plasticbadger Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I may have stubbled across a slightly sick 2100cc Steyr marine M40 engine (marine version of M14, 164hp / 320Nm) and I can't help picturing it in a Landrover.... It's reasonably open knowledge that Ricardo fitted Landrover Wolf WMIK upgraded vehicles with a Steyr diesel engine when under taking the 4.1T GVW upgrade, though there's seems to be little knowledge on whether it was the 6 cylinder M16 engine or the 4 cylinder M14 engine. So my question is, does anybody know what gearbox they used or if there's any history of the M14 engine being fitted to an R380 gearbox? Obviously anything is possible and if this project went ahead I'd need to de-marinise the engine anyway, so extra work to fit to the gearbox would be fine, but I'd like a starting point of whether there's some history / parts that would help! Alternatively does anybody know of any cheap Steyr powered donor vehicles that could donate flywheel, clutch, bell housing etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanuki Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 "De-marinising" an engine can be tricky: marine engines (like generator and industrial/agricultural-utility engines) are often tweaked to operate at peak efficiency over a rather narrowly governed rev-range. Converting them back to vehicle wide-rev-range duty can include changing the injection-pump/governor [or the ECU], the camshaft, and the turbo/wastegate setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSD Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 It's reasonably open knowledge that Ricardo fitted Landrover Wolf WMIK upgraded vehicles with a Steyr diesel engine when under taking the 4.1T GVW upgrade, though there's seems to be little knowledge on whether it was the 6 cylinder M16 engine or the 4 cylinder M14 engine. Steyr appears to suggest it was the M14, http://www.steyr-motors.com/automotive/applications-gallery/ricardo-defender-m14-vti-168/ News to me, I thought I had read the WMIK had a 2.8 of some form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 This is all news to me, I've been up close with wmik's and never knew they had something interesting under the bonnet. I would have taken a closer look at the mechanics of it if I'd known Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticbadger Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 "De-marinising" an engine can be tricky: marine engines (like generator and industrial/agricultural-utility engines) are often tweaked to operate at peak efficiency over a rather narrowly governed rev-range. Converting them back to vehicle wide-rev-range duty can include changing the injection-pump/governor [or the ECU], the camshaft, and the turbo/wastegate setup. True, and this is a water jet application engine, designed to work best at high revs, similar to generator and static engines. I can get it re-mapped to stern drive spec giving a much wider torque band like an automotive engine. I would also have to re-rig the front belts to remove the raw water pump, remove the cooler, remove the charge cooler and replace the exhaust manifold.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason110 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Afternoon chaps! If you need, I have pdf's of steyr engines. We use them in the rescue boats on my tanker. Cheers jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticbadger Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 Thanks Jason, I have all the technical info for the marine engines and 2 in the workshop at the moment, so I'm ok on that front. The key to my vapour idea is how to connect one to a suitable gearbox.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 What I would like to know is how the rest of the Wolf was modified to have a GVW of 4100 KG's ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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