Potential new P38a owner

The Sports is a poor mans Range Rover on a Disco 3 chassis, not the real deal like the vogue. The Sports is also not as off road capable like the vogue or the disco for that matter.

With LPG, I've been advised by numerous Land Rover mechanics to avoid the older LPG systems altogether and to go with the injection type as a minimum.
Reason being, the cylinder heads will not tolerate the higher operating temperature for the long term, with warping and cracking being the end result. Don't quote me on this as I've never had or intend to get it, just what has been explained.

The Bosch motor is definetaly a better engine and to drive, but can be slightly more complex to fix due to the extra electronics involved I. e O2 sensors.

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Originally Posted by redandy3575

The Sports is a poor mans Range Rover on a Disco 3 chassis, not the real deal like the vogue. The Sports is also not as off road capable like the vogue or the disco for that matter.

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You have obviously not seen a sport being driven well off road. I thought the same as you until I was on an AULRO trip to Harvey last year. The guy who runs a company called The Green Oval Experience, Gordon, was there in his Red sport and he sailed over every obstacle where most had trouble. I was blown away with the way it performed

See WA trip reports for pics of him in action
Here`s his facebook page......https://www.facebook.com/GreenOvalExperience

Someone will prove me wrong, but ive only ever heard of one valve being burnt out possibly due to lpg. And that was on a leaded head that didn't have the reccesed valve seats and bigger valves for ulp. That motor had over a million km onwhen it happened though. When it died it had had 1.4 million on it and ran on lpg for 28 years.
Within our family weve had 3.3million km on the lr v8s on the older style lpg systems, with no head issues other than the burnt valve.

I can't see how injected lpg would run cooler, its still 110 octane.

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Originally Posted by wayneg

You have obviously not seen a sport being driven well off road. I thought the same as you until I was on an AULRO trip to Harvey last year. The guy who runs a company called The Green Oval Experience, Gordon, was there in his Red sport and he sailed over every obstacle where most had trouble. I was blown away with the way it performed

See WA trip reports for pics of him in action
Here`s his facebook page......https://www.facebook.com/GreenOvalExperience

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I'd say the driver had a lot to do with it. He's obviously has skills that the others didn't, which can make all the difference. I'm sure the sport would be fine, though you'd have to get rid of the ultra low profile rims and settle for a higher profile ( if it'll fit ). What I'm saying is the Vogue is still the original Range Rover with the split tailgate and taller traveling suspension. But you pay for it!!