I had a long chat with Warren yesterday about my plans to pull the Discovery apart and use various bits in my Series 2. Now I'm really spoilt for choice.
The options are
i) fit my 3.9, convert my R380 to long stick and swap the axles, plus some kind of coil conversion to the chassis (it's a brand new galvanised chassis on the S2)
ii) fit 3.9 to existing gearbox, use the Disco diffs to up the ratios in the axles and fit good parabolics.
These two both require varying degrees of chassis mods and lots of work, including wiring loom, engine mounts, front panel moving, steering changes to accommodate the CV jointed hubs etc.
iii) fit a 200TDi which is currently on offer, again with Disco diffs. The engine is known good, but very high miles. And it's diesel.
iv) fit a new 2.5 Turner Engineering petrol engine. Drops in and with a good carb setup should be substantially better than the 3 bearing
2.25 petrol with minimal compression that is currently in there.I don't really want to lose the look of the S2, nor do I want to butcher it and go to coils. If I'm doing that I might as well torch a write-off Rangie and put the Series body and my powertrain on it.
So current favourite looks like the Turner engine (or equivalent from LEGS or whoever). Anyone got any experience with their full engines?
I don't know what I'm asking here really - just for opinions I suppose!
Thanks