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My Discotowsky
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:43 pm
by Discotowsky75
Hello I am new in this forum. I from Canary Island (Spain) and I dont know speak english very well.
I have a 1991 Land Rover Discovery 200tdi and I had a preparation with 3-link from Safarigard, 36" Super Swuamper..... but 3 year ago I decided a big modification.
My Discovery have a
- LS1 chevrolet corvette engine
- NV4500 gearbox
- Atlas 2 (3:8)
- Klune V (2:7)
- Unimog 406 axles with disc conversion.
- Discotowsky-Sabinita suspension
- 44" Super Swamper bogger rear and tsl front.
I think this year I finish the disco.
Sorry I dont know to put a photos. Any person can say me how?
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:45 pm
by Discotowsky75
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:50 pm
by 6.2troopy
thats awesome! would be good to see in the engine bay.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:13 pm
by TRobbo
Welcome
Your English is fine
Except I dont think you can call that a disco any more
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:23 pm
by Bush65
You may find the angle of the upper links is too shallow for the side loads - this is a difficulty with the narrow spacing between rover chassis rails. I would also be worried about the strength of the stock mounting plates at the chassis end of discos.
Otherwise it is impressive - good luck.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:35 pm
by uninformed
Bush65 wrote:You may find the angle of the upper links is too shallow for the side loads - this is a difficulty with the narrow spacing between rover chassis rails. I would also be worried about the strength of the stock mounting plates at the chassis end of discos.
Otherwise it is impressive - good luck.
John, if building a new rear link set up for a defender , new lowers (trailing arms) and new "A" frame, using a rover ball joint.
what is the minimun angle you would make the "A" arms at, considering the lowers (trailing arms) will be parralell to the chassis rails
Serg
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:11 pm
by Discotowsky75
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:48 pm
by Slunnie
Well done mate, nice truck!
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:16 pm
by Grover-98
Very nice!
Good to see another Disco getting the goods!
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:18 pm
by luv4bee'n
Yes very nice, maybe a little on the tall side though.
Anychance you might be able to post it in the Post up your Rover section, or better still in the Members section to show all of what you have done and continually update it?
I know that hundreds of people will read it
Your english is better than a LOT of other people on this site, even though english is thier first language
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:40 pm
by TimRover
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Love to see that in tuff truck
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:23 am
by DiscoDino
Looks great!
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:03 am
by luv4bee'n
Don't know how to do the quote thing yet.
DiscoDino wrote "Looks great!"
Yes it sure does
, i just had a look at whats written at the bottom of your post and it mentioned your Discovery. Can you please do a similar thread would love to see and hear about yours? If a thread already exists please let me know where?
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:34 am
by DiscoDino
heyluv4bee'n - no build thread per se, it's been 10 years in the making (actually today is the 10 year anniversary of buying that Disco).
You can see a lot of pictures on my facebook (Nadim Samara) or on YouTube (search DiscoDino).
Cheers,
Nadim
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:56 am
by luv4bee'n
Happy anniversary discodino. Had a quuick look at your youtube site looks awesome mate
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What suspension setup and diff setup are you running?
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:19 pm
by DiscoDino
Thanks man!
Suspension is off the shelf OME (
), diffs are Toyota 8" Ring and Pinion with 30 spline Jac Mac axles and Longfield Chromo CVs...
Next step is to maintain the engine, ZF, LT, Ashcroft, wrap it around a tube chassis, put a pair of steering Rockwell 2.5t axles, same tires, and coil overs...aiming to drop 500kg by doing that and lowering the center of gravity and gaining stability...
The current items (suspension, axles, wheels, brakes, etc...) will go on my 1998 daily driver and have 35-37 tires for road/camping use...
Good luck with yours...post more pictures/videos ASAP!
