Engine Conversion Options - Land Rover Series 3

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4 жыл бұрын

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The recent discovery of a crack in the engine block of my 2.25 diesel has prompted me to consider some options for possibly changing out the engine on my 1976 Land Rover Series 3 88". One option is to repair the block, either by having the cast iron welded by a professional or by a 'home' repair. Other petrol and diesel options are considered in the video. Although my Land Rover is a (rolling) restoration project I do like to keep it authentic. Maybe a 200tdi conversion would suit best? Or a V8? Or just go to petrol 2.25? Who knows - plenty of food for thought!
Not an LS swap though anyway!!!

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@Growlingv8 3 жыл бұрын

My son and I have done the 200tdi conversion into Series 3 without the turbo....it’s still a strong and powerful diesel without turbo and starts after half a turn in all weathers even without heater plugs. Look up Glencoyne Engineering.....the owner is really helpful - he has all the information you need to do this conversion. He also supplies quality parts you may need and can undertake some of the limited engineering needed.

@rodneyemmerich8828 3 жыл бұрын

Toyota 2,4D works well, done many times in South Africa. These engines are legendary for reliability and although not endowed with huge torque or power it will make your Landy a lot more usable and to be honest any more power in an old Landy would render it unsafe with its brakes, suspension and steering being what they are

@freetasman2342 3 жыл бұрын

A Tdi300 will be a beauty on it.

@clooperman3745 3 жыл бұрын

Had a series 3 diesel that had the 2.5 litre N/A diesel installed, straight swap basically, I had to relocate the battery under the passenger seat though, used to regularly get better than 30 mpg when used with the overdrive, a good choice if changing the engine without any major cutting to chassis or panels. The 3.9 litre fuel injected V8 is an excellent choice if you don't mind all the work involved and the grin will go from ear to ear!!!!!

@GeeenJ 3 жыл бұрын

a popular conversion here in australia was to put a Holden 186 red motor in landrovers fairly basic conversion

@barryt6277 3 жыл бұрын

I put the Rover SD1 V8 into my series 2, with the o/d. It was a really fast machine and quite economical, I was getting 25MPG on a run and could cruise all day at 70 MPH. I did upgrade the brakes, Used the ones from the old 1-ton and installed a servo. I had no problems with the standard transmission, although I never used my "lead" foot in first. The standard series3 rad, with electric fan only, will work ok for normal motoring. Good luck!

@Nigel-nar53 3 жыл бұрын

+1 for the 300tdi, great engine. 👍

@timbitscat4887 3 жыл бұрын

I have a series 3 88 here in Canada, I kept the diesel, and the 2.25 gaser, and installed a chev 4.3 V6 out of a chev S10. The original engines are clean and wrapped in plastic for the future, but the V6 fits nice, was an easy swap, and uses no more gas than stock. However the increase in BHP is very nice and the twin exhaust sounds great. Im also building an 88 into a rover 4.0 V8 at present, its an uphill battle. so much shifting about of things to make it fit, kind of goes againt my original goal of keeping everything stock and just adding the V8.

@julianthomson7398 3 жыл бұрын

I did a V8 conversion on my series 1 If I was going to fit a v8 again I would look into using a range rover gearbox as the conversion plate is expensive you also need to mod the crank or the input shaft on the gearbox. Loads of fun to drive when finished .

@MrLegograbber99 3 жыл бұрын

Use jb weld with fibre glass reinforcement tape. Just like a mesh. Do the repair with a large surface area and it will stick forever . Have done this on my 2.0 rover p4. Works perfectly :)

@stevbrkr 2 жыл бұрын

My first option would be to repair the block using the metal lock system, like cold stitching but better. I have had large tractor castings repaired using this method. If I was to convert, I would go for a straight six but rather than the 2.6 litre, I would use a 3 litre. Same engine block and they were used in the Rover 3 litre P5.

@MrConor159 3 жыл бұрын

I know you want to repaint it but it really does look good in back

@burtyw8815 3 жыл бұрын

My old S3 had a 3.6L FordSon Major Tractor engine. 4 pot! It only reved to 1800 rpm but it pulled like a train at lower revs.

@roysoondra3712 3 жыл бұрын

Hi there, here in Australia some of the earlier versions of land rovers as supplied to the Army had 3.9 litre isuzu 4 cylinder diesels .

@seancalderwood5267 3 жыл бұрын

I have swapped my 2.25 petrol for a 200tdi into my series 3, I used the engine mounts from a transit which reduces the vibration quite a lot. I also used higher ratio diffs which helped massively!

@nickhill3362 3 жыл бұрын

I took a Perkins engine out of a 1960's class matador combine in the late 80's and put it in my Range Rover it ran well but needed the diff ratios changing to give it more top end it earned it keep pulling my Diesel Bowser and plant trailer ect

@jiggermast 2 жыл бұрын

We fitted a Perkins Prima 2 litre turbo diesel in my brothers Series 2a, What a difference!! possibly the best engine Landrover never fitted, it halved the fuel usage & could happily cruise all day a 70mph.

@highdownmartin 3 жыл бұрын

200 tdi. I fitted the inter cooler and a 300 turbo/ manifold. (Better pipe work). The turbo spins up and probably isn’t essential but I’ve done it now!

@alanallington1001 3 жыл бұрын

Fill it with rad weld.

@stevehill4615 3 жыл бұрын

Have you considered having the block "metal stitched" (block is drilled along and across the crack and soft steel wedges are driven in and peened into the drillings to "fill" the crack) which may be possible in situ (depends on the company or how serious the crack is) but if not engine only has to be sent as unit only removing parts to allow access, we've just had an 8 litre Iveco diesel from a combine harvester with a 12" crack in the block repaired when finished you couldn't see the repair and was pressure tested as well.