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...turns out the Land Rover Defender 130 that will carry the coffin is Td5 powered. That’s going to be quite a distinctive noise as it makes its way through Windsor Castle.
edited to avoid swear filter,
ORB
Edited by _ORB_ on 17/04/2021 at 07:42
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I would have thought the starter motor and a couple of 200aH lorry batteries would be sufficient if you removed the cylinder head to allow the engine to rotate freely. Perhaps HRH designed it with a milk float powertrain?
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I like HRH's style. I expect others will be influenced by this vehicle.
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I guess come 15:00 today we’ll hear either the hum of an electric motor or the distinctive tones of a 5-pot diesel!
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Expect used Defender prices to go up by £1000 on Monday morning...
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With respect its an 18 year old Land Rover that has been painted green, had the bed covered over and some coffin securing devices fitted. Its not like it needed serious re-engineering before the conversion could take place.
For the conversion to take 16 years takes some believing, what were they doing for all that time?
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Given the 130 pick-up, IIRC, is 4 door much more will have been re-engineered than you'd think at first glance.
No doubt it's been slightly changed over time, so conversion hasn't been done very day over the last 16 years!
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Given the 130 pick-up, IIRC, is 4 door much more will have been re-engineered than you'd think at first glance.
Considering how many Land Rover products the Royal Family have bought and continue to buy I don't think for a minute that the car had to be re-engineered by the Duke. It would probably have been built as a 2 door specifically for the job.
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Still re-engineered from standard.
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...and sure enough, the distinctive tick over of the 5-pot Td5 could be heard on the TV. Felt right to hear that agricultural sound as the Duke made his final journey. Rest in peace.
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I suspect it's fitted with a auto box, seemed very smooth when it moved off.
Wonder where it'll end up ?
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It might have been put into low range, that way you can just release the clutch and let it move on tickover with the ecu anti-stall engaged. Or it was fitted with an autobox, Ashrcroft do most of the conversions.
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I am so glad someone else picked up on the td5, one of my favourite sounding engines. Really distinctive and sounds much more powerful than it actually is! Some early teething trouble but has developed a solid reputation in the Land Rover community. RIP Philip.
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I am so glad someone else picked up on the td5, one of my favourite sounding engines. Really distinctive and sounds much more powerful than it actually is! Some early teething trouble but has developed a solid reputation in the Land Rover community. RIP Philip.
Many years ago while living and working at a hotel in the Lake District, there was a local couple who had a Nissan Patrol. It had a n/a 3.2, 6 cyl (in line) diesel and sounded, to me anyway, absolutely fantastic!.
That engine in the Patrol was replaced by a 4 cyl 2.8 turbo diesel, which was more powerful and efficient, but just didn't have the same aural character. Progress eh, don't you just love it?.
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Engine noise? Hmm. Apart from sporty-type cars, I prefer an engine which if you can hear it, there is probably something wrong with it. I don't remember any, ahem, 'distinctive' noises from our old Audi and Passat 5 cylinder engines unless they were working hard, and certainly none at walking speed! There's something incongruous about a swish looking motor sounding like an old Fergie tractor.
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I don't remember any, ahem, 'distinctive' noises from our old Audi and Passat 5 cylinder engines unless they were working hard, and certainly none at walking speed!
Really?, my recollections of the old 5 cyl Audi was that even idling, it had a very distinctive sound, even in its most basic 1.9 carb form.
The Nissan Patrol I mentioned, while obviously not a 'swish looking' motor, made its distinctive noise at low revs. Not that it was a high revving motor anyway!.
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I don't remember any, ahem, 'distinctive' noises from our old Audi and Passat 5 cylinder engines unless they were working hard, and certainly none at walking speed!
Really?, my recollections of the old 5 cyl Audi was that even idling, it had a very distinctive sound, even in its most basic 1.9 carb form.
The Nissan Patrol I mentioned, while obviously not a 'swish looking' motor, made its distinctive noise at low revs. Not that it was a high revving motor anyway!.
One of my company cars was a Volvo S60 D5 with the 2.4 litre 5 pot and 163 BHP. This was in early 2003, just as nearly all drivers of company cars were changing to diesel because of tax implications. I'd previously had an Audi A6 with the 1.8T engine but having tried the diesel version found it too vocal and unrefined.
The Volvo had a lovely warble not unlike the T5 when you explored beyond 3500 and was remarkably smooth at idle. Two of my petrol driving colleagues declared "that can't be a diesel"
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There is something slightly incongruous about a top spec Discovery 2 with a td5 engine, but in a good way, it's not clattery like a 4 cylinder diesel is, but sort of warbly, the code name for the engine was 'Storm' and i think that's an accurate description of how they sound going down the road. I quite like the incongruity. Cream leather captains chairs, shiny alloys and a roaring but burbly diesel up front.
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I ran a VW T5 van with the 2.5 five pot engine, it had a lovely note, particularly when working hard. Chain cam to, pity it was discontinued under the guise of "progress".
Apparently it was same architecture as the VW 5.0 V10, (with one bank missing)?
Edited by nick62 on 19/04/2021 at 15:24
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I didn't know the Patrol was fitted with a 3.2, googled it and that era also came with a 3 speed auto! I have started to appreciate straight six diesels recently. A bin lorry was being driven with enthusiasm and the engine sounded really good haha, a stagecoach double decker (unknown engine but Dennis bodied 2005 8.3litre according to my app) went past and sounded really good too. I am a bit weird...
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I didn't know the Patrol was fitted with a 3.2, googled it and that era also came with a 3 speed auto! I have started to appreciate straight six diesels recently. A bin lorry was being driven with enthusiasm and the engine sounded really good haha, a stagecoach double decker (unknown engine but Dennis bodied 2005 8.3litre according to my app) went past and sounded really good too. I am a bit weird...
Would of probably been a Cummins engine or possibly a Volvo
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Would of probably been a Cummins engine or possibly a Volvo
Neither, it was a Nissan engine.
Edited by badbusdriver on 19/04/2021 at 18:10
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BBD I think the Cummins/Volvo was in reference to my lusting over the sounds of unknown engines in an aggressively driven bin lorry and a 2005 Dennis double decker
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BBD I think the Cummins/Volvo was in reference to my lusting over the sounds of unknown engines in an aggressively driven bin lorry and a 2005 Dennis double decker
The bin lorry would of been depending on the lorry a Mercedes Volvo or Cummins as Dennis don't make their own engines
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One of the best truck sounds I heard was in Cuba. Presumably a Russian V8 under the hood. I think it was a Zil 131.
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Would of probably been a Cummins engine or possibly a Volvo
Neither, it was a Nissan engine.
I was talking about the bus not the patrol
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Apparently And the idea for the hea*** started out as a joke; according to reports from the Mirror, Philip once told the Queen that when he died she should “just stick me in the back of a Land Rover and drive me to Windsor”.
Hopefully the speech marks come out as such, but the app usually turns them into @ signs!
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One of the best truck sounds I heard was in Cuba. Presumably a Russian V8 under the hood. I think it was a Zil 131.
My Dad used to drive a Magirus Deutz tipper truck, it had a 12.8 litre air-cooled V8 diesel and had a lovely sound!.
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