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Hi all, I finally got my Defender 90 running, after much trial and error, so I thought I may as well post a picture of the finished product. She ain't no looker, with that dog-**** brown paint job, but under the hood where it counts, she's downright illegal. Fitted a stainless steel set of...

Hi all, so I've got this D90 fitted with a 3.9V8 and an LT95 4-speed manual gearbox out of an early Rangie, and as soon as I got it running and out on the road, I noticed that I have to shift gears at very slow speeds to keep the rpm down, and that the gearbox whines louder than expected at the...

Hi all, In my quest to squeeze more horses out of the 3.9liter V8 in my recently assembled Defender 90, I fitted the engine with a Holley Truck Avenger 470 CFM carb, sitting on an Edelbrock intake maifold. At first, despite my use of the agricultural 4-Speed gearbox in the D90, I was...

Even though I've already purchased a Holley carb, which means I am already pretty much committed to using a Rover V8 in my Defender 90, I am still very curious about other V8 options, given the less than enviable track record of all Rover V8's larger than the 3.5 liter. There has been talk...

Hi all, Thanks to some helpful advice from the folks at another Land Rover forum, I am compiling a shopping list of components for what I think will work with a 4.6 Rover V8 installation into a Land Rover Defender 90, but I also thought there would be no harm in hearing a second opinion on how...