missingsid Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 19 hours ago, Bowie69 said: No, I quite liked most of it. The wings are interesting, I like the style but surely not viable on a challenge truck? Trees etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Yeah, wings, and rear tub are interesting, but probably not one for bashing intro trees, I was about to write they must be fibreglass, but no, it is all steel fabrication, which I think is pretty cool. Quilted leather bucket seats means this is probably not a proper challenge vehicle, where solid plastic or aluminium wins out every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLineMike Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 55 minutes ago, Bowie69 said: Yeah, wings, and rear tub are interesting, but probably not one for bashing intro trees, I was about to write they must be fibreglass, but no, it is all steel fabrication, which I think is pretty cool. Quilted leather bucket seats means this is probably not a proper challenge vehicle, where solid plastic or aluminium wins out every time. all steel fabrication = sounds bloody heavy, main question would be whats it hiding underneath? in regards to the seats, id rather those than plastic or aluminium seats simple because id rather not have a broken back, alloy or plastic seats suck unless your planning on imitating a boat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 5 hours ago, ThreeSheds said: Well of course I know that, but I meant with regard to liking that Land Rover  same applies  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Poore Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 3:29 PM, ThreePointFive said: I would be interested in how a supercharged 300TDI drives Digging up an old post as I catch up on the thread but technically all 300Tdis are supercharged Can't find a better reference at the moment than Wikipedia  but I knew this fact from waay back when but anything that compresses air into the intake of an engine is supercharging the air, the original name for a turbo was a turbo supercharger because it supercharged the air into the engine by way of the exhaust gases (the turbo bit). Nowadays a supercharger is usually used to describe a mechanically driven compressor and a turbocharger is an exhaust gas driven one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Ed Poore said: the original name for a turbo was a turbo supercharger Entirely correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkie Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 As I understand it: early engine makers were gun smiths as they had the skills required of making a tight fitting object travel down a bore. You propel the tight fitting object (a shell or cannon ball) with an explosive charge. A gun can be thought of as a one shot engine. In the same way a charge of air/fuel (or air for a diesel) is drawn into the cylinder of an engine when naturally aspirated to explode and force the piston down the bore on the power stroke. If the air is forced in under pressure the charge of air will be greater, hence the name supercharged. There are a number of ways of compressing the air to achieve a supercharge. A turbo is just one way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-90-Defender-/133677295323?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292  thoughts everyone ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 An early factory V8? Almost worth it, in these days of crazy prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcock Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 17 minutes ago, Anderzander said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-90-Defender-/133677295323?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292  thoughts everyone ? Well it will fit in a multi storey car park. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger110 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Not sure the gold spare wheel is going to fit. Â However for that price, it's worth a punt if the bulkhead and chassis are decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 55 minutes ago, Bowie69 said: An early factory V8? Almost worth it, in these days of crazy prices. DVLA have it as a 2.5 diesel ... so it’s an engine swap... 😕 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 That's a shame.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eightpot Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Saw this come up on one of the FB groups last night - thought it might be harbouring a merlin engine or something but its 300tdi, mods are purely aesthetic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingsid Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, Eightpot said: Saw this come up on one of the FB groups last night - thought it might be harbouring a merlin engine or something but its 300tdi, mods are purely aesthetic   Surely "aesthetic" implies a visual improvement?  3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 21 minutes ago, missingsid said: Surely "aesthetic" implies a visual improvement? Â Quite, 'visual' may be a better description, or maybe just 'barbarous'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blanco Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Beauty is considered to be in the eye of the beholder .......  we just don't know which eye, where he keeps it , or what he feeds it on;  clearly it is capable of a perspective outside of normal parametres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLineMike Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, Blanco said: Beauty is considered to be in the eye of the beer holder .......  we just don't know which eye, where he keeps it , or what he feeds it on;  clearly it is capable of a perspective outside of normal parametres. fixed it for you 😎 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 That's horrible, I feel sorry for the 110. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger110 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021  I was going to say i liked the colour but I won’t because I don’t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Wouldn’t be too hard to put it back to standard though ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Poor thing!! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzar Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Why did they do that? Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blanco Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 3 hours ago, RedLineMike said: fixed it for you 😎 nice one.... had to read it twice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eightpot Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 The back of that 110 was as bad as the front - I didn't have chance to grab a pic as I got kicked out of the facebook group for mocking it 🤣 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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