Recent content by LetsHopeItFits

Yes, that might be helpful... North Wales, but willing to move if a very good opportunity were to be offered. Yes, exactly. And Im almost certainly worse at it than you! I used to blame it on a lack of tools (i.e. not having the snazy electric impact guns etc etc) but really the only tool...

You can have a Rover V8 rebuilt to any specification you like. They were installed in TVRs with displacements of 5.0L and well over 300hp (I dont remember the numbers exactly). The standard carby 3.5 came as mild as 135hp, and 155 with EFI, or 190hp in TVR 350i flavour. The 3.9 made 275hp in the...

So - a few of me may have seen my previous threads/posts - Ill be the first to admit that Im not a great at fixing cars, particularly when things go wrong (e.g. rusty nuts, other peoples questionable electrical repairs, etc). Im not too bad when it comes to the theory, but then almost anyone can...

Yes yes, Ive been dealing with another project, which I hope to finnish soon (and then sell) so then I'll be back to faffing around with the disco.

Its a 3.9, I dont think they ever came with a flapper, did they? Its got what I assumed was a maf sensor, looks like a black plastic rectangle on a metal cylinder; like this -...

Might be a stupid question - his mine a "hotwire" ecu? I think I know what the problem might be, and I think someone might have suggested it already, and one of the garages it went to may have ballsed it up since then. I bet its the wire from the ignition coil to the ECU.

It was on sand.... And I had All Terrain tyres, and a locked center diff. He had road tyres and a Haldex AWD system. Its amazing what you learn when you decide you can be arsed to read. Yeah, Im thinking more of doing a longer trip to somewhere sandy, thats where the extra power of the V8 will...

Another thing has just sprung to mind, Ive only ever driven, and heard reports from people who drive in the UK. How does the fuel consumption of the V8 and the 300tdi compare when driving offroad? Either low-range, technical driving, when I guess its more appropriate to measure fuel use in...

Thanks - Id happily say that my standard V8 manual is a lot quicker than an alive tuning 190hp TD5 defender 110, I know because Ive tested it, drag racing on a beach. Both with KO2 AT tyres, although mine was on 235/70r16 and the 110 had 235/85r16, but then the transfer gearing sort of makes up...

Yeah, Im quite happy to change the turbo, Id just like to know how much boost/power I can expect the engine to cope with. If Im going to hate driving it because its got no power, no matter what mods I do, then Ill stick with the V8, and see if theres anything I can do to make it use less fuel.

This was my thought exactly when I bought the V8, especially when at the time it was almost £600 cheaper to insure the V8 than in was the diesel, and there was an LPG station near me, and at the tipe petrol was 104.9p/L because covid. But within a year, I was paying over £1.90/L, and it was...

Okay, answering my own question, but Id still appreciate peoples best guesses as to an actual BHP figure. So heres what to do - Get a standard 300tdi, and make sure its in good condition, fresh coolant, of the correct type, mixed in the correct ratio, no blocked radiators, not obstructed by any...

Ive got a discovery. But theyre all basically the same, and the 1970 RRC had 135hp, which is more than any standard diesel defender ever had. Its all about driving them conservatively. Probably so many defenders crashed because people bought them as fashion statements and drove them like cars...

No, but occasional heavy towing on steep hills, etc. Also obviously being quicker than your mates is also cool.

Thats double what I got from the V8. What breaks on the 300tdi if its pushed too hard? Presumably the headgasket? Or does it run out of fuelpump and run too lean and melt a piston? And how hard has it got to be pushed to do that?