Land Rover: Poor Quality & Worse Than Daewoo?

Didn't stop the water pump on mine depositing the entire contents of the cooling system across some of Suffolk's finest tarmac a few weeks back :-(

Steve. Suffolk. remove 'knujon' to e-mail

Total crap. I can burst, or bust any engine given time ;-)

Hmm. I know for a fact that the later 6.75 Twin turbo was regularly bench tested during development at full throttle for 24hrs continuous running. Somewhere I have a picture of it, the exhaust manifold is glowing white hot......

Alex

Is that all?

I used to dream of having a cool manifold like that...

Actually, I'll let Mr D take over from there - he's got white hot nuts to go with it :-)

Indeed and they are well matched to the knuckles too :-)

Bench testing any engine is hardly realistic compared to the stop start thrash maul and grind that they get .... and thats only fitting the b45**rd. ;-)

I've just retumed home in my pocket rocket from a noon shift, It was parked in a yard full of some of the fastest Saloon cars which lucky me gets to drive very hard and to the limits and each time I fire him up I know he's the one that I'd rather be sat in. The others have there moments but none deliver the same grin factor.

Oh how I giggle as my IIa leaves the supposed sports cars at the lights (at least up to the local speed restictions 30 , 40 , 50 ...... ) ...but we don't do bends curves or such like ( I can be realistic too!). Now as Tom will evidence the exhaust note for something so short (about 5 ft of system including the downpipes) is sweet. But apply the throttle and it's like TVR on a mission. In fact the only true sound I can liken it to it that of the flying bombs of world war II...lets hope thats where the comparison stops.

All that fun and I still haven't got it running perfect yet (Freebie Carbs - used to be Efi).

Percy has alot more planned for him once the youngest starts school ( 2 years - I've learned my lesson! read the diary

Power Steering, Parabolics Front Discs (Stage 1 drums are good but I have haveing to adjust them drums so often)

Lee