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200TDI or V8EFI

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Range Rover Blues:
Sorry, what's this cack about TDis being easier to work on than a V8 :shock:

Hogwash.

A pair of head gaskets on a V8, £40, couple of afternoon's work and a light skim in between.

TDi head, small fortune, local engineering shop wouldn't touch it, more than a week off the road.

V8 hits water, miss fires, v7 leaves water.
TDi hits water, owner discovers physics and that water can't be compressed to 1/18th of it's original volume, engine breaks big style

Both owners spend the next 6 months listening to wheel bearings that are failing due to water ingress whilst sitting in stinky seats.

There's more to life than drowning your stereo :doh:

Either V8 or TDi are very good, very capable motors.  A V8 Auto is going to be a nice thing to drive off-road, it's the way I'm going (if we get a summer this year :roll:).

Not that it's really what you're interested in, but go any distamce and I'd much rather be in a V8, you can hear the stereo, you don't get vibration white-finger and it'll still accelerate at motorway speeds.

discorich:
yeah, distance on the isle of man not a prob as it is only 33 miles long hahaha. but i do intend on joining J33P at seven sisters soon.
what difference for off road ability between V8 carbs and EFI. i can get a EFI cheep (ie free) but i have always been wary of electrics with water, what with having a 200tdi, pahh what eletrics you almost have to wind up the sterio there are that few. are they easy to waterproof?

Range Rover Blues:
TBH I'd go for the Hot-Wire EFi.  Most of the extra power is due to the exhaust manifolds and the head/cam work really but the later hot-wire is pretty reliable and there's much less mechanical stuff to go wrong under the bonnet.  I don't know how carbs like getting muddy TBH but I wouldn't bother with Stoms so unless you can get SUs then go EFi, just place the ECU higher up.

discorich:
the engine in question is out of a rangy, how would i know if it is a hot-wire EFi or a normal one. if this is a stupid question sorry but i know very little about the V8 side of land rovers, but i think i will be finding out more soon by the outcome of this post.

CNorman:

--- Quote from: Guardian. on February 03, 2008, 21:28:25 ---ive had nothing but megga problems with 1 of my v8's, but thats due to it being built by a [ed: naughty], ive had a good dozen v8's over the last 10 years and except this one in the 110, only 1 gave me a problem and that was the airflow meter packed up.
so , its
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8 everytime. :lol:

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Apart from the noise, why?

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