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What I don't think that anyone has mentioned, is that another effect of direct injection is that the torque "pulse" from each cylinder firing is much sharper than with indirect injection. This, I believe, is why so many people have wrecked...

The older Land rover diesels are indirect injection, fuel is injected into a precombustion chamber, flame then travels through a hole into the head/piston chamber. This results a less harsh detonation [ NOISE ] Tdi's have direct injection...

I did see a video clip of someone making adapter plates for the Perkins Prima in their back yard. Rough as **** and hardly good engineering. Used lots of short lengths of all thread fixed between two thick steel plates. Then they wrapped a piece...

As early as that. Cool. I suppose that I could always contact firms that actually sold conversion kits and ask for exact dates. I can only think of two, and I think that they're both still in business

I just wanted to find out if a series vehicle could have been running a V8 40 years ago. Although I bought my first Land Rover around 1984, my memory of when I first noticed a V8 powered example is a bit fuzzy. I don't want to say too much, but...

663/664 seems to ring a bell. It's certainly a great big bugger. Tomorrow I'll take a good look. I extended my original 2A battery tray to series three diesel size shortly after purchasing the vehicle. I used to consider that Yuasa made the...

Like it says. Can anyone give me the approximate date when the first V8 to series gearbox conversion kits went on sale please ? I'm aware that the U.S. Rover importers had a V8 converted 88 running almost as soon as Rover started building the...

Do check the voltage out put of your alternator, re my post above. Some years ago a mate's car was going through battery's every few months I tested his alternator at usual driving revs and it was putting out 18 to 22v! My Landy like yours is...