WarrenL
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Does this belong to anybody around here? Do we have a Keith?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wedding-car-c ... 20d7099756
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wedding-car-c ... 20d7099756
ghce said:yep in the earlier concurrent thread in the lounge
rockdemon said:the 5 cylinder might be nice, but i'd have thought the 2 litre l series was the easiest one to do. If our friend Mr SOwen can get the Mseries in, this is going to fit with the same gearbox and be short enough to fit.
rockdemon said:eithers fine Interestingly from a phschological viewpoint, the one in the lounge starts as a critique of the car, the one in spotted starts as a spot
chrisyork said:I think it says in the other thread that it's a 2 1/4 ltr? In which case I would have thought it more likely to be a Land Rover diesel. In which case - Oh Dear! I actually quite like the idea of a diesel P6. I think a good modern diesel would suit the character of the car well if it was done competently. I've had a hankering after putting a Land Rover TD5 2.5 ltr 5 cylinder in. Mainly because it has Solihull pedigree (even if it did start out as a Perkins Prima, it was developed into the 5 cyl by Solihull) and the fact that there is form for a 5 cylinder 2.5 ltr P6. That's what Rover were working on when the V8 landed in Solihull.
I could see the installation being a tad tricky though. As I understand it, the great advance in diesel refinement has come about through raising the level of the engine mounts so that the wobble axis on the mounts coincides with the 2ndry vibration axis of the engine. That's going to be difficult in a P6 engine bay, because of the lack of structure forwad of the bulkhead and especially in the bonnet shut panel area.
Chris
rockdemon said:the 5 cylinder might be nice, but i'd have thought the 2 litre l series was the easiest one to do. If our friend Mr SOwen can get the Mseries in, this is going to fit with the same gearbox and be short enough to fit.
chrisyork said:Lots of things get called TD4's, Rich. The one that immediately springs to mind is the Freelander TD4, which is a BMW diesel on the series 2's and a Ford in the series 3's.
I think you mean a Tdi, either Tdi 200 or Td1300 which are the Land Rover direct injection 2.5 4's. They are derived from the P4 80 engine. In turn derived from the very original LR diesels.
Chris