land rover with a M52 from factory, SA edition

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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:31 pm

Just seen this on pistonheads, must be quite a rare beastie!
South African edition of the defender with a M52 BMW donk from factory.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... th+a+twist
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:06 pm

I want 8O Must be the smoothest and most refined Defender ever made.
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:39 pm

How hair raisingly would you have to drive to make the most of an s50 in a defender? Why didn't they use an m60/2? Surely that would have passed SA emissions?
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:42 pm

Oddball!
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:04 pm

certainly diffrent sounds cool to have :)
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:09 pm

Does seam a bit of an oddball, would have thought they would have used a differant cam cover? Or maybe they did make a Land Rover badges cover too.

Also wonder what gearbox It runs, guess it must have a custom bell housing.
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:15 pm

Much improvement over the stone-age v8.
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:24 pm

When BMW owned rover they were banging BMW roundels on loads of parts! Ive noticed a lot of the Rover electrical plugs had the roundels put on them
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Post Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:28 pm

Blitz wrote:I want 8O Must be the smoothest and most refined Defender ever made.
So more like banging your head against a stone wall than a steel spike.....
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