As I am having my 1986 Landrover "County" SWB converted to Electric, I posted on a Landrover site requesting a rough price I should ask for my 3.5 V8 engine that has come out. I should have known better! A shitstorm of insults followed ranging from the "Ruination of a Classic" to the fact that I must be a left-wing wishy-washy leccy liberal.. No-one actually suggested a price! (It sold for £600).
It comes back from the garage in about 6 weeks and I look forward to seeing how it is. It's a "vehicle for life" used for short runs and getting in the hay once a year and other tasks around our place. We have a 4KW solar array on the barn where it lives, so I am planning on sunny day trickle charge which should cost nothing. The tax becomes free also..
It's a 30kw system from a crashed Nissan Leaf, with the engine connected to the gearbox so all 4wd H/L systems in place. Only difference is Matthew (the mechanic) tells me I'll only need to use 2 of the gears!
It's a bit of a gamble, but after 30 years of belching start-up smoke across the Devon countryside, and the fumes and noise of the Supercharged V8, I thought it was time for a change. Matthew's logic of using the Nissan engine is that they have the best parts back-up system and are less likely to make sudden changes to their systems so my system should be good for some time to come, as it's less than a year old. Rather conveniently my Landrover has V8 written on the side, so we'll put an "E" in front of the V and that should be it - EV8!
Oliver S.
