Thread: TD42 into Defender 130? Anyone done it?

Yup, Td5 in a 130 is the same... 10lt/100km, it can happen..... empty at 85kph with the wind behind me... But really.... Nah, it's more like 12/14 per 100km if I'm honest. Think we all 'tweak' the figures a little to justify the ownership of these 'fuel effecient' British vehicles.... Buying this Patrol for the donor engine and driving it.. so easy, gets to 110kph so easily, is quiet, comfortable, cool.. Even after 300000 km. They do make a good vehicle, it has to be said.

I got sent this pic from the 2012 Sydney Expo,I was told it was either nissan powered or it sat on nissan running gear. Must belong to someone on here I would have thought.

Well I got 2 mates both with 80 series cruisers, ones the 4.5 petrol and ones the 4.2? I think, its turbo diesel any way, the petrol when driven slowly VERY slowly returns about 17L per hundred or normally driven 20L per hundred, and the one with the turbo diesel gets about 14L per hundred with a light load or towing his van about 16L per hundred, my v8 disco just towed 2.5T from Penrith to Stuart town and returned 14.5L per hundred which I was more then happy with considering I was sitting 10-15km over the speed limit the whole way and was giving it stick up all the hills.....

Originally Posted by jerryd

I got sent this pic from the 2012 Sydney Expo,I was told it was either nissan powered or it sat on nissan running gear. Must belong to someone on here I would have thought.

That's a GQ/GU front diff, radius arms and freewheeling hubs. It also has a very long nose, so maybe a TD42T shoehorned in too ?

But why would you bother with a TD42 or toyota 6 when an Isuzu 4BD1T fits in, does 10km/l on a flat trip at 100km/h and puts out figures like this when fed 20psi from a $200 turbo?



400Nm from 1000-3,500rpm.
500Nm from 1500-2500rpm.
550Nm at 2000rpm.
140kw from 2,500 to 3,500rpm.

Add an intercooler, tweak to 24psi boost you need to step up in turbo size and you get this:


Stock injection pump is still not tapped out. It can do ~140cc/1000shots.
Discussion here: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/isuzu-land...rediction.html

Originally Posted by Dougal

But why would you bother with a TD42 or toyota 6 when an Isuzu 4BD1T fits in, does 10km/l on a flat trip at 100km/h and puts out figures like this when fed 20psi from a $200 turbo?

Maybe because the 1HD-FTE is a much smoother engine that won't kill gearboxes with the torque pulses that the Isuzu suffers from.

Originally Posted by BigJon

Maybe because the 1HD-FTE is a much smoother engine that won't kill gearboxes with the torque pulses that the Isuzu suffers from.

This is true. But I can buy a lot of very strong gearboxes for the price of a 1HD-FTE.
No-one has managed to kill an Isuzu gearbox behind a 4BD1T yet. It's just that landrover stuff that has a best-before date.

BTW, 1HD-FTE's can put out some extremely impressive numbers when fed the appropriate boost and fuel.

Originally Posted by jerryd

I got sent this pic from the 2012 Sydney Expo,I was told it was either nissan powered or it sat on nissan running gear. Must belong to someone on here I would have thought.

It's a GQ with a Series III body. They had a rusted out GQ with good chassis and running gear, and a mechanically dead Series III. There are a few pics on around the forum snuck in here and there.

My hat goes off to them, they did a fantastic job - every part of the.. thing.. was done by them without cutting corners. They even lengthened the doors and made their own interior that would rival any new car.