Redtop turbo into Landy

Er yes, a redtop is a C20XE (like my Cav Gsi or your Astra GSi) or a C20LET........

I'd say a big v or straight 6 maybe better,ford boa Cosworth springs to mind but the c20let is a very torquey useable engine so why not really?

There's also been lots of success with LPG on that engine as well.

it would be a cracking project

vauxhall themselfs used the 130 bhp 2.0 8 valve in the frontera sport which are acctuall pretty fun to drive

not sure about the adaptor to (i assume lt77 ) gear box in the landy but there is deffo one to fit to a type 9 and mt75 ford boxes

you could just redrill the holes in the type 9 one and shorten the in put shaft

i am acctually getting excited at the thoughts off this project even tho it is a bit nutty lol

and if bowler type wouldnt it be a spaceframe jobby with plastic / f/glass body
so lighter?

Meh, just throw a 200tdi in, 115bhp will still give the gearbox and halfshafts enough grief to break em regulary and it bolts straight up.

Plus 80-90mph in any Series will scare the hell out of most, i'm fearful in mine at 35 ;p

It's been ages since I last saw your landy! I have told many people and have never been able to find the pics to prove it exists, so ended up thinking I had drempt it at some point!

Well, no, no there not! There both 2 and 4 high and 4 low

Series landies are not much heavier than modern cars these days, our Mazda 4x4 pickup weighs 1700kgs, or about the same as a newish Mondeo, he might have issues doing serious off roading though if the engine don't have the torque to pull it along in tickover, i would imagine you can buy caravan cams for a redtop, they should shift the torque down the rev range a bit if it becomes a problem.

1500 kg with a full tank of fuel, within 2% left-right and 53% front / 47% rear thanks to a much much lighter engine with the crank pulley over a metre behind the front bumper. That's with 4 mm chassis rails, full cage, heated leather memory seats etc. Permanent 4WD is a waste of space - do you see much weight on those front tyres? ;-)

Never did clock 0-60 etc but it was certainly less than 8 secs, perhaps even 7 as it threw almost all the weight onto the rear wheels and you could launch it well hard compared to the (similar weight) Vitesse that the motor (without the compression and boost wound up) came out of. Provided that you were smooth enough not to ping the halfshafts that is.

13 quid each from Paddocks at the time and we got it down to about 30 minutes to change, most of which was chiselling the remnants out of the rear diff. BUTTFACE (Chris) has all the bits now, sold him the complete (exploded) kit for 200 quid a while back.

Action shot was a still from somebody's phone cam IIRC, many many moons ago. Don't fancy posting any with roadsigns in the background and no a-pillar in front of the driver's face. ;-)

Next stop is electric for that beastie, after having had ride in this thing whilst out in CA:

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(Ian Wright and the X1)

Ooodles of torque from zero to infinity (ok, 105 mph, but that's plenty) and stupidly drivable.

If I don't whack a 300TDi in there that is. MPi from a Disco would be an awesome engine in a standard Series. It'd be 1350 to 1400 kg, granny gearing, and 130 bhp - *more* than enough. Can't run it on chip fat though.