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Very interesting! So that means they're going for 4 individual motors instead of the more common 2-motor setup?

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/alignment-dowels/unthreaded-inserts~/ Doesn't deliver to Europe, but a great site to figure out what the hell things are called sometimes

That'll work very, very well!

@Escape's triple axle tiltbed Ifor is about 800-850kg empty. Probably a good chunk less now without that tailgate. So definitely plenty of capacity left. If you can transport a D3, you can transport an empty container... Center of gravity is probably the biggest issue, but also not a huge issue I would think.

The Td5 speedo just takes a pulse input, right? Would it be an option to use a sensor mounted to a driveshaft and translate that to the required input? Or grab it from the ABS sensors/ECU, if you have it?

That's some impressive damage! Good to know that the XC90 handles the wading well. A lot of modern SUVs seem to be rated for deep wading, my GLE even states it as 50-60cm depending on options selected. With a nice bow wave you'll probably get away with more, as long as you don't float away.

Cunning. Looks like you can just swap out the ID in the URL and get a bunch of different models: https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/parts/index/hierarchy/id/30/brand/land-rover/ (Velar) https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/parts/index/hierarchy/id/25/brand/land-rover/ (L405)

Can I at least try to?

I don't see why it would be an issue other than a bit of wind resistance. As long as it doesn't hang over too much, all good.

No, that looks like an MLS gasket, shouldn't need anything extra.

Stephen down south to portal all the things?

Be a bit careful with knock-off FTDI stuff. As I recall using the official drivers with a non-official chip will brick said chip, not sure if that's still the case.

Looks like the same sort of adapter you need for the EAS cable. I did a writeup of that here, includes a link to the adapter on Digikey. But the one you linked is probably the same ish.

Looks like it's the car, and not the scan Well, also That means I get to take my bumper off to check how differently crooked that one is...

The GLE (non-coupé) is about the only SUV outside of JLR's lineup that I can stand to look at, but it's certainly no looker. Everything else seems to have all dem anglez all over. Especially the Japanese stuff, barf. But still, the D5 is just a needlessly ugly thing. If it actually had had a spare wheel on the back, it wouldn't look nearly as godawful.

I try to forget about that abomination.

I ran an epoxied plastic rad for years. But that was a small crack, a dent like that would've definitely shattered the plastic tank.

Maybe Solidworks does it better, dunno. Small meshes should be fine in Fusion. I just jumped in with a huge mesh, that hasn't been optimised at all.

Sadly, pretty much. Even a C-class gets there pretty quickly...

Yup, the Defender is very much the entry level "proper" Land Rover now, anything else with low range (FFRR, RRS) start at ludicrous prices.

Tried doing some more modelling yesterday. It's driving me up the wall at the moment. I'm not sure if the scan is bad, or the chassis on @Escape's car is crooked, but I just can't get any symmetry out of it. I'll have to verify some more measurements with a tape measure, with some luck it just did a bad correlation with combining scans, but all the lines look correct, the LH chassis rail is just at an angle and about 7mm out from what it should be according to RAVE Also, Fusion really can't handle the huge mesh. Seemingly not helped by needing to push it to the cloud every time you save, which you have to do often in case it crashes. This is on my powerful laptop with an i7 7700K, 1060 (mobile) GPU, and 32GB RAM... So any frustration from a potentially iffy mesh is amplified with frustration from Fusion constantly hanging.

The shell of my old front bumper is in decent shape and just sitting there Of course, would be glad to have another one of mine cut out as well, just decide before I get the rear bumper sent out to the laser guy.

I know, hence why I don't trust what it's saying. Plus the injectors are still a bit of an unknown, might be better to get those taken care of before we try and tune anything.

It was good to finally take Phoenix out for a drive I hope we can get the fuelling situation sorted out, the lambda didn't seem to be doing much, and the autotune suggested chucking in ~50% more fuel, which seems excessive. Maybe it just needs to be burned clean, even after playing with req_fuel it stayed around 0.22v, even when triggering acceleration enrichment. She sounds damn good though! Except for those lifters, it just sounds broken

Daimler-Chrysler was a disaster, and led to a lot of the issue of the 2010ish Mercs. Quality greatly improved again after that. Lately it seems to be going downhill a bit again though.