Thread: land rover/valiant hybrid

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Adaptors are/were available for Hemi to LR. Call Bill Winter, 07-3274-4373. He was the first person I know of to do one (S3 wagon) and that was about 30 years ago. He has done others since. He had two daily drivers in this configuration in use for a long time.f

do you have an email for him? or is he on here? tried calling the other day but didnt work...

keen to see if you can just bolt the landy box up with an adaptor plate or if it needs alot of mods....

cheers

Originally Posted by jakeslouw

What about the 250 Chevy with 3.54 diff centers?

I know several people who did this conversion with the Series diff ratio and all of them complained about top speed and revs, but I'm wondering that the 250cui / 4.1L should handle 3.54 ratios OK?

This engine is quite rare in Australia, the Valiant engines are much more common here.

Originally Posted by bee utey

This engine is quite rare in Australia, the Valiant engines are much more common here.

Sold here in Chev. and Bedford Trucks. Known in the trade as the Mexico Chev.

Not common but out there.

Both engines are compact, and light, being made using the thinwall iron casting techniques developed by US industry in the early sixties.

The Chrysler 265 is the pick of the two for LR purposes.

Originally Posted by andy3542

do you have an email for him? or is he on here? tried calling the other day but didnt work...

keen to see if you can just bolt the landy box up with an adaptor plate or if it needs alot of mods....

cheers

Bill is not a computer person. He is away a lot. Keep trying. Weekends are best.

Had a valliant slant six in Canada for 18 months, like the ones here, a lot of fun in the snow! soo much fun and gas was 30 cents then! With the dollar canada is also a place for parts? wish i had pictures

Originally Posted by boger

Had a valliant slant six in Canada for 18 months, like the ones here, a lot of fun in the snow! soo much fun and gas was 30 cents then! With the dollar canada is also a place for parts? wish i had pictures

Was the engine 170ci?

gearbox died this morning... land rover gearbox is on the cards now im pretty sure.
cheers

You should shorten up that No. 2 HT lead. The long runs of HT lead to Nos. 1 & 2 are often the cause of a miss under load.