Thread: A Comprehensive Guide

Just thought I would mention....

*The change over of an engine in a Discovery 3, be that another Land Rover engine or the Ford Territory engine is by far no walk in the park.
*Changing out engines in say a Discovery 2 is by far an easier task.
*You will require good to better mechanical skill.
*Not removing the Discovery 3 body makes it a lot harder.
*I get plenty of jobs from other repairers that simply dont want to tackle this job.
*You have been for warned, dont read too much into comments about how easy it is.

*I'm not saying all of the above to deter anyone from giving it a go and am more than happy to give out useful info when I can.

*Full credit does go to the original poster, winaje for starting this thread

Originally Posted by Grays69

Personally if i was going to attempt a different engine all together i would go with a 350 chevy or even a v8 from a commodore.

If you were going to go to all the trouble of going to a petrol engine, why would you go to crappy chev or dunnydore engines when supercharged and non supercharged 5 litre V8s from LR are available. Even on the diesel front - contrary to public opinion the V8 diesels will fit in a D3.

But even putting in a 3.0 in place of a 2.7 would be just too hard and expensive to be worth while particularly as far as ECUs, CANBUS communications and wiring is concerned.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

If you were going to go to all the trouble of going to a petrol engine, why would you go to crappy chev or dunnydore engines when supercharged and non supercharged 5 litre V8s from LR are available. Even on the diesel front - contrary to public opinion the V8 diesels will fit in a D3.

But even putting in a 3.0 in place of a 2.7 would be just too hard and expensive to be worth while particularly as far as ECUs, CANBUS communications and wiring is concerned.

Garry

yeah i agree 100% that a different engine other than what i mentioned would be better. I just mentioned a couple of easy engines without any thought or care to be honest. I myself would not change to any different engine other than what was in it. I at the moment are in the middle of swapping a territory tdv6 into my land rover discovery 3 and i admit it is a horrendous task at hand. It has taken all of mechanical knowelge and some.

So im at the point of connecting the fuel system. Stupid i didnt take great notice or pictures on how the fuel system works. The fuel cooler has me stumped and dont want to put coolant into the fuel pump. Does anyone know which lines go where or can point me in the right direction

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

Just thought I would mention....

*The change over of an engine in a Discovery 3, be that another Land Rover engine or the Ford Territory engine is by far no walk in the park.
*Changing out engines in say a Discovery 2 is by far an easier task.
*You will require good to better mechanical skill.
*Not removing the Discovery 3 body makes it a lot harder.
*I get plenty of jobs from other repairers that simply dont want to tackle this job.
*You have been for warned, dont read too much into comments about how easy it is.

*I'm not saying all of the above to deter anyone from giving it a go and am more than happy to give out useful info when I can.

*Full credit does go to the original poster, winaje for starting this thread

I have successfully completed a territory tdv6 swap into our land rover discovery 3 2007 hse. It's like you said no walk in the park I did it with body on and probably never do it again. I haven't tried body off but would almost certainly believe there would be 30 hours knocked off the time to do the job.

A question that gets asked a lot...

*If your Discovery 3 2.7 TDV6 is EURO 4 compliant (so that 2007 model onwards) when fitting a Ford Territory engine you keep the high pressure fuel system that came with the Ford Territory engine. So thats the High pressure pump, fuel rails, fuel injectors.

*Can I use the complete high pressure fuel system from my old Land Rover engine? Yes you can, but do not mix and match parts of the high pressure fuel system from one engine to the other. Its all or nothing.

Quick question - territory engine into a 05 D3. From what I've gathered the HPFP and injectors would need to be swapped over (and any fuel lines etc...), along with all the other stuff that would normally need to be changed over on the EUR4 engines. I haven't read anything about the turbo - is there any issues with that. Anything else I may have overlooked?