Land Rover 2-litre diesel engine

The Land Rover 2-litre diesel was the first diesel engine built for the Land Rover, launched in 1957 for the Series I and carried into the early Series II. Rover developed it after talks with Standard-Triumph in 1954 gave its engineers experience of small high-speed diesels. It is a wet-liner four-cylinder unit with CAV fuel injection and Ricardo Comet swirl chambers, to which Rover added dimples to make it quieter and smoother, and it has a heater plug in each combustion chamber to ease starting. Its power and speed range were close enough to the existing petrol engine for the same transmission to be used, though the chassis had to be lengthened by 2 in (51 mm) to make room. It founded the line of Land Rover four-cylinder engines that continued through the 2.25-litre diesel to the 200Tdi and 300Tdi.