What are my engine choices

[damage]

Originally Posted by byroncobra

So again sir, how did you prove emissions compliance?

Spent good money on good engineers and did what they said.

[byroncobra]

Ok, I give up playing ducks n drakes............

[T.L.]

I run a supercharged LS3 in my cobra. The engine is bog standard, haven't opened it up to change anything. Thing has 417kW at the wheels and goes along very nicely.

I don't really care about it not being a ford motor, sure, if it was a $1million car it would have to have a Ford motor in there, but its a plastic cobra and I have put the best available bits at the time into it, just like I am doing with my current project, a T/D V8 into an Landcruiser 80 series chassis with a couple of 40 series bodies welded together running through Nissan Patrol diffs. Again, got the best bits available at the time, don't care that I'm running nissan parts they are tough as.

I enjoy my car and I enjoyed the process of watching it all come together and like looking at it in the shed when I'm not driving it.

[Donunder]

Originally Posted by T.L.

.... and (I) like looking at it in the shed when I'm not driving it.

I can understand that --- it's stunning.

Don't forget we need a few pics of your other project as well. Sounds very interesting.

[T.L.]

Originally Posted by Donunder

I can understand that --- it's stunning.

Don't forget we need a few pics of your other project as well. Sounds very interesting.

Here's a pic of the engine and chassis, where it's currently stands at the moment, a pic of what I am hoping it will look like in the body when that is completed. Will have a roof on there as well.

For those that don't know the 40 series landcruiser, basically meccano set stuf and is simple to work on. Getting a ute body and welding the front 3/4's on to rear 7/8ths of a swb body after chopping off the front bib and scuttle. will be a 4 door 40 series running coils all round and the turbo diesel from the current 70 series and 200 series landcruisers. Things can get 250kw and 1000NM after some mods to the turbo, GTurbo, and a tune.

As the GU Patrol axles are a bit wider than the 40 series ones, 200mm to be exact, I will be widening the body by about 50-75mm as I dont want to look out of proportion. This is easy done as it's pretty much one piece of steel sheet and not the complicted stuff we get today.

A while to go though, but plan on completion by this time next year.

[T.L.]

this is what the body will hopefully look like.

Again, with the choice of engines I had, I went T/D V8 for the economy when touring and the sound that comes out of the 3" exhaust. Most people were saying 1HD-FT or FTE but I like V8's as I am a petrol head (or diesel head in this case)

Also you can get decent power from the things easily, but are more costly than the supercharged LS3 I have.

I already have a LS1 in a swb 40 series and that goes well, so doing another LS based car seemed to defeat the purpose to me and I wanted something to go away around Australia in.

[kyleb]

Great looking beast TL !!
417 at the wheels..Crikey.
I bet all you need to do is pull the car cover off turn the key and go !!