01 X5 4.4I 6spd Manual

[Nick P]

By the way, considering some US-tranny swap, I'd swap the engine too - a LS1 powered X5 with AWD would be great!

[Skyline]

Originally Posted by Nick P

By the way, considering some US-tranny swap, I'd swap the engine too - a LS1 powered X5 with AWD would be great!

There's a firm in Britain that has a business based on putting LS1s in the previous generations of Range Rovers, (the generation prior to the BMW motor, with the crappy 1962 Buick alloy V8). Apparantly the wiring was a major issue, but they got everything working. The problem is not getting the car to run; there's huge support for free standing ECUs and everthing. You can even buy a crate motor from GM Performance, California emissions legal, complete with fuel injection, ECU, all sensors, and Cats. The problem is getting everything else in the car to work like your dash.

[Nick P]

Originally Posted by Skyline

There's a firm in Britain that has a business based on putting LS1s in the previous generations of Range Rovers, (the generation prior to the BMW motor, with the crappy 1962 Buick alloy V8). Apparantly the wiring was a major issue, but they got everything working. The problem is not getting the car to run; there's huge support for free standing ECUs and everthing. You can even buy a crate motor from GM Performance, California emissions legal, complete with fuel injection, ECU, all sensors, and Cats. The problem is getting everything else in the car to work like your dash.

You're talking about the P38 Range and Overfinch, I presume. I love P38, someday I'm gonna buy one of these!

Actually, it's not necessary to get all electronics work - you can use an aftermarket ECU to make the engine run and keep the stock wiring, to get the main things working.

If everything will be OK with this conversion, I'll also instal LSD mulitclutch units into the diffs - I know a guy in Germany, who can make a great price for this, so with 2 locked axles there's no need in any DSC. So if I would go the LS1-way on X5, a couple of lights on the dash wouldn't bother me at all!