Gems and Thor

scott02464 · Jan 2, 2011

This is just out of curiosity,

Whats the difference between the two?

Heard them being mentioned abit and wanted to know more?

Datatek · Jan 2, 2011

Well they both run on petrol or gas, blow head gaskets and slip liners and have more cylinders and heads to go wrong than my diesel, but other than that I know nothing.

j the range · Jan 2, 2011

thor is the later engine, with all the problems sorted.[land rover **** talk] no better still same problems, you can tell by looking at engine thor has big fingers across the top of it..

scott02464 · Jan 2, 2011

j the range said:
thor is the later engine, with all the problems sorted.[land rover **** talk] no better still same problems, you can tell by looking at engine thor has big fingers across the top of it..

Cheers mate, i have the Gems model then

jamesmartin · Jan 2, 2011

gems was made by lucas thor by bosche ,things went german after bmw took over ,thor has a better intake system

jorjio_k · Jan 2, 2011

thor engines have a little less hp but more torque,comparing to gems,talking about 4.6 v8.
Thor have better electrics,more cooling system problems than gems.
I wonder if they used nikasil in the thor engines.bmw engines e36 series had nikasil coatings in them from the late 95 till 99,duno if they implemented it on the rr though.

jt_armstrong · Jan 2, 2011

j the range said:
thor is the later engine, with all the problems sorted.[land rover **** talk] no better still same problems, you can tell by looking at engine thor has big fingers across the top of it..

I take it that the actual engine is unchanged only the cooling system and electrics....

Datatek · Jan 2, 2011

jorjio_k said:
thor engines have a little less hp but more torque,comparing to gems,talking about 4.6 v8.
Thor have better electrics,more cooling system problems than gems.
I wonder if they used nikasil in the thor engines.bmw engines e36 series had nikasil coatings in them from the late 95 till 99,duno if they implemented it on the rr though.

If they had used nikasil they would not get slipped liners

j the range · Jan 2, 2011

should have put it on heads on trator engines aswell, would have stoped them cracking hahahahahahaha..

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