2.8 td Isuzu in RR

I have a 2.8 Trooper and always found it underpowered for a Troopers weight let alone a much heavier LR. i think you'd find climbing hills to resemble that of Westfalia. IMHO

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I have a 2.2 Trooper (See

).It is slightly underpowered for highway use. All other use includingoff-road it is just fine.The 2.8 and espacially the intercooler one would perform great.Reliability and power are much better than the VM 2.4 or 2.5 engine.I would like one of these if it only was an LR.My wish...a Defender with the Isuzu engine.Kind regards, Erik-Jan.

Hi David, I was told equicar had these for about a grand.

But they also do 200 Tdi's for that, you'll find them via search engines or yell.com, equicar 4x4 Coseley W.mids.

Regards, Roy.

I once drove a defender with a non-turbo 2.8 nissan engine in and it pulled like a steam-train compared to my n/a 2.5 lr engine.

my first choice would be a 200 or 300 tdi to keep things standard but the japanese know how to make an engine..

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

Yeah, the Nissan engines are maybe even better again. Especially nice is the straight 6 cyl. diesel. Don't know if that is the one you mentioned. Thought it was a 3.1 Ltr. Kind regards, Erik-Jan.

I think it was a striaght 6, was one of the vehicles on one of the convoys to bosnia I did, the gearbox died in germany on the way there and he could only get 4th, so he drove the rest of the trip (overland to bosnia, around a bit and back through europe to the UK) with only

4th gear, starting in low ratio and shifting up to high, while carrying a full load of gear. I don't think my n/a 2.5 could have managed that, nae way.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

Great! I remember from Bosnia on my trip there that the UN was driving those. Kind regards, Erik-Jan.

Probably an LD28, or possibly an RD28 motor. The LD series respond quite well to forced induction too.