Thread: SWB 2A with a difference

Originally Posted by debruiser

Nice work!

I notice that you keep your tools sorted about the same as I do!

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. . Come to think of it, most people that don't know land rovers will think it's original.

Originally Posted by Homestar

You should have no dramas getting that throught rego - VicRoads will just think its a standard Land Rover engine. . Come to think of it, most people that don't know land rovers will think it's original.

Agreed.

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.

Originally Posted by debruiser

Agreed.

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.

Hello Nick,

I am a turbo illiterate so bear with my asking some inane questions

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 .

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.

I had better return to reality and get back to my studies again PhD-Land where everything is wonderful

Kind Regards
Lionel

Hello Mick,

My apologies for posting on your thread about turbos and superchargers

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 That is if if Nick doesn't mind!

My apologies Mick for the unintended hijacking ! Sorry about that

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by mick88

Lionel, the inside of my shed is like the inside of my head!
Unnecessary stuff everywhere

Cheers, Mick.

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.
Cheers Ian

Originally Posted by ezyrama

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.
Cheers Ian

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.