Thread: What engines these days?

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Nothing wrong with a properly prepared Holden. They mostly separate into componentry because someone installed a well used engine without a rebuild and appropriate modifications to suit it for a different application. Far superior engine to those used by LR.

When you say a "properly prepared" what are you referring to? Do you just mean rebuilt properly or is there some different/special thing needed to "landrover-ise" a 186?

Originally Posted by rovercare

Sorry, the question was more why? I know what a starfire is, I'd say you may have a little more trouble finding one, as most have been junked, keep in mind aside from Toranas/sunbirds and commodores, they can be found in some Toyota Coronas

There are very few cars of any make of this age still on the road. Most have vanished into the blast furnaces of the Orient to be reborn. Low trade-in values of old and small cars resulted in the de-registration and scrapping of many. The high scrap prices of a few years ago resulted in a virtual cleanout of many wrecking yards and farmers junk piles.

Unpopular and despised as they were, the Starfire in the Toyota installation outlasted most of the Toyota engines used in that model.