jules
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There is a engine builder in Bournemouth/ Poole are a mate is having his D2 ~V8 rebuild with top hats etc... a BMW lump may be a more expensive and overrated engine, having said that I did bump into a chap that had a M5 engine in his LM322.
Don't you have to tale the body off a LM to get the engine out.
I digress let me know if you want to know the name of the company which are doing the rebuild.
My P38 was converted in a place nr Winchester to LPG and I have done 10,000miles and I have been very pleased with it so far
Jules
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I'm going in 2011 I will either be in the Range Rover but I will try to take the 110, I'm going with about ten mates they have some very sexy cars and I will be the water carrier
I carry the freezer and Genny etc.
I went before in 05 and 08.
I have never taken girlies along as its always been very much a lads weekend.
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Tuesday morning at 6am my rangy point blank refused to start. well once I managed to get into it. so I left it home and took the 90
After work thinking its due to a remote flat battery I tried again and after entering the key code and resynchronizing the key but no Joy I gave up and phoned a mate Pete Barret at Stunning services he came out to plug the car in after a little while we worked out the main BECM was shot...
it thought my car as LHD and a manual from Canada by this time it was 11pm so all we could do was remove it from the car ready to be replacedat this point I was prperly grumpy as a nother friends P38 had just toasted its BECM and that cost him well over £600 to repair it.
Pete of Stunning recommended a company called Callrova, I spoke to them the following morning and said he needed the cars engine ECU as well and post it, I ended up driving over to Brighton to drop it off that evening. I spoke to them the next morning by the afternoon the unit was ready for collection, they helped me out by getting the unit to Chichester for my wife to collect which meant I could have the unit back in the car ready for the weekend.
Sat morning I refitted the unit in the Rangy and all back up and running
So all in I got my BECM fixed in a few days and it cost me less than £300 and had fantastic service from both firms, bearing in mind the BECM's normally carry a bill of seven hundred to a thousand pounds to get repaird.
Callrova fixed the BECM
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The land cruisers are very tuff and fairly capable I drove one a few hundred miles out in UEA dunes.
I found primarily that the handling leaves a little to be desired,
Also I was under the impression driving at night in open bush was dangerous because of animals and carp roads etc...
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I love my 300TDi
- i'll not annoy you V8 disciples any further! Well, OK then....Manual with a R380 - 33-35mpg.
Ashcroft rebuilt Auto: 29-33mpg
With horsebox -
Now, if someone were to tell me I could get a L322 V8 oil burner in my RRC, i'd be happy to be getting 10-12mpg for that sort of torque!
I remember that days of having a 300tdi then a td5 but I have saved myself a now fortune by switching to an LPG rangy.
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My 4lt P38 returns 19.8 mpg on LPG and I don't hang about, I do 100 miles a day, every day in it and that the average over the last 3000 miles.
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Funny
Win I was racing still I spoke to Esso a few years ago and ended up being recommended to use millers additive to improve the octane
But what do I know
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I thinks it's cool bit of a blast from the past
it reminds me of the Banyards citron racer and there Porsche
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I think they should just confiscate the fingers as evidence.
better off just to be on the safe side removal from the wrist that way its harder for them to get mixed up.
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No sorry, if we can't get the numbers we can't do much about it.
But seven sisters is next month
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I bet chip can't beleive his luck to get it back
mmmm
I live on a main road and it's a constant worry for me time to dig out the big yellow steering lock things
maybe a tracker would be an idea
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I'm affraid due to poor numbers I have to cancel the Green lane day next week.
I will hope to run the event later in the year.
Julian
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Active8 is great stuff put it in everything even auto boxes just read carefully as its dear and you don't want to waste it I've been using it for years and its limited danger when I have abused stuff.
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i'd like to partake
cool
visit some of the links above or PM me if you want any more details
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There are a few places still left if anyone is intrested
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Yes, I liked the map, which was in the brochure on the LRO stand in the middle of the show.
Shame it wasn't given when you paid as I spent an hour and a half wandering round without a clue where anything was.
There was a map
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I’m surprised there are note many posted say weather people enjoyed the show and the new layout etc. I enjoyed it and had a great time thanks to the giggle pin guys for making us so welcome and the maverick 4x4 guys as well
I went not planning on buying anything, how ever came away with a full stainless system for the 110 and a set of 1250 MK2’s for it along with some smaller bits and bobs.
SWMBO is not a good influence, we looked at all sorts of rims as well but I couldn’t talk her into any….
Did anyone else see anything they liked?
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Jules
Thank you, can you tell me where I can buy a CV joint for the end of the prop shaft or will I have to get a whole new prop?
I would recomend taking it off to have a goodlook first, Whe I reolaced mine I had to buy a new prop but they may now do them
you can drive without the prop on and also you can see if the vibration stops
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I take it I didn't win
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Deffo be up to that!! sounds fun, in my neck of the woods too
Has everyone who wants to go emailed me as facebook is starting to book but we do have a few spaces left..
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as you go round a corner the front inside wheel would lift off the deck, that would be a blast to drive, that is until you hit something and died horribly
I've seen a S1 with a coil rear conversion which had two springs and a similar arraignment with the leafs but it was about fifteen years ago I saw that.
even as for trialing the rear diff would need to be locked as there is no weight being distubuted through from the front so the front axle is useles as it would just keep lifting wheels because there is nothing pushing it back down.
Also whats the top of the spring fixed to
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My 2000 P38 4.6 with about 99k on the clock varies depending on what sort of journey I'm doing. Certainly I can see (from a reset) up to 26 miles per gallon if I'm simply doing clear motorway work and on a reasonable 28 mile commute (combined local and motorway work) I tend to average out at about 19.5 over a period of a week doing nothing aside from the commute.
I did fit an ITG Maxgen Airfilter in place of the original and this seemed to improve consumption by up to 10%.
Round town it tends to be closer to 15mpg - and towing the horse trailer (laden) means the average falls to 10 to 14 (again depending on whether this is short or more sustained distance work) which I'm still quite happy with (or at least was before petrol went over the 120p per litre price.)
I still tend to think the V8 burns fuel as a function of time rather than anything else (though maybe this isn't the case if you travel at 70mph rather than 65!)
I have been reluctant to go to gas because of the up front cost, but I'm beginning to think again about this - however if it means falling from say 19 to 10 MPG for the commute then the benefit is maybe not so good. I'd be interested to know what you get after you gas yours! Keep us updated.
Thanks
Martin
My 4lt P38 is now converted to LPG and as a massive skeptic I have to say I'm very impressed.
I recon it will have paid for its self very soon have done 2500 miles over the last month in it.
I drove to PPC up north of Preston last weekend and the RR did 21 mpg all the way there and 19mpg on the way back towing the racer on the trailer sitting between 60 -70 on the way home and 80 all the way there. 270 miles each way and the round trip cost less £100 which is why I'm very happy with it. My TD5 D2 couldn't have got even close to that.
I get in a drive I never have to worry just top the gas up when it bleeps other wise I don't need to do anything its completely automatic.
I never really trusted the tip info but having just worked it out it's there and there abouts.
There are only two downers I have to fill up more regularly than I did in the Td5 disco and in the wet with a full tank of gas and full of petrol the rear end steps out on round about basically if drifts much better but the wife complains. Can't win them all
I agree about V8's use fuel in time not revs.
My challenge 90 would use fuel by time meening a 8 hr comp would use a full tank and a jerry can was always nr by, my racer is not the same but its very track dependant and can be between 5 and 10mpg but its 340 bhp with only 3speed box that things fuel needs are a lottery.
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Hi guys,
Ok. I took my freelander to my local garage and it turned out to be the following:-
New CV boot kit
Handbrake had siezed, new shoes, cables etc etc.
Thanks for all of your help.
By the way, does anyone have a digital display for sale for the dashboard. Scoured my local scrap yards and can't find one yet.
Cheers
Paul
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there was a recall on the handbrake sounds like yours slipped through.
drop in to a freindly LR dealer (if you can find a freindly one) and ask then to look up on the system if all your cars recalls have been done, it may be too old but it may not.
do you mean the clock, they are hard to find but they are about. a frind of mine has a Range Rover brakers and he has a V6 freelander in call him he may have a clock, Martin 07885399785
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1) There is a CV joint on the end of the prop shaft as it meets the IRD I have broken one of these after racing with a broken engine mount damaged it. this will give a aggressive vibration it (looks like a spacer).
2) up to you I didn't when I broke mine but I didn't do any real mileage in the racer is it leaking oil.
3) I think it's the front props CV but I could be wrong it not very common for them to fail having said that if its split and all the grease has leaked out then it will fail.
4) you can buy new gaiters and fix it urgently as all the grease will come out then the CV its self die rapidly and need replacing, they are expensive in comparison to a £10 CV gaiter. I have killed many this way if a gator splits the cv would not last long at all in racing conditions a few laps maybe a quick fix short term is repack it with grease then rap the gaiter in self amalgamating tape ensuring it can't catch the shocks etc. which are very close to it that will stop any damage to the CV until you can get it fixed but keep checking its not split again
it thought my car as LHD and a manual from Canada by this time it was 11pm so all we could do was remove it from the car ready to be replaced
Rebuilding a 4.4ltr V8 - 2002 RR
in International Forum
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Magnum Engines Ltd
38, Banbury Rd, Nuffield Industrial Estate, Poole, Dorset BH17 0GA
I havn't used them myself but he speeks very highly of them. They don't have a website from what I can tell
jules