Thread: 3.9 to 5.0 litre

Originally Posted by PAT303

In all seriousness rovercare I'd recon alot of people would be very interested in whats involved the costs and availibility of the componants. Pat

Originally Posted by RoverP6B

Hello Rovercare,

Yes indeed, time to put your money on the table.

As PAT303 said,..a lot of people would be interested to see the figures, and afterall what is there to hide?

Ron.

For me to supply and fit an engineerable LS1 and a custom adaptor utelising a 4L60E you'll need upwards of 10k, $40/hr labour rates and parts at cost +10%, warranty will cover all work involved, not engine and transmission, the price varies vastly depending on what you'd like to utelise in the conversion

Sorry, couldn’t help myself! But, this is getting so far out of hand you guy’s should start a political party! Anything will fit and work if you’re prepared to put in the engineering work, A land rover is just another rolling shell. personally,I'll be putting an old modified, turbo 6 cylinder Perkins in my next project. I’ll work it out myself.

Hello Rovercare,

Do you have fuel consumption figures too for city and country running once installed within a Land / Range Rover please?

Ron.

Pat303 as Ive built many 308/304 5 litre strokers from 350 to 550HP Ill spec up and cost say a nice mild (400HP/400ft/lbs/4000rpm engine)
First get a VN to VT Block and heads , easily obtained for around $500
355 STROKER hIT ,Made up of NEW CRANK,Rods,Pistons (Flat top 383 chev Hypereutectics Final comp 11:1),Rings ,Bearings,Gaskets , In SCAT,EAGLE,COME ,depending on your savvy $1500 to $2000.
Machining " Bore , DEck plate Hone . Line bore Mains, ARP 2000 mainstuds .Deck block to Zero , fit cam bearings , deck heads to 52 CC Chambers $1200 .
CAm , Solid 222 /220 Backsplit 108 LCS in at 6 degrees advanced .500 Lift . $230 for Cam !!. Pocket port , and Newen valve angle job , Port work $1000, Stainless (std 1.94 inlets) valves .Crower/Iskederian springs locks and lash caps , Solid lifters , Romac Timing gear and grade 3 iwis chain $500 A nice set of YT Platinum roller rockers $1000 . All up , for a No compromise motor , that will easuly do 500HP (with a bigger cam) thats $6000 . Then depending on whether you want to Run EFI or Straight LPG (Dual fuel is a Joke and is not worth the effort) Say anothe $!000 for inlet manifold/throttle body setup . The Bunch of Bananas on a standard EFI 5litre is a Disaster By the time you get the adapter plates/mounts/various changes to Radiators and a Exhaust system , you wont get much change out of $10.000 fitted .
So for $10.000 you cab equal a $200,000 Rangie .with 500HP and do it Naturally asoirated instead of Supercharged . The 355 stroker will eat the Rangie motor even with the Supercharger !!! PS for a extra $1000 id definately use the 383 or even the 396 crank , true torque monsters . ! (Easy 500HP/500Ft/lb/5000 RPM . )
Now when upgrading one of the Rover based engines , please ensure you do actually replace everything with new , and by the way that had better include at least a set of Wildcat heads and welded in Liners !!!
And for those Power nuts , fit a set of Dash=9 alloys (Now thats 50 KG off , jeez only weighs 40KG more than the Rover POS)fully ported with 2.080 inlets and Viola 600HP , dont forget the COME 4 Bolt double register mains

Originally Posted by RoverP6B

Hello Rovercare,

Do you have fuel consumption figures too for city and country running once installed within a Land / Range Rover please?

Ron.

Varies vehicle to vehicle, everything I've played with usually runs 35" tyres, you'd be quite reserved in expecting 15-16L/100 on average, although I've never personally run one long enough myself as I'm to retarded to have anything that's somewhat quicker than my 4BD1T

My jag with 300RWHP, cammed mafless tuned LS1 can easily achieve 12's on a combination of town/country driven by people other than me.....it gets 22L/100 when I used to drive it

Originally Posted by rovercare

My jag with 300RWHP, cammed mafless tuned LS1 can easily achieve 12's on a combination of town/country driven by people other than me.....it gets 22L/100 when I used to drive it

People that get 12l/100km with an LS1 should be forced to drive Camrys.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

People that get 12l/100km with an LS1 should be forced to drive Camrys.

My old mans VU SS was 11.8L/100 for the life of the vehicle over 100,00kms, he is old and that was my old lady's daily

VW golf is around 6L/100kms

I haven't driven the jag since it was borrowed by za pleece man......like I said, far to retarded I am

Few people asking to buy it, I think it will be sold if anyone coughs the cash

HAHAHAHA...

This is a Laugh....

Talking about POWERFULL Stroker engines... Superchargers....

And Fuel Consumption???

HAhahahha...

Thanks guys, u make my night...

As stated, any amount of POWER, Torque can be MADE with the right $$$$$..

I come from a Drag racing Bunch and its a BIT like this...


FAST

RELIABLE

CHEAP

You can ONLY have 2.......

Cause if its Fast and Cheap....... Won't be reliable

If its Cheap and Reliable ......Won't be Fast

And if its Fast and Reliable.... Won't be cheap







I'm building a Series 3 Stage 1 into a little Rat Rod for fun, Sunday Drives and a tow vehicle at the Drags for my Race Car...

I had all these IDEAS, being the Way I am.... before I actually picked it up...

Stroker Engines, Twin Turbo Rover, a Chysler 360, with 500hp....

After I actually got it, and DROVE the ****ing thing HOME....

I think the 390 Holley, Pacemakers, and Twin Exhaust will do for a while....

Was a handfull just keeping it straight at 90kms, let alone putting in 500hp???

Not sure if you guys have seriouslly Drove 500hp, but that would equate to a HIGH 10 second pass at 120-130mph in a HEAVY 3300-3500lb car??

After inspecting all the Driveshafts, Gearbox, Transfers etc... i would hate to be keeping up with the BREAKAGE costs, and Upkeep of such a BEAST, unless some Serious MONEY was spent to do it Properly the 1st time....

Anyway, enough from me,,,,,

But like stated previously,

HEMIS are the ****, Fords come in a CLOSE 2nd....

And as for HOLDENS........................................... ........ my MUM told me if I didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all......

For anyone thinking im SERIOUS, lighten up....

Im just adding a bit of FUEL to YOUR FIRE........

Chad