- Complete Donor Car £25
- Service Items and Cam belt £37
- Adapter £72
- Engine Mounts[new steel]£5
- plating the mounts and some other bit's £5
- two landy bottom heater hoses £6
- new diesel engine mounts £5.04
- Starter and Flywheel £50
- one 90°fitting for the oil cooler hose
- sale of the 2.25 petrol engine?
- Total £205.4
Basically the landrover will take most engines, as long as
you can stick a landy clutch plate on the flywheel and can
physically bolt the motor to the gearbox it's easy. But as
you don't want to break anything sticking to an engine with
similar output is a good idea.
Using the landrover clutch plate on the Montego engine requires
the flywheel off a Sherpa/LDV van[they came with N/A Prima
engines], you can't squash a 9 1/2Inch plate against the car
flywheel. You also need the starter off the van. You can change
the rotation of the starter but you would have to replace
the starter clutch and the pinion.
The alternator has to be moved to the rh side of the motor,
so a new alternator mount is needed, obviously new engine
mount's are needed. I will put drawings of them on a page,
well I made them but lost the dimensions, I am making a jig
to make them on though so will stick the dims of that on here...
What else needs doing? Exhaust needs making well if you had
a whole Montego, you can make it from the exhaust from the
car. The fuel filter needs relocating and the list goes on
Doesn't sound a lot does it but I think that's it, more or
less.
I should add a graph or something, so here's one I made earlier.
So I will be saving at 2 1/2 thousand miles, not a lot but
it gets better. The graph is cost against mileage, for petrol[red]
[intersect at zero] and diesel[green] inc. the conversion
cost[before it was finished]. I did graph this against LPG,
the LPG cost more than the diesel to run, not a lot but it
is more plus it has higher install costs.
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