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Hallelujah!

Usually you hear price-carping. I'm quite surprised by the general reasoning in this thread. Yes it's a bit dear - but really? If we want its match, and not any old thing, done and sorted what were we expecting to pay?

jeez, I've in at just under £3000 on a very bright 17H, and that's me doing the work myself. Had it been sent to ACR or Turner it'd be £5000. Easily. Is £8000 all that strong? They don't give these away.

[w3526602]

Hi,

My first job after leaving school was with Gillett & Johnson,in Croydon. They were "bell founders and clock makers", but had diversified into any engineering job they could get. They gave me a pile of drawings, and told me to make the frame for a huge (bungalow size) oven, for the Royal Navy in Malta, and left me to get on with it. But I digress ...

One of their jobs involved the fitting of an Ariel "Square 4" engine into some machine or other. Unfortunately the Ariel engine rotated the wrong way, so they made a new camshaft to enable it to turn the other way. I know no more that that, but it seems that making camshafts is not an impossible task ... there are firms who specialise in it.

I managed to "liberate" the original, brand new camshaft. I wonder what it's worth now? Academic, as I can't remember what I did with it.

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[Peter Holden]

Yes, I know that people ask exorbitant amounts for these engines but I will find one one day at a price that I can afford.
I am capable of rebuilding one, having done several of these in the past when I ran S1s.  We have a number of spares and access to engineering facilities.

Peter

[Matt Reeves]

It makes the £50 I paid for an MOD rebuilt 1951 2l from a classic car dealer in 2011 look like a bargain. Too bad i sold it along with my 80" a couple of years later for half the amount being asked for the ebay example

[gvo416j R.I.P.]

It makes the £50 I paid for an MOD rebuilt 1951 2l from a classic car dealer in 2011 look like a bargain. Too bad i sold it along with my 80" a couple of years later for half the amount being asked for the ebay example

I would guess that the majority of older lifetime landrover users [rather than the more modern 'show' type owners] are in the same situation

- a vast number of parts and vehicles sold on at what now seem ridiculously low prices to upgrade to something newer/better, but the other side of the coin is that prices today would not be where they are if everyone had kept their useful bits.

[Exile]

I'm fairly sure I've got one of these 2lt petrol engines in my shed, and a bare block plus random bits and pieces.

I've not looked at them for a long while, as I've viewed them as weighty space taker-uppers and not much more.

I will have to take a closer look at them one day.....

[Rambler]

Hi Rambler,

That reminds me of the story of a Hispano Suiza (sp?) that had been fitted with a more modern engine ... that was fast approachiing "it's" EOL.

A local farmer mentioned that that there was an engine that might fit lying in his duck pond.

The engine was dragged out of the smelly water ... and found to be the cars original engine.

602

Thank you that is quite the story ;-)