honitonhobbit
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So do I! Can't be doing with lowering the standards. I'm quite looking forward to it actually. I've not been back up to the factory for 15 years and it's changed enormously. I'll try and drop over to the Jungle Track just for old times sake and see if building P38 is still about
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I'm up to Reborn on Tuesday - got me a couple of VIP tickets for the tour, before they close the tour section in March. Going to touch a £135k RRC as well. Quick tour of the production line, lunch and maybe high tea
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It's horses for courses really
Australia and the UK are a bit different in there requirements. Taking bullocks to market in the UK might be as much as 20 miles and maybe 3 squeezed in a cattle trailer on a the back of a 90. Anymore and you get a wagon in to do the move. So a 122bhp/212ftlb 5 cylinder donk is the height of refinement and a 2.25 diesel donk did the job better than a 2.4 NAD Hilux. Why would you want a 60 series Landbarge if all your gates were 6' and you couldn't drive the fields for half a year AND it used fuel like a Glaswegian drinks Buckfast. Also you can't open gates with a Landbarge. I think if you look carefully you will find old series motors all over - although most are being rounded up and shipped to Lode Lane for the reborn Project. As for missed sales - as I keep saying LR is a low volume manufacturer. They like to make big money on a small number of vehicles not small money on loads. Shifting stuff 'Down Under' used up valuable profit so why not just let the Colonial Johnnies make do with stuff form Japan?
As for Purists - there are tens of thousands of annually retentive LR purists scattered across the globe! Each one more dangerous than the next. I supply the example of the initial DC100 concept vehicle and its response as evidence
By the way do you mean the manual box in the Mk1 Trooper? The auto was made of mouldy chees and cold soup
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On 13/02/2017 at 2:44 PM, Davo said:
But the simple fact is that they dominate markets like where I live and other remote places, and they do so because they suit the market and have the support. They're not great cars but they've never been that bad, either, and Toyotas here are as close to having a religion as some people will get. (Which is as spooky as it sounds, but it's true!)
I'd love it if Land Rover managed to make an actual workhorse, but my money says they'll screw it up somehow.
Of course I'd love it if they produced something great, but it would be a huge leap from what they've done for the last two or so decades.
But Land Rover did make a work horse - a number of very good ones. Okay so they weren't suited to most of Australia's requirements; but you can go anywhere in rural Australia and find working Land Rovers. You try finding an old Toyota over here! All rotten - even early 80 series - unless grey imports. Shame, but simply not up to the job, same with Nissan, Isuzu, Suzuki, Land Rover...
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in excess of £5 billion on the classic market annually
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7 minutes ago, Davo said:
Well . . . . . . . . they don't exactly have the best track record up until now. It's like [insert favourite hopeless British institution here] suddenly becoming useful and efficient. It's a nice idea . . . but . . .
On the other hand, can I tell you about something called a LandCruiser?
I am unaware of Ineos failing to do anything but be successful. Most low production car manufacturers in the UK are successful. TVR, Morgan, Bowler, Foers, to name but a few
As for Land Rover Vs. Toyota; folk often forget that Land Rover is and always has been a low volume producer. Toyota moved past that point back in the 60's and as such had money and need to develop the doorstep markets like Australia. As for no being useful and efficient. Look closer at Toyota, Nissan and Isuzu etc. Great vehicles but just as many faults - just faster solutions; apart from rust
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1 hour ago, Bowie69 said:
Yeah, read that, the radio gives much more/better info.
I do enjoy Radio 4
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Ditto
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Between 0730 and 0755 this morning - I was on my way to site whilst it was on...
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Calliper pistons are good - but not the seals
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The interview with The MD of Ineos, on Radio 4 this morning was very refreshing
One got the feeling that they have done research and are aware of what they are doing - and they have the cash to do it
LR are a low volume manufacturer. The last years of production they squeezed out 20k or so Defenders. That's b*gger all
So remove the 50% of poseurs, concentrate on the utitlity market and look to move on 10k of cars in year 2/3
They want to build a UTILITY vehicle with good off road capability. Simples
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I do wonder if the farming market is that important to LR. They dumped the military years back. Most farmers are happy with either a pickup or a quad. Most forestry/arb/landscape/countryside management types went to pickups years back. Also why build something with decent off road ability? Who needs it? Only a tiny percentage of potential users...
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. With an electronically managed engine, within reason more power is simples. With a proper engine it's proper mechanics. Not boost pins
Recently fitted an OM 617 Turbo pump to an OM 605 conversion in a G wagen. Didn't want the electrics. It works remarkably well. Now comes the tweaking...
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Hello matey... Long time no see. Miss those days of patching your 110 up at OEC
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Made in Mexico.... How old id you say they were?
Argentina makes a lot of shocks - most are generic; so does Canada. But these are assembly lines. Bits are made in China, Taiwan, India, Australia etc... Like the 'Merican made Warn Winch.
My 200Tdi runs Raw 4x4 Heavy Duty shocks. These were one of the best Australian shocks, then the factory in Argentina decided to swap the assembly works to Canada. So the disgruntled staff in Argentina starting sabotaging stuff... Shocks started failing when you lowered the vehicle off the jack. Suddenly the Raw 4x4 name was mud... My first set did just this - well two did; one front, one rear. Just dumped all the oil out of the seals in one big splurge. The imported honoured the sale and gave me a new set. That was three years ago. Brilliant shocks. Slightly hard, but I prefer that - don't like soft and squidgy
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Search Daan's build thread on his hybrid - he worked around that. I've machined one down with a die grinder - but no fitted it yet; done the same with a standard intercooler
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Dave Vizard was a bit of a hero of mine in the good old days. His flow bench techniques were very useful.
The thing to remember with a 200 or 300 is that you will always be robbing Peter to pay Paul. Except maybe with the 300 EDC lump. I find it's better to make them run as well as the factory intended, then start tuning works. And don't use an after market boost pin
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I'd go Bilstein B6's at about the same money
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Made in China now - at a price
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One of my 200's was in an RRC. At the time I was a contributing journohack for Total Off Road and wrote a piece on Allisport. Andy fitted a full width cooler and did some pump tweaking. It ran well - but there were issues, especially with low end off boost fuelling. So I went to Power-crazy Motorsport in Devon, who at the time were fooling around with XUD9 engines in rally cars. They tuned the pump and tweaked the turbo but on a rolling road - so it was very fine tuning. We also removed the full size intercooler as it was causing problems (simply too big unless I went the route of a higher output turbo). We fitted an Allisport 300tdi cooler designed for the Discovery auto. About 50% uprated. It ran 150+bhp and 265ft/lb
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Unless I get offered one as a company car, it isn't happening. One of the joys of having small and expensive children and living in a beautiful part of the country is that we have to stick with cheaper cars. Having said that I love my Discovery. It might be old, but it's comfortable, economic and generally reliable
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My 100" never had the relay fitted - never got round to it. Still started in -16 with no issues
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I've had a fair few 200's - I did work out how many once, but have since forgotten
I've never experienced hi temp issues - although my RRC with the 150+bhp 200Tdi in it did run warm once when the thermocouple failed; but that was going up Holden Hill at 80mph. This RRC had a Racetech oil Temp and Pressure gauge fitted. I don't remember the oil ever going over 90... But I tended not to use the gauge much because of it's position. I'm a great fan of a decent pressure gauge though - you can tell when your oil is getting too warm
The only one of the lot I ever experienced annoying slow warm up issues with was my 100" Hybrid. My present Disco is warm and toastie within 3 miles of the house and produces decent heat no matter what. I do have a genuine radiator cowl for a 200 Disco though - so land rover di accept it could be a problem...
I used a couple of smaller PC cooling fans (hi flow) on a mount behind the intercooler on the 100" - no thermo switch - just on and off....
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My thermo switch was in a threaded receiver directly above the outlet
I don't know much about temps - mainly because I've only ever fitted one of my many 200's with an accurate oil temp gauge. I was only discussing this with a friend last night
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New Def Neddy
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Yup - that's the one