I have noticed a few UK company's selling rebuilt 2.5L v6 motors for freelander.....they cost about 5k USD shipped to California....not a bad price...but do rebuilt v6 engines last for a decent time??...one of the rebuild company's says they make their own sleeves for the cylinders..according to them their sleeve fits tighter and corrects an engineering fault in the original sleeves...just wondering if a rebuilt v6 can last for 50k miles or so...
ColinNI
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Would you not be cheaper knitting a roewe 750 kv6 instead? They have 1000s of the engines spare brand new. Just pull off the digital throttle body and swap anything over Freelander specific and your golden.
Ive been seriously looking into a new crate engine for my zt-t as a back up.
Its the standard 177 cam engine sadly, not the 190 cam in the roewe 750 BTW.
Ive been seriously looking into a new crate engine for my zt-t as a back up.
Its the standard 177 cam engine sadly, not the 190 cam in the roewe 750 BTW.
Nodge68
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$5,000 sounds expensive to me, although it would likely depend on what components are replaced and what are machined.
Last KV6 I rebuilt didn't cost anything like that however.
As for how long it lasts. That's entirely dependent on the components used. If I rebuilt a KV6, I'd expect to see well over 100K miles out of it.
I don't quite know why the place in question would have made there own liners. There's nothing actually wrong with the Rover liners, so why they'd make there own is a bit strange. The original liners are top quality and manufactured to very tight tolerances. The block is more likely to be machined inaccurately than the liners. If the engine being reconditioned was overheated, then the HGs will fail very quickly. The heads go soft, even with mild overheating. If there's any doubt about the heads, then replacement castings are needed.
I wonder how much shipping to the US would be?. I've a rebuilt low mileage KV6 in my workshop, waiting for a project that I'll probably never have time to start. I've only kept it as a potential spare for the mother in law's V6 FL1.
Last KV6 I rebuilt didn't cost anything like that however.
As for how long it lasts. That's entirely dependent on the components used. If I rebuilt a KV6, I'd expect to see well over 100K miles out of it.
I don't quite know why the place in question would have made there own liners. There's nothing actually wrong with the Rover liners, so why they'd make there own is a bit strange. The original liners are top quality and manufactured to very tight tolerances. The block is more likely to be machined inaccurately than the liners. If the engine being reconditioned was overheated, then the HGs will fail very quickly. The heads go soft, even with mild overheating. If there's any doubt about the heads, then replacement castings are needed.
I wonder how much shipping to the US would be?. I've a rebuilt low mileage KV6 in my workshop, waiting for a project that I'll probably never have time to start. I've only kept it as a potential spare for the mother in law's V6 FL1.
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Nodge68
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That's not a bad idea, especially as the FL1 used the 177 Bhp cam KV6 anyway.
Hey guys thanks for the great ideas....colinNI do you know of a source for the roewe motor? I would like to check the pricing....Nodge68...the shipping to California is surprisingly low...about $500 USD to lis Angeles or San Francisco......so if your interested in selling your motor let me know
ColinNI
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Honestly until October you could buy complete kv6 units on alibaba.com, min order was 5 for around £6000 for all 5 plus postage.
I had planned to buy 5 and sell them complete via owners forum but due to a change of job and lack of current cash it ruined plans.
It was working out roughly £1100 for a brand new engine made in 2016/2017 with belts everything done ready to drop into a 75 or zt. You could get them to £600 delivered if you bought 50 of them also.
When you price up belts suddenly it became a serious option as all you needed to swap was part of loom if you had the older style coils and throttle body.
I had planned to buy 5 and sell them complete via owners forum but due to a change of job and lack of current cash it ruined plans.
It was working out roughly £1100 for a brand new engine made in 2016/2017 with belts everything done ready to drop into a 75 or zt. You could get them to £600 delivered if you bought 50 of them also.
When you price up belts suddenly it became a serious option as all you needed to swap was part of loom if you had the older style coils and throttle body.
Nodge68
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I'll have a serious think about selling it on. I've quite a bit of cash tied up in it, so I might be tempted to recover some of that. I'll need to check it over for storage damage first though, as it's been sat in my unheated workshop for a few years now. How desperate are you for a replacement ?
GrumpyGel
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Mine wasn't - it was always going wrong - almost as bad as a KV6
Generally though I don't think they're to bad.
But Freelander is a betterer car
ifloochies
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No it's not!Mine wasn't - it was always going wrong - almost as bad as a KV6
Generally though I don't think they're to bad.
But Freelander is a betterer car
GrumpyGel
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Nodge68
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It was an old buick V8 which Rover did a decent job of making it lighter and less durable than its US built cousin. It's actually a pretty good engine, that can be made very reliable. It suffers from cracked heads and gasket problems, but otherwise is pretty good. The Discovery isn't as good a road vehicle as the Freelander though. The Freelander has car like handling and road manners whereas the Discovery is a lumbering barge. Off road, the Discovery has the edge however.
