I own a land rover series 3 stage 1 v8 on parabolic springs which i bought two mounthes ago, and they are not as good as espected, so i bought a 110 coil chassis to transfer the 109 body kitvto the 110 chassis,...anyone did this conversion before???!!! Whats the modification that should be donevto the body to fit the 110 chassis?
Converting a series landy to coil springs
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Considering how rare an original stage 1 V8 series LR is in this day and age why not do it up to a good spec, sell it and buy a 110?
It is already in great spec, and i prefere the series shape over the defender,, but i would like to upgrade its performance, plus, i own this car for ten years now and its hard to let it go!!!
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Which is it?
2 months or 10yrs?
A series on decent springs will ride just fine, if you want supple coils sell it and save yourself a heck of a lot of work in converting the axles from leaf to coils. it is doable but a lot of work for very little reward.
Have you considered just changing the leaf springs for better ones? cheaper and easier than trying to fanny around doing it the other way.
I coverted itvto parabolic springs !!!! It got better, do u think its enough?
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Good paras should be better than traditional elliptical leaf springs but some are still too stiff, I've found that new springs need to be run in so to speak to get them flexing properly, I put 500kilos of sand in the back of my pick up for the first month to get the springs flexing properly and after that they were super supple and it rode fantastic.
What springs did you fit?
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+ 1 a rare vehicle now, the previous conversion to parabolics at least retains the S1's 'leafer' spec. Conversion to coils will not only devalue the LR but also remove it from Historic Vehicle MOT exemption, either now or in the future.
