Thread: Holden engine and gearbox into Disco

Originally Posted by mcrover

It was for an XP that I had the speedo converted to electronic by ringwood speedos and I remember it cost a bloody fortune and I never finished the project and a little turd smashed all the windows in it and then it got attact by rats and filled with water after the roof on the shed fell in.

I was never meant to finish that car as any time I spent a little money on it something happened that cost me twice as much.

All this was so I could put a EB Falcon (or the Fairlane equivelent) 5.0 V8 in it with the 5 speed trans but never got that far.

Got 1 running a couple of years ago for a local in an XP ute, out of an EF XR8... still hasn't finished the body yet

Originally Posted by rovercare

Got 1 running a couple of years ago for a local in an XP ute, out of an EF XR8... still hasn't finished the body yet

Mine was just a sedan but it would have been a great car if Id got it up and going.

I always wanted an XP delivery but they are rare as so I doubt I will ever get one.

Enough Hijacking...

Originally Posted by rovercare

The rockcrawler mobs make them, check on outers they run the V6's and 4l60

Huh? who? Now ya tell me!

Originally Posted by 6.5rangie

Huh? who? Now ya tell me!

I've been trying to find it without much luck.....and i did mention to you that day you came down

But maybe I'm tripping......being a know it all and all

It all depends on what box its for, 4L60 or 4L60e(t700 or t700 electronic) or later 4L60E (like in ya jag(gen3)), if somone does it for the later one, i'll be very interested

Originally Posted by 6.5rangie

It all depends on what box its for, 4L60 or 4L60e(t700 or t700 electronic) or later 4L60E (like in ya jag(gen3)), if somone does it for the later one, i'll be very interested

Yea slightly different output housing, 5 bolts not 4, but the spud shaft is the big dilemma, so if they're the same the housing should be a piece of ****

Originally Posted by rovercare

Aggh, your trying to do it the other way around, with your 4wd the transfer case HAS a drive on it and you need only convert to electonic pulse

what you need is an X-box which is essentailly a variable drive, driven to the right speed with your electonic signal as an input......**** that

What I have done with my jag, is send the speedo of to howardinstruments.com to get a new electonic VDO speedo built into the smiths gauge....unfortunetally its nearly been a month now (and i'm only waiting on that before i can tune it)when they said 2 weeks, but ask me shortly and i'll let you know how well it goes......by the way, its a shade under 500 where an X-box is like 850 and you still have that crappy smiths bounce

Howard instruments made my electonic speed sensor. and corrected the speedo on my RR.

top guys know what they are doing.

Michael.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Yea slightly different output housing, 5 bolts not 4, but the spud shaft is the big dilemma, so if they're the same the housing should be a piece of ****

You should make one seen as though you know it all, i'll supply the box (and i don't mean beer)