This is my 2006 Range Rover (bigbody) with a custom lift set up on 305/55-20 BFG KM2, with factory 20" Range Rover sport wheels, with 1.5" wheel spacers. The lift took some time and still in R&D(Not sharing the specifics @ this time), but gives it about a 2.5 inch lift at the Normal Ride height setting.

We had to slightly modify the front of the inside fender wells. to keep the mud terrains from rubbing.

Figured I would share my outside the box approach to a luxury SUV, and make this capable rover more aggressive.

Looking to add front and rear light guards ,and a custom roof rack as soon as I get time to build it. I will also be removing the running boards and try to figure out a rock slider that looks the part.


-MikeB.

First and last pics are at Normal ride height. and the two pics in the center are at extended height. My D90 has 3" Lift with 33" tire for reference to height.

And yes these are poser pics, but, I will try to get it down to Uhwarrie in the next couple of weeks to do some wheeling and pics.

OMG. You cut the fenders!!!! You sick bitch!








Looks really good! lol.

tires are too wide too!!! :flipoff2:


Also looks like your front end has some +camber.

Are you in warranty still?

Edit, i searched around, but didn't have any luck looking for a picture of the '03 launch trucks they took on the Rubicon. If i remember correctly, they had nice looking HD rear bumpers on them.

very very nice!

I still need to try to adjust the camber, alignment, and try to balance these tires little bit better. I had a dream one night to do it, SOooooo I did!:grinpimp:

Yes, its under warranty. only have 40k miles on it, Im sure the Dealership will love this...

I got tired of having the 23" tires and wheels with the shitty roads around here ruining rims.

You might want to butter up to the dealer because LR is cracking down on modifications especially to wheels and tires and denying claims and even voiding warranties entirely. :eek::shaking:

How are the CV angles?

I'm generally not a fan of the newer Range Rovers, but this is the exception. Fawkin nice ride man!:D

I think the medication just kicked in

I still need to try to adjust the camber, alignment, and try to balance these tires little bit better. I had a dream one night to do it, SOooooo I did!:grinpimp:

Yes, its under warranty. only have 40k miles on it, Im sure the Dealership will love this...

I got tired of having the 23" tires and wheels with the shitty roads around here ruining rims.


Good luck trying to get those balanced enough so that your steering wheel doesn't shake... The stock wheels and tires cause the steering wheel to shake badly if not balanced well. Full size Range Rovers are the most sensitive to tire balance IMO.

Nice looking Range.

I lifted mine also - simple computer lift and went with 275/65/18 - which are 32's.

The tires are balanced easily and no steering wheel shimmy at all.

No rubbing either, except at the front of the fender well at full lock in reverse ONLY.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4446407269_340cc13031.jpg

Maybe more people will start moding these trucks! It handles great offroad!

Here are my sliders:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4446406323_bbc54d332b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4447180406_d51bcc314a.jpg

and my rear bumper:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2770/4275222990_7aa8fa843c.jpg

NICE!!! This is the way Rovers are supposed to look, No Doubt!! Those spacers might run you into trouble. it might be part of your balancing issues. My spacers didn't work longer than a few days before I took them off and started shopping for some new wheels. Just a tip, if you check out your local wheel shops you'll notice that there are no wheels with negative offsets for these vehicles. So you tell them that you want a given wheel size, in your case 20x10, and tell them it has to have a negative offset. When they tell you that nothing exist, then counter back with having them order blanks and have them to custom drill your bolt pattern into the new wheel (not all wheel shops have this drill machine). This is the only way to have wide wheels on this bolt pattern that I've experienced. This will eliminate any vibrations that you have right now and make for the most secure setup for off roading. Just my $.02 thats all!!! LOOKS BITCH"N For SURE!!!:smokin:

Nice looking Range.

I lifted mine also - simple computer lift and went with 275/65/18 - which are 32's.

The tires are balanced easily and no steering wheel shimmy at all.

No rubbing either, except at the front of the fender well at full lock in reverse ONLY.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4446407269_340cc13031.jpg

Maybe more people will start moding these trucks! It handles great offroad!

Here are my sliders:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4446406323_bbc54d332b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4447180406_d51bcc314a.jpg

and my rear bumper:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2770/4275222990_7aa8fa843c.jpg


I have seen a few with smaller tires like that, Looks awesome. What are the detail on that rear bumper/Rock sliders... I like what you did! I have also seen a big body with Cooper stt. The Rovertym LR3 set up that Jordan did for LRL magazine is where the motivation came from. Plus it drove well and looked tough!

I also found a set of wheels that I might break down and buy. that will be down the road!

The bumper and sliders were made by my fabricator - www.castlefab.net

Thanks!

Please tell me that everything is working in good order, and how you did it. you have done an excellent job from the look of it. i have an '03 and i want to do the same.

I'm not the original poster, but mine's doing fine.

I'll be making some minor adjustments to mine in the near future, but only to gain more droop travel when in "off road mode". Otherwise, I beat on this truck and it has performed well - especially since all the airbags are now relatively new.

I'm generally not a fan of the newer Range Rovers, but this is the exception. Fawkin nice ride man!:D

Yeah man, nice. Can't say I'm mad it's sitting next to a D90 either!

This is my 2006 Range Rover (bigbody) with a custom lift set up on 305/55-20 BFG KM2, with factory 20" Range Rover sport wheels, with 1.5" wheel spacers. The lift took some time and still in R&D(Not sharing the specifics @ this time), but gives it about a 2.5 inch lift at the Normal Ride height setting.

We had to slightly modify the front of the inside fender wells. to keep the mud terrains from rubbing.

Figured I would share my outside the box approach to a luxury SUV, and make this capable rover more aggressive.

Looking to add front and rear light guards ,and a custom roof rack as soon as I get time to build it. I will also be removing the running boards and try to figure out a rock slider that looks the part.


-MikeB.

give jordan a place to sleep, some lil wayne, and some herb, tell him he isn't allowed to leave until it has 35's on it...

give jordan a place to sleep, some lil wayne, and some herb, tell him he isn't allowed to leave until it has 35's on it...

haha... no, Jordan isn't touching this one

I actually took the KM2 off and removed the lift kit.:eek: I had to use this vehicle to commute for a few months. Mean while I will leave the wheeling duties to my other rigs.

how much shipped to Aus (postcode 4214) ??? :smokin:

More than you can afford ;)

Kay, so I understand this is an old thread, and the likeliness that you still have the RR is slim. But you did mention that this was R&D and that you were going to make necessary adjustments to compensate for camber and such. This is a project that I'm considering next spring and I'm trying to attack the virtual problems prior to dropping the coin on the real ones. Ideally, I'd like to stuff 35's with an obscene offset. I love how clean you left the Rover itself. Practicality is the true ideal, but sometimes practicality gets in the way of really "red necking" something of this nature. Just wondering if you could enlighten me on some of the issues you needed to address during the build and afterward...

Thanks

Digging up old threads, but I really want to know how the L322 lift kit is going, looking at getting one of these in the near future (cross-grading from a classic) and don't want to be stuck somewhere that my ol' faithfully unfaithful could get me through...

you don't need to lift a L322 to go any further than it could anyway. plus tire clearance is the same regardless of how far it is lifted. It will go waaay farther off road than a stock RRC (with some A/T's) anyway.

Nice looking Range.

I lifted mine also - simple computer lift and went with 275/65/18 - which are 32's.


Alright, what computer did you use to allow you to recalibrate it to this extent?

I had a gentleman commission a front winch bumper/mount yesterday for his L322/4.4. We'll see if he comes through with letting me have his truck for a month and some cash to get started.

My ol' RRC has been lifted, manualised and a V8 that can actually get the car up the freeway, + she bashes through everything with a big steel bullbar... So I wont be doing the latter, but lifting the chassis/body up off the ground has rather large advantages when driving over mounds and rock piles and fallen trees etc... plus the L322 is much newer, so I'd want to keep it away from the things that put holes and scratches in it...

I'd love to see a real off road comparison between the 3 Rangies - the classic, P38 and L322, all in original trim doing various activities - water crossing, mud slinging, rock climbing, articulating etc...

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/384190_293875677304285_100000455660907_1124706_175 3098555_n.jpg


BTW... with a computer lift, do you actually gain anything?? articulation and max height stays the same due to the airbag size being the same... I'd like to see longer travel airbags available for these things, not necissarily to increase ride height at normal cruising setting, but increase ability whilst off road - would need a computer rewrite to allow for the extra ability tho...

Alright, what computer did you use to allow you to recalibrate it to this extent?

I had a gentleman commission a front winch bumper/mount yesterday for his L322/4.4. We'll see if he comes through with letting me have his truck for a month and some cash to get started.

"re calibrate" the sensors... problem is if you do it too far, it will goof up and over extend the bags on super extended mode and pop the cv's out. it can also cause the arm to flop over and think it is backwards... pics of the bumper.

a L322 is like driving a teeter totter off road. you ABSOLUTELY use tires in the air to navigate. it flexes well, but not like a solid axle truck. the Body is also much larger. you will drag it along trees, and whatever else you find. by lifting the eas, you lose all of the down travel. best advice, a L322 is not a crawler. some a/t's make it capable, but you have to be conservative. it is still an expensive truck to repair. remember parts are priced for a 90k truck.

[QUOTE=hhiemstra;13568558]My ol' RRC has been lifted, + she bashes through everything with a big steel bullbar... [/IMG]/QUOTE]

Sweet. Haven't seen much wheeling down at the old "forklift trail" lately :laughing:

Sweet. Haven't seen much wheeling down at the old "forklift trail" lately :laughing:

Whut? The trails around you aren't littered with errant forklifts?

forklifts and dislocation cones!:eek:

really? you guys don't have the problem with forklifts where you are??? I must just be unlucky...

seriously tho, this was just to see the maximum theoretical flex... is doesn't quite get there in real life, due to losing traction, but it gets close...

Would I be disappointed in the L322 when off road? Its a lot of $$$ to spend on a vehicle that I'm potentially not going to like... well, that aspect of it anyway...

Looks nice man!

So do I ditch the old Classic and get an early L322 or D3 or do I keep the Classic???

Do you want to go wheeling or drive to the mall?

a 4 x 4 is for off road. From what I've seen (youtube etc) the newer cars are more capable in stock form, even tho they don't flex, they have majic in there controlling stuff, where as the classic I only use brass balls to get me thru...

The magic is only good to a point. Once you get into anything far, it runs out.

and there in lies the problem...

sink $$$ into the calssic

vs

sink $$$ into a L322

Pro Classic - its a classic - bash through
Pro L322 - comfy economical and relatively capable

Thankyou all for listening to my ramblings, I've made up my mind - I will join the L322 ranks. On a related note: for sale: rrc, bmw 535, bmw 525...

OP that thing looks awesome! I know i'm talking crazy here but would it be possible to solid axle these things? I like the looks of them just would need more flex to make it worth while for 4wheeling. I know they arent your normal Jeep Rubicon and it would be a huge headache if possible but it would be so worth it. School me if you have one or any thoughts regarding.

OP that thing looks awesome! I know i'm talking crazy here but would it be possible to solid axle these things? I like the looks of them just would need more flex to make it worth while for 4wheeling. I know they arent your normal Jeep Rubicon and it would be a huge headache if possible but it would be so worth it. School me if you have one or any thoughts regarding.


no way no how. take a look under one and you will see it all fits together really close.

I say no way.... there is always a way how( it would be crazy tall) ... but NO...and the front diff is part of the engine. HUGE project. This vehicle is extremely heavy and not what I would go cutting up. (IMO)

Ah... oh well. Great looking rigs regardless.

If you were serious about wheeling one of these and had the coin to consider a live/solid axle swap, would you not be better off going to one of the desert race fab guys that are well versed in IFS/IRS and get thme to custom a setup...new arms and all, maybe some computer genus could help with the elec and install those airbag type "coilovers" that merc use...Bilstein make these after market...

the only thing to stop someone being able to do anything is money!

Which is NOT what I have on my side. :laughing: and wheeling a range rover where I'm at would be unique as it gets, which I'm all about.

*edit* With all the independant suspension advancements and builds going on I wouldnt be opposed to build all new IFS/IRS if it all worked like it should.

Mike,

Nice looking MK3... I like what you have done.

BTW, is that Tisdale's old 90 in your driveway?

Yup. I've had it a few years now. Definitely a sentimental piece of Rover wheeling history!

Yup. I've had it a few years now. Definitely a sentimental piece of Rover wheeling history!

That is a great truck... Bring it out to Uwharrie in April... Haven't seen it in a while.

When are we going to see some pics of this l322 getting down and dirty???