have a look at this, would it be a good donor

RANGEROVER MAZDA DIESEL PX SWAP P38 DISCOVERY on eBay (end time 30-Jun-09 13:15:48 BST)


Would this rangie make a good engine box/donor for a series?, its had the froggers mazda conversion.
are axles and diffs useable.

Ta.

Can't comment on the engine. I would expect the diffs to fit a Series. The axles are similar to a Discovery so the same considerations apply to fitting them.
I think modifying and engine that has already been modifies to fit another vehicle is looking like hard work.

yeah i think your probably right.

It would make a good donor for external hing body bits for some-one restoring an older rangie; they are getting hard to source these days! But a tad expensive!
Buying a converted car gives you the hassles of havingto reverse engineer the conversion to find out hgow it was done, and put right any problems with it.
Bad enough on the car thats been converted, without trying to re-engineer that conversion again to fit something different!
Mazda motor, though I seem to recall is a Japanese version of the old Perkins, I THINK 4203? Which was a very low reving engine, with HUGE torque, renowned for killing gearboxes... possibly explains why it had to have a reconditioned X-fer!
Doesn't say whether or not its the turbo version or not; presume not; but in either case, for all the 'stomp' these thingshad, they were NO quick, and lacked gearing you'd struggle to give them and which would strain the already hard pressed drive line even further!
Looks too tidy to break tho', as advertised suggestion, would probably make a good 'hack' fopr some-one that wanted to tow REALLY heavy stuff..... like ships!

forget it then, I have a canal boat with a 4106 and yes the rev range is narrow.

dr pepper said:

forget it then, I have a canal boat with a 4106 and yes the rev range is narrow.

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Well, it would have to be, wouldn't it...... for a narrow boat......

I know mi boats and nope not really, with an equipoise prop the rev range is substantial, boats dont have gears just forwards and backards, so you need effective power from idle to max revs, more so than a road vehicle, crap designs or the wrong prop are a ball ache, either the engine screams and doesnt stop the boat when you hammer it in reverse when another boat is comming under a bridge, or they stall when you try to idle in gear behind a great narrow boat. The other thing if the engine only has a narrow range like the perky fuel economy is crap becasue a large part of the time the engine is not in its effecient range.

Looks like I have procured a tranny engine with turbo and bits, and the landy, so looks like some working out is afoot.

dr pepper said:

Looks like I have procured a tranny engine with turbo and bits, and the landy, so looks like some working out is afoot.

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It's 12" or 304.8mm, dont forget that 4.8, it can get you into a lot of trouble!, and remember SIII's are mixed imperial and metric, so it all depends, one foot may be marked size 10, but the other a size 45.... or a 44.......


(Think the narrow boat joke was abit subtle.... maybe ought to have put some of these in that post too!)

ok then, some of the machines here have so many spanner types its silly, ever heard of sae spanner sizes?.

Teflon said:

(Think the narrow boat joke was abit subtle.... maybe ought to have put some of these in that post too!)

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i think the correct term would be:

wooooooooooooooooooosssshhhhh

well its better than glug, glug, glug.

I grew up just outside Brum, which has more miles of Canal than venice.
School mate lived in a lock-keepers cottage, just up the road from me, his dad owning the boat-yard. spent a lot of time in my childhood, 'on the cut'. Soem of the stuff we got up to was, RATHER daft!
I meaan, like sticking a little , otta, I think it was, outboard on the back of a fibrglass canoe.... progressing to a 14ft pleasure cruiser that had been swamped, and was waiting insurance apraisal... of three years! So we dragged it in the water, appropriated the Mercury 45 from the work-shop and tried waterskiing.... only we didn't have any ski's.... so we used the planks smashed off an old pallet!
spent some time in purgatory after that one......

yeah well you have to spend time in purgatory when your a kid, you dinna grow up otherwise, and end up owning landy's just for the fun of it.

I grew up near the lancaster canal, and my first boating experience was sailing a tractor innertube nearly 20 miles, and I couldnt and still cant swim, I have a coastal skippers licence too, and an offshore survival certificate for working on rigs.