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Originally Posted by braganjackson11

Mercedesrover put a, obviously, mercedes diesel in his...my dad talked to him about it...he has the adapter plate to mate it to the series transmission on his website www.seriestrek.com. you can get the engine for cheap and it's supposed to run without any wires once you get it started meaning you can literally unhook everything and it goes. not sure that it actually gets any more power though

IIRC the Mercedes 4 cyl produces HP somewhere inbetween the 2.25d and the 2.25p. Jim quoted me something like 25mpg , that was with 4.10 diffs and OD.

There have been a lot of other diesel swaps here in north america, Cummins 4bt, 6at, GM 6.2 and 6.5l. http://www.aloharovers.com/tech/diesel/index.htm

The 200 and 300tdis may be nice but they aren't particularly practical here. None were ever officially imported by LR, parts can be a royal pain to get if you are broken down in the middle of Nebraska or some remote place. For the rest of the world they are great. Here even an EFI SBC could be a more practical alternative.

Still some people here pay silly money($3k 4k 5k 6k and up!) for the TDIs and they do love them. But I'd be surprised if there were more than 250 LR TDIs here on the road today in the USA, in fact the # may be even much less than that. Here in the USA the TDI is a status symbol- a cult type icon for LR nuts, it is a completely different situation from the rest of the world:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/gdu/gasdiesel.asp