Outer Limits 4x4 Board

WelchyGQ wrote:so if half your cage is mounted to body and the main hoop is mounted to the chassis - wont this cause dramas?

Cheers,

Welchy

It hasnt so far and this car has done well over 2000kms of off road racing in 3 years

the main hoop is outside the cab and is cross braced. all that is in the cab is the side intrusion bars, the laterals and windscreen bar. The laterals and side intrusion go through the rear wall to connect with the main hoop There arent side intrusions in this picture, but this is basically it the ...

just have a look around at Murchison Off Road Adventures and the West Oz Challenge. There already is support for similar events out there

works for me???
fjeng@bigpond.com is the email, Id just try again maybe
I notice your from Kalgoorlie. Im pretty sure an FJG cage went to the Bantick Brothers a while back if you want to check out something local from FJG

I race a GQ Single Cab in off road racing (Its actually for sale now) and have got some pics of the car at these sites. http://www.fjgengineering.com/index.html http://www.flatoutoffroadracing.com FJG Engineering is where the cage kit came from and the other site is our race team site so there will ...

Yeah they are a very good motor, very strong and have enough power. I just got mine put on gas and am very happy, gotta love the $$$ savings running on gas.
I have been told to be wary of high km motors that have been running on lpg for a while.

very strong motor, but as a lot of people have said are quite thirsty

I have 4.6's in my petrol gq Patrol ute. They came out of a diesel 97 2.8 patrol. We had to swap the flanges on the driveshafts (from the petrol ute which had 4.1's) to get it all mated up correctly

I was surprised how much a wheel balance will help. Car was shaking all over the joint at 100km/h, had a wheel balance and now its good as gold.
But yeah have a look at all the basic obvious things first and go through a process of elimination

Here is the Bantick brothers 80 at the West Oz Challenge