LRCI Birthday 2008

Land Rover Club Indonesia (LRCI) is having a birthday party at Pondok cabe bukit 4x4, as usual they have off-roading session and invite not only Land rover owner, but also others offroader enthusiast. It is actually two days session but I can only join on the second day.

Here are few short clip one of the offroader... it looks easy but in fact the ascending part of the trial claim many front axle... so here you go...



another participant...



And here is the winner of this session... not a land rover but jimny ha ha ha..

Formal announcement:

Berikut hasil RFC-Anniversary Series:

Rover Factor Adventure

1. Jericho/Advan [ No Lambung 66 ]


2. Iwa S Dozer/Sonny [ No Lambung 45 ]


3. Ari Wibisono [ No Lambung 56 ]

Rover Factor Anniversary Champ

1. H. Tridodo/Pay [ No Lambung 41 ]


2. Matu/Jeje [ No Lambung 59 ]


3. Fajar/Ucok [ No Lambung 64 ]

The Best!

1. The Best Rolling Man - Suhanda


2. The Best Jumping Man - Matu


3. The Best Young Man - Iksan

Happy Birthday LRCI... Keep up the good work...

Things you want to know about land rover 6 cylinder

Now that I have series land rover 6 cylinder, I take many pictures before I sell it again, due to the disagreement with the wife.. :-).

In general it is very similar look with its 4 cylinder series, you can't imediately see if it is having 6 cylinder without opening up the engine hood. This are few FAQ about land rover series 6 Cylinder, that I can answer, if you have other question, please do not hesitate to write it on comments:

Q: How to know that a series is having 6 cylinder without opening up the engine  hood?

A: you can see the exhaust pipe behind the front left tire. See below...

Q: Which engine is having high compression and which one is low compression

A: Look at the engine number,

• 7.0:1 (low compression) start with 944


• 7.8:1 (high Compression) start with 944.

Look for the high compression one. You do not need the low compression head now adays.

Q: What the engine looks like

A: Quite strange actually, it has intake valve overhead and exhaust valve on the side of the engine. Here you can see the engine room of 6 cylinder. The cylinder head is aluminum, but the cylinder block is cast iron

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Q: Is the engine an good?

A: It is depend on what you are looking for in an engine. It definitely has more power and torque than 4 cylinder. It has a good pulling power great for trailer, and it has wide band of torque so you do ot need to change the gear often. It certainly run faster than 4 cyl, so you don't need to be a stumbling blok in the road. it is really fun to drive and the sound is very sweet too.

Q: And the bad are...?

A: It is quite thirsty, and being aluminum head, it will warp easily if it is overheated (just like current engine). Parts are more difficult to get but I still can easily find it here in some stores.

Any more questions? :-)

My new Land Rover

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I have quite few Landy series... they are : SC-HDTP, STW, SC-CNVS, LC-PU, LC-CNVS, and one SC-HDTP engine conversion (if you do not know what I am talking about, you probably go to the wrong website), so in all I have six land rover series already. I wander myself, why do I need many of them, so don't even ask... :-)

Surely missus is not happy about my collections, plus I do not have the place for all of them, so I "swear" to stop collecting another land rover a few months ago.

But... this week-end someone told me that he is selling his Land rover series 6 cylinder STW. At first I am not interested, but I give it a look anyway.

To my surprise, the truck is very-very pristine, the paint is still original, very minimal dent or scratch if any, the engine is still purring smoothly. in short, it is quite rare.. even if I have more money, I won't come across this type of landy easily, so I gave up... bought it ( afger hagling a bit) and I am now end up with 7 landys.. my God...

I am not regretting it tough... in fact I am very happy to have this one, but I need to let go some of my landy, otherwise missus will not let me in to the house.. :-)

Now about the engine, how different is she compare to 2.25? here is some spec:

6cyl, 2.6L

2.6L LR 6 cyl (7:1)	67/90 @ 4500	178/131 @ 1500
2.6 L LR 6 cyl (7.8:1)	71/95 @ 4500	181/134 @ 1750

4 Cyl, 2.25 L 4

LR 2.25L Petrol

52/70 @ 4000

163/120 @ 2000

You see the difference? Although 6 cyl generally is much thirstier than 4 cyl, but for big and heavy Station Wagon, I think there will be not much different due to the weight of the truck. 4cyl may actually consume more fuel.

So if you want to know more about his beast, you can download the review in here : www.landroverfaq.org/Reviews/FourWheelerMagFeb1967-LandRover.pdf but remember this review was done more than two decade a go...

Yang di Indonesia, siapa aja yang punya yah...?