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Needs a little work that one Mark :bugeye:
Still like the look of the lightweight, much meaner :headbang:
A few pic's now and again (once you've summoned the courage) would be nice :thumbup:
My personal suggestion is an uprated heater matrix and fan combo! (since it's so well stripped) Never underestimate the pleasure of a good heater! I suppose you need to put the engine and that back in first though? :)
Ralph.
benji:
Strangely I never had problems with the heater, once I'd wired it to blow instead of suck :doh:
I do have a brand new heater assembly courtesy of Land Rover warehouse clearance a couple of years ago.
Engine.... I knew there was something missing. It's got a Perkins Prima (montego TD) engine block in there believe it or not. That was the original plan, however I now have a nice low mileage 300Tdi from my parents Discovery after tin worm attacked the chassis.
DavidA:
Benj,
Did you ever have the Perkins Running ?
Dave.
benji:
Hi Dave,
no I never had the perkins running in the Land Rover, it just has a bare block in there to let me work out engine mounts. I have a couple of friends who have done this conversion using commercially available kits and they reckon its worth doing. I did at one time have a Diahatsu 2.5 diesel in there, that engine pretty much rendered 1st and 2nd gear redundant there was that much torque. Hopefully the 300 Tdi will be a worthwhile conversion. Your Peugeot engine sounds like a fun project, I've heard of them being put into Suzuki 4x4's but never a BMW
DavidA:
Benji,
The reason I asked about the Prima is that I believe it is the successor of the Perkins 4.108. And that it was a bit choosy about the temperature it ran at. Ie, must never be run if the fan belt broke.
There was an article in Popular Mechanics back in the seventies about a guy who put a turbo 4.108 in a Ford and was getting 100mpg or better. If you consider that to be USA gallons then he was getting around 120 mile to one of our superior Imp gallons.
Not bad, really.
Now, I do have most of the bits for two 4.108 engines in my shed.....
Dave.
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