Built and trialled by Hughie at Portalrover, I just traded my Mog and a big pile of Landrover kit for it

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee71/steveplowman/IMG_6323.jpg

that thing is funny looking

-ben

I got all excited when I read the title, but then......:shaking:

not my cup o' tea...

If it was built by portalrover, it's bound to have some interesting stuff hiding under the bodywork. Give us a list of specifications, this isn't a fashion show :D

I'd wheel the snot out of that truck!

mow thats something to drool over! sweet rig man!

If it was built by portalrover, it's bound to have some interesting stuff hiding under the bodywork. Give us a list of specifications, this isn't a fashion show :D

Do you mean Portalrover as in Bill/Portalrover/daddylonglegs who posts/posted on here and built his own portals, or the UK company who ripped off his name???

Looks Fugly IMHO, and looks like it has stock housings/axles.

mixed opinions then lol, got to agree it aint pretty!

its a 1990 110 CSW, galvanised chassis, shortened,ex Discovery 300 Tdi which has been tuned by UK specialist Jeremy Fearn, Salibury rear axle, converted to disc brakes with a Detroit locker, Rover front axle with a Truetrac, Ashcroft shafts, GKN overload hubs and cross drilled and vented discs. 35's , Scorpion Extreme suspension kit 12000lb electric winches front and rear, full externall roll cage and North Off Road tubular wings

UK Portalrover, dunno about the ripping off of names thats just what his business is called :)

I'd be more excited if it HAD portal's....

Scorpion Extreme suspension kit

and that includes....? some orange springs and cad plated radius arms that are probably half as strong as the stock forged arms.

edit* and the cute orange skid plate up front.

Its a nice rig, and yeah, as PT said, I'd wheel the crap out of it...BUT...it isn't anything to "wow" about...bobbed..that's about it...

Enjoy the crap out of it though, and post picks of it getting abused...

mixed opinions then lol, got to agree it aint pretty!

its a 1990 110 CSW, galvanised chassis, shortened,ex Discovery 300 Tdi which has been tuned by UK specialist Jeremy Fearn, Salibury rear axle, converted to disc brakes with a Detroit locker, Rover front axle with a Truetrac, Ashcroft shafts, GKN overload hubs and cross drilled and vented discs. 35's , Scorpion Extreme suspension kit 12000lb electric winches front and rear, full externall roll cage and North Off Road tubular wings

UK Portalrover, dunno about the ripping off of names thats just what his business is called :)

Sounds well setup. I am all into function over form.

Bill/Portalrover is an Australian guy who tinkers with landies, and has built some amazing creations for him and a couple of customers over the years. Including a 6x6 IIA, a 90 with forced articulation and a central winch, and his own beast, a IIA with home-built portals and more wheel travel than any other IIA.

So when you say "portalrover" on here - most would probably think of him: http://www2.pirate4x4.com/forum/member.php?u=37255

There are a few pics/vids floating around.

Sounds well setup. I am all into function over form.

Bill/Portalrover is an Australian guy who tinkers with landies, and has built some amazing creations for him and a couple of customers over the years. Including a 6x6 IIA, a 90 with forced articulation and a central winch, and his own beast, a IIA with home-built portals and more wheel travel than any other IIA.

So when you say "portalrover" on here - most would probably think of him: http://www2.pirate4x4.com/forum/member.php?u=37255

There are a few pics/vids floating around.

Wait, is that the guy who thinks rover diffs are fine but 9in axle's suck? If so, thats exactly the truck I would expect him to build.

HAHAHA TRUE TRAC AND 35s! hahahahahaha

OHH AND ASHCROFT CVS! hahahaha :laughing

put some toys in that bad boy and let her growl!!

Sounds well setup. I am all into function over form.

Bill/Portalrover is an Australian guy who tinkers with landies, and has built some amazing creations for him and a couple of customers over the years. Including a 6x6 IIA, a 90 with forced articulation and a central winch, and his own beast, a IIA with home-built portals and more wheel travel than any other IIA.

So when you say "portalrover" on here - most would probably think of him: http://www2.pirate4x4.com/forum/member.php?u=37255

There are a few pics/vids floating around.

UK PortalRover: http://www.portalrover.co.uk/

Not a conventional beauty by any means, but interesting. Seems like a reasonable compromise between a light overlanding truck and something you could "wheel the snot out of". It would work well here in the Northeast even with the 110 wb. I'd like to see an interior shot please to see what kind of room it has left.

Anyway, congratulations.:flipoff2:

Sounds well setup. I am all into function over form

Ok Ben,
but there's a limit
:p

Can we bin the orange skidplate please?
:D

Not a conventional beauty by any means, but interesting. Seems like a reasonable compromise between a light overlanding truck and something you could "wheel the snot out of". It would work well here in the Northeast even with the 110 wb. I'd like to see an interior shot please to see what kind of room it has left.

Anyway, congratulations.:flipoff2:

currently refitting the interior, the advantage for me is it retains the 5 door 5 seat layout without the long rear overhang that the 110 csw has, you have a small load area at the rear, enough space for a rear winch, tools and a cooler box without the security/weather protection issues of a pick up.

i'll post up some pics of the "inside space" once i'm done.

Just to put some perspective on some of the above comments. I live in the Highlands of Scotland, lots of open Mountain/moorland type terrain with a fair amount of forest and peat bog thrown in, a jacked up portal axled rock buggy is not the ideal for this kind of terrain, neither is a space framed open truck - its pissing down and blowing a gale here half the year! The shortenned CSW bodywork is a good compromise giving plenty of protection from the weather with enough excess bodywork removed to allow the suspension to work., radius arms are QT3's not Scorpion, the suspension seems to work well, and has been on the truck for a number of years now and used hard, the Scorpion nitrogen shocks are rebuildable and seem to be pretty durable, as bits break/fall off they will be replaced with stronger/better - thats progress

on the list of soon to be done mods, an Xeng handbrake, beadlockers and either Simex ET's or Maxxis Mudzillas, possibly 37's