Reply With QuoteI'm not 100% but I think the diesel was developed from the petrol engine. Series of all variants were all pretty basic, only the S3 started to approach any semblance of refinement.
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Hey folks,
So i finished my Disco 1 V8 project a while back (you may have noticed by my lack of posts recently!) - then i did up an old 1989 4Runner, rebuilt a nice new 22R and dropped it in, turned it into a very nice vehicle(bullbar, winch, built a roofrack, 38 weber, header, hiflow exhaust, new suspension etc). Took the disco across Australia and back once, then took the 4Runner across and down into Tassie and back.
I am now toying with the idea of doing up an old series land rover. My only practical experience with them is a series 2a LWB that i kept running on the farm that we plowed with! But it has a holden red engine in it.
I have a few queries about the series landys - Not sure about series 1, 2 or 3...
I read up a bit on the 2.25L petrol and they seem nice to me (strong/reliable - as they are based on a diesel design?), coming from my 22R 2.4L toyo background.
Are the series 1 landys super simple compared to series 2 or are they similar?
Are the series 3 much more refined or are they simliar?
Are any of the series landys good tourers (highway speeds) or are they more of just weekend vehicles?
In a perfect world i would get a 22R engine dropped into a short wheelbase landy! That would cost a fortune to have done right?
Series landrovers would be super noisy on the highway? I would stick sound absorption material on the doors and floor i think?
I know our landy used to put a lot of heat through the firewall - there was no insulation - is that normal?
I am down south in WA, if someone is located down here and wants to show off their series landy to someone...
Last edited by V8Ian; 26th July 2017 at 06:02 PM.
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I'm not 100% but I think the diesel was developed from the petrol engine. Series of all variants were all pretty basic, only the S3 started to approach any semblance of refinement.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Master
Righto.
I like the SWB versions, but i would need the space and rear seats of the LWB versions.
I would love to fix up the series 2a i have in the shed, but it's not registered and would cost a fortune to do all the odd jobs! Plus it has a holden red motor and i would want to make it original.
The short wheelbase landies don't have options for rear seats?
I presume the holden red conversion in a series 2a, involved using the original gearbox, just using an adapter of sorts? Was it a whole new bell housing or just some type of adapter plate?
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You'll probably get quicker and more accurate responses here.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-land-rovers/
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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Shorties can have side facing seats in the back that hold 2 bums each giving you a 7 seater.Originally Posted by Finnius
The holden conversion is usually an adapter plate.
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