3.8 holden engine into bighorn

[1bighorn]

Any body a where of what type of gearbox bolts up to the 3.8 holden engine to go into my new bighorn?? or do I just be boring and stick with a 3.2 that was originally meant for this truck

[muskie]

1bighorn said:

Any body a where of what type of gearbox bolts up to the 3.8 holden engine to go into my new bighorn?? or do I just be boring and stick with a 3.2 that was originally meant for this truck

i love my 3.2, really smooth and grunty, but for hard offroad stuff i think 3.8 would be good, but aggro to fit unless you got plenty of time and resources. thinking outside the box is good

[geeves]

Best way is to use a wrecked comadoor for parts. Then you get motor auto box computer and the antitheft ignition key. Fit the motor and box as one unit. Then get a hilux transfer case and mount that mod the drive shafts to suit Pay the low vol certifier and away you go

[1bighorn]

well I decided to go for the 3.2, be much easier seeming as im gonna be putting a 3.5 rover v8 in my MU (which i think will be a whole lot more fun) so does any body now of a 5speed manual for the 3.2 v6 engine?

[geeves]

Whatever non isuzu motor/box you use The hilux transfer case is easy to adapt to the gearbox output and has the ouputs in pretty much the right place. Not sure about rover v8 though especialy the old 3.5. They are very long in the tooth now and for the same money you can get either a 4 liter lexus or 4 liter nissan v8 with far more power and ecconomy. You still get that lovly v8 sound.
If you must go rover get the later 3.9 engine or if you can find one a 4.3 liter P76 engine. You could always bore and stroke it to 5 liters