Allways wanted one, now I've done it !!

Hi all,
Bought a landy at last, threw caution to the wind and said sod it, you don't live forever so do it, and I did.
She's a 110 with a sweet V8 on LPG and has been well looked after so happy days ahead.
Nice to be on the forum
Pete

wud it be an '87 black one?

lpg eh (sharp intake of breath)

If its the one Im finking of it will be the shortest membership ever

It's green (i fink )

Is LPG so bad ? tell me - tell me
I thought it would be cheaper to run

it is cheaper to run landowner and nowt wrong wi it. Of course if your stuck on a mountain you can't pour veggie oil in it and escape but then you can't do that with a petrol V8 anyway so what the hey.

As I said to a good friend of mine (and ex landy owner) you kow and I know that when you buy a landy you leave your cheque book in the glove box!

He still bitches about the cost of owning one but he wants one again, misses the space, road presence and the general landy experience. You will not regret owning that baby I'm sure

Slippy1701 said:

it is cheaper to run landowner and nowt wrong wi it. Of course if your stuck on a mountain you can't pour veggie oil in it and escape but then you can't do that with a petrol V8 anyway so what the hey.

As I said to a good friend of mine (and ex landy owner) you kow and I know that when you buy a landy you leave your cheque book in the glove box!

He still bitches about the cost of owning one but he wants one again, misses the space, road presence and the general landy experience. You will not regret owning that baby I'm sure

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Wot?

The deed is done now looking forward to tomorrow when I pick it up.


Any one know if an Isuzu 2.8 TD will fit in should the V8 sup too much juice?

It will! (fit in, not the supping too much bit although probably that too!)

Landys ain't expensive to run, not when youfactor into the equation the depreciation of other cars

odenne said:

It will! (fit in, not the supping too much bit although probably that too!)

Landys ain't expensive to run, not when youfactor into the equation the depreciation of other cars

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If it fits the bellhousing I will be extatic
If not I'll maybe put the lot in.
The 2.8 TD in the rusty Isuzu does 33mpg about town and 40/45 on the motorway so you can see where I'm going with this but the V8 sounds magical and I'm loath to part.
Going to Elvington tommorow so we'll see how she goes on the gas
The Isuzu has a cracked chassis and is rotton but the motor and transmission are sweet.

I'll let you know

Would be most interested...i know there was a 90 the other day on fleabag which had an isuzu 2.8 in it but i know what you mean about loathing to part with the V8, i would look more into the LPG conversion - don't forget, people are always gonna be more keen to tell you why you shouldn't do summat when you ask than tell you why you should, i'd definitely be tempted to keep the V8 and if necessary get an old knackered NA or TD to play around putting the isuzu in - you should be able to pick one up for a few hundred quid with a zonked engine!

odenne said:

it but i know what you mean about loathing to part with the V8, i would look more into the LPG conversion !

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I'm in front of you there
Got LPG, it costs 30 quid to fill it and it does about a hundred miles at 65 on the M62

The Isuzu does 200 miles at 60 on 30 quid but it's not half the fun and I suppose it is more aerodynamic than the Landy so the engine would probably go 150 miles on 30 quid in the said Land Rover.

Any way it's not about money or I would have bought a mid '90s diesel Pug 106 and got 60 mpg

I'll make some enquiries about the engine swaps but it wont be any time soon.

landowner said:

I'm in front of you there
Got LPG, it costs 30 quid to fill it and it does about a hundred miles at 65 on the M62

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That seems very low to me... I would have expected double, maybe triple that sort of economy, a V8 with no LPG should give that kinda miles per pounds.

boydy1989 said:

That seems very low to me... I would have expected double, maybe triple that sort of economy, a V8 with no LPG should give that kinda miles per pounds.

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I agree .
The speedo is ten per cent slow but the journey I did was a known distance of 90+ miles and I did about 20 miles locally before I went.
The gas ran out 14 miles from my destination and I filled the tank with 50 litres so I'm getting about 100 miles to 50 litres or (11 gallons) of gas.

I put it down to the roof rack and speed

I've given the carbs a sniff more juice today and the tickover has increased to 1200rpm. The thing now goes like f**k and cruises barley touching the throttle so I'll stay on pertol for a bit and see how it goes.
No choice really as the gas refused to work today for some reason - perhaps there is a fault and that could be the reason for the high gas consumption.
I'll keep you posted