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Cool rig! Can't wait to see what you end up doing with it.

Can't wait to see this on the road! A friend of mine has one, quite impressive cars when your get up close to one.

That would have taken a while! Damn, I was enjoying the build and it seemed pretty close to being done!

What is the outer spline count on the axles you are using? Have a look at EP82 hubs, alot of that stuff is plug and play and you might avoid alot of these issues. There are plenty of brake upgrade options too.

Minor update - this thing ended up on KPR's dyno again and didn't blow up which was somewhat boring but also quite convenient. It made 119db @ 105kw which was pretty sweet. Few teething issues but it took the punishment well. KPR and I were trying to work out the compression, could be high 12's or even 13:1 so was a bit knock limited on 98 fuel. Should really swap back to a normal head gasket rather than the TRD one and it would probably take more timing and make more power but that's never going to happen. There's also a few more kw to be found with exhaust mods and mucking around with the trumpets more but that's also never going to happen.

Good score. Ive got a Parker Hale 30-06 - not quite as cool as yours but they're a good old unit.

Another +1 for Victron - have been using lots of their products for years with zero issues. I figured out our electrical wholesaler gets discount through the Victron importer which helps.

Engine bay shot - still needs a bit of tidying up but its getting there

As per usual its been a while since updates. I did a pretty shit job of taking photos of the work done since finishing the engine assembly too which doesn't help much . I finished assembling the engine and also gave the gearbox a birthday. I pulled the suspension arms out to clean, repaint and rebush them. Also gave the steering rack a once over, paint, and fitted new boots. Then threw the engine back in the hole I had some help, although what he's fixing under there Im not sure The engine fired up fairly easily and sounds good and strong. It drives really well and is potentially up a bit in power with the extra compression, will finish the tune off at some stage but for now its driving pretty well. I took the rear bumper and side skirts off and painted them in bumper black, finally fitted all the seat belts and clean up the interior a bit, mucked around with the coil over heights a little bit more, cleaned all the glass etc. I swapped the wheels off the 4agte car and took some poser photos: Not sure what to do with this thing now as Ive accidentally made it reasonably nice - may just look at moving it on, TBC.

In the G4 ecus sometimes the CAN isn't enabled even though the connector is there. Last year I had USB connection issues with a G4 Storm so sent it to them and they enabled CAN at the same time for free. You can hit up Adam on the Link Support facebook page or chat with them on their website - they are extremely helpful which as mentioned above is a huge reason to use their products

Thanks! Pretty awesome to hear of a few others around, post up some photos! Continuing on from above I also made a box between the head of the mattress and the side of the caravan which formed a bedhead but was also a convenient booze cupboard. Anyway the plan for the box was worked out which I decided to split into two - a smaller part to hold the small LPG bottle with lots of vent/drain holes so it can also be a wet box, and the larger for tent poles etc. I cut up a mix of treadplate and sheet to form the box: Then started to press them into shape: This was all going fine until something in the press controller decided it had done enough work for the year and it completely stopped. No amount of probing with my multimeter could solve what went wrong so at 3 days before xmas I thought the game was over. Luckily, one of our suppliers that we use for oversize sheet folding came to the rescue and pressed the last few parts for me. The sides have folds at the bottom and the base plates rivet in place which was the first step: Tack welded the inside then tig welded the corners and lids: Then fitted some piano hinge and made up some flat bar spacers between the two boxes so the lids cleared each other, and bolted together. Bolted this to the draw bar and fitted some latches: Fitted the jockey wheel, loaded up and we were on our way to Shelley Beach on boxing day. I was worried about too much tongue weight so only filled the boxes with light bulky items like camp chairs etc and it towed pretty well even up the winding roads from Thames to Coromandel town. It was a bit wet and wild for a few days but had a great time all except for the canvas awning splitting in the high winds which Ash sewed back together during the storm! Here's us in Thames on the journey home. Saw a couple of much longer Liteweights on permanent stands - one of them was 8m! All in all a good trip with the only issue being the awning needing to be restitched which we will sort soon. Future plans may involve changing the interior around a bit and putting the queen bed at the other end and reinstating the couches - TBC.

Nah m8 just 6 of these

So good to see another EP71 tragic! Can't wait to see the build and was awesome to see this at the drags!

After a few coats of the finest black paint I got on with replacing the brake hard line and refitting the LPG line. I 3D printed some clamps for the lines which got dutifully fixed into position, because OCD. Then by some miracle it got a clean sheet WOF! The front of the caravan has a couch area that forms into a bed like such: But as you can see it doesn't fill all of the area and make the bed a bit small. We never use the area as a couch as its always setup as a bed, so while I had the caravan at work I made a few changes: This is an interim solution and long term will replace all the tops to one big panel that will hinge up on some struts for easy storage access. Will be picking up a queen size mattress for it and maybe building a head board/storage area as the space is longer than the mattress. Also applied some black vinyl to the corner of the front windows to elude the peeping toms Have most of a drawing done for the box on the draw bar so will try to get build that before Christmas in amongst all the other projects.

I continue to be in awe of your work!