300tdi into a p38 is it possible?

[military mad 110]

does anyone know of a 300tdi being fitted to a p38 and how hard is it? also is the gear box in the p38 a r380 with a different first motion shaft?

[bogie]

The diffs are on the other side so dont know if this will throw a spanner in the works???

[Thrasher]

You just use the P38 T/Fer box :) Problem solved lol

[military mad 110]

and change the gearbox for say a r380 out of a disco?

[Range Rover Blues]

No I think you would have to use the P38 transfer box and probably gearbox, otherwise the props would be out of line and possibly hit the sump.  I think there would be plenty of space though and some companies will build a clutch plate with the spline you need,n so 300 pressure plate with hybrid clutch plate might do it.

You'd probably have to modofy the engine mounts to shift the engine accross the bay, you might need to remove the vac pump to get clearance and possibly the oil filter will get a bit tight too.  The timing cover/diesel pump/airconn pump might get very close to the inner wing but IIRC most of it's bulkis above the chassis rail.

[muddysteve]

would be a hell of a lot of work for very little gain and would only work on poverty spec manual

the auto box uses various outputs from the engine to determine shift and lock up, the head has 2 temp senders and they both need to work for the autobox and hvac to work.

might work on a manual though but you'd need to work out how to get it to interface with the becm, the very late 300tdi used bosch EDC the same as the BMW lump so possible some tweaking could be done with that?


now if you were talking about getting a gmc 6.2 lump working in a p38 then that would a lot of work but possibly worth it

[military mad 110]

i was just thing about using a the mechanical pump and grafting a throttle cable in to get aroud all that fly by wire stuff! lol