Outer Limits 4x4 Board

jeremy (surfection) just sent me these pics from his phone of a vitara he spotted at the nissan trials

SAS'd Vitara


Vitara again


here's what he said in the message

I dunno who's vit it is, it was just parked near us.
Looked like a toy front and stock rear. The pumpkin was offset too far one way,
can't remember which, so the shaft wasn't quite lined up, they had it wired up
and out of the way. Looked very fresh but had no stickers on it etc. Was nice
and low etc, wouldn't ever have any probs on the street cause it was so normal
looking. Thought u might like it but only had my phone so snapped a couple of
shots. Was using standard toy steering arms with toy drag and tie rods, had a 5
link, very nicely setup, nice flat links going to a square cross member under
the gearbox, looked like it'd drive very nicely the way they had it setup. Made
it look like a simple weekend job, just not sure what their plans are for lining
up the front shaft, possibly a small 2 piece setup. Couple more pics to come.
Cheers, Jeremy

antt wrote:I dunno who's vit it is, it was just parked near us.
Looked like a toy front and stock rear. The pumpkin was offset too far one way,
can't remember which, so the shaft wasn't quite lined up, they had it wired up
and out of the way. Looked very fresh but had no stickers on it etc. Was nice
and low etc, wouldn't ever have any probs on the street cause it was so normal
looking. Thought u might like it but only had my phone so snapped a couple of
shots. Was using standard toy steering arms with toy drag and tie rods, had a 5
link, very nicely setup, nice flat links going to a square cross member under
the gearbox, looked like it'd drive very nicely the way they had it setup. Made
it look like a simple weekend job, just not sure what their plans are for lining
up the front shaft, possibly a small 2 piece setup. Couple more pics to come.
Cheers, Jeremy

Ummm, yeah... What he said !! Any of you guys recognise it ? Looked very kewl.
Didn't see any X-90 there from canberra that MY45 had mentioned. He most have been talking about the Vit chopped into a ute [black with silver exo]. It was pretty nice, but they had steering issues. Drove into the first big wombat hole and stopped, got towed out with both front wheels pointing in... ouch ! They straightened it out and kept going though which was good. Didn't think to get pics of that one though

Surfection wrote:

antt wrote:I dunno who's vit it is, it was just parked near us.
Looked like a toy front and stock rear. The pumpkin was offset too far one way,
can't remember which, so the shaft wasn't quite lined up, they had it wired up
and out of the way. Looked very fresh but had no stickers on it etc. Was nice
and low etc, wouldn't ever have any probs on the street cause it was so normal
looking. Thought u might like it but only had my phone so snapped a couple of
shots. Was using standard toy steering arms with toy drag and tie rods, had a 5
link, very nicely setup, nice flat links going to a square cross member under
the gearbox, looked like it'd drive very nicely the way they had it setup. Made
it look like a simple weekend job, just not sure what their plans are for lining
up the front shaft, possibly a small 2 piece setup. Couple more pics to come.
Cheers, Jeremy

Ummm, yeah... What he said !! Any of you guys recognise it ? Looked very kewl.
Didn't see any X-90 there from canberra that MY45 had mentioned. He most have been talking about the Vit chopped into a ute [black with silver exo]. It was pretty nice, but they had steering issues. Drove into the first big wombat hole and stopped, got towed out with both front wheels pointing in... ouch ! They straightened it out and kept going though which was good. Didn't think to get pics of that one though

i saw that one, he was running bundera axles front and rear with inverted pajero radius arms front and rear with panhard rods. build by kaos with a k in kanberra. nice truck, good to see some vits getting the chop

Got some photos of this thing today, and had a quick chat with the owner. Will post pics tomorrow when i get mates camera.
Layto....

i know the person who owns this car . He done the work in his shed with help from some people in his club .He is kermits co driver if that helps

cool stuff guys. i'd love some pics of the crossmember mount for the links under the gearbox and also a pic from behind the axle looking forward to see exactly where he has run the links. it looks like a very very nice setup

huggy, is it a toyota axle? what is he doing about diff ratios to match the vitara axle in the back? or is he gonna swap that out as well?

he useing a toyota diff(leaf changed to coil) but he managed to match it with the same ratio as the one in the rear if he lets me take some pics ill get them for you all

Yeah i was talking about the ute back vit...didnt i say that

i saw that vit from kaos at kaos today and it's awesome the underside looks bomb proof. it has an inverted a frame with trailing arms and ramps realy well aparently.

Matt

hey guys by the look of the pic it's scott orbin
( i think thats how you spell it) he's in the gold eagle 4x4 club
front is lux done conversion by himself in his shed like they said
i can probably get you heaps of info if you like as my mate helped him do the convo

RGZ00K

yes this is my vit i only finished the conversion the weekend before the nissantrials i didallthe work myself icut all the componets out first and my mate came in on the weekend and welded them up and in and i drove it to work on monday

when i saw it, it looked like ya still had the vitara rear axle in it still. if so, what ratio's are ya runnin in the lux diff and the vit diff so ya can wheel it??

a rear vit centre in the hilux housing gets comlicated but a can do

mysterioussasvit wrote:a rear vit centre in the hilux housing gets comlicated but a can do

so have ya done this? or are ya plannin to? cause if you've done it i'd be extremely interested

yes i have done it and it works well

how complicated are we talking? what was the difficult part of it? would it be easier to swap in the rear hilux axle? a run-down on the process would be good

to much to write email me your contact number and i will call you tomorrow and i will explain

can i call you at a.b.t

that'd be appreciated.

i dont work at abt, they just sponsor me, thats why its at the bottom of my posts

i'll pm you my number

and then tell the rest of us antt