Engine Swap - TD5 90 to .......LS1/6......?

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Originally Posted by cal415

Thanks for the info, i also post there - username is qserv - probobly dont even need the springs for the cam i will run but while they are out its a pretty cheap upgrade, same with the roller rockers if i can get them for a good price. Im pretty impressed by some of the cam, springs, tune, exhaust only vehicles on there, huge power and reasonable cost.

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Yeah there are some great results, the ls series really are quite detuned. I had a cam(224/228),spring,otr setup in my old vx clubby and it pulled good numbers.
I've been lucky enough to see a defender with ls1 fitted over here at WA Performance and it looks great.
Good luck with your conversion. Will be interesting to see how the driveline goes and what gearbox you go with !

Cheers,

Peter

Gearbox is a Nissan GQ 5 speed, mated to a LT230 transfercase, rear diff is going to be a Dana60 centre in the sals housing with 35 spline 1.5in diameter axles, front is rover diff with rovertracks(longfield) axles and CVs.... only thing im worried about it breaking front CWPs really

Well for those that are interested in doing this swap heres what we have done for engine mounts the motor sits a fair way back in the engine bay to make sure it has enough clearance around the thermo fans and front of the motor, in comparison it sits roughly where the rover v8 did but the engine mounts are further back on the block so we had to make slanted mounts similar to the 350 ones i had, originaly we had planned to make them from square tube with a trailing arm bush on the end but would have had to cut the original mounts of the chassis to make that work, so we decided less chassis mods would be better to keep the engineer happy and run jag rubber mounts or QT ones.

These are made from 6mm and 8mm plate and have very heavy welds run on them, i dont think they will break any time soon :)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...12/05/1383.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...12/05/1385.jpg
all in on its own mounts
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...009/08/864.jpg

plenty more pics here
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/members-ri...-county-7.html

looks similar to what I did when fitting hsv 215 into my RR.

your going to love end result.

there is no such thing as to much power its all abouthow you use it.

Michael.

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Originally Posted by cal415

Gearbox is a Nissan GQ 5 speed, mated to a LT230 transfercase, rear diff is going to be a Dana60 centre in the sals housing with 35 spline 1.5in diameter axles, front is rover diff with rovertracks(longfield) axles and CVs.... only thing im worried about it breaking front CWPs really

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This is excellent cal415, I'll follow this keenly.

BTW, have you looked at different front diff options and gearing? You can fit Rover side gears to Toy lockers now.

Great stuff, saves me getting a different set of long fields, i may do that if i start breaking CWPs, but im doubting i will change the ratios if i do it will only be a slight change, like 3.9s or something along those lines.