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Diesel Conversion - 9/24/2007 9:26:59 AM    SDSlowhand   Posts: 3 Joined: 9/19/2007 Status: offline I have a 97 Discovery with the usual gas hog 4.0 liter V-8.  It has 135,000 miles on it and I am thinking about converting it to a diesel engine.  What makes the best conversion and what is the easiest. (They may not be the same.)  Also what kind of fuel economy can one expect???   If it is only 2-3 mpg it's not worth it.  If we are talking 30 mpg, then lets get at it!!  Thanks. Post #: 1

RE: Diesel Conversion - 9/24/2007 11:11:59 AM    Disco Mike Posts: 10533 Joined: 4/27/2006 Status: offline Are you willing to spend $10,000 to do the conversion, you'll need and engine dive shafts, tranny and t/case plus all the little stuff. _____________________________ Mike Retired service manager. Member of the Solihull Society, NCLR club,past member of the SCLR club and Santa Barbara 4 Wheelers. 99 D2, 3" lift, lockers, H.D. axles, 4:11 gears, Custom front and rear bumpers, Warn winch, HID lights and an Engel 45. (in reply to SDSlowhand) Post #: 2

RE: Diesel Conversion - 9/26/2007 8:50:43 AM    Landzu   Posts: 2080 Joined: 4/7/2005 From: Dallas TX Status: offline About 6 mo ago someone on this forum did change to a diesel. I looked for it but didn't find it. As I remember it was about $17K USD. After you change you can always sell the old motor and other parts. But $17K will buy a lot of gas so unless you are going to travel where gas is hard to get and diesel is easier to get I would pass. _____________________________ I do not need the National Geographic channel I just look out the windows of my Land Rover Discovery code name Romulus Prefix-N or 1996 Classic Discovery, RPi remapped ECU NRP Preformance cats/Y-pipe (in reply to SDSlowhand) Post #: 3

RE: Diesel Conversion - 9/26/2007 10:04:50 AM    Adz   Posts: 317 Joined: 11/19/2006 Status: offline £17k to swap an engine?  Holy cow!  Does that come with free umpalumpas or something? (in reply to Landzu) Post #: 4

RE: Diesel Conversion - 9/27/2007 6:18:27 PM    Landzu   Posts: 2080 Joined: 4/7/2005 From: Dallas TX Status: offline I think that everything has to be imported as we never got diesels here so the cost is high. If Land Rover (Ford) will not import the Defender diesel I may look into finding a 25 year old one in England myself. A friend has a Camel Disco he keeps in England as the U.S. will not let it in, "97 diesel" . I guess they though that with the low top speed and what GM did to the diesels in the 80's no one would buy them. Jeep has started putting diesels in but...........we still wait. The Dollar to Pound is 2.02 to 1.00 so 8415 Pounds gas to diesel. _____________________________ I do not need the National Geographic channel I just look out the windows of my Land Rover Discovery code name Romulus Prefix-N or 1996 Classic Discovery, RPi remapped ECU NRP Preformance cats/Y-pipe (in reply to Adz) Post #: 5

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