Off road tyres and EAS

Just back from a buddie's house, showed me his hooooge set of 16" rims with 38" tyres plus spacers

Would need to hack off half the arches but looks like epic fun for the remnants scrapper. Mate reckons you'd need to jack the car up. Will the P38 sit at wading height for long if I was to go do an off road event or am I just going to break something important...?

Re-reading this I'm pretty sure I'm asking off-road 101, apologoes in advance if so.

the car would be unusable on the road or as an everyday driver. The gearing might be your biggest problem, especially on a diesel and it may struggle to get an mot.

However if you want to try it, you may have to look at a coil conversion plus a lot of other suspension mods, rad arms, props, so the geometry is accounted for.

The Air suspension will be too soft at the high CoG you will create. Arches and bumpers will have to be hacked right off and you will need 'uge spacers to stop the rubbing on lock.

The air springs were built for comfort and practicality And with length of travel needed will go pop very quickly. You need hd springs, probably cheap ones ao when they break after each trip youre not too heartbroken. Wading height alone will not help you, you probably need to do some serious mods.

on standard setup it just about works with R18 265/65 to give you an idea.

Sounds like fun tho although personally a p38 with its luxury-comfort dna driven by electronics would not be my first choice for throwing money at to take off road, only my opionion tho

aerofabrique said:

the car would be unusable on the road or as an everyday driver. The gearing might be your biggest problem, especially on a diesel and it may struggle to get an mot.

However if you want to try it, you may have to look at a coil conversion plus a lot of other suspension mods, rad arms, props, so the geometry is accounted for.

The Air suspension will be too soft at the high CoG you will create. Arches and bumpers will have to be hacked right off and you will need 'uge spacers to stop the rubbing on lock.

The air springs were built for comfort and practicality And with length of travel needed will go pop very quickly. You need hd springs, probably cheap ones ao when they break after each trip youre not too heartbroken. Wading height alone will not help you, you probably need to do some serious mods.

on standard setup it just about works with R18 265/65 to give you an idea.

Sounds like fun tho although personally a p38 with its luxury-comfort dna driven by electronics would not be my first choice for throwing money at to take off road, only my opionion tho

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Sorry, that is nonsense, the more air you pump into an airspring the harder it gets, just like tyre. Arnott Gen3's allow much longer travel also.

Datatek said:

Sorry, that is nonsense, the more air you pump into an airspring the harder it gets, just like tyre. Arnott Gen3's allow much longer travel also.

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Ok perhaps i didnt word it right apologies. The longer the spring the more unstable the vehicle as you raise the c of g

aerofabrique said:

Ok perhaps i didnt word it right apologies. The longer the spring the more unstable the vehicle.

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Which applies equally to coils

Mate has the spacers too. It certainly wouldn't be a daily driver, probably just a day's fun off roading/green laning before it heads for the scrappie so spending big on it isn't going to happen. "Aquired" some scaffolding for a roll cage to give you an idea re: budget!