tehnzbrad

heres how it sits atm, smashed out a quick nerf type bar one night after work, still waiting on hydro bumps/ anti-rock swaybar. then the cert guy can come tell me why it cant be certed ( hope that it can be)

whipped up a quick front bar and checked front a rear flex again, really need two forklifts haha the bro standanding at the end is probably about 6ft for reference.

im not shooting for big flex a such as its not really critical for high speed dune bashing but its sorta just turned out this way with the rear 4 link, front doesnt flex as much due to front radius arm set up ( still way more than a factory patrol/saf how ever) which is fine due to desired handling characteristics the radius arm set up provides such as anti dive etc..

heres some photos of the front shock mounts/ engine cage

made some progress, pictures can talk for them selves, build has slowed alittle due to moving house and saving up dosh for parts.

flexes out heeeaaps, need to get a sway bar and play with secondary spring rates.

yeah i had springs etc in didnt bother with the dual rate adjusters i might give it another flex but jack the front wheel on the otherside at the same time and see what happens, will 100% run a sway bar, i need to lose 5" of shock up travel on articulation but maintain full shock uptravel on diff moving up and down as one..

i thought of runnning a hilux/navara/ isuzu mu front torsion bar as a sway bar as it would be rather stiff

flex bro, i stroped it up to the engine crane and pulled up a rear wheel and just keeps flexing till it hits either shocks chassis or rear cage which is heeaps, i had one wheel at like 750mm off the ground and one still on the ground with 200mm+ to go

might have to get a custom sway away bar, trophy trucks have same problem and use a hearty stiff sway bar to get around it im fairly sure

same haha maybe not to same extent but i hope for the best, 

build has progressed further will find some time to update soon

oh sweet, i have waay to much flex so hoping a sway bar will limit flex but still allow full shock travel when the axle moves up and down as one.

yo, how much did that off road sway bar limit flex? 

aint no vegiterian

heres abit more of the radius arm mods, people have been doing them with heim joints but i think a bushed joint like the johnny joint is a longer lasting and nicer options

just put one up, yeah i can always change rates later on i guess its almost a whole different project setting shocks up and stuff i guess

needs a tad more triangulation where it mounts to chassis and all the mounts for radiator, surge tank etc but bulk of the jungle gym is done ill put some more updated pictures on tonight of how everythings put together suspension wise..

ive had to incorp a flatdeck sort of set up to cover the tyres for cert as fibreglass bedsides are expensive asf in nz

so far the build has taken about 10 months/ 700hrs of work from the day i stripped it 

dont really indent on getting it too muddy, ive build it for mostly fast sand driving (muriwai/pouto etc) and gravel roads with big potholes and lots of bumps or even just general shitty nz roads. not forgetting the jumps.

ignore the ls1 factory sump, hangs way to low to use so will have to make one up so i can use all 7" or so of up travel, its built for 18" travel in the back and 16" in the front (will be strapped for less when the cert guy comes) at 50/50 when its at ride height.

i have ordered 2.5" dia king coilovers that will be here in the next few weeks so it wont be long now till its sitting on springs.

in the mean time ive finished the rear cage set up that will be used more for mounting stuff like radiator, spare wheel, fuel cell and mounting shocks etc etc, still have to make up a front engine cage like out of a nascar to mount the front shocks to.

ive never made a cage before and i didnt plan any of it, i just visualised what i wanted in my head and started bending and it actually turned out pretty good...not bad for a 1st cage from a drainlayer

since then ive just been picking up parts i need as they come along, like i have a ecu, looms,coils, new crank, handbrake pully relocation adapter etc etc

also gave it steering by drilling out the tapered holes and using some rod ends in single shear fashion.

also saved up and went halfs on a tube bender with my flatmate,and then got a whole lot of roll cage tubing

then i just welded in some spare boxsection in between the diffs/ chassis to get it sitting on ride height which is just a tad higher than factory and moved it up to my house from my dads..

tyres are 35x12.5r15s btw 

wheel base is bout 3.1m long so 50mm longer than a lwb patrol, reason being is a longer wheel base is alot smoother over whoops (repetative bumps..like ocean waves)

motor all mounted in, at this point i coated the chassis in primer got my new beadlocks bolted the diffs and everything back in and put the cab back on..

(and thats its on max uptravel apart from the front.. in the photos where ive just lifted the cab on)