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Another upgrade of land rover series 109 – Exhaust pipe

I notice something strange in the engine bay, sometime a lot of smoke (fumes) comes from the engine bay, quite scary, especially when I throttle up… I thought something burnt, or some kind of electricity fault, however after further investigation, I notice that the exhaust pipe is leaking… well… “leaking” is understatement… the exhaust pipe is almost fell off due to rust….

Fortunately in Indonesia we have a lot of special garage and one of the special exhaust workshop just around 2 km away… so off I go to the workshop to mend the leaking exhaust. Here is the landy at the exhaust workshop during inspection…

Surely my exhaust pipe is knackered, badly rusted, I do not have a chance to take picture, but it some how looks like this with a lot of patches and few holes

this image is from this website: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f6/help-please-identify-exhaust-part-replacement-184552.html

The exhaust header is fine though, so I leave it alone, the rest of the exhaust, has to be replaced with new and bigger pipe and here is the new muffler and pipe… I almost upgrade it to stainless steel, but that would be an overkill and expensive, I opt for mild steel instead. Its good for couple decade anyway.. :). Here is the pict of new muffler and exhaust pipe

Cost of replacement US$ 130

Land rover series Upgrade, alloy wheel or Steel

Part I. http://vidinur.com/2013/04/08/introducing-the-new-pet-of-mine-land-rover-109/ (US$ 5000)

What can you do to upgrade your land rover series..? the answer is… a Lot…! I will start with (rim) wheel… We have the option of alloy, carbon, and steel… the stock land rover series comes with steel rim wheel, nothing wrong with it…

It is strong, Easy to repair and cheap to make… if you are in remote area, and your wheel broke, you can easily weld it with acetylene.

On the down side, they are heavier, and can not use tubeless ( yes you can, but one will tell you there are risk using tubeless in tubed rim).

So all in all, I do not think that the upgrade to Alloy wheel is necessary, it is more of nice to have, which fortunately I have spare of Tubeless rim from my old landy. Without hesitation I change the steel wheel with the alloy one, here is the picts

The good thing about this particular alloy wheel is (other than looks good), it can significantly reduce the turn radius. I am not measure it though, but may be equal to short chassis landy, very nice, and shaving few kgs from land rover series is always welcome.

Now, something is not quite right… it seems too low for a land rover, my tire now is around 31 inch diameter, while my steel rim, will have around 32 inch diameter, hence now my Landy is a seems a bit cute.. :)

Which one do you like… the one with stock (steel) rim like this one

or The one with alloy rim below…

Cost of upgrade US$ 600 (for rim only exclude tire)

Cheers for now… :)

Introducing the new pet of mine… Land rover 109

Introducing my Land rover series III. I think I will start to use this blog as the new diary for her, hope it can be useful for the other landy owner out there…

First of all, here is the picture of her, it is BIG, Long, and have turn radius of tug boat, and please don’t ask about fuel consumption.. :)

specification when its out of the factory is as follows:

Engine           4-cylinder 90.47 x 88.9mm 2286cc CR 8:1
                 Zenith Carb. 70 bhp (DIN) at 4000rpm
                 Max. torque 120 lb/ft at 1500rpm
Transmission     Optional 4-wheel or rear wheel drive.
                 Front and rear diferentials
                 High and low range of gears
                 Axle ratios 4.7:1 
                 High range step down ratio 1.148:1 ;
                 Overall gear ratios 5.396, 8.05, 12.00, 19.88 :1
                 Reverse 21.66:1
                 16.5 mph/1000rpm in top gear
                 Low range step down ratio 2.35:1 ; 
                 Overall ratios 11.10, 16.50, 24.60, 40.70 :1
                 Reverse 44.30:1.
                 8 mph/1000rpm in top gear
                 Fully syncromesh gears.
Suspention and brakes
                 Live front axle, half ellipic leaf springs, telescopic dampers,
                 live rear axle, half ellipic leaf springs, telescopic dampers,
                 Recirclating ballnut steering.
                 11 x 2.25in front and rear drum brakes
                 7.5 - 16in tyres
Dimentions       Wheelbase 9ft 1in (109in)
                 Front and rear track 4ft 4.5in
                 Length 14ft 7in
                 Height (Max) 6ft 7in
                 Unladen weight from 3301 lbs
                 Max. allowable vehicle weight 5905 lbs

Few Notes: As stated above, the CR (compression ratio) is 8:1, very-very low in current standard, it is designed to be able to use low quality of fuel, and it need leaded fuel actually… which this type of fuel is no longer available in Indonesia.

Cost of ownership so far: US$ 5.000

So that’s it for now, will be a lot of update in the future

Cheerrs