New daily hack/towing machine...

Pics

As I got it

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Older snaps

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Fancy shots

Comming soon :)

Crappy camera-phone pics

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Info

'03 Land Rover defender 110 County Crew Cab
Previous owner bought it completely standard so added everything to it, OCD kinda maintence really and serviced it every 5K and regularly into Will_c on here and his gang at LR-Services

Gearbox and front axle were fully rebuilt last year with new props, DMF and clutch kit when Disco Transfer box was fitted at the same time


Exterior

Beluga Black
Clear front indicators and side repeaters
Black/silver Land rover bonnet and grille badges
Genuine Landrover D90 roof rack (for extra length and modified for crew-cab) with genuine land rover spots
Safari snorkel
Swing away spare-wheel carrier
Adjustable/removable towbar
+2inch wheel arches
wind Deflectors
tinted side windows
Tomb Raider side steps
Black chequer Plate sills, wing tops, rear corners and fuel filler surround.
Black exmoor trim hood


Engine and drive-train

EGR delete
Performance panel air-filter
mid box replacement pipe
De-cat
Alisport exhaust manifold
Performance intercooler
VNT Turbo
Dual-channel boost limit box
Silicone hoses
re-mapped ecu

Discovery transfer box

Detroit tru-trac front LSD
Detroit locker rear diff


Suspension

Terrafirma Steering damper
2 inch lift kit
Full polybush kit
Castor correction and Cranked radius and trailing arms
Heavy duty solid steering arms
Heavy duty adjustable Pan-hard rod


Brakes

EBC Green-stuff pads
EBC drilled and grooved discs
Braided brake lines


Off road protection/equipment

Tubular winch bumper and 10000lb winch with plasma rope
First Four front swivel recovery points
First Four front rock guard
Gwyen Lewis steering bar protector
Gwyen Lewis steering Guard
Gwyen Lewis front diff guard
Terrafirma rear diff guard
Terrafirma tank guard
Terrafirma transmission guard

Receiver hitch
Receiver hitch towing drop plate & recovery point

Bush wires
Jate rings
Military air intake
Twin jerry-can roof-rack holder
high lift jack and roof-rack holder


Wheels and Tyres

33x12.50x15 Hankook muds on Black 15x10 modulars


Interior

Factory electric front windows
Land rover rubber mats
Recaro LS 2+2 seating cab conversion
Sound-proofing on floors
Lockable Cubby box
Nardi Classic leather steering wheel
Alpine Ipod compatible head unit
Bluetooth phone kit
midland 40ch CB
Mud-stuff Tunnel Tray
Land meter
Aftermarket Clutch pedal spring
Tinted windows



Future Plans (there's always plans :D )

EMSII
Cruise control
HD drive-shafts and drive-flanges
Possibly a set of HD prop shafts
Rear work lights
Improved sound system (first car I don't care about adding weight of course!)
Some more sound-proofing

Awesome!!!!

That's some bus Dave :cool:, you gonna do recovery now at track days?!!

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Originally Posted by sideways-theonlyway

That's some bus Dave :cool:, you gonna do recovery now at track days?!!

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He better, Mondello lads couldn't even get them selfs out of the dirt!!!!!!! (That's the recovery trucks I mean!!)

The thing is the dogs bollocks man. There must be about 10 grand worth of extras on it ,maybe more..

the presence of it on the road is unbelievable and she turns heads everywhere ha

Serious machines friend of mine has 1 was in it the other night fucking lovley yokes.

Love it i really want one of these as a daily/tow wagon instead of the pajero. what are they like to live with everyday and tow with?

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Originally Posted by rico180

He better, Mondello lads couldn't even get them selfs out of the dirt!!!!!!! (That's the recovery trucks I mean!!)

The thing is the dogs bollocks man. There must be about 10 grand worth of extras on it ,maybe more..

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Yep, will be doing recovery at Superdrift events when I'm not drifting myself. When the novelty of driving it wears off and I trust somebody else with it (probably be a while! lol), I'll let others use it if I'm drifting as well.

Yeah, about 10-15K of go faster or more so go further bits :p on it from a rough add up of sums one night.

I've another 5K of a shopping list done up though :rolleyes:
But won't be rushing with that lot for a while yet once I get the main things like the bigger IC, castor arms and things.

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Love it i really want one of these as a daily/tow wagon instead of the pajero. what are they like to live with everyday and tow with?

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They are a real mar-mite kinda yoke to be honest... People either love them or hate them. I always loved the look of them with stuff done to them, Always thought they were abit plain looking and even more so, utterly shite to drive standard though.

Drove a totally standard 30K mile 110 van before I went to look at this one and I absolutely hated it in comparison to any others I drove with some work done.

With the re-map, Disco transfer box or overdrive fitted and a good covering sound proofing they can be improved loads though! This one sits very comfortably on the motorway at 60-70 with pretty much road noise from the mud tyres. You still feel the weight of it on a backroad obviously especially with the lift and roof-rack etc but it actually handles surprisingly well for what it is and your brave enough to get over the fact of being up so high

Would definitely get a 110 over a 90 too if on the road alot as they are much more planted, turning circle is terrible though and I don't know how people manage the 130 around towns!

I haven't done much towing with it so far but it would have the '95 Pajero 2.8 we have for breakfast!

Reliablity can be a problem though as a bad one will break your heat and drive you to tears in no time!
It really pays to keep looking until you find a good one (I've been contemplating one for about a year and started looking properly for one since October, granted the winter was a bad time to be trying to buy one as people weren't selling in fear of the snow) especially if its a TD5 one as they are more expensive to fix engine-wise and need diagnostics for everything. the older tdi ones are more basic and friendlier for working on but they don't sound as good and wouldn't have anywhere near as much power and torque as a 5 pot thats had some tinkering.

In terms of fuel economy, was doing about 20mpg while towing earlier in the week doing deliveries (about 2.5t load including the trailer on backroads) Was up and down to Cork today then so about 65-75mph on the motorway and abit of city driving and some 45-50mph light driving then locally and it seems to be doing about 30mpg so not bad considering the weight, aero-dynamics and the 12.5x33" muds.

If I took off the roof-rack, fitted narrower road tyres or even just A/Ts it would probably do 5-10mpg better but it would look sh!te then... worth the sacrifice I reckon :D

Of course, if I store a couple of different maps on the nanocom I can have one or two maps set to optium towing, economy or just power for acting the maggot in it.

Needs a bigger intercooler and de-cat first anyway!

FFS Dave that's savage!

I've been having a little look at these for a daily an towing - my Freelander is grand but borderline towing. Bot too sure how I'd get on with one of these daily though...

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I've a video of how that car ended up like that too! :D

thats scrap hauling in style :cool: cheers for all the info i know what your saying about loving of hating them ive always wanted one though.

I just cant understand why are they sooooo expensive to buy, This one looks great, I like the way it is done up, but standard ones... Not my cup of tea

Got lots of pics of it at Superdrift the other weekend. I really like this shot by Markos though!!!

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Here's a few a friend took when i had it out messing in the mud last Sunday

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Originally Posted by gpparts

I just cant understand why are they sooooo expensive to buy, This one looks great, I like the way it is done up, but standard ones... Not my cup of tea

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Main reason is because the old ones still don't look like they've aged when the new ones are the same apart from a different bonnet on the newest ones and anything thats kinda timeless holds its value well.

More than likely, the last of the 300tdi, later TD5 models and the newer transit engined ones will hold their value even more soon when the new version comes out as its looking like its going to like shite and being built in china doesn't help its case either.

The Crew-cab ones hold their value then too as they can carry 4 or 5 but still have cheap tax.

Ah man I've got the horn back for a defender now man lol :) awesome machine altogether

that's the nicest freelander I have seen :wink: ha ha well wear dude,the long wheel base crew cabs are the only way to go.

You'll just have to get one Deco! ;)

Getting a de-cat down-pipe tomorrow for it as the cat still hasn't seen the bin!
Getting a bigger intercooler then during the week for it so should be up around the 180-200bhp mark then... until I get a bigger turbo ;)

Will be making a stainless tubular exhaust manifold for it too in th next couple of weeks as I'm after warping the standard one with having too much fun with it, lol.

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that's the nicest freelander I have seen :wink: ha ha well wear dude,the long wheel base crew cabs are the only way to go.

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Yea, cool looking freelander alright... :rolleyes::p

Haven't updated this in a while so edited the first post with all the new bits :)

Added a few more suspension and engine bits. With just the lift kit, it wasn't as stable as it could have been so fitted castor correction arms and polybushed it too. Threw a set of HD steering arms on too as originals were abit bent and only a matter of time before they get worse or ball-joints go.

Put another couple of guards on underneath so its completely protected now and no worry grounding out on heavily rutted tracks or rocky river beds :D

Really must sort the stainless manifold soon and maybe fit the VGT as the intercooler and few new bits are wasted with the warped manifold... Plus it sounds terrible with all the squealing an ticking :(

Got rid of the Halfords spec momo steering wheel too and stuck on a Nardi classic.

thats a cool yoke

Rear layshaft and/or main shaft bearings shit themselves on the way to Mondello yesterday so only had 4th gear to get the rest of the way on the motorway from around Cahir to Mondello and back home again :eek:


Thanfully, being a torquey bitch of a yoke and the longer gearing of the Disco transfer box (which meant 4th is more like 5th in a standard Defender), it managed the journey just fine with just 4th low for taking off and then into 4th High range to cruise away at 80-100kph :grin:


Unfortunately, the clutch shit itself due to the slave cylinder packing up eariler on in the drift car half way through the day then of course but didn't mind that for a 400 euro car that had already got dogs of abuse at the last superdrift with apart from fitting coilovers and a hydro got no servicing or anything between getting it and since it came off the trailer to back up on it for Mondello :D

Just a shame, we didn't have time to get closer to the wall and give it a few rubs before we lost the use of the clutch altogether lol.




So looks like a new gearbox with uprated bearings for the Defender now which is fine and at least another box ticked off on things to do apart from the fact that it was rebuilt before I got it so didn't think I was going to be spending money on that side of things for a while :(

Meant to say to to you dude, whatever you do dont get an ashcroft gearbox, we have seen an awful lot of problems with boxes supplied by them. some customers want them, we wont supply them but will fit if customer insists...

that is cool as fuck!!!

Cheers... something different looking anyway :o
You have a pm too ;)

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Originally Posted by will_c

Meant to say to to you dude, whatever you do dont get an ashcroft gearbox, we have seen an awful lot of problems with boxes supplied by them. some customers want them, we wont supply them but will fit if customer insists...

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Cool, thanks for that :) I'll just open the one in it when I have another one swapped into it and I'll fix it then myself by getting the bits and pieces... if its not a case of just sweeping out the interals of the casing with a brush and dustpan and into the corner for scrap of course when I split it :rolleyes::p

Having mad notions of doing a TDV8 swap on it at some stage down the line anyway so might not need a R380 for too much longer :)

I've seen this in the Topaz in Macroom a few times. Looks unreal.

Have done abit more to this over the last while.

Fitted a VNT turbo, Alisport stainless exhaust manifold, boost limit box so now has somewhere around 230-250bhp and 480-500Nm... so no worries about carting the drift car about :D

got rid of the original landrover seats too and even those the covers on them were very durable and things, the seats just weren't really nice to sit in especially on a longer spin.
So got four Recaro LSes to fit into it and make it a 2+2. Have the two front ones in so far. must make up brackets and things for the rear and then make up a new center console to run the length of the cab.

Got a set of locking diffs too but haven't fitted them yet

Gearbox shit itself over the summer on the way to Mondello with the drift car one morning. Layshaft bearings failed so only drive I had was in 4th gear so had to continue onto Mondello and back home that evening in one gear... luckily it has plenty torque and a good clutch :laughing:
Stuck another gearbox into it for the time being until I rebuild its own one as you can get uprated bearings and shafts for them to cope with more power and heavy work.


Have a few more pics over the last couple of months anyway :)

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Checking for any suspension play :grin:

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Washing it is always fun!!! :rolleyes:
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so much want!!!! swap for a r33 gtr? lol

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so much want!!!! swap for a r33 gtr? lol

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Nah... I prefer R32s :grin:

who doesnt :D

That is mean looking! :cool:

Fitted my Recaro LS seats into it today

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Must make up the new center console next and then I'll get the four of them re-trimmed in leather.
Will change the door-cards to black ones too and might do something with the headliner

Few pics of the shiny bits that were stuck under the bonnet for some more power and get rid of the problem of warping exhaust manifolds :)

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Never taught anything of defenders until now.. looks hardcore cool as..