6.2 chevy v8

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Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

You can hold it against me if you want, but before I bought the defender, I was looking at cruisers, particularly 80 and early 100 series with the chev V8 conversions.
Fuel economy is not great... IIRC you can bank on 15-20L/100km.
They can tend to overheat (but also common when a larger displacement motor is used with non OE cooling systems).
Not a common engine in Australia (but plenty of them in the US)
They sound good though.

I think in this day, there are way better engines to look at than the Chev V8. But there might be merits with having a 'basic' diesel V8 over some of the more modern donks. Depends what you're chasing I guess.

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A mate has one in a 60 series LC. He gets much better economy than this. He told me he gets 11-12L/100km on average. I don't know what gearing he is running. I did some research on these when I had my Pootrol. For a drive in drive out conversion you are looking at least $20K and they only produce about 130KW in non turbo form. The torque is produced very low in the revs but it is nothing to get excited about. I personally would look at something from Jaoan like a 1HZ Turbo.

I put the 6.2 in this 15 years ago, as that seemed to be the only option around at the time.
No problems so far.
Keith

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Originally Posted by p38arover

Moved - the topic has nothing to do with Isuzu powered models.

Do a search. At least one member had one - username something like D110V8D

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sorry mate, meant to ask aswell how do people rate them against a 4bd1

I put one in a rangie once, it was the 6.5, that is a time in my life I try to forget, sooooo much heartache. What a big, heavy, underpowered, thirsty, how do I keep this cool, piece of rubbish. I should have put a 4BD1T in instead, and now I have in my current rangie, I am sooooo happy with it, it does everything I want and need .:)

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Originally Posted by Vern

I put one in a rangie once, it was the 6.5, that is a time in my life I try to forget, sooooo much heartache. What a big, heavy, underpowered, thirsty, how do I keep this cool, piece of rubbish. I should have put a 4BD1T in instead, and now I have in my current rangie, I am sooooo happy with it, it does everything I want and need .:)

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No offence Damien :cool:
Straight from the horses mouth:p

My old man has a 6.5 in his 110. Runs a 4L80E as well.

Boat anchor comment is a bit over the top - this thing is a tank and uses less fuel than my 4.6 P38 ever will, does all its work at idle.

If you ask him nicely he might sell it... Probably for less than what it'd cost you to convert one.

Cheers
Keithy

I can't believe people are still considering these engines.

I agree with Vern. Heavy, slow, thirsty and they run hot, unless you spend some good money on the cooling system, to get similar performance to the dinner table sized radiator normally found in the American trucks they come out of.

Plenty of other, better choices out there. :)

If they were that great, i'd still have mine, mick would still have his, rovercare would still have his blah blah blah. 😊 i'd rather a 3.0 nissan motor than the chev😅

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Originally Posted by Vern

If they were that great, i'd still have mine, mick would still have his, rovercare would still have his blah blah blah. 😊 i'd rather a 3.0 nissan motor than the chev😅

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BURN!

(preceded by the noise of the turbo compressor wheel getting sucked thru the engine)

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Originally Posted by Keithy P38

Boat anchor comment is a bit over the top

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I think its pretty close.. :wasntme: They're derived from a petrol, have average torque, are IDI, blocks are weak, put a turbo on them and their life is halved.. Nope, there's a lot more options that are a far better bet around. A remapped Td5 would go better.. Granted, the GM V8's sound sweet, but that's about all IMO. :)