A Land Rover 88 rebodied toyota would be a Land Rover frame, suspension, drive train (Or at least most of it anyway) with the Land Rover body removed and a toyota body added. Rebody means to change the body on the undercarriage.
A toyota with its body removed and with a Land Rover body on the toy frame & underpinnings would be a rebodied toyota.
A Land Rover body & frame with drive train parts from a different vehicle is usually considered a Land Rover with modified drive train.
I'm still confused as to what you have.
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No worries.. Mine (the blue 109") started live as a standard 2.25diesel Series IIa 109" stationwagon. During the past 4years I first swapped the 2.25 for a 3.4diesel from a BJ42 cruiser, complete with gearbox/t-case.
I've swapped to range rover axles last year, and changed it to 80Series cruiser axles, sprung over a couple of weeks ago.
So the chassis and body are still Land Rover, but modified obviously.
That grey 88" on the previous page started life as a FJ40 cruiser but the body was taken off and replaced with a LR body. And apparantly the motor got swapped too.
The toyota gearbox is not as strong as the American light truck top loader four speeds. You would have been able to use chain store off the shelf clutch between the Chevy V8 and a Chevy truck gearbox. Yes the Orion is a good transfercase, but so is the Series transfercase. Advance Adapters developed the adapters to add a Series transfercase to the various American and toyota gearboxes because the Series case is very strong and way cheaper than an Orion.
I wouldn't be surprised that the domestic gearboxes are stronger, but I reckon the Toy one will not have any problems with the 90hp/167lbs-ft that my motor developes.. Even with a turbo added that gearbox will have a very long life.
Availability of SM420/465 (I think you're talking about those) over here would be very limited, thus expensive, to say the least. And waaaaayyy overkill. Besides, from what I've read, the toy gearbox is smoother and less cluncky.
A 4:1 low range is a good reason to pick the Orion over the 3.27:1 or 2.89:1 or 2.35:1 versions of the Series transfercase if you are building a serious rock crawler. But it is a way low ratio for most expedition type travel. Of course that statement depends a lot upon what your R&P ratio is. What is your low range first ratio at the axle?
Well whatever the vehicle is and is intended for it looks nice.
I like a good crawl ratio. I'm tall and the seating position is absolute crap, my legs and foot are in a Z-shape when behind the wheel. Add to that a very heavy clutch combined with a bad left knee(clutch assist is coming!) I'd like to have to not ride the clutch to go any slower when manouvring that big beast through tight spots in the woods.
At the moment it's got an overall low ratio of around 40:1 with a 4.1 axle ratio.
The other thing that I really like with the Orion is that gear overlap will be WAY better. At the moment my lowest gear is 1st low which is around 40:1. 2nd low is around 22:1, 1st high is around 21:1.
As you can see, 2nd low and first high are nearly the same ratio.
With the Orion I'll get: 1st low 80:1, 2nd low 46:1, 3rd low (around 27:1), 1st high 21:1.
As you can see, there's much more choice in low gears. I might be using 2nd and 3rd a lot but at least I can have a nice low 1st for when I need it.
And the Orion is a bolt on upgrade which is real nice, no adapters or driveline changes needed.
