New project series 3

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Could you not go the whole road and get your chassis zinced? The Place in Elgin does lots of them and isn't particularly expensive, I got a small pile of parts dipped last year as a test and intend to get the bulkhead done when I eventually weld it back together.

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auld duffer said:

So we kinda left it there .. Then an hour later he calls me back to say a fella he knows has a dead Discovery with a running 300TDI , complete vehicle with reg document .. 100% complete £500 .. For that kind of money its probably a no brainer , chances are I could get the cost of the engine back selling of a few bits and dare I say it weighing in the rest .. Crikey .

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Just do it!!! if you dont you know you will regret it.

Its been a long time since I drove a 2 1/4 but I remember hitting a shallow incline and needed to shift down to climb it, after throttling the engine half to death I could shift up only to need to shift down again as I lost momentum.

The experience lead me to buy a 2.6 S3 109 'Safari' Station wagon thinking this would be better, wrong it was just the same, worse still I was averaging just 16mpg. A friend told me of a 3.0ltr 6 cylinder Rover P6 engine for sale which was basically the same engine but with a highly tuned Weslake head and a substantial increase in BHP. It was £1200 which for me in the early 90's was a lot of money. I worried that it would give me even worse fuel economy being a bigger engine. I could not have been more wrong, it transformed the car and made it a pleasure to drive, it cloud keep up with modern traffic and better still it was much better fuel economy wise. It did take some work to fit it but I managed.

The 300TDI will be the same and make driving your car so much nicer, better still it will pay for itself in fuel economy in no time at all.

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20mpg is way low for the 2286 diesel, I got about 29 out of mine and on the north coast 500 with lots hammering on motorways dropped to 25, I’ve got a 200di in it now which was a straightforward swap, 300 tdi but more complicated as I understand , not sure if original gearbox is straight fit , with the tdi in you would probably need the diffs changing out of disco to keep the revs lower and increase the mpg

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Check the valuations on the Range Rover and you won’t want to break it !

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sounds like a plan
This is good site if not seen it before
https://www.steveparkers.com/conversions/300-tdi-engine-conversion-into-4-cyl-series-land-rovers/