V8 and Auto Box into a Defender

Anything is possible. I would have thought that using the whole engine, gearbox and transfer box would be the simplest approach. Propshafts are easily modified, particularly if you start with one that is too long. Buying a whole Discovery and selling off/weighing in the bits you don't need would probably be best as you then have all the wiring that goes with the engine/gearbox.

Mike

Why? Why not just get a DII V8 and be done with it?

AIUI the gear lever on a Disco gearbox is in the wrong place to fit a Defender.

Auto.. do you mean transfer box lever?

Lee

Transfer box lever in a Disco operates the box via cables and is mounted on the tunnel. From your "Auto.. " comment presumably the auto lever operates the box via cable and is also mounted on the tunnel?

In message , Fanie writes

Well I'm about to put my 50th Anniversary Defender on the market which just happens to be a V8 (4.0 litre) with an auto gearbox and with the added bonus of a gas conversion.

My reply to address is valid if you're interested.

Down in South Africa, so that will be a challenge. Cheers anyway.

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Agreed, this would be the sensible route, but since this is a midlife crisis, I think a defender is a better option. I swore after fitting a Nissan LD28 to my old SerIIIS that I would never do another conversion, but I assume Landy engine into landy body would be easier, even if they from different models. It would also be an excuse to look into playing with a motec or other aftermarket ECU since this may well be required. Wife still violently anti at this stage, so this is just a feasibility study at this point, but if I buy a TD5 defender, then I have to have a ready option for when the engine packs up.

Since I don't pay for petrol, there really seems to be no point in a diesel, and since our traffic is a nightmare, an auto is so much easier, so it seems like the perfect urban commuter to tie a defender together with a V8 Auto from a disco 1 or 2.

No challenge, just a bleeding long way to drive, for the driver, no distance at all for the Landie!

In a V8 auto with (real) air con and a sun roof that doesn't leak

-perhaps I could make it for the world cup. Wonder how many litres of petrol it would take. I could solve the UK budget deficit at a stroke if I bought it all b4 I left.

I'm not sure which gearbox it is - Disco of some variety I think. They were built in 98.

5,500 miles ish but the road distance may well be more call it 6,000. 15 to the gallon? Donno what a 4.0 V8 will do on bad roads... 400 gallons, 1800l.

Leave now, 37 days to the start of the World Cup, only 162 miles/day. B-)

The big snag will be getting all the visas and import/export documentation sorted out... Which way would you go? Down to Gibraltar and the west coast of Africa or round via Israel and the east coast?

Big Jiffy bag , jobs a good'un.

Or leave the keys in it... it'll be there in half the time.

Lee D

In message , Dave Liquorice writes

Hahahahahaha!!

Is that haha, you get 30 to the gallon or haha you only get 7?

Yes

Just out of interest.....

What happened with the TD5?

Dave B.

Mine started using water with no signs of a leak. I took it in to get looked at thinking it would be a new head gasket, but it turned out to be a cylinder head cracked in multiple places. In South Africa, it was ZAR30K for the head, 11K for the gasket set, and 10k for labour which was not worth it on a car only worth ab about ZAR80k.

Outch!

As you say, not economic to fix, at over half the street value of the car. I guess petrol is somewhat lower cost there than it is here.

Cheers.

Dave.

For those of you wondering, as I was, ZAR is South African Rand and today a 100ZAR gets you about £8.90!