Almost completed project!
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 5:58 am
Hi everyone,
I've been into Landy's for years, having cut my teeth with a Series III 2.25 diesel pickup restoration project when I should have been paying more attention to my A-levels at school! Funny thing was that even when it was finished, the engine was so noisy it was impossible to have a conversation with anyone in the cab above 40mph....
Roll on a few years and I finally got my hands on a Stage 1 V8 in New Zealand. I bought it online, and then flew down to the south island to drive it the 1000 odd miles back home. While there were the usual old vehicle niggles on the way up, she was a steady runner and didn't let me down.
This then began a restoration project to bring her up to as new, if not better, condition. She's almost finished now, with the bodywork completed, engine sorted out, interior redone, parabolics fitted, and most things generally completed now. Being a rolling restoration as opposed to a ground-up chassis rebuild, things have been missed, with the last major thing to do is getting the bulkhead removed, shot-blasted, zincsprayed, and then resprayed. That's going to have to wait a while longer though.... at the moment I'm enjoying it for the summer.
I'm planning on importing it to the states and didn't realise that I needed to keep the original carb set up along with the air intake system. Otherwise I would have kept it all original for now! Instead I swapped an Edelbrock 500 cfm carb and manifold onto it, which is running nicely. But does have to come off again....
Cheers,
David
I've been into Landy's for years, having cut my teeth with a Series III 2.25 diesel pickup restoration project when I should have been paying more attention to my A-levels at school! Funny thing was that even when it was finished, the engine was so noisy it was impossible to have a conversation with anyone in the cab above 40mph....
Roll on a few years and I finally got my hands on a Stage 1 V8 in New Zealand. I bought it online, and then flew down to the south island to drive it the 1000 odd miles back home. While there were the usual old vehicle niggles on the way up, she was a steady runner and didn't let me down.
This then began a restoration project to bring her up to as new, if not better, condition. She's almost finished now, with the bodywork completed, engine sorted out, interior redone, parabolics fitted, and most things generally completed now. Being a rolling restoration as opposed to a ground-up chassis rebuild, things have been missed, with the last major thing to do is getting the bulkhead removed, shot-blasted, zincsprayed, and then resprayed. That's going to have to wait a while longer though.... at the moment I'm enjoying it for the summer.
I'm planning on importing it to the states and didn't realise that I needed to keep the original carb set up along with the air intake system. Otherwise I would have kept it all original for now! Instead I swapped an Edelbrock 500 cfm carb and manifold onto it, which is running nicely. But does have to come off again....
Cheers,
David