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Well I still havent taken this off the road as we have been taking it out at every chance we can, also we still havent decided what we are going to do engine wise, a V8 is still at the forefront of the plan, but we have been toying with the idea of new manifold, dual carbs, and a split exhaust manifold, decisions decisions! We have put some new shoes on the old girl though,

hmmm V8 you say........ tempting.

Exactly, to be fair it was a cheeky bid, I wasn't actually expecting to win haha

Haha that would be perfect however more unapproved spending will have me divorced. Will bide my time for now

Better that a 1KZ is a big call, And I work at a Toyota dealership so is a fairly logical way to go for me. That being said if a cheap enough 200tdi disco fell my way then obviously it would be a no brainer

@tortron haha how long ago was that @k-trips am thinking of a 4 cylinder diesel, 1kzt or similar. I want to run the original box and transfer etc and also keeping the rad panel where it is, so putting something like a TD42 will kill boxes and don't think it will fit without moving the rad panel

Cool thanks for that @Threeonthetree, will probably get it running in the interim as trying to push this thing around doesn't seem appealing haha

Yeah I've previously owned a 63 IIa, many moons ago when I first joined the Airforce. So am fully aware of the life of series Land Rover ownership haha (I'm also an Englishman myself, from Yorkshire,) yeah a 90/110 would be a great way to go, except that mid 1980's models are still fetching around 20k, plus easier isn't always as fun. The older I get the more I'm realising that I get just as much enjoyment out of building the cars in the first place. Hell if the chassis is beyond repair maybe I will build a 100" series Land Rover. The world is my oyster hahaha! (This is less likely due to aluminium body haha)

@flyingbrick Being a swb the wheel base is 88", if I was to replace the chassis with anything I would go for a discovery chassis and cut if down from 100" to the required 88". Thus gaining coil sprung beam suspension But will assess the chassis and go from there. You can buy new outriggers and cross members from the uk end of the day it's just metal and can be replaced. You can also buy full chassis (galvanised ones even) but obviously the shipping will be prohibitive haha @Shakotom yeah I can't wait either!!

Tell me how much rust I can expect here:

Cheers @johnnyfive will see how we go for time but I'm sure we could manange a visit!

So yeah, am excited and nervous. Not planning on setting any world records on how fast I build this but I have a vague plan one the structural side of things is sorted (turbo deez, parabolic springs, unsure of colour though) spending will involve many slight of hands as the minister of finance is not onboard with the project (hence why I bought it without prior approval)

So when it comes to automobiles, as far as decisions go I'm fairly reasonable at avoiding the bad ones. And yet somehow I won this off the 'tard sight unseen (and without prior approval from the minister of finances its "apparently" a 61 series IIa, its deregistered, has some rust in one of the chassis outriggers and no doubt much more. It has a random six cylinder engine (was advertised as a 202, but based on the pictures I'm 100% sure it isn't. Someone commented on the auction saying that it was a Valiant motor. And It's not running, now I say it's "apparently" a 61 series IIa because obviously with land rovers changing plates and tags is not a hard task. This one has early IIa headlight placement, but it has late IIa bulkhead parts ie it's key start not push button (that's right it was done in the 60's by Land Rover first) and it has the later wiper setup. End of the day it looks complete, and even seems to have some extras, in the poor trademe photos it looks to have a heater and a remote brake booster, which really is a Bloody luxury (imagine this being said in a very strong northern English accent) Any way @Shakotom and I are doing a mission to Opotoki on Sunday to collect it. Can't wait to see what I've got myself into!!

Looking good Kenny. Can't wait to see this thing hit the level of awesome like your other rides, You should put up some pictures/info of the rest of your collection!

I like this, a lot!

Added this sticker: Drove about 300 miles in preparation for beach hop, car ran flawlessly, drove to beach hop, car ran great again, after being here for a day or so, the want for a V8 has increased substantially, so watch this space once the weather is consistently bad enough for me to justify taking the car off the road until next summer,

Cheers guys, was a bloody awesome feeling driving this round on Thursday, and it's a great feeling to have something I've built get legal

Cheers guys been a lot of late nights and long weekends but stoked to have it legal!, yeah I saw that in the entry pack aye, will be driving it at legal height to be fair, don't want any new stickers haha!!

Discuss here:

Also her'es a few photos because I can

So the above list was remedied..........mostly, I may have missed 2 of the outer seat belt bolts, when I re-positioned the brake line to stop it rubbing on the airbag it turn out that I had moved it right into the path of the bump stop, I thought i had created enough clearance between the Tyre and the lower shock mount (I had shortened it by around 20mm when i did the rework on the shock angles) but still wasn't quite enough it turned out, And while i had stopped the bags rubbing on the diff, there still wasn't enough clearance so needed to sort that, so I: put 2 new bolts in the outer seat belt lower mounts, made a new brake line that ran onto the rear of the diff, as the original line couldn't be manipulated any more with out risk of kinking the line, as per Clint's suggestion I flapped disc'd the remaining thread that was stuck out past the lower shock mount nut, and gave the lock stops a tweak, I flapped disc'd down the weld seam on the diff and created an angled shim to sit between the top rear bag mount to roll it forward, not only did this create the clearance I needed it actually means that the bag is on a better angle when its aired out, that resulted in this: which resulted in a compliance pass, which lead to: Which mean we could get this: Pretty happy made my goal of getting the car legal for beach hop with 6 days to spare (must be an oldschool record haha), going to rack up a few miles this weekend before we drive it to Whangamata, pretty F#cking stoked to be honest, it drives great, nice and smooth, feels less boat like than it used to with the springs in it so I'm calling it a win!!

Cheers man, Haha to be honest I couldn't get it to hop myself. And when Cletus did it I don't think the wheels left the ground, however he wanted it slowed down, so slowed down it will be. Managed to cross 3 things off the list tonight, 1. I fitted the lock washers to the lower front suspension arms (it never had any fitted so I never thought to put some on, maybe some one in the ol US of A decided they weren't necessary haha) 2. I have secured the speakers (to be fair they were just sitting in the parcel tray, and I didn't even think about them haha) 3. I have slowed the front down, I ended up pulling the front airline pushlock fittings out of the valve block T and put a restrictor into them, haven't had a chance to test it yet as I have another fitting out of the tank to use as a sample to get the airline fittings i need to do the external fill point but the Id of the restrictor is basically about M5 so will see how that goes should get 3 more crossed off tomorrow!

So this happened, nothing too major, and the smaller parts of the list should be done by the end of the week, leaving only sorting the rear airbags fouling on the diff/ brake line, and reworking the front shock mounts should sort 3 of the issues on the list, Guess there is a few more late nights and weekends in the garage,

Cheers man. Everything has lock washers (except the air tank, so will see if I can remedy that tomorrow) im taking the car to work tomorrow so I can put it up on a hoist to give it a once over, and so it can have the wheel alignment for the cert done. Many nerves about the cert now haha

So Cert is booked for the 13th Feb and I've been busy working on getting everything finished, All the Airlines have been secured every 300mm or less, ive fixed the leaky exhaust, just have a tailpipe extension to weld on, the biggest thing ive had to do is make my front shock mounts, I had to get a spacer machined up to space out the bottom mount as it would've fouled on the brake line mount, and for the upper mounts i got a bit of 2x2 box section, cut it diagonally length ways, boxed the top, and welded them into the car, ended up having to trim the leading gusset as on full drop the top of the shock body fouled (Simon from Airride NZ said he uses right angle and now i can see why haha Car is booked in for a Wheel alignment on friday so i think we are as set to go as i can be, will see what Cletus finds, and fix that too haha