Discovery 3.9 v8 - rebuilds, reliability, options….

LetsHopeItFits said:

You can have a Rover V8 rebuilt to any specification you like. They were installed in TVRs with displacements of 5.0L and well over 300hp (I dont remember the numbers exactly). The standard carby 3.5 came as mild as 135hp, and 155 with EFI, or 190hp in TVR 350i flavour. The 3.9 made 275hp in the TVR 390se, but only 182hp in Land Rovers.
If youre starting with a dead engine thats sat around for years, and everything needs refurbishing or replacing, then you "may as well" build it exactly to your needs/taste. If youve got a decent engine which already runs decently, youll spend a lot of money to improve what is already vastly superior to whatever old diesel lump youre removing.

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