Malcolm's 4.6 P38 Range Rover

Non-Rover chat and tech stuff

Moderators: guru, SJG

Post Reply [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable
malcolm_durant
Rover Guru
Posts: 1336
Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:18 pm
Location: Chatham Innit
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Malcolm's 4.6 P38 Range Rover

Post by malcolm_durant » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:40 pm

Popped out on Saturday and came back with something other than a paper and pint of milk...

Image
Image
Image

And the all importance "money shot"..! Four thousand six hundred cc of liner slipping, head gasket blowing Rover V8...this one seems okay and pulls like the proverbial train :twisted: The 4.6 is more economical than the 4.0 strangely, but I think the phrase "gas guzzler" was invented for these things - expect 20 on a run and 13 around town :shock:

Image

Nothing disasterous mechanical to report at the moment (starts, stops, steers, air suspension goes up and down and it isn't resting on the bump stops every morning...all the gizmos I can test work too (no tax yet, hence no hooning around sadly).

Considering the price (very cheap for P38) the body's all right too...some scuffs for your delectation...that warped rear bumper cover is very annoying:

Image

Image

Image

Image

If I had the money I'd swap all the tail lights and indicators for the post-2000 versions which are white/smoked. However at over £140 a set second hand I think I'll make do and look out some cheap replacements for the cracked lights as and when.

Car was absolutely filthy inside when I got it, but a damn good hoover has sorted that and I hosed it down today and got the Back-2-Black out to good effect. Fixed some simple niggles too like a sticky bonnet catch and bust rear number-plate lights.

Sensibly I need to give it a very thorough service as there's loads of history up to late 2007 and nothing after that (circa 25k travelling in that period). The rear tyres are only just legal and the fronts aren't exactly in the best of health either...I'll be looking for part-worns for now.

Being an HSE it's pretty much fully loaded with everything you'd exect to find in a top motor in the mid-90's (even the head-rests are motorised!!), but the radio cassette LCD display is unreadable and the air-con blows warm.

Several little niggles, but touch wood (except maybe one airspring which is much older than the rest) I think I can possibly look forward to some gentle titivating here and there for a month or two...that's tinged with pragmatism...I know how badly things can go wrong on these!

Wish me luck!!

Malcolm
Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Rover Vitesse Fastback - RIP
Rover Vitesse Sport - RIP
Rover 827 Vitesse - RIP
Rover 216 Vitesse - RIP

User avatar
CHR15E
Site Admin
Posts: 13235
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:32 pm
Location: Notts. J28 M1
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by CHR15E » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:50 pm

I was looking at those the other week but don't like the tailgate setup personally.

Thinking of LPG'ing it?
Chris
19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
Relapse of 1 in 2021 Now Sold

malcolm_durant
Rover Guru
Posts: 1336
Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:18 pm
Location: Chatham Innit
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by malcolm_durant » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:08 pm

Thinking of LPG'ing it?
Yes, quite possibly once I know for sure it's running perfectly. I'll do a "Richard M" and accumulate bits from Fleabay rather than shell out for a whole kit.

In truth, I've got a bigger hankering for a manual gearbox...if I see one and can afford it, that'll wing it's way to me first. Apart from the (somewhat hard to find) R380 'box with V8 RR ratios, everything else needed can be found on a manual diesel, so pedal boxes and the like won't be a problem.

Couple of folk on Landyzone have done just such a conversion, so I know it's do-able.

Quite like the tailgate set-up myself...novelty and all that!!

Malcolm
Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Rover Vitesse Fastback - RIP
Rover Vitesse Sport - RIP
Rover 827 Vitesse - RIP
Rover 216 Vitesse - RIP

User avatar
CHR15E
Site Admin
Posts: 13235
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:32 pm
Location: Notts. J28 M1
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by CHR15E » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:26 pm

I'm too short so find it a pain to get anything more than a few feet in. :roll: :lol:

Only 5ft 8.
Chris
19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
Relapse of 1 in 2021 Now Sold

malcolm_durant
Rover Guru
Posts: 1336
Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:18 pm
Location: Chatham Innit
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by malcolm_durant » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:31 pm

Almost forgot to mention. It came with those plastic light guards fitted all round...well, except where they'd been smashed off (explains the ding n one front wing).

Although they are genuine Land Rover parts, they're plastic rubbish that wouldn't (and didn't...) protect the lights from anything bigger than a suicidal sparrow.

I pulled the rest of them off yesterday and before hosing it down spent over an hour peeling bits of self-adhesive foam off the wings (hard rubbing with white spirit eventually shifted 95% of the glue - panel wipe wouldn't touch it).

That was fun, but it looks so much better without them IMHO and I've probably improved the aerodynamics enough to push my economy up by 0.001mpg..!

Malcolm
Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Rover Vitesse Fastback - RIP
Rover Vitesse Sport - RIP
Rover 827 Vitesse - RIP
Rover 216 Vitesse - RIP

malcolm_durant
Rover Guru
Posts: 1336
Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:18 pm
Location: Chatham Innit
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by malcolm_durant » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:33 pm

I'm too short so find it a pain to get anything more than a few feet in.
Image

:twisted: :twisted:
Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Rover Vitesse Fastback - RIP
Rover Vitesse Sport - RIP
Rover 827 Vitesse - RIP
Rover 216 Vitesse - RIP

User avatar
CHR15E
Site Admin
Posts: 13235
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:32 pm
Location: Notts. J28 M1
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by CHR15E » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:34 pm

Harsh. Just not user friendly enough for me.

Shame as I do like them.
Chris
19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
Relapse of 1 in 2021 Now Sold

malcolm_durant
Rover Guru
Posts: 1336
Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:18 pm
Location: Chatham Innit
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by malcolm_durant » Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:42 pm

In all seriousness Chris, you know you can drop the suspension down to the bump-stops (it's called easy access mode or something similar)? I'm over 6"2' and couldn't reach the back of the boot without clambering in myself...

Boot is huge...it's like a fairly sizable van if you tip the rear seats forward! Well impressed by the P38 for that, as RR Classics have pretty small boots given the size of them...

Malcolm
Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Rover Vitesse Fastback - RIP
Rover Vitesse Sport - RIP
Rover 827 Vitesse - RIP
Rover 216 Vitesse - RIP

User avatar
Lord Sterling
Rover Guru
Posts: 4054
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:36 pm
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Re: Malcolm's 4.6 P38 Range Rover

Post by Lord Sterling » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:04 pm

Very nice car, my uncle had one of these in Belguim. I cant remember what he'd done with it. I'm not eve sure if he's still got it :?

The Cream interiors in these and the Land-Rover Discoverys remind of the later Rover 800 interiors.
malcolm_durant wrote:...expect 20 on a run and 13 around town :shock: ...
Yes Please! :D

I love the huge gas guzzling cars you cant afford to run and the puzzled expressions on peoples faces when you try to justify buying/running it. I get it all the time :lol:
malcolm_durant wrote:...LCD display is unreadable and the air-con blows warm...
Sound like my mk1 shed. LCD is bleeding and air-con doesnt work. In fact nothing feeling like cool air blows out the air ducts, not matter what setting you put it on. Roll on summer and sweat :(

Lord Sterling

User avatar
Nuts4my827
Rover Guru
Posts: 2186
Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:43 pm
Location: Croydon
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by Nuts4my827 » Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:24 am

Nice. Got a soft spot for Range's myself. Will look good when compunded, cut, polished and waxed. :D
Phil B
95 827 Stirling: Nightfire Saloon.
96 Coupé 827 Manual White Gold.
97 Coupé 820 Vitesse Gunmetal.
99 820 Vitesse Nightfire Fastback. SERIOUS amount of welding done. Lived in a fettid garage for years.
EX 1994 Saloon Rover 827 SLi White Gold- RIP.

malcolm_durant
Rover Guru
Posts: 1336
Joined: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:18 pm
Location: Chatham Innit
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by malcolm_durant » Wed May 12, 2010 12:35 pm

Well, after less than two months I'm now going to prep this Rangie for sale :cry:

I'm splitting from the missus, and money is going to be extremely tight (in addition to several other major financial uncertainties...) so this is a luxury I cannot possibly afford now.

Even more annoyingly, it has new disks, pads and caliper guide pins all round, new drag link and track rod assemblies, will shortly have new air-springs, has 1999 model white lights fitted and loads of little things like tailgate struts, cruise control is fixed etc etc.

Planned on it being a keeper as it's pretty straight and solid despite the external scuffs and recent neglect, so this is yet another victim of circumstance. Bitter; you bet and the P38 is one of the things I'm least sore about!! :evil:

Anyone got a solid and legal £200 Astra or Escort 1.3/1.4 they'd want to part-ex against this in a few weeks? Semi-serious question I might add :roll:

Malcolm
Range Rover 4.6 HSE

Rover Vitesse Fastback - RIP
Rover Vitesse Sport - RIP
Rover 827 Vitesse - RIP
Rover 216 Vitesse - RIP

User avatar
Richard Moss
Site Owner
Posts: 13630
Joined: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:48 pm
Location: Al Ain, Abu Dhabi
Contact:

Post by Richard Moss » Wed May 12, 2010 1:10 pm

Sorry to hear about the matrimonial disaster. Good luck to you all.
Out in the desert with a 1998 Grand Cherokee V8, 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4L and a 1997 Chevy Tahoe V8. Back home: 1969 MGC GT

User avatar
CHR15E
Site Admin
Posts: 13235
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:32 pm
Location: Notts. J28 M1
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by CHR15E » Wed May 12, 2010 7:53 pm

Oh dear. Sorry to hear that.
Chris
19 Vauxhall Astra 1.6T SRi Nav Estate
08 Vauxhall Astra 2.0T Design Twintop
02 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4.7 V8 HO

Previously owned 57 800s 2000-2012
Relapse of 1 in 2021 Now Sold

User avatar
Richard C
Site Admin
Posts: 4958
Joined: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:48 pm
Location: Gloucestershire
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Post by Richard C » Thu May 13, 2010 11:35 am

Shame, I hope things work out.
Richard

@Rich_Clements

1989 827 Si Fastback, Manual, Pulsar Silver Metalic
2013 Vauxhall Astra 1.7CDTi EcoFlex, Macadamia

Post Reply
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable
[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests