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Great, thanks Neil! Look forward to hopefully meeting you on sunday...

Hi Guys, Currently visiting the UK from Barbados and would really like to catch an event to get some ideas for our local club... Few questions if anyone can help me out... Would it be ok to hire a car and drive down to slindon? Parking ok for non-4x4s? Easy enough to park and walk into the stage(s)? I see some of you talking about going down on the saturday but is the event itself on the sunday? What time does it start? Thanks Ben

Steve, I run a 4.6 Gems in my tomcat... with a few tweaks it's possible to get the gems working nicely. Only the NAS spec 4.6's had o2 sensors before and after the cats. UK only had them before so the GEMS won't mind you not having cats. I used a (£20 from ebay) 10AS security ecu from a disco for immobilization (i suspect that £700 charge from RPi includes removing the need for immobilization) you'll also need a road speed sensor input to stop it from cutting out when your rpm's drop - I took a feed off my terratrip speedo cable probe and it worked a treat. lastly you need some resistors for fuel level input and purge cannister outputs - these were kindly supplied to me by Mark Adams when i bought one of his chipsets. I use an LT85 box so i had to get the Gems style flywheel with relcutor ring on it (can't find the part# right now) and the corresponding crank sensor ERR6357 (different to the auto). Used rovacom with the gems module and 10as module to match up the immobilization codes on the 2 ecus and switch the gems setting from auto to manual. I even extended the engine wiring loom so i could mount the gems inside the cab. In all the set-up works well and is fault code free

Ali, I live in Barbados and had a 2004 defender double cab with the OEM version you're looking at... it was OK but not great by any stretch and certainly nowhere close to any of the japanese pick-ups... A friend of mine supplemented that OEM set-up with an additional aftermarket kit by one of the US companies like hot rod air.

Hi Bruce I'm running cooper discoverer STTs in 315/75-16 on my 110 down here in Barbados with 2" OME lift and haven't had any problems. My arches are slightly trimmed but that was not done for these tyres and reckon you could get away without trimming just would need to be extra careful offroad... I'm using 16x9 Mach 5 wheels with the appropriate offset. I can email you some pics if you're interested...

i was thinking about fitting a set of these to some mach 5s... can anyone see a reason why i couldn't or shouldn't?? thanks for any help

by any chance do you know if this set-up would work with the Sanden TRS105 compressor as found in the 4.0 and 4.6 V8s?