Thread: engine swaps

g'day blitz, i think you just answered your own question, the fact that youve already clocked up 230,000 k's and had the tranny rebuilt (probably to standard specs')putting in a more powerful motor mite just be putting too much strain on the rest of the driveline, and unless it is a straight change over( no adaptors and modifications)can sometimes be more trouble than its worth!!I mean i would love to shoehorn a 351 cleveland into my series 2a and have seen it done ,but toooooo much stuffarsin about with all the mods as you go from bumper to bumper , but thats just my 2 cents worth :wink:

Fern

I know what you mean I put a Holden HR L2 186 motor into my SWB 2A years ago, broke axles like they were going out of fashion, so I grafted in a set front and rear salsbury diffs from a SIII. Not a job to be taken lightly as everything is different. Then used to break gearboxes, but I did learn alot about the word finese, and the use of my right foot.

All the drive line bits on the disco have been rebuilt as unfortunately the car looked better physically than she was under the skin (read ripped off)

I may have to go cap in hand to mr land Rover and ask if they used heavier duty diffs etc with the bigger engines

Cheers

Blythe

Blitz, gday. Depends on what you want the car to do. If it's a daily driver, keep it close to standard. 3.9 or 4.6 will be OK.

What a bit more from 3.9? Matchport the heads, find some high comp pistons (9.35:1), chip the ECU, headers and bigbore exhaust, etc.....

Check out the RPI Engineering and Rimmer Bros websites. Have fun!

Pierre.

hi i am real sorry to sound like a preacher but when a vehicle like a land rover or any other 4wheel drive has done a lot of klm on the dial it is not a good buy if you want to do hard four wheel driveing.
4x4 are no diferent to holden or fords they breakdown more often when they are old or young and have done a lot of klm. I run a 40 + vehicle fleet RMS and we turn the vehicle over every 2 years.( dont tell any body ) about so they will buy my old vehicle.

Repower options:

Rebuild rover V8 anthing from 3.5 5.6 lt.
TDI with after market chip upto 290KW
Repower chev, Holden.

http://www.cmr.uq.edu.au/~rotor/the_shed/m..._harris_rangie/

this is what I did. never been happier. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Michael.

Gday Michael,

Anytime you feel the urge to do it again let me know...lol...I dont think im ever going to be happy with this 3.9!

Have a good one
RobG65

Rob,
any time you want. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Michael.

Just remember if you put in an engine not designed for the vehicle (a non LR engine) it will effect your insurance. For example, I have only found 2 insurance agencies that will insure me because I have a holden engine, and If I insure it, and don't tell them, they won't pay up