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    Quote Originally Posted by Sitec View Post
    And we won't go into what the Ninety or 110 would have been like if they had optioned this as an engine choice! Pity there was an oil crisis! Doh!!


    I wonder how these would have lasted. The petrol version wears fairly hard in my opinion. I would think if the compression was 22:1 it probably would have needed to be recast in iron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dickyjoe View Post
    I wonder how these would have lasted. The petrol version wears fairly hard in my opinion. I would think if the compression was 22:1 it probably would have needed to be recast in iron.
    They were indeed block crackers.. The first engines were higher compression n/a's and didn't work. Then the block was upgraded with thicker webs (what later became the base for 3.9 and 4.2's I believe) and it was also turboed with what they called an 'interim' manafold which was suppose to help support the top of the Vee. They'd got the 3.5 V8 turbo diesel running well by all accounts, and then the 80's oil crisis arrived and it was shelved, never to resurface. Pity really. I'd have loved one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sitec View Post
    A very slow trip! Land Rover should have worked a lot closer with Santana... because a turbo intercooled version of this would have been a big hit and a stop gap.. It may have even lead to a Tdi6!

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IoH2WA7ilqw
    Yes indeed. I have always wanted one of those engines.

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