Devil's in the detail

[v840]

Inspired by this thread:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=287801" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Show us the little details on your junk that make you smile every time you use/see them. Think exhaust manifold pie warmers and inbuilt bullbar bottle openers. Just those small touches that you reckon are cool as fawk.

This is not a thread for your brand new LED bar or off the shelf roofrack. This is for home built and fabricated from scratch awesomeness only.


Example: I have a mate with a crook back. He fabbed up a mount for a backwards facing boat winch to be bolted to his bullbar and hooked to his rooftop tent. It allows him to drink a beer while packing his tent up one handed. This is cool.

I have another mate who just bought a second hand commercially available bullbar for his Sierra. While he got it cheap, it’s entirely bolt-on. This is still cool, but not applicable to this thread. See the difference?

Ok, the rules have been laid down and the roman-greco oil has been applied.

Go!

[Clanky]

Not car specific, but then you didnt specifically specify that it was specially specific for cars

Made my girl happy

[dogbreath_48]

This thread turned to shit quicker than the pirate one

[Clanky]

OK,to get back ontrack and show how forever cool I am at having turned spanners on a classic cruiser, behold my 40 series steering column sorted for powersteer conversion

[Micka]

My SUPER-TILT steering column in my buggy. Stock standard Disco steering assembly that Greg @ Outcast Offroad and I farked around with to make it WAY more comfortable and easier to climb in and out. And I didn't have to fork out for a spendy quick coupling.

At the lowest setting



Erect

[rockcrawler31]

And I didn't have to fork out for a spendy quick coupling.

You mean the one's that poly performance sell for 30 bucks?

You Jew!!!

[def90]

Scottish jew!

[brooksy]

Been a while since I looked at that thread .... thanks for the reminder
When I get time on the computer I will post up some pics.



brooksy

[Micka]

And I didn't have to fork out for a spendy quick coupling.

You mean the one's that poly performance sell for 30 bucks?

You Jew!!!

Pot, this is Kettle. Kettle...meet Pot.

[Micka]

Scottish jew!

Announcing your arrival to the thread?

I'm sure you charged someone while you typed that.

[GUtripper]

My SUPER-TILT steering column in my buggy. Stock standard Disco steering assembly that Greg @ Outcast Offroad and I farked around with to make it WAY more comfortable and easier to climb in and out. And I didn't have to fork out for a spendy quick coupling.

At the lowest setting



Erect

You know, you could have just used a tilt column from a '79-'86 Cherokee, or a later CJ.

[Micka]

You know, you could have just used a tilt column from a '79-'86 Cherokee, or a later CJ.

Or just a tilt column from a Disco and make it tilt further than stock. Which is what we did.

[evanstaniland]

Wow this thread turned to crap! Mods clean up!

[rockcrawler31]

I sat for ages trying to think about anything really innovative or tricky i put on the red devil. But frankly it's all just super practical, frills stuff. Basically if it's needed it's on there, if not absolutely needed it's not.

I feel so bland!!!

[Micka]

Wow this thread turned to crap! Mods clean up!

Put up or shut up, Evan

[Micka]

I sat for ages trying to think about anything really innovative or tricky i put on the red devil. But frankly it's all just super practical, frills stuff. Basically if it's needed it's on there, if not absolutely needed it's not.

I feel so bland!!!

There must be something that makes you glad you built it or modified it every time you use it on the big red beast, Milo? Don't worry about the haters, just post up and get the thread going. No one in this country has the all out fab skills of the US guys when it comes to this stuff, but threads like this can help all of us - even Evan - improve what we are doing and provide inspiration for our builds.

[GRIMACE]

I thought I may have something to contribute to this thread, but after looking over both vehicles I realised I thought wrong.

[rockcrawler31]

One thing i guess is my E-stop. I spliced into the fuel pump shut down solenoid circuit and routed it past a 10 dollar 240v E-stop as used in industry. It's right in the middle of the dash so if there's an engine fire, a roll over or some dire need to shut the engine down it's an easy task for either passenger or driver to shut it all down. Beats the shit out of fiddling with keys, as it's literally a quick slap to the big red button.

It also makes a handy anti theft device as once activated the engine will crank all day long without firing.

very similar to this

[Micka]

Nice ^^^^

Excellent idea.

[chimpboy]

I guess this is pretty lame but I always like looking at this custom air intake I cobbled together for a Rover V8 motor in a tight space.

This is what the air intake looked like when it was carburetted:



When I converted to EFI I didn't want to use a pod filter in the engine bay; I wanted cold air and preferably a conventional paper filter. So I modified an airbox from a Nissan:



The two trumpets are from Falcon airboxes; the pipe is just 75mm exhaust.

The paper filter still fits.

In situ:



The curved bit of pipe between the airflow sensor and the plenum is from a Magna. I basically walked around pick-a-part for a couple of hours collecting the bits for this job.

It doesn't seem to be restrictive although I really can't say for sure. The motor still delivers the goods so I guess it's okay. Air is picked up just behind the headlights.

[rockcrawler31]

^^^ Using factory (albeit from other cars) parts and commonly available consumables is always a good thing

[Struth]

Good old pick apart, that's where I go when I need airbox parts as well or a thermo fan for a weird app, etc.

[Struth]

A fan shroud I knocked up for a 350 in a 75 series,

[Struth]

And some genuine booty fab, no one told me bundies come in two different lengths

[RAY185]

Little details....

After pissing off the LPG system I had on the 40, I was left with a dirty big hole in the rear quarter where the filler was. Normally I don't have a problem with dirty big holes, they generally don't give me much trouble but this one annoyed me everytime I looked at it.

I was re-configuring the on board air setup at the time and decided I would use it as a port to plug my air line in when I needed it. It's pretty low tech but it's a little detail that amuses me when I look at it so it ticks all the boxes for this thread I guess. Hand cut with a 4 inch grinder. Twisty dubbed it Ray's Megastar of Death. I call it the Shuriken Butt Plug because it filled that dirty big hole right up.

[Rhett]

a artisc touch with the welder.

I got a front out put graphted on the rear of the case for rear dissconnect

So I cut all the speedo drive and stuff out and cut up another case for the parts I needed

other than that the other custom bit to make it work was the counter shaft. I got two of them lathed down and turned into one. Here is a stock one next to the custom

It shifted like a dream compared to most disconnects


fitted up my transfer air shifted

Just a few cool bits on my truggy

[Micka]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Nice work

[DIRTY ROCK STAR]

Ive got to find a photo...

My old FJ40 had tube bar between chassis rails only as a front bar...
this also doubled as a really handy camping toilet for those nasty grog bogs. and keeps you up high above the stench...

does that count?

[gudge]

My navi ( mosko ) designed an arm to mount the gps on so they when he was out of the car to read a point, I could enter it from the drivers seat as he read it over the Bluetooth .Mach 1, while an awsome idea, a tap fitting from bunnings was never going to last

so I knocked up a stronger one.


This idea worked so well while racing, saves having to drive directly infront of the point for the navi to enter the coordinate

[Rhett]

some 5mm rub rails on a set of half doors i done for a mate



another set of half doors for another mate with cup holders

they got rub rails too but i didnt take a pic