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200TDI or V8EFI

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Guardian.:
mainly the noise, but also its quite (ish) in the cabin unlike a derv thats noisy, plus much smoother to drive, and worst of all derv stinks and makes your hands stink at the pump.
yes they cost twice as much to run, but you cannot have everything!
of course its personal preferance but.
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8 :lol:

Range Rover Blues:
My V8 LPG (3.9 in Blue) costs about as much to run as the 300TDi, it's quieter, cheaper to fix if anything and, well, different to drive.  I guess a bit more relaxing because the engine is more flexible, though the TDi is well-geared.  Not an easy choice and we all have our preferences, but I side with the V8.

Now, the EFi engine had IIRC slightly different rocker covers for a start, the smoother rounder ones with very small flutes along the entire length are either early RRC or SD1.

the later EFi engine, different rocker cover because of the different breathers etc, the inlet holes in the head have little cut-outs for the injector, the exhaust manifold has 2 outlets to the downpipes rather than one (the 3.9 ones with bigger downpipes are worth fitting whatever) and obvioulsy if you have the engine number you can tell what the engine was built to.

As for the EFi, well alomst certainly the plenum will have the engine size cast into it when new, 3.9 or 4.2 being the most common, the plenum is slightly bigger than the flapper system fitted to the EFi.

The hot-wire uses 12 volt injectors, so there is no resistor pack on the bracket for the air box.  the airbox clamps direclty to the hot-wire MAF whereas the flapper type is connected with a short rubber tube (and it's a VAF not a MAF).

There is no 5th injector but there is a idle-bypass stepper motor with a 4-pin plug on the very back of the plenum.

Hmm, what else? the ECU is usually black and square, it will have a year marked on it too which is a help.

There are other differences but these are the ones I remeber and are easy (ish) to look out for ;)

discorich:
cool cheers range rover blues, i will have a look at that next time i can and see if i can work out which engine. started up the 200 after been sat for 2 weeks whilst i was doing some work on the axle, and it fired on the first turn without the plugs. i was well impressed. i think i might store the V8 incase i get bored of the 200 or if it breaks again.

Cheers all with your help, it seems that this is a long running debate, and let it continue.

Guardian.:
its not a long running debate, they just will not admitt that its V8 all the way   :lol:

TDi90:

--- Quote from: Guardian. on February 03, 2008, 20:18:14 ---here we go again
v8 only choice
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8
v8


--- End quote ---

nah spence is wrong,

Tdi
Tdi
Tdi
Tdi
Tdi
Tdi

hence my username TDi!!!!

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