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Just came across this thread myself. Fabulous work as expected given the work done on the cars. Have been following your Gordon Murray Escort videos. I'm putting an OM606 turbo into a 1986 Merc S124 myself at present but I also have a RR Classic needin restoration and this is making me think seriously now about a Merc engine for that as well.

OOOh I really like the look of that Range Rover. Any more progress on it?

When I do this I'll be looking for BMW E46 convertible front seats. They both tilt and have the seat belts integral to them.

Make one - with the pattern hammered or rolled into a flat sheet. Do a web search on a pullmax (or similar type machine) machine and use beading dies. If you can find someone with one of those you are sorted. I just recently bought a mahcine liek this for £200 but I'm in Ireland and I don;t have it up and running yet. I'd say if you put a call out on http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/ there would be someone on there who could make one. I know there is at least one guy on there with a Trumpf reciprocating machine.

Hi I had the exact same problem with my P38. It's a while ago now and I've since sold it so I am working from memory. It was not the pollen filter as the entry to this is raised so water can't flow up hill. If you take off the black plastic panel below the windscreen there are some screws holding this and a few more panels to the bulkhead. Even though the screws were present the water was getting through the plastic captive nuts for these screws. Just found my post about it here on another forum.My link

Hope someone replies to this. I'm contemplpating something similar. Have an LT95 in my classic and I have an overdrive to fit but I'm wondeirng if it would be better to just get a 5 speed.

You can get teh original HK stereo repaired and modified to connect the Ipod. See here for someone that got it done. http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f10/info-onl...pair-69008.html

Excellent. Thanks for those maps. Much appreciated. Should help me a lot when I get ready to start up.

Ian Could you post up your maps anyway as I will be squirting a standard 3.5 using V3 MS1 so hopefully it should work for me. On your description of the water pipes - was there a changeover period on how these were routed - mine ('89 engine) are routed back to the heater outside the plenum (over the drivers side rocker cover) but I have the older type injectors - connected to the fuel rail with little lengths of pipe..... One other question. There is a water heated plate underneath the throttle body on the 3.5 I have. Do you think this is necessary when converting to megasquirt? I guess it's for preventing icing or something like that in cold climates but my logic tells me cold air = better performance (in our relatively mild climate)?

Thanks for all the helpful replies folks. Geoff - I probably will be converting to Megasquirt straight away once I get the mechanical swap done. It's actually a flapper system so just in case there are any delays with the Megasquirt I can always do a temp job to keep me on the road as fitting the Lucas loom I believe isn't too much bother.

Hi I've decided to swap the engine in my '73 Range Rover (Stromberg carbed V8 engine) for a 3.5 89 V8 with EFI (The 73 engine is still good but I want to convert to EFI so decided rather than just swapping inlet manifolds to swap the whole engine to avail of the higher compression on the 89 unit) Once that is done I will then be converting the EFI to Megesquirt. I've just started the process of removing the 89 engine. My questions are related to the engine swap. The 89 is an Auto and the '73 is obviosuly a manual. 1) Will the 73 flywheel just bolt straight onto the 89 engine? 2) Will the 89 twin outlet manifolds and downpipes clear the LT95 gearbox? 3) Are there any other gotchas that I might be missing?

I think I know the ones you are talking about - like the wheels fitted to the A-Team van.....

Never mind the enviro BS (sure it's all a great swindle anyway). I was interested in the fact you could get more power from E85. Of course it wouldn't hurt that to the green heads, a vehicle running E85 appears to be saving the planet....

Read this thread about a guy here in Ireland who converted a Nissan 200SX. http://www.sxoc.co.uk/vbb/showthread.php?t=279342

Why don't you put all the running gear into a >30 year old Rangie and then you have a nice Range Rover with cheap tax. Or put the Rangie body & running gear onto a 30 year old Rangie chassis (like I have at teh moment) - same result - more comfort.