{"id":47741,"date":"2019-10-25T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=47741"},"modified":"2019-10-24T22:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T03:51:39","slug":"range-rover-classic-with-a-mercedes-om606-turbo-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=47741","title":{"rendered":"Range Rover Classic with a Mercedes OM606 Turbo Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Range Rover Classic is being built by Retropower<\/a> for the company’s owner and director Nathaniel Seviour. They started by repairing a lot of rust damage and swapping the chassis for one off a 1998 Discovery. The powertrain consists of a Mercedes 3.0 L OM606 diesel inline-six with a Holset HX35 turbocharger mated to a AMG ML55 automatic transmission and LT230 transfer case.<\/p>\n

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Source: Retropower<\/a> (project page) and Retropower FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Range Rover Classic is being built by Retropower for the company’s owner and director Nathaniel Seviour. They started by repairing a lot of rust damage and swapping the chassis for one off a 1998 Discovery. The powertrain consists of a Mercedes 3.0 L OM606 diesel inline-six with a Holset HX35 turbocharger mated to a… Read More »Range Rover Classic with a Mercedes OM606 Turbo Diesel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-range-rover"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Range-Rover-Classic-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-diesel-inline-six-01.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111037,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=111037","url_meta":{"origin":47741,"position":0},"title":"Sam Townsend’s Land Rover Defender Swaps the OM606 for an OM648","author":"swaptastic","date":"February 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Sam Townsend has been busy working on his 2004 Land Rover Defender since our last article. 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