Lightweight with a TD5...

I think most of the members of this group have terminal Landroveritis - welcome to the club!

I'm sure it could be done, but "trivial" is not a word that springs to mind. I've a sneaking suspiscion that it would be easier to make a 90 look like a lightweight.

As above I reckon - anyone with a tow truck and a large winch is not going to have any problems with a lightweight (or any other car really).

Richard

can you fit a Td5, yes, but the electronics make it at best 'difficult', better off with a 300tdi or it's 2.8 bigger brother (international engines, brazil).

seen them with hard tops, perhaps one from an '88 will fit, someone will know.

security, in a hard top you can fit an alarm with ultrasonics, you can also fit mechanical immobilisers to the steering wheel, pedals, clutch hydrolics and electrical immobilisers to the engine. but if they really want it they'll have it, better off having it look tatty and worthless.

happy spending :oD

-- Mark.

"nec aspera terrent"

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On 29 Dec 2005 04:31:31 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@tesco.net scribbled the following nonsense:

it just so happens I have a hardtop lightweight for sale......

why not go the whole hog and put a V8 in - just get a very big box of halfshafts to feed the beast. I have perverse desire to port the heads on a 2 1/4 I have to believe there is plenty of excess metal to play with and if other BL castings of the era are owt to go off horsepower to be gained Derek I don't have landroveritis now - I am in remission

2.25 with go!

-- Mark.

"nec aspera terrent"

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Thanks Mark interesting bit of info that, I'll get the die grinder warmed up + 6 to 15 bhp is well worth the effort.Add a better camshaft and we be rockin' Derek

...and snipped-for-privacy@tesco.net spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...

There is an article in this month's LRO about engine swaps. Interestingly, the Td5 is NOT listed as one of the engines they suggest for a transplant to any LR vehicle. V8s, Tdis, Perkins, Nissan, Peugeot, all OK, but the Td5 doesn't get a mention. I wonder why?

The Td5 ECU takes signals from around 20 different sensors around the vehicle. For a proper installation, you would need all these sensors as well as the lump itself and the ECU, and the data to calibrate it all and make it actually work. There may be a way to bypass all this with a 2-wire system (as can be done with the 3.9 ECU), but I've never heard of it.

Stick with something simple like a V8. There's plenty of "wisdom" around on this topic, almost nothing on the Td5.

A long delay in getting back to you - work seem to think that access to google groups is detrimental to my work! Strangely, they'll let me have ebay and google's search engine - ho-hum!

Do you still have it? Are there any pics/details on the web? Is it modified in any way?

Not that my wife will let me buy it you know!

Thanks for all your responses - It was good to se such quick and helpful responses. One day I will have one! I'm not too sure about the half shaft problem - sounds a little expensive and I don't want a particularly scrappy looking car as it needs to be parked on my drive some of the time - so I couldn't rely on that for security. Anyhow, I like my creature comforts so the internals were going to need a bit more luxury - looking through the window would show it wasn't just a workhorse. I'm still interested but I've not bought one - yet!

I tried to follow up and thank everyone for their help/advice but the google server failed in some way. I'm unsure if it managed it to post the message - so rather than double post I'll just saya big thanks to all the responses: Thanks!

On 8 Jan 2006 05:23:54 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@tesco.net scribbled the following nonsense:

pics can be found at

Essentially as the army had, just with some 90 high back seats for comfort and parabolic springs, for comfort.