I have been minus a Landrover for some time now, following a rather expensive TD5 issue which necessitated a hasty retreat into ford country. Having served my time in the wolderness, and being forever cured of oil burners and their massive repair bills, I am tinkering with the notion of a buying a TD5/i defender, and then picking up a V8 engine/Auto box combo from a disco and trying to put the two together.
Is this daft? Are there any combo's of V8/defender that would work best - baring the obvious of a old 3.5. I would look to fix this up and use it as my primary conveyance, so would look for a defender that is probably less than 10 years old.
Is it as easy as connecting the auto box to the T-case, or does one use the whole Tcase and g-Box from the donor and then play around with propshafts.
Any input gratefully received.
Stephen