whats the best defender engine ? poll

got the normal t box we towed a 8 tone horse box with siezed brakes for 3 miles and it was in high box

defender/discovery said:

got the normal t box we towed a 8 tone horse box with siezed brakes for 3 miles couldnt get outa first but she wernt struggling and it as i high box

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When ye say 'normal' t box, how do ye mean?
It's just that the 'normal' one ah had in the bus (1991 J reg) turned out to be an LT230R. When ah come to change the boxes over, the t box turned out to be an LT230T later type.... All ah can say is 'What a difference'!! Ah almost forget to change into 5th gear goin' by sound!!!!

Forgot to say, the one ah changed it with came out of another 200tdi 1991 Defender

the t box that came with it origanally it a 92 plate

Love my gmc 6.5 turbo, for shear brute force, and like 300 tdi's as they are more refined than 200 tdi's

This thread has popped up 3 times now saying there's a new post, and there hasn't been. So God damn it I'm going to make one.

300 by far iv no cat egr or big tax fine unlike the newbys

TheVengefulElephant said:

This thread has popped up 3 times now saying there's a new post, and there hasn't been. So God damn it I'm going to make one.

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That's because someone voted Nelly

Yeah I worked that out the other day I int being very quick recently am I haha.

as the 200tdi looks like it has won can we not see this poll again for a while got bored of it now

what about the 2.8 based on the tdi engine hmmmmmmmmmmmm

What 2.8 based on the tdi? There was a 2.8 petrol beemer engine for a while... demand wasn't high

the International HS 2.8L TGV

baised on the Tdi made in india

think the LRO disco has one inplanted in it proper engine more power more touque

I'd vote for the 200 if I didn't have a V8

Like has been said, it depends what for. For posing about on the road or if you've the money to use garages to buy new electronic bits then I guess the bigger and newer engines are better - for ease of repair when breaking down in the middle of nowhere then the simpler older diesels with minimal electrics (my mates Disco managed to disable the engine AND lock him out when the alarm chip fried itself.. another reason I like older vehicles without fancy electronics). I remember my old 2.25 diesel harness went on fire (original cloth covered wiring). I switched all the electrics off and drove home! Even my 1984 model won't do that- so if I'd been in the middle of a forest (quite a regular thing for me), I'd have preffered that old underpowered thing to even the quickest most poweful engine in those circumstances. If all is always going to work and not break down then 300TDI ... but when the sh** hits the fan give me as simple an engine as possible.

2.8L Tdi POWERSTROKE - International 2.8L HS - LandyOnline Workshop

Fook ME look at the torque on THAT!

Mind you... I still reckon a 5.9litre Cummins B6 would be a better bet for the money

Cummins B Series engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adz said:

2.8L Tdi POWERSTROKE - International 2.8L HS - LandyOnline Workshop

Fook ME look at the torque on THAT!

Mind you... I still reckon a 5.9litre Cummins B6 would be a better bet for the money

Cummins B Series engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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cummins engine .... now yer talkin that would be good in yer landrover ... bit big tho ... as it ever bin done ??

choppa said:

cummins engine .... now yer talkin that would be good in yer landrover ... bit big tho ... as it ever bin done ??

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ave seen a V8 Perkins doozel, out of a lorry, fitted in a Series.
sounded nice!

my friend has a perkins diesel in his series 2a 109.
think its near 4 litres and was taken from a massey ferguson tractor.
has a rediculous amount of torque, and is so damned noisy, and un surprisingly it sounds like a tractor

The other half of one of my missus work colleagues has a v8 denzel lump in his series. He can't use the available torque off road for fear of ripping his drivetrain to bits.