Peugeot 2.3 diesel in a Series

I've got a 2.25 petrol in my Series 3. It is by far the thirstiest car I know of! I'd be genuinly suprised if I was getting near 15mpg with it! It's also knocking slightly and refused to start on me this morning...

A bit backwards in my way I've already bought a diesel engine off ebay and now thought I'd ask you lot what you thought of it?


It's a 2.3 peugeot 2.3 NA diesel that will bolt right in to a Series. I'm assuming it will be marginally better on fuel, torquier, just as slow and allow me to run on atleast some veg oil. I've been told some injection pumps arent happy running on veg oil. Will this engine run on it? And even if it isn't ideal for the pump I'm guessing I can run maybe a mix of VO and diesel?


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I have seen the pug 2.3d before a couple of times, but I never knew it fitted the landy box.
If the injector pump is a bosch then theres a good chance it'll burn veggie, lucas, some cav's and rotodiesels wont unless you mix it or preheat it.

Interesting, my jago jeep has a sierra 2.5d lump, didnt know its a pug.

I picked this engine up last weekend. It doesn't fit on to the Series box Dr P, it has a bell housing adaptor plate on it. Turns out its a rotodiesel pump so straigh veg oil is a no no. I can run it mixed though you say? What kind of percentages do you reckon to be safe? I'm only planning on using new stuff and will get hold of an heat exchanger if it means I can run more veg oil.


I'm in a bit of a predicament at the moment. My daily drive, a 250hp Saab has blown its gear box up. That means I'm having to use my Landy every day for work, it gets worse, in about 3 weeks time I'm going to head down to Yeovil, 2-300 mile round trip, to pick a gear box up for the Saab. I don't really think my wallet will take fueling a Series for that kind of distance What do you reckon I could eek out of it mpg wise with this non turbo 2.3 diesel? I have free wheeling hubs, 7.5-16 tyres which are quite chunky and no over drive...

I'm trying to work out if it'll be cheaper to insure my dads 306 diesel for the day and useing that

I wouldnt worry bout the 300 mile trip, whats it gonna cost 50 quid, it'd cost 35 quid in my little punto, unless your driving one of these guys landys that does 7 mpg the difference wont insure a car for the day.
Erm, the rotodiesel seems to handle about 60/40 on the diesel side, I believe some run50/50 with no trouble, it just so happens that I have taken the engine out of the mrs's xantia and put it on ebay, anyway the xantia has a engine water heated oil filter, might be interesting for you, in fact the xantia used a pug diesel motor, theres a good chance the pump would fit with a bit of tweaking, most xantia's have the bosch pump and heated fuel filter, might be worth yourself a trip to the breakers.
Its really hard to guess the economy on a landy with that engine, my jeep is very good, about 45mpg, but its a lot lighter, I'd expect upwards on 25mpg maybe 30.
Whats wrong with the saab, I beleive those things primary drive to the 'box from the crank is a chain.

A 100 miles trip cost me £50 the other day Can't wait to ditch the petrol engine, its quite worn out...


The pump on this engine is chain driven so can't imagine its an easy job trying to swap the pumps about. It's got a water heated oil filter but not fuel filter so I'll check that out.


I would be very happy with 25+mpg! Lets wait and see how it is...


The Saab is a 9000 so has a conventional transverse fwd lay out. Driveshaft cup exploded allowing the driveshaft to swing round and smash a big hole in the box. Lovely