Daan
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Hey,
Anybody been to the future 4x4 pay and play days at avon dasset?
Opinions?
Thanks
Peter
I have been there in august last year. It was good for a shakedown before I drove all the way to scotland for the tay forest challenge. Its a bit compact, but good for a few hours of fun. I will be going there in march, for another shakedown. I wouldnt say its fanatastic, but its cheap at 15 pounds and happens to be 30 minutes away from me.
Daan
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I agree with you Daan, but for practical considerations rather than aesthetic ones. The set back grille panel of series 1's 2's and 2a's was designed to protect the headlamps and to provide a winch bay that did not compromise vehicle approach angle. Of course the advent of bullbars and moving the headlamps to the wings on later series nullified the protection factor.
Bill.
Still, a winch on a series looks proper, but on a defender, it looks like an afterthought. Retro rocks.
Daan
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The odd position of the front axle is a result of fitting a defender wing to a series. The defender has the front axle further away from the bumper, so the wheelarch matches this. If you fit this then to a series, it doesnt look right.
It could be quite a nice truck, if he made it look like a series, rather than pretending it is a defender. I am off the opinion that upgrading to a flat front should really be called downgrading.
I am sure he must be colour blind as well....
Daan
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Ahoj,
I plan to have a trip to Prague this summer and I would like to take this opportunity to spend a bit of kronas in a Land Rover spare parts shop.
Does anyone here know the right shop? You know: nice people, good inventory and cheap prices
And also, if you know a fun 4x4 club there I am also interested!
Diky!
I lived there for a year, but was unable to find anything, apart from the dealers. I did visit an event in the area, but it is mainly comp safari over there that is big. There are no winch challenge events. A place that could be of interest is the hummer centre, which has an off road shop with lots of goodies.
The only thing I found genuinly interesting was trucktrail, which is big in the Czech Republic.
Daan
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I found the finish with an ordinary foam roller and driptray (full homebase spec) to be very good. I used this for the roof, in my garage at room temperature. Rough it up with scotchbrite and degrease it with whatever you have for this kind of thing. I used the paintman paint in limestone colour from sodbury with no thinner attached. It is a shame he hasnt got sand though, but I think he has desert storm sand colour, which I understood you wanted. I would fit black eyebrows myself, I personally like the look better myself.
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BUYERS control the market place
Now that would be great wouldn't it.
Daan
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I have thought and looked at these, plus have played with these in the past, prob is for what I want the bends are too limiting as are the sizes, if I do the exhaust its going to have to be bent up bit by bit as it needs to be quite complex - off the shelf bends sadly won't do it
Nigel, F1 headers are made from bits of straight and bend pipe welded together. If it works for them then it will work for you. Having said that, they are not your usual 6mm thick flavour!
Daan
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Interesting setup. Whats the weight of the winch?
Daan
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If they dont like qeues, they might as well close newbury showground.
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I am also an advocate to the 1 job at the time idea. Do a logic order of jobs and your truck will grow in front of you. One trap I have fallen in many times, is trying to improve your original ideas when you go along. This increased the needed time massively. If I were to do it again, I would spend more time thinking/designing things, before go to the workshop and do them. Most improvements that I dreamed up along the way ended up taking weeks rather than days, So I would say break it down into sizeablejobs and think every job through one at the time. I suppose the geny is job nr 1!
Another consideration is the position of your workshop: I presume you dont live next to it. When I build my vehicle going to my workshop was half an hour drive. So to get there and back is one hour lost. That means you need a good few hours at the time to make it worthwile.
In my current situation I have a garage next to my house and that is day and night compared to the past. I try to spend at least an hour every evening on it, as my way of relaxing and by the end of the week you have spent 5 hours on your project, which gets lots of little jobs sorted.
Oh and to reply to previously insulted vapourbuilders: I have been slated quite severely on this forum for putting a different fuel in my tank than some of us. Now that is what I call an insult. I have no time for people slagging of my motor because what they have in their garage will be much better once it gets to see a glimpse of daylight.
Daan
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I wish you wouldn't hide behind euphemism and just say what you mean
Perhaps a bit harsh on some of the entrants for the Vape-off 2008 as I reckon Jen & Twizzle at least are likely to finish. Will may even be in with a chance if he can put down the colour swatches for 5 minutes and get the spanners out
Well at least I didn't get personal unlike some of us. Dropping names and all that...
Daan
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I wouldn't go down the route of having 2 offroaders: that means 2 projects and while you are playing/fixing with number1, number2 stays in the corner of the garage gathering dust.
I genuinly saw you starting off seriously and am a bit puzzled to see you now thinking of giving up. You shouldn't let a heap of metal get the better of you! Otherwise you might as well go and compete with the other vapour build retards on here. I would, if nothing else, make a statement by pi&&ing off all the vapour builders on this forum and show pictures of the new machine asap.
Daan
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What is causing the apathy. Lack of sense of achievment. ie lots of work but no visible results. Time constraints or just been plain lazy or personal issues. If you farm the work out it will never be exactly as you want. And going by your previous posts/projects you've posted you are capable of the work. Perhaps if you did a few jobs on the 90 that look like you've achieved something it might spur you on to complete. Perhaps the break from building has been a little to long. And you've got out of the routine of going to the shed for a couple of hours. Or do you ned a quick kick up the arseDon't be such a girl,
Adapt, overcome and finish the thing!
Says it all really. I have been in the situation, but pressed on eventually. It took 4 years to get it going eventually, of what I was expecting to take a year. There have been periods of 3 months or longer with no activity, but usually I went to look at an event or codrive for someone else and after that I had a fresh aproach to it all and carried on. I am glad I didnt pay someone else to do it, as mentioned it will never be exactly what you wanted.
Daan
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Daan - you have a Yellow card for post 22.
?I never understood much of football. So explain?
Daan
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I don`t have anything to say about the which is best of these two vehicles for the job you want them to perform but looking at the two photo`s
there is only one that looks the dogs dangly bits. It`s got to be the Land Rover.
Foxminer.
Amen to that.
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I think most would agree that in principle independant suspension is a more superior design in terms of allowing each wheel to cope independantly with its own requirements for suspension travel - its just it doesnt work reliably in off road in extreme conditions.
I would have thought that fundamentally the problem with any independant set up is how well it withstands rocks and snags.
With a live axle tube there is virtually no snagging risk and in the event of grounding out on rocks providing the casing is strong enough to take the weight/impact there shouldnt be a problem.
Once you start getting into link arms or wishbones below the drive shafts then i would be wary of rock climbing.
I dont agree with this: you only need to take a look at the american baja racers to see how they go over very rocky areas at 100 mph+.
Its just that with max articulation the independant sytem lets you down. Here you really have an advantage to have a dependant setup, so if the lh wheel goes up, the rh wheel naturally goes down.
daan
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Hmmmm,
a gyroscope
That is just to much vapour, nigel.
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I reckon a de dion axle with portal boxes is the way forward; low unsprung weight, much clearance and with the axle acting as a beam (one wheel moves in while the other moves out) you can still have a lot of travel. You also dont have clearance issues with things like engines, because the diff doesn't move up.
Daan
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Diesel no good for racing? Here:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/59880
And here:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64601
A diesel is the best thing I have experienced in an off road vehicle, the control you have through the entire rev range is better than any petrol engine.
Ready to face the petrol brigade head on....
Daan
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So if you take a john smith with you on the trail, you can also fix an exhaust-first need to drink it though.
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If it was only the one hammer that was probably the Freelander course, more hammers moves you up the scale until you're allowed to work on Defenders. A bit like the McDonalds star badges
Later, in uni I learned that a hammer is really called an impact technology device. The use of an impact technology device is the same as a hammer though.
I'll just say 'P' is much better than 'c' in my view - they all make mistakes [most of us do occasionally], although they[P]'re prepared to make good the way c don't seem to - of course you need to speak to the right person whatever happens..I think that involves making telephone calls rather than Emails either way
I would agree.
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Moving slightly OT, but what exactly is a "qualified mechanic" - what qualification does this refer to? I have a degree in engineering - does this mean I can replace oil seals? I hope not, because some of the people that graduated with me had trouble opening a tin of beans!
Someone explained to me the use of a hammer when I was in college. Does it count?
On a more serious note, I happily buy from the non genuine dealers if it concerns non mechanical parts, such as bodypanels and exhaust. For things like bearings, ujs and seals I go genuine or at least original manufacturer.
Genuine is still best though.
Daan
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That's the last time you'll be allowed in that garden centre young man!
I went back once already!
a landrover is what you make it, some prefer the series look, i prefer the defender lookOk, Fair comment, but if you can package your engine behind the series grille, fitting a winch is going to be easyer and with a better aproach.
The shape looks so right with the grille moved back and a winch fitted. On a defender a winch is always going to look like an after tought. The future is retro imo.
Daan
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I don't think I will be going anywhere near simex as I still have standard drive train
? If you are running 35" tyres on sand with a lot of grip, the drivetrain is going to need more beef than with simex on mud.
Spring rates for comfort
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I would change them back to front, because static deflection would be about right for balanced suspension. It is pretty much what I am running, I have a set of stiffer springs for the rear which I fit if I am going somewhere fully laden (say 300 kilos load), but in most cases, this setup works really well.
Daan