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[Alan Drover]

2.5 petrol engines are as rare as a politician with common sense
Mine is on standard diffs with a Fairey overdrive and 7.50 G90''s on Wolf wheels.

[AlexB]

Would it cope with a 2 ton Dormobile euroleafing?

[Alan Drover]

It has 10% more bhp and torque than the 2.25. It would depend what condition it was in. Probably one modified with an ACR set up would have no problem. I knew someone who had a 2.5 petrol engine 110 Station Wagon and it coped with it but I don't know how much the vehicle weighs.

[gilbo]

2.5 petrol engines are as rare as a politician with common sense

That's as may be but ...... with a 200Tdi crank (its the same!) and a set of 2.5 pistons you can 'upgrade' a 5 bearing 2.25.

[Sunny Jim]

That's as may be but ...... with a 200Tdi crank (its the same!) and a set of 2.5 pistons you can 'upgrade' a 5 bearing 2.25.

And connecting rods? If the engine needed a rebuild anyway, it would be worth considering.

You could get new blocks until recently. Didn't they get homogenised to the same part number at the end?

Just because something is rare, doesn't mean it can't be found of course, it just takes time!

I bought mine outright from ACR, although that was 5 years ago, and old units were getting harder to find even then. My old 2¼ was completely knackered, already bored out to +60, rattling quite a bit, impossible to time properly due to wear in the timing chain, leaked oil, and smoked like a dragon's nostrils from the rocker breather! It also has a large, albeit repaired, crack in the block so it is now sat in my back garden as scrap. I did keep the Turner's unleaded head as a spare though!

Sunny Jim

[gilbo]

And connecting rods? If the engine needed a rebuild anyway, it would be worth considering.

You could get new blocks until recently. Didn't they get homogenised to the same part number at the end?

Just because something is rare, doesn't mean it can't be found of course, it just takes time!

I bought mine outright from ACR, although that was 5 years ago, and old units were getting harder to find even then. My old 2¼ was completely knackered, already bored out to +60, rattling quite a bit, impossible to time properly due to wear in the timing chain, leaked oil, and smoked like a dragon's nostrils from the rocker breather! It also has a large, albeit repaired, crack in the block so it is now sat in my back garden as scrap. I did keep the Turner's unleaded head as a spare though!

Sunny Jim

Ah, the connecting rods - well ideally yes, you would use the 2.5 petrol ones (no idea if the TDi ones would do???) but you can use the existing 2.25 ones as they are the same length. Only thing I have found with using the 2.25 rods is you need to grind a small amount off the oil squirt hole on the one side of the rod (or a little off the block) as the larger throw of the crank means they can catch the side of the block. No big deal as the 2.5 dispensed witht he squirt hole anyway and the correct 2.5.big end shells have no hole in them to feed it IIRC.
HTH

[2286]

At leafers apedale there were plenty of variations on show.  Maestro petrol engine, vw 6cylinder as used in the vans and volvo 700 and 900 series, and a mazda perkins collaboration.

[AlexB]

Thanks for that info

(and for bringing the thread back from the hijack ) 

I've not managed to get to leafers since it moved. 

DOesn't Mick Outhwaite have (had) a mazda (which was based on a perkins) in his Dormobile or the Forward control ?

[2286]

The chap I was talking to had the mazda lump in a 109 that had a very very shiny respray.

The guy who had shoehorned the vw lt engine in had done masses of work including making a sump, as in the van it mounts at an angle rather than upright.

[twomokes]

DOesn't Mick Outhwaite have (had) a mazda (which was based on a perkins) in his Dormobile or the Forward control ?

From memory it was in the FC, I seem to recall the dormobile has/had a 300 tdi

[nathanglasgow]

^^^^^^ and this is precisely what makes this forum so great to be a part of. I love the eclectic mix of ideas and great humour that's here.

[Wittsend]

I didn't know there were other Land Rover forums 

[S3Ned]

www.mdengineering.co.uk

[Alan Drover]

Landy Zone is the biggest but theire are many more covering all Land Rover variants. I don't know how well they're monitored. Search Land Rover Forums (Fora?).

[Alan Drover]

...... except the Series 3 forum which no longer exists as one run by the club. It's available only on Facebook now and as I found out when I asked when it would return, I was told to lump it or like it. I haven't renewed my membership.