vougese39 said:

ok here is another theory as the porus block/slipped liner only happen to 3.9/4.0/4.2/4.6 what do all these engines have incoman? lambda sensors! non cat models do not suffer the same engine failure fate
gems stands for generic engine managment it thinks and learns and adpts to the engine compensating to wear
thor is the next level and is fully generic ecu

thus chips that are available for the gems do not make that much difference.
one of my customers has had one of my cruiser engines and a mark adams chip already fitted it is no quicker than the same engine without the chip!

on the thor engine it cannot be chipped and with happily adpt to all the mods you do to the engine

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eightinavee said:

I really cant understand why you keep banging on about lambda sensors wrecking v8's - its just not true.The only reason I can think of why more closed loop engines failed is because there were alot more made and used in more applications.Saying they run lean is crap - using the oxy sensors of the time they could only control around a narrow window of Stoich.If you monitor any of these engines with wideband sensors you can easliy see how they go open loop, drop down to 12/1 under heavy throttle/load and cycle nicely around 14.7/1 when cruisng or at idle.And the Motronic engines hang on to closed loop alot harder than Gems when you push them.So if what you say is true alot more Thor engines should die than Gems.
You just have to face the fact that ANY of the 94mm bore Rover engines CAN have block problems.If they had done top hat liners from the start this discussion would never have started.There simply isnt enough material behind the liners to support the original design,typical cheapskate Leyland. What they should have done is scaled the whole engine up,making the upgrade start at 4.5ltrs with enough room to go out to meet up with a Chev mouse at 5.7ltrs - 350 cu in.

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Datatek said:

What they really should have done for the P38 is binned the ancient Buick based lump and either bought in a decent engine or had one designed for them along the lines of the Lexus quad cam V8.

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kooky_guy said:

Or just kept the penny pinching accountant dudes away from the whole process.

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Datatek said:

What they really should have done for the P38 is binned the ancient Buick based lump and either bought in a decent engine or had one designed for them along the lines of the Lexus quad cam V8.

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