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  1. o_teunico
    A Disco with "winched" rear axle will look like this Oh, and when I said "Maybach" I could have said "Range Rover" aswell..."Private Jet" inspired Rangie...
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    You cannot fit "car" tyres, because of load rating." Van" tyres are the way to go for city/road. 205/65R16 are the smallest ones I have found with adecuate load rating. 30mm drop. Yes, in a Disco, with it´s steped roof, a single rear axle winch will be enough. EDIT: Have been thinking about the fact that only a rear winch will be needed, and how it could be a multi purpouse one. MoT station will put the moddified car in a scale. Unladen weight + (number of places x 75Kg) must not exceed GVW. A friend lost 2 places in his Disco (33", front + rear HD bumpers, HD suspension parts...). Here in Spain we say "hecha la ley, hecha la trampa", wich could be translated as "made the rule, made the trick". Unladen weight is measured with petrol tank full. If I make some electrical "trick" I could have a "full tank" reading in dash with a nearly empty one. That way car will be SIX seater, instead of just five. In a 2 + 2 + 2 arrangement I could make a Maybach centre row of seats. Between seats, instead of champagne, I could fit a (even cooled!) rear facing winch. Cable will run over boot´s floor, inside vehicle. It will be used as a cargo loading winch. There will be a "door" with a roller in boot´s floor, just above "A" frame, for using as axle winch. Finally, there will be another "door" or gate that will take winch´s cable to a hawse in rear bumper, for beeing used as a recovery winch. A snatch block could be used at the hawse for redirecting the cable to the front bumper. Will try to make a sketch for this.
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    Have googled it. Seems to be called "axle winching". I think that, for my particular needs, it´s the way to follow.
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    That´s certainly one of the best ideas I have ever heard! Si, you are my hero! Winch(es) could be easily removed for MoT, or even get approved (that´s easy, as rules admit home made winch mounts) and will also double as cetre strap for avoiding propshaft UJ failure. Whith cable or rope, if correctly attached to chassis, they could even be used for recovery when needed.
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    It will be cheaper to buy just rear tub + roof than a complete body, but I will prefer the roomy Disco body with height adjustable suspension, if I´m allowed to do that.
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    Calzada da Ponte, a street I use nearly everyday. Could avoid it, but alternative route is twice the length. As seen in local newspaper "El Progreso" South entry North one You will not find any google maps picture from the street´s track between south and north bridges. Just ask why...
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    Get well soon. I have seen in the past some similar cases in my family. I´m sure that with the help of doctors, friens and family you will have a speedy recovery.
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    When I was a teenager with a Series IIIA Santana the rules was the norm. Before every MoT test we were forced to change tyres from illegal (for the 88") 7.50R16 to stock 6.00, remove home made roll cage, remove headrests from Lancia Delta-Recaro seats and hide the rest of them with an old blanket and pray to the Land Rover God because if MoT tester noticed the Series II body swap or suspension mods we will have serious problems. The simple sight of a Road Patrol Police vehicle led to pants accident... Now I´m looking for something that will be adecuate for my needs while giving peace of mind. Very good solution! Unfortunatey the lighting used on tunnel´s roof will not be Land Rover proof... 200kg less for cargo, troublesome BOGE self-levelling strut, Borg-Warner instead of trusty LT230, difficult to obtain with 200 Tdi engine, higher price on the secondhand market...Apart from the above, regulations ask for track width increase when lifting the car. A Disco is taller. If you lower it with body swap then you will be able to lift again with suspension/tyres without the need of extra track width.
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    58 Eur. Not a bad price
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    Unfortunately if you want fight them you will have to go to the court and waste 100 times the money you were going to spend in the project to pay lawyers... What I will make, in the case of needing the RR roof, will be a roof + rear tub swap, and then say that it is a FULL RR body with just some Disco front wings (or fit some RR wings and bonnet if they say it must be a complete body). As I said, with an exocage + roof rack there will be no height reduction. If I´m not allowed to make an height adjustable suspension setup, only way I see is getting a full RR body swap approval with some windscreen side bars running along all the roof guttter. Then, after having that on vehicle´s paperwork, I will channel the roof and fit some crossmembers to join those gutter bars. Of course the initial MoT test for getting the approval and the forthcoming yearly basis test should be taken at different MoT stations. If someone asks about that roof bars I will say "see paperwok, it says that I have windscreen and roof bars apprroved". A second internal hoop will be added in the load bay, but as a dog/cargo mesh. If it´s approved as a roll bar I will need a helmet for driving it! In fact, this design will work in any pick-up or ute Landy. Interesting...
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    Thanks for the info!
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    Yes, quite crazy the idea of a 6x6 Disco! I will like to try it someday, even if it´s only in a non road going vehicle.
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    Mmmmmmmm...oh yes, 4.6 V8 power with electronic free diesel, like it!
  14. o_teunico
    Saloon car body doing offroad
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    They look great! Could you please tell us where to buy, price and size? Are they CE approved?
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    Rules are simple. Regulations say that standard roof cannot be moddified, unless a crash test is made for seeing that it wil maintain structural rigidity. Full body swap is OK, because you use a body that has been crash tested in it´s original form. Back in 2009 full glass roofs, pick-ups and cabrios were allowed, but not now... Back in 2011 homemade winch bumpers were OK. Strange with all those pedestrian friendly rules. Homemade body lifts and suspension coil chopping was also OK.
  17. o_teunico
    What power/torque figures can be expected for a standard OM606 with a standard 603 pump?
  18. o_teunico
    IMHO both this vehicles have excesively big tyres, too much lift...and too many horns! 35s seem to be the correct size: small enough for road use and big enough for off road. This ones look good with that fender trimming.
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    Have been thinking this days about rear bumper...it will be senseless to build a reworked rear bumper when I´m sure that I want to retain the tow pack. Unless I´m allowed to fit a US spec detachable type one, rear bumper will maintain original shape, but will be HD and with some side rock sliders. Don´t want to end like this... Standard tow pack vs US spec one
  20. o_teunico
    I love your chassis work! That rear section, with so much gap between chassis and axle, is just what I want for my Discovery lowrider project.
  21. o_teunico
    Beeing legal is best. The problem is that it´s very difficult for the engineer to say "OK" and "how much" to a vapour build. The problem with real builds is that, once made, it could be impossible to make them road legal. Work and money wasted. The guy with the BMW pick-up recived the following answer: When he contacted the engineering company the project was completed at 90% and he ended by building a crash test proto with a second car. He is now waiting for a quotation for the crash test. I´m still waiting for a response about chassis end chopping. That´s 90% of my monthly unemployment aid
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    It´s just money, worst thing will be being involved in an accident and your insurance saying they will not cover you because car was illegal. In our old Santana (seats, +3" parabolics, snorkel, roll bar...) nothing was MoT approved and we were forced to revert it to original spec every six month for MoT test.
  23. o_teunico
    MkII rear crossmember/bumper will be something similar to this Front body can also be shortned fron 2 to 4" easily
  24. o_teunico
    4" at front is easy, but as you say, bumper will be flush with grille (steel made one will be used). At the rear both the chassis and the body will need cutting. If correctly done MoT stsation will not notice it (but will be illegal). Rear door handle will need to be flush with body and the spare relocated. In the pic you see the Kk1 proto rear crossmember that my bro made for better depature angle.
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    I think that it will also be interesting to know the weight of steel vs alloy wheels, "big" (35" and so on) tyres compared with stock 205s, rear seats (that will be usefull when preparing overlanding vehicles, where rear seats are normally taken away to gain cargo space).
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