those vehicles are much more modern, and their manufacturers should know much better than the solutions they've offered to their customers
as an example. the 79 Series Landcrusiers rear axle width(and hence rear wheel track) issue.
Rear axle a couple of inches narrower than the front axle.
Over the years other manufacturers have also had this design in their vehicles too, but on a 4WD where wheel tracking is a bit more important ... not a good idea.
So much so, that some companies have gone to great lengths to provide owners with vastly more expensive solutions to the issue.
A ton of info on the issue from ... well just about anywhere.
Then there's the potential issue of the Mazda/Ford ute where it's possible that if you stop for a brief time on tall dry grass, that the DPF system could ignite the grass and you find yourself in a much more life threatening situation than an overheated motor does.
As already noted by others, we understand your issue with LR and the V8, it's been very well noted.
There are many here that drive their V8s and have no issues and they have been very reliable, so it's not as widespread an issue as you've made it out to be.
That is, not every single V8 has had the issue.
Yours did, someone else's has, mine has too .. some of us get over it far more easily than others.
It's just a motor, and you either put up with it's issue, or move on.
But to be sure .. not every single RV8 of this era is affected.
Counter that with the 79Series rear track issue, where every single vehicle is affected.
You say you're not into re-engineering your motor with top hats and suchlike, and yet you've probably done mods to your std recreational vehicle(whatever you replaced your D2 with) in some other manner or possibly bought one already modded .. maybe a bullbar, maybe suspension, maybe lighting or dual battery kit.
And this is different how?
A mod is a mod, some could be more 'perilous' than others, for example, adding a bullbar could be more perilous to a pedestrian in an incident, or just adds more weight to the std vehicle and could affect it's safety or performance by a percentage point or two in a marginal situation .. etc.
Yet a simple mod like a top hat build of a motor offers zero potential risk to personal life to anyone, probably makes the motor more reliable compared to the possibility of having lucked out and got another iffy V8 block .. and really not for a overly large outlay!
Your comments are akin to implying that the RV8 is the only motor in history to have had some issue in quality and that no other manufacturer ever has .. or something.
Or that no other motor has ever required a rebuild and or modification to make it operate well or reliably .. ever!
On a more personal level, I have all the time in the world for the RV8, just about any model from any era.
I've had about 20 over the years, up until my 2000 D2 model, they've all been early incarnations, 1 RRC, and half a zillion Rover cars over the years.
Only 1 had ever totally killed itself on me, and I was never overly kind to them. I've overheated many of those cars, not always deliberately, but in a couple of instances the issue started and I just kept going along .. damn the consequences.
One of them, was my 1980 SD1 my first injected RV8. Had to drive 30 mins, and about 25 klms with zero water through the cooling system, when a core plug holed itself. no water other than a few drops remained.
Like I said. .. little care if the motor died, I just needed to get home at 2AM.
Car got home, the last 500m of the drive was interesting, and even more interesting was that once parked up, it ran-on it's own fumes for about 2mins or more.
The temp gauge was hard up against the RHS of the arc, where max temp range was marked at 130°C.
For all intents and purposes, this motor should have gone to god that moment.
I changed the welsh plug that same night, filled with water .. no coolant! started it up and ran fine(once it all cooled a little).
This car was a pure banger, RWC, but in ugly condition .. cost me less than 1K back then to get it on the road with a RWC.
Ran it for about a year after that without issue .. still no coolant straight water in the cooling system .. why waste money on a potential grenade! 
No worries. A year later, it was traded for a '90 model Statesman VQ maybe, as this SD1 was my worst cond vehicle, and the dealers offered min 2K trade in .. it made sense to knock a couple of grand off the price of the Statey.
The only reason I got rid of it then ... still ran fine to that very day
Arthur.
All these discos are giving me a heart attack!
'99 D1 300Tdi Auto ( now sold :( )
'03 D2 Td5 Auto
'03 D2a Td5 Auto
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