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Originally Posted by onslow
Its quite a good conversion,however there are a few thing you need to know.
There are 2 common types of perkins engine fitted to landys and rangies,the first one is a perkins 4203(4203 denotes 4 cylinder 203 cubic inches)which is an engine witha metric capacity of 3.3 litres a good strong engine yet a little unerfined will pull a house down but noisy and not for long journeys normally found in series vehicles occasionally in range rovers,the other type is a perkins 4236 of 3.8 liters in my opinion one of the best rangie conversions,the engines are bomb proof very solid and strong they also do a turbo version of this power unit.These engines are common marine engines in th U.S.
The conversion company is called milners but I dont think they are in buisness any longer but secondhand engines with kits can be sourced quite readily.
ONz out.
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In the 1980's Land Rover South Africa brought the SIII (Pickup & 10 seater) out with the Perkins 4236 as standerd factory spec. These were officially known as the R6. These landys are strong as a set of Oxen! although very slow (85km/h Max). They were also very noisy and quite heavy on Diesel.
A mate of mine have a Pick up in this fromat and with some noise reduction materiel in the enjine bay and the cab managed to get the noise down.
He also fitted Freeweel hubs and a Fairly Overdrive. Now he has a very good sucsessfull Landy.
