I know we have gone down this road before.....but you do not drive a Land
Rover....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pilkington" <mark@skywagons.com>
To: <lro@koan.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [lro] Roverdrive vs. High Ratio Transfer Box
>
> TeriAnn, You know Timm Cooper even better than I do. He is of the school
of
> thought that you should not have to spend the whole weekend getting to
where
> you want to four wheel. I was amazed at the ease and stability of a Series
> Land Rover at speed. After all, if I am honest, it only looks like a
series
> Land Rover. Underneath that classic aerodynamic box shape is a V8 and
NP435
> Tranny with powersteering and chevy rear diff and halfshafts. If I need
> running gear parts, I go into Kragen and buy everything I need for a 74
> Chevy Pickup. The 33 inch BFG's track and speed well. It would do100 if I
> realy wanted to, but it has aerodynamic forces on the body that Mr Wilkes
> never intended in 1948 when he came up with a "good idea"
> I should be getting it back from BCB Offroad in two weeks. I will then
> bore you all to death with how it all works together as a machine.
> Kind regards,
> Mark
>
> TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 09:56 AM, Mark Pilkington wrote:
> > > be one eventually on my Series IIa to drop the RPM at 80 mph from 3000
> > > to
> > > 2200 which will save a lot of gas.
> >
> > You are taking a series rig up to 80 MPH on a regular basis as a
> > highway cruise speed? Oh lordy lordy lordy!! And I bet you are
> > planning to do this with oversize tyres too.
> >
> > Mind if I take a life insurance policy out on you?
> >
> > And I'm just happy to be cruising at 65 MPH at around 2750 RPM and
> > reserve 70 MPH for passing them uppity 4.6 Range Rovers on grades. And
> > I keep the tyres balanced, toe in spot on and know the steering
> > geometry is within one tenth of one degree from factory spec. Had it
> > laser measured I did.
> >
> > 80 mph @ 2,200 RPM, oh my! That has got to calculate out to 100 MPH @
> > <3000 RPM!
> >
> > TeriAnn
> >
> > 1960 Land Rover 109 Dormobile conversion "The Green Rover" owned for 25
> > years
> >
> > The new car:
> > 1961 Triumph TR3A only owned for only 17 years
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