The 4.0 would probably last longer.

 

Boat is the word! Thanks CollieRover

 

Curiouser and Curiouser..... why's that?

I just had a colleague tell me that I'm the strangest girl he's ever known haha.. He said 'you've had nothing but problems with that Rover since you bought it and you want to put a new engine in it??!??'

I told him it was a love/hate relationship. All the way.

 

B.o.a.t most certainly applies to LR!
Break out another thousand

 

$ and dependcy wise, I'de be following ACEngineer's LS3 engine swap conversion.

 

will do - thanks!

 

Boring the 4.0 out to a 4.6 combined with the old out of tolerance tooling toward the end of the production run is what led to the block being thin walled and prone to cracking. Add heat and cooling expansion contraction cycles over the lifetime and the Discovery 4.6 was pretty much doomed after they stopped paying attention to quality control. That is why some who want a 4.6 choose to rebuild one from a P38. Better tooling and more quality control between 98 and 02.

 

I thought it was the crankshaft that increased it to 4.6. At any rate, my 4.6 went 120k before going because I neglected the Thermostat. So I don't worry about it, but I am not an engineer.

 

I'd hazard a guess that my engine is shot at 168k because I neglected the thermostat and have been on this forum reading posts for oh, I don't know.....how long?..

Years.

and I'm an 'engineer'.. but a different type that inwardly cringes when someone tells me that gravel makes a great driveway because it hides oil leaks.

This mechanical stuff is greek to me but I am sloooooooowly learning...