Hi Well as it happens personal circumstances prevented me from finishing the project but a friend of mine has built a 4x4 with the 16valve Tseries engine although not a land rover. He faced several problems with the mems ecu system so in the end he decided to dump it and fit a mega squirt system...

Thanks for the info and views both pos and neg. Well I have now bought a 820 turbo ready for the transplant and I should pick it up at the weekend. Actually I did not think the mpi was all that bad, it got me to Homs in Syria and back with no problems (really wished it had aircon on that trip)as...

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I dissagree with some of the above comments. People in the UK dont like other people who seem to be doing better then they are. Now the average new 4x4 is quite expensive and usually driven by well to do types and as such creates jealousy. I have heard nearly every excuse under the sun why they...

Hi ALL I am planing to replace my 2.0 T series engine with a turbo version from a Rover 820 which should increase the bhp to around 200 and increase the low rev torque quite a lot. It looks fairly straight forward and a lot easier than a conversion to diesel or a V8. Has anyone here carried out...

Hi ALL I am planing to replace my 2.0 T series engine with a turbo version from a Rover 820 which should increase the bhp to around 200 and increase the low rev torque quite a lot. It looks fairly straight forward and a lot easier than a conversion to diesel or a V8. Has anyone here carried out...