Stage 1 V8

Well here in Vancouver it's a nice warm 20 degrees with sunshine and spring flowers coming out. Some overpaid sods organizing the winter Olympics in three weeks are trucking in snow into to cover the local ski hill. Dozens of roads are to be closed. 20,000 extra vehicles are expected. Robyn my good ...

I ordered in some bits to build prototypes. I'll run one on the ISUZU 110 around Europe in the summer and probably in Morocco in October. Please keep an eye on the Roverdrive website for progress reports. And thank you all for your input. Much appreciated and valuable. Ray Roverdrive Gear Corporatio...

I do recall we had some discussion of this a couple of years ago but seem to remember that your Series had a higher horsepower than normal engine? In a series vehicle, boosting horsepower will cause more heat than normal simple because of the higher RPM. Our Series overdrives have always run hotter ...

You can still fit a Roverdrive but you have to specify a 28 tooth output gear when you order. Ray

Thanks for that. The most encouraging thing about this discourse has been that no one denies that an overdrive is a worthwhile bit of kit on a stage one or an early 110. We are not expecting to make a fortune selling LT95 overdrives. If we only ship 25 a year for the next five years the exercise wil...

Thank you all for the input. I'm glad to see we are known and respected. Making an LT 95 overdrive is not a huge investment for us as the units would share 85% of the parts with the LT230 units. I think I'll just go ahead and make a few and see what the demand is. Answering some of the points raised...

Good Morning, My company in Vancouver makes the 'Roverdrive' overdrive for regular Series and Defenders. One of my personal vehicles is an early Australian 110 with an ISUZU diesel and my wife and I have just driven this from Cape Town to Mombasa. The gearbox is an LT95 I think the time has come to ...