Outer Limits 4x4 Board

i made this up a little while ago thought some of you guys might be interested

it all made out of CDS or DOM as the sepos call it, this is not air bag ready, but that can be fixed.

i like it, but it looks a lot like a prerunner bar, needs some siik IFS and some big coilovers hanging out the bonnet and she be siik mate

i hadn't thought about the prerunner thing but yeh i guess it does,

as for the shock towers sticking through the bonnet ive got 99012 in the front and they are sticking up a fair bit in to the engine bay does that count

this is what happens when you lose steering and hit a tree at about 60Km/h, i think it did pretty well

fark, are you alright??
what happened to your steering?
did the airbags fire?

the coil cabs dont come out with airbags, thank god, but yeah im alright neck and back are sore, and my walet is going to hurt like &^%$ went i get it fixed

but the steering has got me stuffed i got no idea why it happened, straight after it happened i was like what the? and i could turn right but not left, its got me so any one got any ideas

Sam take a look at this tube bar.
It is a tad wide this one

nice bar. nice carnage!

that artic truck has cheesecutters

Any impact from 28kph or above to zero is enough to cause severe brain haemorraghing through brain deceleration. Have you had yourelf checked over. I think loss of "POWER" steering would not cause you to hit a tree, just make it harder to steer........ The bar looks okay, bend it out, throw a light in, run bonnet pins.... Call it good... the carnage looks sweet anyhow.... You may as well replace the panels right before you sell it that way you are not worried about breaking your brand new panels, and can go HARDER!!

Fathillbilly wrote:but the steering has got me stuffed i got no idea why it happened, straight after it happened i was like what the? and i could turn right but not left, its got me so any one got any ideas

maybe one of your CV's is busted, unbeknownst to you, and is binding up occasionally.

i will paint the whole picture

taking the car for a hoon test out a few things like bottoming out.

driving a long this track, driven it heaps and at higher speed,

come round medium left hander out of 3rd in to 4th, boot it into straight, wipers on and through a puddle about 10" deep,out of puddle car goes light, coming to chicain (left then right)go to turn in and heavy as F@#$% steering, to the left, on brakes and stuff all due to them been wet from puddle, and BANG SMASH THUD OH F!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^@#$%$%^$%^^&*&***(

this is where it happened

I hope you gave the tree a big hug for slowing you down, and kissed it better

Perhaps the power steering belt got wet and was slipping therefore giving you no steering, this happened to a friends 4.5L GU a coupla weeks ago up at Dargo, after fording a river he wasn't able to steer out. Not good as we were a few meters behind him in fast flowing water over a meter deep with the car filling up quickly. Brothers car has a slight leakage problem, good for emptying the water out though.

I have had the power steer belt break and while it was really heavy I could still steer my 4.5 petrol GU at low or high speeds with 35" Centipedes, it is just heavy as to turn at low speed, but 60 kph it cornered OK.

Drove it for a day or so till I could get a belt, just had to get wire shiite out of fan hub, alternator etc....

That bar did a good job..... I have seen a GQ bar after a 20kph offroad hit on a gum tree on that side, no bonnet damage but it stuffed the guard up and put the ARB bar on the GQ onto the front tyre (but he drove the hill).

the damage to my truck = 1x head light + 1x indicator/ parker. the
gaurd beat out easily as there were no hard cinks or folds, the
bonnet was just a sight roll on the edge which was fixed with a
block of wood and a lever, the lower section of the rad support has
been crunched in but will come out fine on a rack and the bar has
been bent about 3" + 2" deflection in the crash, and the 3" will
come out OK, the chassis has been shunted straight back on it self
about 3mm which will come out fine(better than been bent or twisted)

the bar was designed to deflect the car or the object on impact
(which ever want to move first), and it worked a treat , the bar
itself is made out of FIA/ CAMS approved CDS tube (the stuff serious
roll cages are made out of) the craddle is made out of PFC and
guseted, and shaped to direct the inpact straight down the chassis
not at an angle (i.e ARB)

FHB