Thread: How fast should a Defender go?

Originally Posted by EchiDna

go the 4BD1

And they do!
Very well actually

Originally Posted by sclarke

Just drive it like its a 850 mini......... dont bother over taking...
you learn to drive slower and its nice to not have to worry about passing...

Or a Kombi Van!

It comes down to several things that will need checking out.

1st is tyre size, smaller tyres you will run out of revs before you get any real speed out of it but then again your speedo will also be out then.

2nd is ratios, someone may have put in different diff ratios to run taller tyres at some stage.

3rd taller tyres will make it run out of power before you get up to speed and your speedo will be reading under what you are really doing.

Try checking how far out your speedo really is with a GPS first and go from there.

My td5 before chipping would do 140, and probably a bit faster if I wasn't on the radio to Scotty asking for him to beam me up.. LOL.

mine holds 120 most places but drops to around 100/90 on hills with 33"s 300tdi ute

My 300 TDi 90 will do 145kph . It has done it before serveal times. Will do it but don't like to do it for long time. Well not for more that about half an hour.
Used to drive to billing at that speed and estnor too.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day RonMcGr

That 4BD1 is a 3.9 litre TRUCK motor in a 110, and at 140 they ARE spooky but what GRUNT!!!! and they are supposed to be goverened @ 125kph

My rangie with 4BD1T used to hit the governer (3600rpm) at 145km/h.
Now it's 20% higher geared and has a lot more grunt, I'm not silly brave enough to try it out.

I love my Landy speedo, it's horribly wrong. Deludes me into thinking I'm going faster than I actually am!

It's actually a pleasure to drive versus my Rocky...That poor darlin' has a top speed of about 90...when it's running. *Hangs head*