6-Wheel Drive Discovery II - Am I totally mad ?

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That moment when you realise that you've spent months rebuilding your engine in your back garden with tender loving care, then realise that it's now too wide to fit through the gate to the front of the house where the car is ! :mad:
 
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And that gentlemen, is what a 5 litre supercharged Jaguar V8 looks like in the engine bay for a TD5 !

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RyanDay1 said:
Amazing! what are you going to be using it for? or just a toy? :)
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Well I don't think it will ever go off-road, except maybe some very light mud, just to test the 6 wheel drive. For the most part, it's just a toy (or mid-life crisis as my wife calls it). But I would like to take it to some of the land rover shows etc
 
dave658 said:
Well there's still a ton of wiring and plumbing to do before I fire it up, which will eat into that room just a bit, but I think, weather permitting, it should breath life in the next couple of weeks
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Plumbing is one thing that I've haven't thought about too much - and it's probably the thing I'm least looking forward to. Pragmatism vs. aesthetics. Are you planning on cutting pipes and using metal joining tubes or going down the custom made route?
 
dave658 said:
Well I don't think it will ever go off-road, except maybe some very light mud, just to test the 6 wheel drive. For the most part, it's just a toy (or mid-life crisis as my wife calls it). But I would like to take it to some of the land rover shows etc
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It'll definitely make it into the magazines!
 
boguing said:
Plumbing is one thing that I've haven't thought about too much - and it's probably the thing I'm least looking forward to. Pragmatism vs. aesthetics. Are you planning on cutting pipes and using metal joining tubes or going down the custom made route?
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Custom made wherever possible, it costs a bit more, but looks much more "factory". Actually the most expensive item wrt plumbing is going to be a custom rad. The inlets and outlets on the Disco 2 are reversed against what the AJ133 expects, so it's either lots of crossover tubing, which will look awful and get in the way of everything, or a custom made rad with inlet and outlet on the correct sides. I can also then go for a higher capacity cooling (which is going to help), but hopefully retain all the same mounts, cowling, expansion chamber etc
 
I have the luxury (?) of building the body around the space and my vague plan is to use a standard Jag radiator, partly because it actually has two separate rads - the whole system is designed to cool each cylinder bank separately, but mainly because a Defender one isn't really big enough anyway. In an ideal world that would mean standard hoses too, but it's incredibly unlikely that I'll be able to have the rad in the same relative position with the engine.

I may be asking you who you use for yours.

On that note - the Gomshall engineers haven't been as good as I hoped. I had left a flywheel and gearbox shaft and six months on they hadn't touched them. I'm now using a chap in Nutfield (A25 past Redhill and so not that handy for you). Seems much more switched on to the concept of a calendar.
 
you don't work at the space lab do you? Can't think of anywhere else in Holmbury that someone with such engineering/electrical skills might work. I look forward to the day I see it cruising through the village (I work there too)
 
cmmercer said:
you don't work at the space lab do you? Can't think of anywhere else in Holmbury that someone with such engineering/electrical skills might work. I look forward to the day I see it cruising through the village (I work there too)
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I used to, up till October last year, then I jumped ship to Surrey Satellites in Guildford
 
This has got to be the most amazing one-man project I`ve ever seen, and by someone with top-notch knowledge, technical, electrical and engineering skills too (including wisely sending out certain jobs such as chassis weld).

You`re a credit to not just Land Rover but the Nation and its engineering dreamers, LR or otherwise.

Just two points to make if I may one which has been covered and considered but, regardless of the potential usage or `show plans` when complete, the steering/maneuverability/tyre scrub/chassis strain and resistance does bug me still. I`d hate that to turn out to be a real problem for you. I`d seriously consider rear wheel and/or mid axle steering at this stage, regardless of the delay that will cause.

The engine choice, build, care and attention is superb too of course. Good job you didn`t have to knock house down to get it out front, but if wife lets you build something like this she would be okay on house demolition too I reckon.o_O And in the grand scheme, trivial but, when fitting the lights, if you`ve no off road parking, don`t forget to harness and secure them in tight for protection, they make big money for thieves.

Total respect on his mind blowingly absurd project which is simply BRILLIANT!
 
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Ipcress said:
This has got to be the most amazing one-man project I`ve ever seen, and by someone with top-notch knowledge, technical, electrical and engineering skills too (including wisely sending out certain jobs such as chassis weld).

You`re a credit to not just Land Rover but the Nation as its engineering dreamers, LR or otherwise.

Just two points to make if I may one which has been covered and considered but, regardless of the potential usage or `show plans` when complete, the steering/maneuverability/tyre scrub/chassis strain and resistance does bug me still. I`d hate that to turn out to be a real problem for you. I`d seriously consider rear wheel and/or mid axle steering at this stage, regardless of the delay that will cause.

The engine choice, build, care and attention is superb too of course. Good job you didn`t have to knock house down to get it out front, but if wife lets you build something like this she would be okay on house demolition too I reckon.o_O And in the grand scheme, trivial but, when fitting the lights, if you`ve no off road parking, don`t forget to harness and secure them in tight for protection, they make big money for thieves.

Total respect on his mind blowingly absurd project which is simply BRILLIANT!
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Wow - thanks very much, I'm not quite sure what to say to all that heaped on praise !

I have thought about multi-axle steering, but I'm not sure about the legality in terms of on-road use and how easy it would to get past the IVA scrutineers, but I will look at it more I think, otherwise it's going to be a case of looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow !

The headlights do bother me, the standard facelift lights are already desirable and easily nicked, and the mods I have made potentially make them even more desirable. The rear lights, which are being modded right now, will also fall into this bracket I think, and in some ways are even easier to steal. I think I'll just need to invest in a 20' long steel safe ! :)

Seriously though, there are two schools of thought here, I think if people are determined to steal them, then they probably will. If I anchor them too securely, they will probably make a real mess of the car in trying to get them off, so there is an argument for leaving them easy to steal, so that at least the car remains in reasonably serviceable condition afterwards !
 
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