locost_bryan Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 On 22/11/2022 at 21:50, Nominal said: Never late etc /spam. If you want to go diesel, a Land Rover TD5 will go straight in, might even be able to use the 2000 mounts, as it was derived from the O-series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Great news about the replacement heart for Lucas. I'm chuffed to think that you will be able to enjoy the Rover whilst you toil away on completing your Marina. Then when the dust has settled you can take your time to decide on the long-term plan for Lucas .... yummy high compression 3.9 or matching numbers original EFI. Boy you are spoilt for choice now. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris r Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Yes so glad to see you found a motor! Looking forward to seeing more updates 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kws Posted November 26, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Flash said: Great news about the replacement heart for Lucas. I'm chuffed to think that you will be able to enjoy the Rover whilst you toil away on completing your Marina. Then when the dust has settled you can take your time to decide on the long-term plan for Lucas .... yummy high compression 3.9 or matching numbers original EFI. Boy you are spoilt for choice now. Bah, the next owner can worry about matching numbers and being an anorak, I've always wanted a 3.9 SD1 haha. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kws Posted November 26, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2022 I feel I should make it clear I haven't engineered the drama for the clicks; it all happened very fast and it's all real. The car is/was currently listed for sale (at great cost), I had a couple of people contact me but nothing came from that, I guess an SD1 with a broken engine just isn't that desirable. The comments I have had on various forums made me realise I would be better off at least giving it a try and seeing what I could do with the engine, whether it was rebuilding the original or fixing the current one. I wrote the current engine off quickly as it's not worth spending the cash on (low compression engine, with bad oil pressure), so started to look at rebuilding the original one. I was quickly put off this by the horrific cost of shipping some of the parts from the UK (hundreds in just freight), so chucked a couple of WTB ads out on a couple of places to see if there were any 3.9L Discovery engines about. I didn't have many hits on this either, and then remembered I'm a member of a local Range/Land Rover Parts Facebook group. So last night I asked on there if anyone had a good 3.9 for sale, and as luck would have it, someone local had one they weren't using from a Disco they bought for parts. Today they dropped it into my garage, and took away some cash for their trouble. Apparently it's done 160,000km, ran well, ran quiet and other than the external oil leaks (mainly from valve covers it seems) it looks good enough. I'll take the valley gasket off when I do the inlet manifold and see what state the cam is in, hopefully it's good. 19 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuel Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 So glad about this news! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Good one, pleased to see you hang on to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Awshitcheah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 Awesome news. Yay for continuing well written updates. Do you know much about the history of this engine? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 55 minutes ago, yoeddynz said: Awesome news. Yay for continuing well written updates. Do you know much about the history of this engine? Not much other than about 160k on the clock, out of a late Disco, and ran well with no knocking or ticking. Came in a truck the seller was wrecking for parts for his and his dads Landys. The disco failed a WOF on various things, so got scrapped. Just spent almost the cost of the engine on parts for the conversion (seals, gaskets, oil pump gears etc). Yayyyy. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 Speaking of ordering things, if anyone needs bolts and hasnt come across these guys before, I highly recommend checking them out. They have heaps of oddball (imperial lol) stuff, and REALLY good prices. Im talking less than $1 ea for stainless bolts that Rimmers wanted $5 a piece for zinc plated. I got a kit of machine screws from them for the Marina too. https://www.theboltholder.co.nz/ 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomble Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 So happy you pushed through and are excited again <3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, tomble said: So happy you pushed through and are excited again <3 i wont lie, im absolutely fizzing. Not so much at the 3.9, but at the prospect of doing another Speeduino install. 6 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiTurbo228 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 First off, excellent that it's staying! Second, on the topic of diesel SD1s, I've been on the eye out for a cheap 2300/2600 or 2400D over here as the basis for an M57 swap. Seeing how well it goes in my XJ40 I thought it'd suit the character of an SD1 down to the ground. All it'd be lacking is the V8 burble... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I am so happy to see this panning out the way is has. Can't wait for your next update! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Such a roller Coaster thread! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Another intoxicatingly enjoyable thread update. Your taste in cars is questionable at best. But your build threads are beyond reproach. I saw the picture of the 3.5 with the intake removed and thought, man an alloy 4bbl with a Holley 390 would be awesome on this! But then remembered who's thread I was reading, and that's not how you roll. Keep your foot on the gas dude. We're all rooting for you! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 One of the other dads at our children's school has, or at least had, a Triumph 3500 with a holley carb on it and he reckoned it hogged the juice something horrendous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share Posted December 11, 2022 The holly is a pretty common swap in the UK for heathens that don't want to tinker with the EFI system. I'm the opposite, EFI makes way more sense to me. It does seem common that the holly just pours fuel in for fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 17 minutes ago, kws said: The holly is a pretty common swap in the UK for heathens that don't want to tinker with the EFI system. I'm the opposite, EFI makes way more sense to me. It does seem common that the holly just pours fuel in for fun. Is that just the nature of a Holley, or does no-one bother to jet them properly? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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