Theoretical engine swap

[puddlesurfer]

Hi guy's,

If money was no object (which it is) What would be the best DIESEL engine to put in a Surf?

I would prefer diesel as they are simpler than petrol and don't have problems with water (which for me is a bonus/necessity)

I saw on the front of Landrover Owner International (I know, why was I looking ) that some one had put a RangeRover Sport TD V8 in a Defender, looked good. That made me think what would be the ultimate Diesel engined surf? There must be something better than the Toyota 3.0 lump (mine's only a puny 2.4

[Apache]

A few years back in TOR there was an article covering such a thing. There's a normally aspirated Isuzu thats supposed to be completely bombproof and totally reliable.

[JUDWAK]

theres a hiace van with the Isuzu lump in
a guy i know put it in there 10 years ago if not more
i still see it around the vans batted but its running sweet still

toyota have put my vin number into there data base
it comes up with
hilux/hiace hybred?
whats all that about

[BUSHWHACKER]

theres a hiace van with the Isuzu lump in
a guy i know put it in there 10 years ago if not more
i still see it around the vans batted but its running sweet still

toyota have put my vin number into there data base
it comes up with
hilux/hiace hybred?
whats all that about

Have you been popping your pills in the tank?

[surfenstein]

a 4.2 six cylinder landcruiser lump or the new toyota v8 diesel.depends on wether you want straight reliability or electronics involved.

[JUDWAK]

Have you been popping your pills in the tank?

no
i was shoked to hear him say it
i asked twice and mark did look twice
why would it say hilux/hiace hybred?
any one else given there vin number to toyota
i have a profile of my car at toyota
beleave it or not
they only had my car in jap no english at all
it took about 3 years to make a full english profile with toyota on a 1993 ssrg 2.4 td
on and off like when i poped in
toyota wanted to have mi surf for a servise but i refused coz the price is way too high
but with hand on heart i did see it on the toyota commy for my self
how can that be? why would it be?
its a 2.4 same has any other 2.4
the G just means that its got all the fancy trimmings
so its not the G bit they are the same has V and R a 2.4 is a 2.4

i have had some pills tho
they are getting weaker by the day

[JUDWAK]

a 4.2 six cylinder landcruiser lump or the new toyota v8 diesel.depends on wether you want straight reliability or electronics involved.

4.2 straight six? is that diesel too would it fit in to a surf with out much asel?

v8 diesel ? how easy are these engines to fit?

if you never tryed or done one
do you want to next year?

[surfenstein]

well ive fitted the 6 cylinder landcruiser engine in a hilux chassis,(yes it was diesel) all be it in the back,had to turn the axles upside down to get it to have 5 forward and 1 reverse gear, so yes it was very involved,but it was also a very well balanced truck.plenty of grunt and sounded great too.

[yoshie]

If this is more than pie in the sky and you want the 4.2 diesel, transfer and gear box, give me a shout pud.

[tonupteabag]

a friend had a 4.2 diesel nissan patrol normally aspirated and it was a ###### good engine, it had more miles on it than a space shuttle and it started first pop every day no matter what the weather, it had no electronics just a good old fashioned straight six mechanical diesel if i had a chance of one of these engines complete i would be very tempted to fit it, but as always its just my oppinion on what i think was a good reliable lump

[yoshie]

a friend had a 4.2 diesel nissan patrol normally aspirated and it was a ###### good engine, it had more miles on it than a space shuttle and it started first pop every day no matter what the weather, it had no electronics just a good old fashioned straight six mechanical diesel if i had a chance of one of these engines complete i would be very tempted to fit it, but as always its just my oppinion on what i think was a good reliable lump

see post 9

[puddlesurfer]

If this is more than pie in the sky and you want the 4.2 diesel, transfer and gear box, give me a shout pud.

Yoshie, if I win the lottery tonight my truck will be with you about 7 pm tomorrow night, otherwise it may happen in a year or two but not anytime soon.

[yoshie]

Yoshie, if I win the lottery tonight my truck will be with you about 7 pm tomorrow night, otherwise it may happen in a year or two but not anytime soon.

I was selling you the gear, not offering to fit That's a department for Vince or Mark

[wishbone]

6.2 v8 diesel for me please.....

[JUDWAK]

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