Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi. Does anybody know if anyone in Australia distributes Calmini products?

maybe email them and ask?

Pretty sure ABT do. I got my calmini gears from them.
Layto....

KAOS 4X4 in Canberra, Eastern Australias only authorised Calmini dealer...

[url]http://www.kaos4x4.com/


Give them a call 02 6253 5333 or fax 02 6253 0999

what parts do you need?

Want to sell my Bundy, buyt a Vitara, fit a 3in suspension kit, and 5.83 ring and pinions

At the risk of starting a war, R & P are "temporarily discontinuedâ€

Since Calmini source their R&P's form elsewhere that isn't really calmini's problem. other suppliers having same issue.

Selling a bundy to buy a vitara is a little bit odd - most people end up wanting to put bundy diffs under their vitaras


Probably find soemone happy to swap.

Perth: 4wdusa in Bayswater. www.4wdusa.com.au good prices and service - even if they are a jeep outfit =P

I live In WA and will gladly pay the extra for freight to buy calmini products from over east to avoid going through 4wdUSA again.
( personal opinion, feel free to make you own )

Tim

oldcrusty72 wrote:I live In WA and will gladly pay the extra for freight to buy calmini products from over east to avoid going through 4wdUSA again.
( personal opinion, feel free to make you own )

Tim

If you are talking about customer service. i know why you say this. He has his bad days and good days. just more bad than good.

cheers

Beastmavster wrote:Since Calmini source their R&P's form elsewhere that isn't really calmini's problem. other suppliers having same issue.

Selling a bundy to buy a vitara is a little bit odd - most people end up wanting to put bundy diffs under their vitaras


Probably find soemone happy to swap.

Actually it is their problem! Richmond Gear only manufacture them for Calmini and Calmini distribute them to the other vendors and Calmini haven't placed any orders with Richmond for a production run for some time.

Lets not start another vendor bashing.

Now that's said, why do you want to go to a Vitara?

There are other things to keep in mind before you go buy one and spend $$$ on gearing such as:

- weak alloy front diff
- weak CV's
- And IFS

It depends onwhat terrain you want to drive but if you want to drive the harder stuff a Vit may not be for you.

Other alternative is to buy one and get Overkill to SAS it with toyota diffs.

Just for somthing diferent. I've owned my Bundy for a while now, time for somthing different. I've posted it up for sale elseware in this forum. It's the one with the twin turbo six in it. Usually go as hard as we can when we go wheeling. I've visited most of the toughest spots in Victoria, with the Bundy, and my Rocky before that. Can't see that the Vitara will be all that bad a propersition. I've always liked light 4X4s, and ca't see that it wont go places without the correct mods. Any other feedback that you have would be greatly appreciated.

With that you have said. I would budget a SAS with toy diffs on it. and maybe a supercharger if you get an efi one.

cheers

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:37 pm

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With that you have said. I would budget a SAS with toy diffs on it. and maybe a supercharger if you get an efi one.

cheers


SAS?

SAS = Solid axle conversion.

In lamens terms - get rid of the vunerable IFS and weak front diffs.

As a bonus you will prob get coils all round.

cheers

The Vits aren't all bad BUT depending on want your ultimate goal is they can cost more to mod. That said if you know where you're going with it to begin with and you can do it yourself there are plenty of options to explore. Mild or wild, do you wan't to keep IFS or do a SAS? Will it be engineered?

Planning to drive as hard as the little thing will go. I'm a strong believer that most cars are a whole lot more capable than their drivers, and I would like to see how far the Vitara will push me. Would like to keep the IFS.

Ok, first thing if you're keeping the IFS get yourself a steel diff and axle housing from a V6 manual Grand Vitara or XL-7 and while you're swapping that over look at a front locker as it will cover a lot of the lack of travel in IFS. What size tyre do you want to run?

I'm a strong believer that most cars are a whole lot more capable than their drivers, and I would like to see how far the Vitara will push me. Would like to keep the IFS.

won't push you very far. The hardest thing is trying not to break CV's. Have owned a Vit and used to regularly (read almost every trip) break CV's and front axles.

If you want to drive the vehicle to its fullest potential you'll know when you get there as you'll hear a "pop' noise when the CV goes.

You can make the IFS stronger, but why? Solid axle Vit with coils would be almost as good on the road as IFS but would be far superior offroad.

There is a guy in the US that installed Toyota rear axle and front IFS setup of a Toyota, seems like more work than SAS swap for less return.

Sorry if i sound like i'm trying to stop you doing it, far from that, its just that i've been there before and can tell you that its frustrating driving along and waiting for a CV to let go.

Having owned a vitara with 31"s that was pushed *very* hard on mud, rocks etc and NEVER broken a CV or axle I think driver style has a lot to do with the potential for breakage.

Mmmmmm........ I'm sure you don't drive it hard do you James? (maybe more like it was stolen )

I lost count of CV's, 3 front axles, 1 diff housing, 1 tie rod end, every panel on the car damaged (except for the roof), bent the front of the chassis in dropping of a ledge, but no, never drove it that hard

My damage total was all panels but for roof as well.... (not that it had a roof with a softtop).

Still no busted CV's or axles though....

Its all about driving style
The first time I drove my GV off road hard after owning a sierra I smashed a CV. but now I havent broke anything for a long time, I just changed my style, I now pick a line and drive it instead of just hitting it.

Thanks for all of your help guys! Want to run 31 in silverstone 117 sports.
Figure 31 on suzuki diffs is like 33 on Bundy diffs.