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Originally Posted by revneck
lol can u explain number 8 wire to me???is it the wire that sends 12v to the mobile chully bun?
Haha - who needs a chully bun, we just stick the tinnies in the river bro, keeps 'em cool as!
nah, it's an old farmers saying. Reckon they could fix anything with number 8 wire ( fencing wire. ) Like MacGyver and his duct tape.
Jamie, you hit the nail on the head, building something like that is no easy task, especially if it is your 1st build, perhaps for some pointers Skaarj check out www.gweeds.net (http://www.gweeds.net) if that site is still around, the bloke is Guido Seevens, he modified his VL to fit Cefiro IRS, and the amount of work that went into is was mind boggling.
Haha, I'd forgotten about that site - madness! Wonder whatever happened to the car? I have that exact Mazda interior light to put in my car - anyone know how to wire em up? I've heard them Fords/Mazdas have some weird set up for electrics.
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Originally Posted by revneck
lol can u explain number 8 wire to me???is it the wire that sends 12v to the mobile chully bun?
It's wire that is a slightly different size to number sex.
cheers for the tips guys. ive spent 3 years planing this so i tink ive got it pretty sorted but any advice is always appreciated though. lucky i dont have to do the fabrication stuff most of that will be way beyond anything i have ever done. the guy thats doing it used to build race cars over there in aussie and hes done some big convertions on mustangs to the drive system and stuff. one that he did he put an old mustang 70s shell on a brand new chassie - engine, suspesion, the intire drive train so he should no his stuff but he hasnt dont this before
man i think that bloke either drinks alot or you mistook him and the mustang was a full chassis drag car,chassis arent something you just "swap" from car to car...
if you want to get really technical many 4X4s still have them but yer they still do have a chassis just not a chassis as you would imagine a chassis in your head. its were the wholoe body is the chassis called a monocoque. in the early 90's American's steel manufacturers hired Porsche Engineering Services to develop a new kind of steel monocoque technology calls Ultra Light Steel Auto Body monocoque (ULSAB). basically it has the same structure as a conventional monocoque. What it differs from its donor is in minor details - the use of "Hydroform" parts, sandwich steel and laser beam welding...........
my head hurts
no more thinking for the rest of the week
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Originally Posted by revneck
man i think that bloke either drinks alot or you mistook him and the mustang was a full chassis drag car,chassis arent something you just "swap" from car to car...
i no!!!!!! the easiest way to describe it is cut the floor out and swap that over and fabricate parts so they fit together
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Most cars...except real SUVs of course! Land Rover claims the Disco3 has both monocoque and ladder frame construction!?! She's stiff!
why would land rover do that??? you wouldnt think that it would be worth the money aye. Are they extremly heavy/tall/twisted/nostrel sex, or are they just desinged like that so you can have two fat people sitting in oposite corners without twisting the chassis?
Haha, something like that, the stiffer the better when it comes to offroading, and that's what Landies do best. Means you can open and shut the doors when the cars suspension is maxed out - ie articulation. Some suvs and lots of cars twist so much when under that sort of stress you can't open and shut the doors properly!
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Most cars...except real SUVs of course! Land Rover claims the Disco3 has both monocoque and ladder frame construction!?! She's stiff!
I work for Jaguar Land Rover, and you are quite correct, Most seperate chassis cars/4WD's have very flimsy body shells as there is no need for rigidity, but this impacts considerably on NVH and General Refinement. JLR uses a ladder frame to mount the suspension & engine on, which to say it is over-engineered is an understatement! these things are indestructible, but in the interests of refinment they use a unitary body on top of that mounted by way of rubber blocks and gas dampers, the result is a super quiet and vibration free ride, and 4 corner Independant Air suspension (with active swaybars on the Range Rover Sport) means for a big truck you can fair chuck them around! But the only downside is they are heavy! around 2700kg. we had to install a special 4 tonne hoist just to work on them.
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Haha, something like that, the stiffer the better when it comes to offroading, and that's what Landies do best. Means you can open and shut the doors when the cars suspension is maxed out - ie articulation. Some suvs and lots of cars twist so much when under that sort of stress you can't open and shut the doors properly!
Ive had some jap cars on a 2 post hoist, using the sills as the jack point, and ive seen the interior lights come on when they are clear of the ground! thats some serious body flex.
Not sure you could jack up one corner of a VL and still open all the doors easily. Check out the chassis twist on any the top end VL drag cars that launch on two wheels, one of the front wheels is always a hell of a lot lower than the other!
Speaking of Jaguars - drove an XF SV8 the other day - looks horn on the 20s. Pretty quick too. Turns heads where ever you go too. Jag deserve to do well with that car.
Youre lucky, we've got a 2.7D and an SV8 at the moment, and I havnt been anywhere near them yet! This is the Car to save Jaguar, unfortunately a private "specialist" has taken it upon himself to import some brand new from Singapore at a lower cost (a big no-no and will result in the dealer losing the franchise if JLR finds out who it is) but the NZ distributor has fired back by only issuing statement of compliance to Jag dealers, the war has only just begun
holy hell did that finaly get published i sent that in months and months ago. think that was sometime round christmas i sent that in. what does it say??
