part 2 of the pictures

Stripped ready for paint

Painted

 

VERY nice!

 

Nice clean tubework.

 

oh & before i forget

we built this aswell at the same time inberween work

 

VERY nice....but I have to ask:

How the hell did you get the D2 TD5 engine and trans to work without the god-awful BCU?????

 

You could always ship it to me Greg, I feel confident I could get it running if it were in front of me.

 

That was reasonable easy, I say reasonably as the proof of what I did we will find out on monday night, basically all I did was junk all the d2 wiring,bcm etc, picked up a complete defender wiring loom,dash,fuse box etc n converted it to defender spec, much easier then faffing about trying to work with the d2 stuff, however the car I posted a pic of in the a frame thread still runs the complete d2 loom,bcm, etc all in a box in the dash

 

Hijack alert!

You mean I could source a new-ish Defender ECU that's running the same engine as my D2 and be done with my hellish BCU?? Tell me it ain't so!:smokin:

And as far as the car with everything intact, what did you do for all of the inputs the BCU needs to prevent it from going into "alarm" mode? Which is the problem I'm having w/ my D2 right now.

OK, the hijack is over - for now.

 

nice work ,what is the weight of the truck ?

 

no idea as yet but if it made 1700-1800kg id be happy with that,

cool, but why not do a link susension? you have soo much room to get a good setup.

reason for not doing a link setup, we try to use all standard landrover parts when we do builds for customers, we had used the D2 arms on previous builds to good effect & they are cheap, i think i paid $100 for the 4 arms with bushes etc where as to go down the link route & use jj, ballistic joints etc would have been waaaay more expensive ($1300 ish),
other reasons being the rear A frame setup is tried & tested & works & doesnt break (yes i know its not a slick or efficient as 4 link but hey its what i know)
by keeping the front usning a radis arm setup IMO it keeps it reasonably ballanced & i know how its going to drive/ react, all this is personal choice btw

 

cool, but why not do a link susension? you have soo much room to get a good setup.

 

No Greg. Its for the td5. If you want to ditch the d2 stuff, you can easily run a stand alone ecu and the compu shift trans controller.

 

Oh please enlighten me, oh Wise One. What is this stand alone ECU and compu shift that you speak of?

In other words, what vehicle would the ECU come from that would run my engine and how would the compu shift be integrated.

Sorry RedLine Mike, I didn't mean for your thread to get this far off-track.:shaking:

 

Some measurements if anyone is interested
At its current ride height with 6" of uptravel available there is 16" under the chassis rails, from the bottom of the diff to the ground is 12" with 6psi in the tyres,the width in cab @ shoulder height is 56 1/2 " & overall height is 75"

 

it has rear radius arms and a A-frame?

 

Sorry for not making myself clearer, it has the D2 front radius arms on the back, with the rear eye cut off to make it a long trailing arm

 

with correct geometry, it could be done pretty easily. I would just go with a long travel Watts first and then a Panhard if the watts wouldn't fit right.

Don't know why you guys hate watts so much. They are wonderful axle location devices. And yes I am serious.

 

Hey Mike it's looking good! Glad to see it coming together. (Back over in Jan, can I come up for a test drive?!)

 

you know where ill be:flipoff2:

give me advance warning & ill make sure its got diesel in it & there is an empty field @ the farm

 

CARNAGE......

give us a shout when your back over & will sort something out,

 

It runs......
Pictures n vids to follow

 

Nice frame, how will the main rails hold up to torsional stresses without gussets?

 

Needs more triangulation:flipoff2:

(this is Pirate after all!)

 

we have built several tube chassis vehicles in the past from compsafari cars to trialers & the originals are still going strong so as it sits, we will leave it be,

 

Gives an idea of the defender wiring loom thats fitted, the remaining loom that is extra is inside the box on the firewall

 

Pretty cool.

Are you guys able to MOT or license vehicles like that over there?

 

you can, it essentially has to have an SVA or IVA which are essentially a very strict MOT but with a few differances, you cant have wheels sticking out with the body & must be covered approx 120deg round (i think), switchgear on the dash has to have a radia to meet, no sharp edges & bodywork & everything on the outside has to be rounded off & have a radia to meet, i could do it but im not that far with the build to consider that just yet,

basically its a bit of a pain in the arse but it can be done

 

Cool, thanks for the reply.

 

Nice vehicle,what shocks are you running.

 

They are fox 2.0 7/8 non res coilovers in a 12” flavour

 

well a slight update for anyone interested,

it now looks like this

has had a windscreen (windshield) fitted, i have now finished the powersteering, brakes are plumbed & working correctly, paneling is finished, props are fitted, beadlocks are done, roofs made & fitted,
seats are in the process of being mounted, snorkel & intake pipes are mounted, just waiting on silicon joiners,

took it out for a spin in our estate & it did this

so cant wait to get the vnt turbo on it :smokin:

 

You've run over that poor man!!!!!!

Seriously looking good!! Are you getting the VNT from Ian? What are they going for these days?
I need to get one of those and a Flashable ECU for mine one of these days!

 

Yo Keith,

i got my turbo from pete @ www.bellautoservices.co.uk

he also remapped my ecu to suit the vnt,