As I understood it, the common aspect I think were bore/stroke with the 200/300tdi and the head bolting method from the L series, but thats about it.
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As I understood it, the common aspect I think were bore/stroke with the 200/300tdi and the head bolting method from the L series, but thats about it.
almost, a 2ltr 4 2.5ltr 5 and a 3lter 6 cylinder using basically the same components, smart really with only the major parts being different, crank, cam, Head and manifolds.
As already posted originally the injectors were to be cam operated with an electronically ( Lucas) controlled fuel pump. Quite smart really, still a mechanically controlled common rail injection system with a fuel pump more inline with what we see ( or NZ sees) with the Jap 300 TDI. Then along came BMW, junks all that and replaces it with common rail, hence why the injector harness is run inside the rocker cover and the internal placement of the injectors.
But it's not common rail, as BMW/Bosch use, (a simplified system) it's a unit injector setup.
I believe the story went they (Rover) borrowed or pinched people from either Detroit Diesel (the DD60 Series was the first electronically controlled unit injector setup in the late eighties) or CAT for the unit injector setup.
Thank you all for your input. I'm glad to hear that it really is a Land Rover engine after all these years of doubt!
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I think the unit injectors allow much much higher injectin pressures (around 23,000-27,000psi on the TD5???) and those little units are probably also largely responsible for the increased power outputs from diesel engines, especially in comparison to common rail etc.
I think the TD5 was the first non truck (or heavy) motor to use this technology. Mind you peizo may be the go these days.
We may be talking the same but with different words.
Each injector would have been activated by a lobe on the cam and not as it is now by an electrical pulse.
The high pressure fuel pump would have been electrically controlled as to pressure in the common rail or fuel line to all the injectors. The only controlling required would have been overall pressure as the pulse dwell time was fixed by the cam
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The TD5 fuel pump supplies high pressure fuel to the injectors. The extremely high injection pressures are generated inside the actual injector by the inbuilt pressure pump (cam activated). The injector is opened / operated by electronic injector pulse (ECU generated).
Along the same lines but nothing to do with the TD5.
Did you know that Rover were prototyping a 5 cylinder petrol engine way back in the 1960's?
The intent was to repower the P6 car (TC2000 4 cylinder) with 2.5 litre 5 cylinder. The engine under development was similar to the Land Rover 2.283 and Rover 80 car engine but with an added cylinder. There was also a 6 cyl variant under development.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...009/12/475.jpg
however the option to use the ex-Buick 3.5 litre V8 came along (thanks to Land Rover of North America) and the rest is history.
see: The Rover 5 Cylinder story