Daan
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I used to have a 2.5 petrol in my series, which was created from a 2.5 TD block and crank, with 2.5 pistons and conrods, and a 2.25 head with 2.5 valves. Compression was 9:1, with a webber 2 stage carb and LPG conversion. quite good power and torque, but I have to say, if you like offroad with a lot of slow controlled stuff, theres nothing like a TDI (landrover, or an isuzu or whatever).
Power is good from a TDI, I clocked 160km/h (or a ton in imperial units) on roadtyres and high ratio gearing, and my previous petrol engine wasn't in the league. Your series will fly with a tdi for sure.
Diesel all the way, basically.
Daan
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thats horrible; I thought for a moment that the manifolds would fit to a tdi head, in which case, I would have thought it is a good conversion. But thats very bodgy.
Daan
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I recently bought another daily driver car (boring one I'm afraid), and put my old car up for sale on ebay. In the advert, I recommended people to come over for a testdrive before bidding. I had the car insured temporarily for this purpose for the duration of the auction, and it had a taxdisc and new MOT. One person actually turned up for a testdrive. He took it round the ringroad (with me sitting in the passenger seat), heading for a roundabout while checking the radio. By the time I realized he wasn't planning on braking I shouted, he stood on the brakes, and we stopped with 4 locked up tyres half a foot away from a brand new Ford Focus, leaving some nice black stripes on the road.
On the way back, not a word exchanged while I was contemplating the implications a crash would have given me, from a insurance point of view. The driver was obviously not named on my policy, and might have been able to use the 3rd party clause on his own insurance (i assume he had his own car insured), but I didn't check this with him before we left. Should I have checked this? What is the situation with a testdrive anyway. What if someone comes to testdrive his/her first car and doesn't have another car insured. What is the correct thing to do with a testdrive is basically the question. My own car wasn't worth much, but the one we nearly hit was, so that is the biggest question here.
I only took out the insurance so I wouldn't get into trouble with some Johny law, I never thought I was actually going to need it....
Daan
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I have never seen one of these in my life, but have seen them mentioned on the partslist, like yourself. I has not been a problem, although with dropbox has its own oil volume. plus if you do a decent hill climb, the PTO gets more oil than it would ever dream off.
Daan
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these flow huuuuge more around 384 CM3/60s !! vs 185 standard V8 ERR722 injector !!
If Only
Maybe it helps fuel consumption....
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gasket sealant of any sort is the work of the devil. Use a gasket with a smear of grease. Not got a gasket? Order 5 and it'll still cost more to post than the actual gasket and you'll have one next time.
Its the bushtucker man's dream...
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aviva offers this online as well.
daan
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good video. The bit at 3:55 were jim marsden flattens the gigglepin banner is just priceless!
Daan
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I thought the problem was that french haulage trucks come over with a full tank of fuel (about a 1000 liter) from france, drive round here for a week and return to france without filling up, therefore work cheaper.
Red in a truck wont work, what if you drive on the mainland europe? I think claiming money back from the government if it is allowed would work, it is just a lot of paperwork for everyone, plus how do you police that a farmer claims duty on fuel that actually uses to drive his landy on the road?
Daan
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Why O why was it not looked after from day one?
Based on it being a Series 1 and who owned it.
Question with no answer I suppose.
Hopefully it get some TLC from now on.
? looks good to go if you ask me. I reckon old Winston would want it to get used rather than standing around in a museum.
Daan
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you can also loop the return in a T with the feed line before it goes into the filter.
This is what the vegetable oil boys are doing to keep the temperature of the fuel up.
Daan
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'they present a unacceptable risk for bodily injury'.
This probably explains everything. You have to think about hitting a car or a truck at 70MPH, whether you want to hit it head on or sideways. Sitting sideways is about the same being t-boned at 70MPH.
So, if the insurers dont want to take this risk, ask yourself if you want to put your family at risk in this way?
There are plenty of options from aftermarket suppliers to fit forward facing seats in the back of your landrover, so its not the end of driving a defender I think.
My 2p.
Daan
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I had the o ring between the servo and mastercylinder leaking. A new, bigger section o-ring from my box with bits solved the problem.
Daan
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i wasn't trying to be funny was just curious as to what people consider alot on a comp car really. by the time you have done axles, diffs, tyres and rims you have already spent a fair whack. i expect most comp vehicles are around the 10k mark for retail prices.
i agree the vehicles you list have certainly had alot more spent on them.
i agree with your point entirely, looks at Treeblokes truck, if it hadn't broken a steering box on the last lap their result would of probably put them in front of the driving god.
Paul - what team no were you guys?
I imagine so, just a GP winch being 3.5K, a 10K car is cheap.
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That is a really great result. There were a lots of teams just trying to complete 1 lap over the whole weekend.
When we saw some of the entrants and their trucks, we thought that we were going to get it handed to us and our aim was just not to come last...
Our time in the LCQ proved that we were off the pace of most and that was us pushing.
In the main event we just went as fast as we thought we could maintain a few driving errors on my part bent the steering and destroyed a tyre. My other error was not replacing the drive flange blots i knew these stretch over time, but forgot all about them until bang... a few simple mistakes and touch of bad luck took us out.
But on the hole I am really happy with my truck setup.
I don't have the time/money to make a purpose built rock crawler So if we get a chance to qualify again next year i would try and fit 37" tyres and if budget/time allows maybe retire the 200tdi... will we win err no but we might make 4 laps
James I have a few good images of you (inc your lie down) i will try and post tonight.
Paul
Out of interest, following from the breakages you had, what are you planning to do with your axles? going bigger on tyres is only going to make things harder on the diffs etc.
Daan
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out of interest what makes an expensive car.
not sure I understand this question?
But since you ask, John sales, philon parpatos, the french buggy, Barrie Gee all have some pretty high dollar stuff on their cars, I am not sure how much work they sub out, but they all are pretty commited, money wise I reckon.
Not sure how much chris has spend, I imagine a good deal less, but he did beat them.
It is good to see that in this sport, you still can do well without spending a lot.
That was my point.
Daan
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fueling via the megasquirt, this proved very expensive at 50 litres plus a lap (17 miles) but did keep it cooler a degree or two.
Thats about 1-2 mpg. Still good effort for getting out there and beat some very expensive cars.
daan
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Paul, thanks for the report. It appears it was very much drive to survive out there. The top six of the endresults were the ones which finished every lap.
Daan
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aero catches catch dirt and shatter if you bash the front. But if aero is your main priority, use them.
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Hi Roy,
With regards to the crankseal and seal between block and flywheel house, please read this:
http://forums.lr4x4.... +seal +problem
I know it is a tdi, and yours is a td, but I use a td flywheel housing and this is now working well.
Met hartelijke groeten,
Daan
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Agreeing with fridge here: if the brakes are ok at one particularly rpm, but not on others, your non return valve is not working properly. Try switching of the engine and brake; if it has no boost, your one way valve is broken.
Daan
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Hmm, i am being askedfor an opinion on a comp safari car? Well, I know on a rally car you usually try to aim for 55% front weight split, so that on accelaration you have 50-50 split. On comp safari cars, many now have a rear engine, I presume this is more for stability while being airborne. But I dont have any experience with this. Over to you steve!
Daan
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the first option wont work, as it is not flexible enough, although superflex may work (hard to get in 3", but not impossible).
A 45 degree is too steep, but 30 or 15 might work, but pretty spendy. I still like a bit of corrugated to take up engine movement but have it smooth on the clamp on bit. maybe a humphose, but than the angle is a bit too big.
That corrugated stuff in the last link, again is corrugated and there fore no better than what I have now. that 200 tdi hose almost looks the ticket, but no cigar. It would be good if I could find one in some partsbin of sorts.
Daan
New Project - Centre winch - need help with Stress Analysis
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i dont like that if Im honest
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The good old gravity just puls to hard on that thing, so high up. I wouldn't do any reinforcement, instead go to the corners and have loop between each backstay and the mainhoop. minimum material added. Speaking of weight, I wouldn't even bother with a third winch. Just use the rear winch with an extra roller to allow it being used in this way. 25 kg for a goldfish I reckon, just leave it at home.
Plenty of people have done it this way and make do with two winches.
I'm just not getting the I have more winches than you thing.
But I No nothink.....
Daan