V8 or td5
#21
12-16-2011, 08:06 PM
Dealer licence!!!
As long as the "dealership", thats you, owns the vehicle and has the dealers licence plate on it it can be driven anywhere in the US.
So you would need to get your dealership licence, get your dealer plate, and then away you go.
#22
12-17-2011, 02:48 AM
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: mansfield, england
Posts: 12
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
See the problem with doing the diesel conversion here in the US is that once you buy the engine, adapter plate, all of the accileries and the like and then do all of the work you are into the project for about $10,000USD.
Now add that diesel is more expensive here than petrol.
Yes you will almost double your MPG but with premium petrol currently around $3.50 per gal and diesel is about $4.00 per gal.
So the diesel conversion is about 3 years worth of normal driving with the current price of petrol.
Not to mention a person will never recoup the cost of the conversion.
Also something we have to consider is that in some states they do emissions testing and when they do that they go by the VIN#, and if the engine does not match what the VIN# says it is supposed to have you will fail the emissions test and then you cannot drive it.
Now add that diesel is more expensive here than petrol.
Yes you will almost double your MPG but with premium petrol currently around $3.50 per gal and diesel is about $4.00 per gal.
So the diesel conversion is about 3 years worth of normal driving with the current price of petrol.
Not to mention a person will never recoup the cost of the conversion.
Also something we have to consider is that in some states they do emissions testing and when they do that they go by the VIN#, and if the engine does not match what the VIN# says it is supposed to have you will fail the emissions test and then you cannot drive it.
Last edited by DII G; 12-17-2011 at 02:51 AM.
#23
12-17-2011, 06:43 AM
Recovery Vehicle
I love the rover but my motorcycle is the key to happyness when the weather is above 40 and theres no rain/ice, leaves or bennies around haha! 40+mpg and 170hp to 600 pounds of weight, so gas price I could care less about haha, that and Im lucky enough to have a 2 mile round trip commute where most people here average an hour to an hour and a half in bumper to bumper traffic. what i care about is making my disco LAST, she never sees above 2k rpm and wont be going offroad until she has skids, gears and a beater car to get me where im goin when she blows up or i fall off a cliff haha
#24
12-17-2011, 08:14 AM
Baja
I love the rover but my motorcycle is the key to happyness when the weather is above 40 and theres no rain/ice, leaves or bennies around haha! 40+mpg and 170hp to 600 pounds of weight, so gas price I could care less about haha, that and Im lucky enough to have a 2 mile round trip commute where most people here average an hour to an hour and a half in bumper to bumper traffic. what i care about is making my disco LAST, she never sees above 2k rpm and wont be going offroad until she has skids, gears and a beater car to get me where im goin when she blows up or i fall off a cliff haha
#25
12-17-2011, 10:19 AM
#26
12-17-2011, 01:44 PM
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: mansfield, england
Posts: 12
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
pgaukroger
Discovery II
7
02-29-2016 05:56 AM
2002, america, conversion, converting, discovery, gas, land, north, petrol, reliability, rover, safary, snorkel, td5, tl, transmission, v8
