Lowering ride height on 90/110 chassis

The idea behind making a hot rod from a strong chassis like a Land Rover - yeah...fine, i kinda get that. But I cannot personally think of a much less suitable vehicle to use as a base! Surely you would be better off using a much lighter tubular type chassis than a Land Rover chassis? Or infact, anything other than a Land Rover chassis? By the time you have modified, braced, added, chopped etc the Land Rover chassis you may well have started off with something decent. 500BHP is not all that much - you would be better off starting with a "sporty" base and add your body or whatever you are doing.

noeyedear said:

a number of years ago I saw a well slamed 80 with lights behind the grill. the pipe and slipper guys didnt like it. was at one of the surrey street rod meets at brooklands, will see if my mate still has the pics. it did look sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo coooooooooooooooool and I have a mate who has been toying with slamming his 90 to the deck,

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thisun?

rustyrhinos

I get what you're saying, and yeah, there's stuff out there that IS more suitable, but it's more expensive, and I don't know what vehicles the ladder-type chassis lay in.

By my reasoning, a ladder chassis is the easiest to modify, and place a body ontop.

And 500hp, yeah. 700lbft torque, not much can stay twist-free. And if at a later date I decide to smash a supercharger on... Well, 700hp and 1,000+lbft isn't out of the question.

I'd like to stay away from spaceframes and stuff - very expensive to build, and this isn't a cheap project to begin with anyway.

I can smell something.

storm99 said:

I can smell something.

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Landyboy??

storm99 said:

I can smell something.

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Bore off.

So what stuff is more expensive but more suitable?

The Land Rover chassis is going to be very heavy - think of it this way - if you did get smething weaker, it would also be a lot lighter, therefore less power would be needed to achieve the same result so the whole stress on the chasssi thing would not be such a problem.

What body did you intend on putting on it? Is this just a drag typee vehicle build, or do you anticipate going round corners in it?

Well, I wanted to put a huge V8 in. No less than 8 litres.

Kind of drag vehicle, but road legal.

It's going to be no Lotus Elise at navigating bends, but I don't care. It's all about the straight line speed

As I mentioned, I could get pretty much anything, but it require more and more fabrication. It has to be an older car, as they are cheaper, and tend to be bigger too. If it's a monocoque chassis, it's really difficult to introduce more torsional rigidity. Plus, when you cut bits out for the gear box and prop, it can massively reduce overall strength.

An easier option is to start with a chassis which provides all of the rigidity you require, and place a body ontop.

A typical start would be an early Ford 'Model' car, or a 50's / 60's Chevy pickup, or anything generally big and American....

Oh, and I know a modified Landy chassis won't be amazing on the roads, but I'm not bothered, it's enough to go fast in a straight line

Hats of to you if you go for it for being different but I'd personally say if you're going to that effort it might be best to start from scratch with a chassis to meet your requirements

Chazza said:

Oh, and I know a modified Landy chassis won't be amazing on the roads, but I'm not bothered, it's enough to go fast in a straight line

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It'll have to be faster than my jaguar, or you won't be living very long

Why dont you find a crash damaged TVR Chimera and use that would be far more suitable than a Landy chassis and weigh a third as much

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Give these guys a ring, they lower defenders. Not cheap tho.

land rover chassis is a great place to start a build

Believe it or not, this hillclimb racer is a toyota tacoma pickup truck

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from this

Have you looked at a transit chassis?

pop ect. would be better surly? a landy chassis is far too heavy and expensive?

oil dripper said:

thisun?

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thats it. how is that

YouTube

I'm sort of hoping that this was the outcome of this thread 2 years on!!

oil dripper said:

oh gawd:doh:

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i quite like that

I'd like to see how he got on with this

It probably went on ebay yonks ago