wack61 said:
I bet it'd sell well in America if they could , not many bends
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Question for one of merkin cousins. If you jump through all the right hoops and get a landy imported, can you then stick a big cummins or v8 in it?
 
Imagine the fuel bill with that engine and those aerodynamics

I bet a cruise ship does more to the gallon :D
 
Admirable engineering but I'd rather go 383cu.in SBC for the same output and lots of change left in my pocket
 
livers said:
Question for one of merkin cousins. If you jump through all the right hoops and get a landy imported, can you then stick a big cummins or v8 in it?
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It's import that are stopping all the non originals going over I believe.
Once it's over their I guess you can do what you want, unless they're kept track of, although can't see it myself.
Plenty of Cummins lumps over their too :D
 
Yanks don't do diesel

I was last there in 2010 , you couldn't buy diesel on the forecourt, had to go round the back where the trucks were.

Might be different now they do 300bhp+ V8 diesels
 
wack61 said:
Yanks don't do diesel

I was last there in 2010 , you couldn't buy diesel on the forecourt, had to go round the back where the trucks were.

Might be different now they do 300bhp+ V8 diesels
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Like hell, we got diesel at damn near every station. Between the pickups and vw/ audi lots of diesel sold Have had diesel cars since the 80's
 
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livers said:
Question for one of merkin cousins. If you jump through all the right hoops and get a landy imported, can you then stick a big cummins or v8 in it?
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Yes after all the hoops have been jumped, and the defender has a clean bill of health. popular conversion is a International conversion
 
Thor1950 said:
Like hell, we got diesel at damn near every station. Between the pickups and vw/ audi lots of diesel sold Have had diesel cars since the 80's
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Perhaps it was because I wasn't looking for it then, seemed to be a lot of grades of petrol but in the UK every pump has petrol and diesel.

I had a Lincoln towncar , at one point I lifted the bonnet to see if it was just a badge on the wing but no, it did have a V8 in it but nothing like the one in the XK8 I had at the time.

Put my foot down, it made more noise but not much else
 
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