Alfa engine to land rover gearbox

[marmon]

Might be of interest, some great engineering going on.

http://forum.difflock.com/viewtopic.php?t=69236&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[RattlesnakeBob]

A couple of mates of mine did this back around 1990 with RangeRover chassis based AWDC Safari racers..

RR gearbox and transfer box and axles all tied up to a very tuned Alpha Romeo engine......

. the idea behind it all was you could have high performance / horsepower / torque without having a massive (usually V8) engine...

It was all because the way the AWDC was in those days meant if you had a V8 , you automatically got put in the top class of vehicle so you were at a a disadvantage against fellas that could afford to throw thousands of pounds at their truck...sticking with a much smaller capacity engine meant you competed in the lower 'easier' class of vehicle.....but you could still end up with a motor maybe putting out something like 200+ hp :-D

Back in those days there were quite a few companies offering mating plates/conversion kits to fit just about any engine you could want to try with a Landrover or RangeRover gearbox....

Mind you .......some went even further.....the most exotic truck around at that time that I can recall was powered by a Jensen Interceptor 7.2 Litre motor running through a Thwaites Alldrive dumper gearbox into a pair of axles off a 4x4 Telehandler ....:cool2:

 

PS: just realised the original poster of that thread on Difflock is from the Forest of Dean!........ingenious lot down here see!

Edited September 26, 2012 by RattlesnakeBob