Engine suggestions

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...........

Don't do it, stick with the V8! Your £800 should provide you with a decent gas kit!

In news:cg0ac5$fud$ snipped-for-privacy@hercules.btinternet.com, SimonJ blithered:

Failing that reasonable quantities of Guinness!

WHY , apart from emotional attachment to that lovely deep throated roar.....

Steve

Probably too modern but one of the Merc sprinter engines looks to be ok, the 5 cyl om612 gives 156bhp (turbo/intercooled/common rail DI) and still has more torque than the original at 3600 (3.5 peak torque

3000). Biggest problem is peak power at 3600 verses 4750 on the RV8 meaning you'll need to up the gear ratio by 30% to match the current set up, and this is already too low unless you are laden plus 1.5 tonnes of trailer. The 200 tdi produces its peak torque at half this but revs to 4000 IIRC

Remember the gear box has to handle all this torque and upping the gearing behind this, either in the transfer gears or the diffs increases the load on the box.

AJH

I hear the sound of a large hammer hitting a nail square on the head.......! Heathen, you blastheme against the god that is 8 spark plugs, you must at once go and read some v8 tuning articles and recite all the v8 engine's bolt torque figures continuously whilst listening to a pre-recorded endless loop tape of a 4.6 with open pipes at full song during a hillrally, until you come to your senses! On the other hand, if you must fit a diesel, may I recommend a substantial budgetary increase to accommodate a BMW 3.0 diesel with matching 5 speed autobox, mated somehow to a landy transfer box? I've got one of these engines in it's original car as produced (330dSE Sport Auto, don't stone me or send me to coventry, please!), and it's awesome. I've always wondered what it would do for my 110 with it's 184bhp and 288lbft. Chippable to

224bhp and 330lbft, by the way! I always return to sanity by following the advice given above. My doctor says I'm all better now, just! Another cup of earl grey, vicar?..........

Badger. B.H.Engineering, Rover V8 engine specialists.

coming soon,

1. It's already fitted.
2. It's standard.
3. Parts for the engine are cheap and easy to come by (true also of

200/300 TDi, but not all Jap engines)

1. With a gas kit, you get economy of a diesel
2. It won't be an easy conversion (though plenty have done it)
3. It will look like a 101 and sound like a tractor
4. You don't know how good an engine from a breakers is until you've done all the hard work.
5. If it breaks you can find plenty of replacements and fit them very easily.

Unless you are going somewhere where LPG is not available, I don't see the point...

On or around Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:41:21 +0100, "Badger" enlightened us thusly:

yer need their new one, as reported in CAR magazine. 3-litre, still, but twin-turbo, they claim 272BHP @ 4400RPM, 413LBFT @ 2000RPM. 14Kg heavier than the single-turbo one.

Vauxhall, using similar technology, claim 212BHP @ 4500RPM, 295LBFT @

1400RPM, from, would you believe, a 1.9 four-pot. That'd make a nice engine for a freeloader... In fact, it'd make a nice engine for a disco, an' all.

Vauxhall say it's only a concept, at the moment, but expect somethign similar on the market in under 2 years.

bloody impressive figures, however you look at 'em.

thinking on, OP mentions the Land cruiser engine, now if you got the 4.2 turbo version assuming it'll fit, it'd be quite an impressive beast.

It's a physically long motor though - probably be a bugger to get it to fit. There's always a Toyota 13B Turbo, or 14B turbo (4cyl 3.4 or 3.7) or the newish 15B 4.1 litre NA (which go very well). Thery're all DI motors so no glow plugs to worry about.