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Hey everybody,
Has anyone tried fitting a non-Ford engine in one of these Jago Jeeps?
I have two of the beasts here, and both have dodgy old engines(one of them hasn't run for five years!) and I am toying with the idea of buying some rotbox Japanese car (I'm open to suggestions) and fitting the engine/gearbox as a complete unit. I know the propshaft will have to be "sorted" probably cut and shut with a Ford item.
I was wondering if anybody has done it already and with how much success.
If anyone can suggest a suitable donor car, I would like to know, it could save me some time down at the breakers yard.
What I have in mind is 1000cc to 1300cc only, none of your 2000cc stuff for me, I'd even fit a diesel if I could get one.
I would appreciate any comments from the assembly.
Has anyone tried fitting a non-Ford engine in one of these Jago Jeeps?
I have two of the beasts here, and both have dodgy old engines(one of them hasn't run for five years!) and I am toying with the idea of buying some rotbox Japanese car (I'm open to suggestions) and fitting the engine/gearbox as a complete unit. I know the propshaft will have to be "sorted" probably cut and shut with a Ford item.
I was wondering if anybody has done it already and with how much success.
If anyone can suggest a suitable donor car, I would like to know, it could save me some time down at the breakers yard.
What I have in mind is 1000cc to 1300cc only, none of your 2000cc stuff for me, I'd even fit a diesel if I could get one.
I would appreciate any comments from the assembly.
Hi Alan
I'm wondering why you'd bother. Ford 4 cylinder engines are so plentiful, (at least in my garage!) easy and cheap to rebuild and you avoid the propshaft hassles. That alone could add £80 to the cost. Now if you were proposing a RAW 1600 Toyota or a Honda 900 FireBlade I could see the hassle being worthwhile. Is it to save weight???
Cheers
Ian
I'm wondering why you'd bother. Ford 4 cylinder engines are so plentiful, (at least in my garage!) easy and cheap to rebuild and you avoid the propshaft hassles. That alone could add £80 to the cost. Now if you were proposing a RAW 1600 Toyota or a Honda 900 FireBlade I could see the hassle being worthwhile. Is it to save weight???
Cheers
Ian
My main reason for the post was that there seems to be a lack of Ford engines in my area, and I had heard of people mating Rover engines to Ford boxes.
Do you think doing a cut and shut on two propshafts could cost as much as £80? I must ask at our local engineering works to see how cheap it could be.
Having said all that, if I could lay my hands on a decent Ford - complete car if necessary, then I would do.
Do you think doing a cut and shut on two propshafts could cost as much as £80? I must ask at our local engineering works to see how cheap it could be.
Having said all that, if I could lay my hands on a decent Ford - complete car if necessary, then I would do.
Most propshaft companies make propshafts to suit most Jago's and such like for around £80.
Rover units have been fitted to Jago's (if you mean the V8's) but not quite sure what it fully involves. Most likely alterations to the bulkhead as the Rover V8's tend to have lots of pulleys on the front which are most likely required.
The other problem is extra power means more stress on the Escort axle with diffs and half shafts giving up dramatically.
If you mean the smaller Rover engines then it is usually possible to mate most engines to most gearboxes with suitable adaptor plates and the like.
Its all a case of how much you want to spend at the end of the day.
>> Edited by techsec on Friday 14th March 01:18
Rover units have been fitted to Jago's (if you mean the V8's) but not quite sure what it fully involves. Most likely alterations to the bulkhead as the Rover V8's tend to have lots of pulleys on the front which are most likely required.
The other problem is extra power means more stress on the Escort axle with diffs and half shafts giving up dramatically.
If you mean the smaller Rover engines then it is usually possible to mate most engines to most gearboxes with suitable adaptor plates and the like.
Its all a case of how much you want to spend at the end of the day.
>> Edited by techsec on Friday 14th March 01:18
Just on the subject of a rover v8 i run one in my geep ill admit i arnt the man to take take credit to putting it in,it had a standard v8 in already but what i see diffrent under the bonnet is my inner wings are moved further out and my 2.8i capri strut comes up through my outer wing the bulk head is not their it is took back to where hindges are on bonnet but that is just the start of it ive just got some headman headers and have to cut and reweld them as their is no space under the bonnet for working on it. if you look on e-bay im sure you will find a mk2 escort or some xflow engined car on there complete cheeper than an engine from scrapie, or concider a astra gte 16v plenty about. hope thats give you some help !
Yes i would recomend a manta they have more power and is more avalible. As for the propshaft making, Me and a freind made mine, Just mated rover to celica lucky the rover is a snug fit into celica so just overlapped it and mesured it to make it straight and some neat welding.Now theres no vibration, (mabey just lucky ) dont know.
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