Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: Fuddy as muck on February 04, 2007, 19:18:11
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I'v got the chance of buying a series 2a for £300 with no MOT and a rotten chassis. Thing is its got an Isuzu 2.5 na diesel engine fitted to it, mine has a 2.5 na Transit engine. Which would be the better engine? I'd be looking to transfer the the Isuzu engine to mine. Does it all sound worth the money?
Darren
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Going only by what i hear Isuzu
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you need to consider the cost and availability of spares for both engines, as well as which one is 'better'.
and define 'better'. more economical? more powerful? more refined?
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Go for the 2.25 petrol then tune it
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I only have experience of the transit engine in a s3 and in my opinion it's not suitable. There's no doubt jap engines are in the main very good. I would service the Isuzu lump and fit it.
Les.
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A friend of mine has a transit engine in a series 3 and he likes it. Not the worlds most powerful engine and pritty noisy but slightly better than the rover diesels and he gets very good economy from it. Its a ford so parts won't be hard to come by, and lets face it, the old Di doesn't let people down much.
As for the Isuzu I don't know much about it but I'd probubly avoid it simply because of the cost and avalability of spares for many jap motors. Some of them are rediculous! If you want to go down that route I'd do some homework on what the basic service parts will cost like fiters, heaterplugs... things like waterpumps/starter motors are probubly easyer to get from a spare engine. I'm sure its a good engine when it works and probubly won't go wrong often, but if something simple costs a few hundred quid and takes a month to arive I know what I'd think.
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Did the Isuzu engine come out of a 4x4? It might be better suited to operating at extreme angles when off-roading. Landrover have to do a lot of work to engine to make it suitable for 4x4 use.
Just my 2 pence worth!