Nos on a V8??

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as regards the nitro don't bother you will need to add extra fueling and could well hole a piston just upgarde it for my 4.6 exocet engine and off you go
 
How much do you want for your 4.6? Cos I will blow that one up in the near future without a doubt. And leave the handbags at home boys they are only rims.
 
i was running 100 bhp nos on my 3.5 v8 in my kitcar standard pistons ,rods etc,hurrican cam ,weber 500 carb,pushed the button and it lit the wheels up ,but thats a car,wouldn t put it in a defender,you want torque
 
Well whatever the realistic opinion is, I salute a man who's willing to do something moderately daft just for fun, so I say go for it. The hardest part is getting the advice you need, I'd swap info for beer tokens with the kit car lad - at least someones done it.

It's slap and tickle though at best I reckon, even auto will want to strip the output shaft eventually I would have thought.

I wouldn't consider it myself, useless for offroading, but as above I say hats off for trying :)
 
I have no issues with anyone just a warning to us all at loads of people offer advice without doiung such mods.

If you really wanna spin up all 4 wheels without any breakage issues you will need somting like ashcroft driveshafts 4 pin, pinned front and rear diffs, lockers if you relly want and ashcroft Cv's but you will always be moving the weak point somwhere else up th edrive line.

Best park of £1200 front axle and £1000 rear 3 speed auto box from an early RR Calssic (clunky but indestructable ish) built and designes for chevy v8's find some kind of strengthened tranny box mabe use a series transfer box instead of a LT230 I have seen conversions about sonwhere and then your about as bullet proof as you get. The above is usually a goo dstarting point for a trials vehicle minus diff locks (not legal in some comps)
 
Rear end you could use a Salisbury rear axle cheaper than ashcroft shafts but not quite as strong. I have a salisbury on my 90.
 
jai_landrover said:
I have no issues with anyone just a warning to us all at loads of people offer advice without doiung such mods.

If you really wanna spin up all 4 wheels without any breakage issues you will need somting like ashcroft driveshafts 4 pin, pinned front and rear diffs, lockers if you relly want and ashcroft Cv's but you will always be moving the weak point somwhere else up th edrive line.

Best park of £1200 front axle and £1000 rear 3 speed auto box from an early RR Calssic (clunky but indestructable ish) built and designes for chevy v8's find some kind of strengthened tranny box mabe use a series transfer box instead of a LT230 I have seen conversions about sonwhere and then your about as bullet proof as you get. The above is usually a goo dstarting point for a trials vehicle minus diff locks (not legal in some comps)
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Chrysler mate hence the Chrysler Torqueflight A 727

Very good tough box, might be worth bringing a nice rebuilt one back from america as ur luggage :p

Shame they are only 3 speed and you cant fit the fairy overdrive otherwise that was the way I was gonna go in the 72
 
nitrous oxide works well on the rover V8 - very popular on the drag circut but I would have to question why bother on a land rover. they are a big heavy slow box on wheels. Standard brakes and suspension bearly deal with the standard power lol even lowering it won't do much and then you've pretty much removed the point of a land rover.

if you want more power fit some merlin F85 heads, a cam and a mappable ECU for 240ish hp with your 3.9. do the same with a 4.6 and you'll get about 280hp but you will still have a slow defender
 
The thing with gas it's that it's great value for money.

All the work POAH talks about would cost ££££s whereas you could bolt on 100bhp in gas for about 500.

Ok it doesn't last for ever or work all the time, but it's there when you want it and you can drive around the rest of the time in standard tune and not risk blowing it up.

Nitrous is probably great fun, I've known a few cars with it fitted with good results if set up sensibly. Worth looking into :)
 
At last some1 who is thinking on my wave length. It spins up all 4 at the moment on pull away so if your doing say 50-60 and push the special button it won't be that much stress compared to putting your foot down off the lights
 
Oh yeah and forgot to say go for it, I had a Janspeed turbo range rover classic, great fun till it started using more oil and water than petrol and it was never good on petrol!!! Still got the turbo kit just looking for the time to put it back on something :)

Steve
 
mate those turbo kits are almost priceless cos theyre so rare these days

its twin turbo usually, but i think i saw one with single turbo and a balance pipe running from the other manifold

the turbos mount just below the mani where the normal downpipes go

cheers
 
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