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[Nick W]

Scimitar. Where they managed to add overheating to its attributes.

I sense that you're not a fan of the legendary essex lump, Nick.

It's only legendary because any competitors were even worse. BMCs C-series for instance.

[kevinp58]

Correct the superior Essex lump 

Superior to what?

A boat anchor? Crawling on your hands and knees across broken glass? Mopeds?

superior to the cologne engine

Is it? Really? Neither has much to recommend it; it's more a case of deciding which set of 'characteristics' is the least bad.

An Essex weighs a ton, has bottom end torque - which is a polite way of saying it's a wheezy, asthmatic boat anchor - a valve train that's comically weak, is crap on fuel and is expensive to rebuild.
A Cologne weighs a ton, revs well - which is polite way of saying it's a gutless boat anchor - a valve train that's comically weak, is crap on fuel and expensive to rebuild.

The best thing you can do with either is to reunite them with their chain, and put them back into their natural environment under a boat.

I must add that I do like the 12v 2.9 for a road car, and the Cosworth is good when attached to a manual gearbox.

At least the could have decent head work done to them and safely turbo'd unlike the omega V6  neither had timing BELTS that had to be changed every 40,000 miles.

[Nick W]

They both have nylon timing gears which can quite easily break every 40k miles. Not to mention the utterly ineffective 'self-locking' rocker arm bolts that loosen if you use the engine hard.

I'm not a fan of either engine.

[kevinp58]

They both have nylon timing gears which can quite easily break every 40k miles. Not to mention the utterly ineffective 'self-locking' rocker arm bolts that loosen if you use the engine hard.

I'm not a fan of either engine.

Never had a problem with mine and I deffinately drove it hard.

[henryd]

They both have nylon timing gears which can quite easily break every 40k miles. Not to mention the utterly ineffective 'self-locking' rocker arm bolts that loosen if you use the engine hard.

I'm not a fan of either engine.

Don't forget the bloody useless Allen key drive for the oil pump on the essex lump which used to fail quite regularly

[pscocoa]

Thought they did a good job with the series 1 Landrover last night.

[omega squared]

Thought they did a good job with the series 1 Landrover last night.

I thought so too, have not seen this program before but seemed quite good

[Marks DTM Calib]

I thought it was pretty poor, the quality of his welding on the chassis was not up to scratch either!

[kevinp58]

I thought it was pretty poor, the quality of his welding on the chassis was not up to scratch either!

I have seen pigeons do a better job  but it did look nice at the end though although they could show more of the renovation it is nice to see the history of the vehicle they are doing. 

[omega3000]

Ah the Stag  Those uprated radiators were built for a reason , to stop overheating so what they on about 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Ah the Stag  Those uprated radiators were built for a reason , to stop overheating so what they on about  ::)

They were suggesting that the cooling system was OK but that the 1970's BL workforce wasn't.

Four words......Quality control and BL.

[omega3000]

Sabotage  Maybe they werent aloud enough fag breaks 

[Olympia5776]

I missed the LR programme last week but watched last nights episode.
They pursued the much maligned stag's shortcomings with verve at every opportunity from condemning the condition of the car as bought ( why buy it then ?)  through to a peculiar road trip with a constantly unfunny Gene and a lifelong unfunny and weird Alexie Sayle who hadn't even owned a Stag . They lambasted the car for breaking down again in London and when informed that it was a mere battery they , in their petrolhead wisdom, elected to continue to Paris without changing such a simple component . When in France he called his mate to say that the Stag was true to form and he would be getting the train back , what a load of Shtie .
Cursed the engine when on test the viscous coupling failed , was it new ? , and then informed the world that in fact that there NEVER was anything wrong with the engine cooling design and that the fault lay at the door of production for not bleeding the cooling system correctly in the first place . Really !
I found it very irritating ...........again.

[omega3000]

There does not seem any passion for the cars at all 
I mean that so called mechanic ! Ham fisted and no patience !!
Very annoying .

[Vamps]

I missed the LR programme last week but watched last nights episode.
They pursued the much maligned stag's shortcomings with verve at every opportunity from condemning the condition of the car as bought ( why buy it then ?)  through to a peculiar road trip with a constantly unfunny Gene and a lifelong unfunny and weird Alexie Sayle who hadn't even owned a Stag . They lambasted the car for breaking down again in London and when informed that it was a mere battery they , in their petrolhead wisdom, elected to continue to Paris without changing such a simple component . When in France he called his mate to say that the Stag was true to form and he would be getting the train back , what a load of Shtie .
Cursed the engine when on test the viscous coupling failed , was it new ? , and then informed the world that in fact that there NEVER was anything wrong with the engine cooling design and that the fault lay at the door of production for not bleeding the cooling system correctly in the first place . Really !
I found it very irritating ...........again.

And insisted on trying to start a car with a dodgy battery with full beam headlights on...........

Mind, the finished result looked nice, but no suggestion of money spent..............