a mate has been getting silly-sounding quotes for swapping a disco TDi+LT77 gearbox into a range rover with a VM+LT77...
any ideas how many pitfalls there may be? ISTR the RR is a conversion from a V8, originally.
Given that he's got what amounts to a scrap disco, so all the mounting brackets and so on and indeed the exhaust, rad, intercooler and so forth are available. The engine's still in the disco, of course, but hauling the engine/box combo out of a disco shouldn't be as much as a day's work, I reckon. Given the right equipment, I'd reckon to get both engines out in not much over a day, and, allowing for the possibility that the refit to the RR might be slower, I don't see more'n 3 days for the whole job, really - say 25 hours, and some of the prices he's been quoted make for a lot more per hour than I make...
Apparently the VM has a dead turbo and a (or more) blown head gasket - the dead turbo would explain the lack of go which said mate reported from the thing.