Nice work!Quote:
Originally Posted by mick88
I notice that you keep your tools sorted about the same as I do! :D
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Nice work!Quote:
Originally Posted by mick88
I notice that you keep your tools sorted about the same as I do! :D
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Originally Posted by debruiser
Lionel, the inside of my shed is like the inside of my head!
Unnecessary stuff everywhere ;)
Cheers, Mick.
You should have no dramas getting that throught rego - VicRoads will just think its a standard Land Rover engine. :D. Come to think of it, most people that don't know land rovers will think it's original.
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Originally Posted by Homestar
Had the road worthy guys look at my 88" SWB with a 200tdi in it, they were like "Did these old things come with a turbo?" baaaahahahahahha... so could have got away with it if I was less honest.
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Originally Posted by debruiser
Hello Nick,
I am a turbo illiterate so bear with my asking some inane questions :angel:
Did the engine you get come with a turbo and if so was it a Land Rover brand or were turbos sourced from another supplier as a standard business practice at the time?
Were the two previous turbos that unfortunately failed Land Rover brands or were they some other manufacturer - if so whom? Is the soon to arrive turbo a different brand yet again?
Is there a particular oil pressure and flow rate that needs to be supplied to keep the turbo operating correctly? How would you go about measuring this?
I suppose I should invest in a book Turbos for Dummies :p.
Could a 300tdi be supercharged instead of turboed? This could be my semi-Luddite-ness.
According to KGB Answers - Accessed May 7, 2016 What came first the turbocharger or the supercharger Turbocharger was patented by Alfred Buchi in 1905. Supercharger combustion engine was patented in 1885.
According to Wikipedia :) Accessed May 7, 2016 from, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercharger .... The world's first series-produced cars[ with superchargers were Mercedes 6/25/40 hp and Mercedes 10/40/65 hp. Both models were introduced in 1921 and had Roots superchargers. They were distinguished as "Kompressor" models, the origin of the Mercedes-Benz badging which continues today.
Sorry for the travel back through history - it just that I associated vintage race cars with superchargers.
Room for the supercharger inside a Series III engine bay could pose lots of problems though. If it was easy more people would have done it.
:oops2: I had better return to reality and get back to my studies again :cool: PhD-Land where everything is wonderful :Rolling:
Kind Regards
Lionel
Hello Mick,
My apologies for posting on your thread about turbos and superchargers :oops2:
I thought I was Nick's thread about the Series III
Conveners calling Conveners Please move my earlier post to Nick's 1975 Series III SWB thread :angel: That is if if Nick doesn't mind!
My apologies Mick for the unintended hijacking ! Sorry about that :(
Kind Regards
Lionel
Bahahahaha! Sounds like me and my shed. Looking good Mick. Incidentally, which bell housing does the Starfire motor bolt too, 2.25ltr or 2.6ltr?. Ralph has a 2.7 Navara diesel via an adapter plate to the 2.6ltr bell housing, hoping to finid a 2.6ltr in the not too distant future.Quote:
Originally Posted by mick88
Cheers Ian
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Originally Posted by ezyrama
Nissan Cabstar gearbox (5 speed) that has a bell housing to accept a Holden straight six (Red, Blue or Black) but also accepts the Starfire Four.
Cheers, Mick.
Been on the back burner for a while whilst a few other more pressing jobs around the place took priority, however last weekend I fitted a new slave cylinder on the clutch. The vehicle had a heavy feel and did not feel smooth, especially when the pedal was about half way through it's travel. I wasn't happy with it and decided to do some research.
Original Land Rover clutch hydraulics are a 3/4" master cylinder and a 7/8" slave cylinder. The cabstar conversion used a 3/4 slave cylinder, basically the common standard with Nissan clutch hydraulics (1~1 ratio). I looked into either adapting a Land Rover (2A or 3) slave cylinder as both have a 7/8" bore. It would mean a loss of about 3mm in travel, but that was not problem, it was the reduction in hydraulic ratio that I wanted. I also considered boring out the Nissan slave to a 7/8" bore. Then some trawling on the net revealed that the Nissan powered Commodore of the mid 1980's used a 7/8" bore slave cylinder and in the pics I bought up it looked identical in appearance. A phone call to a local ex Nissan parts man (walking Nissan encyclopaedia) and he confirmed the slave cylinder for the Skyline of the same era (mid 80's) has a 22.22mm (7/8") bore. I ordered one through Bursons and two days later it was fitted, resulting in such a big difference to the feel of the clutch.
Cheers, Mick.
Great to see you're back onto this one Mick. :)
Looking forward to the first firing of the engine and to see how it drives. :)
I'll be up your way mid November - Thursday evening the 17th I think, if you're about, I'll pop in to check it out personally. :)