Portal Lift kit design

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gstuart

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Well I’ve never seen this kind of lift kit design before, might fall over about the price

4 Gear Bronco Portal | 74Weld Motorsports

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  • 1.22 Reduction
  • 3.88″ Lift
  • 35 Spline Final Drive
  • Factory ABS Compatible
  • Billet 7075 Knuckle With Steel Inserts
  • Billet 6061 Portal Box
  • Larger Brake Rotors Front And Rear Included
  • Converts Your Rear Semi Float Axle To A Full Float
  • 4340 Heat Treated Rear Full Float Shafts Included
  • Optimized Width And Scrub While Maintaining Stock Suspension Components
 
Portals are cool and standard fitment on things like Unimogs. I think the Volvo C303 also had portals. One of the off road variants of the Mercedes G-Wagon has also had portals (4x4 Squared).

There have been several kits over the years for the Land Rover and other vehicles. Biggest issue is durability and spares, as many of the companies have come and gone. Plus the kits are pricey.

As a rule portals are good as they lift everything bar the hub where the wheel mounts. But of course they don't do anything to improve articulation or suspension travel. And the lift is also quite extreme, usually in the region of 4 inches or more.
 
BTW - most certainly not 'new' as per your title. Portal axles have been around since at least the 1950s, but probably longer. And kits of LRs for at least 30-40 years.
 
300bhp/ton said:
Portals are cool and standard fitment on things like Unimogs. I think the Volvo C303 also had portals. One of the off road variants of the Mercedes G-Wagon has also had portals (4x4 Squared).

There have been several kits over the years for the Land Rover and other vehicles. Biggest issue is durability and spares, as many of the companies have come and gone. Plus the kits are pricey.

As a rule portals are good as they lift everything bar the hub where the wheel mounts. But of course they don't do anything to improve articulation or suspension travel. And the lift is also quite extreme, usually in the region of 4 inches or more.
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thk u so much for the explanation , changed the title to portal lift kits and really suprised they’ve been around for that long

see what u mean with regards to articulation , as wfter watching the video makes more sense

thks again and always interested learning new things
 
gstuart said:
thk u so much for the explanation , changed the title to portal lift kits and really suprised they’ve been around for that long

see what u mean with regards to articulation , as wfter watching the video makes more sense

thks again and always interested learning new things
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Here is a LR kit:

Tornado portal kit Land Rover – Kamo Oko Vidi Industries

custom4x4parts.com custom4x4parts.com

There are also people who have fitted Unimog axles to a Defender too:
forums.lr4x4.com

Mog 404 axles

Have purchased a pair of 404's to put under a lightweight obviously lots of thought and work required probably end up with a longweight my question is do you flip the front axle to better align the diff with prop if so I was considering swapping the tubes instead dont know if any one has looked a...
forums.lr4x4.com forums.lr4x4.com

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300bhp/ton said:
Here is a LR kit:

Tornado portal kit Land Rover – Kamo Oko Vidi Industries

custom4x4parts.com custom4x4parts.com

There are also people who have fitted Unimog axles to a Defender too:
forums.lr4x4.com

Mog 404 axles

Have purchased a pair of 404's to put under a lightweight obviously lots of thought and work required probably end up with a longweight my question is do you flip the front axle to better align the diff with prop if so I was considering swapping the tubes instead dont know if any one has looked a...
forums.lr4x4.com forums.lr4x4.com

20231004_093844.thumb.jpg.59361acef0b567945f492509c7dda15a.jpg
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bless u and very impressive and from reading I see there’s also the gwyn Lewis setup

Gwyn Lewis Challenge Suspension Kit & Pricing – GwynLewis4x4.co.uk

gwynlewis4x4.co.uk gwynlewis4x4.co.uk

could spend a serious amount of cash adding this kind of set up along with the full hydro steering cyl

thks again for sharing as very interesting, yeh I know I need to get out more, lol
 
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