List your vehicle and Modifications!

[Sadig]

For those who can' see the pictures they can use the following link
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Good Luck

[funkyrayman]

difflock said:

To all jeep owners tired of the ruff ride and small wheel travel obtained with leaf springs: It is simple and quite inexpensive to convert your leaf springs to coil spring. You gain in confort, handling and off-road ability. At the same time and for the same cost, you can have the suspension raised by whatever you need to fit whatever tire size you need. Now, I do not know if the regulation of the club allow me to give the adress of the workshop doing this job and will let Fouad handle this. So if anyone is interested, just contact Fouad.

Um I believe leaf springs give better wheel travel, and are much more stable when they reach extreme droop. Also it is not cheap to convert to coils, It involves a lot of modification to install all the arms, mounts, etc for coils.

[RonThompson]

Lexus LX470

Baby seat
GB Plate
Union Flag

It doesn't need anything else!!!

[funkyrayman]

Yeh slowly over the course of the next half a year or so until summer, I'm going to start and finish my build up. The stuff I've done so far is installed a set of ProComp lights, Developed a comprehensive tool kit.

I've also done some 'street mods'. Swapped in a Xplod CD player, added a pair of Xplod 6x9's into a custom home made sound shelf, then added a pair of JBL 4x6's up front. To come hopefully an amp and a couple of subs.

In the off road mods, hopefully to come, ProComp 2.5" lift, 31x10.5 tyres, Front locker.

The next thing though is to fab up a GPS mount. I'm sick of having it falling around.

[roesbak]

difflock said:

Just acquired a brand new Patrol SW Super Safar with stock rear locker. I have immediately removed the side steps, the mud flaps and the original bumper, addded an ARB front locker, Interco 33 inch tires, a Warn bumper with 12000Lbs winch, a pull pal, a 2 inch lift kit with nitro shocks etc......

Difflock;

I don't mean to get too nosey, but how much, approximately, did those upgrades cost you? Looking at a Patrol, (besides the Al Dhabi?? ), and your set-up looked kind of neat there..

-André

[khaiwi]

Well here u go...

Patrol 2002 Super Safari, stock rear diff-lock, Steptronic
2" Oldman EMU suspension - Nitro shocks and coils
BFGoodrich 285/75R16 tires A/T
Skidplate - Custom made
Lightforce 170
Garmin 176c
Fake External GPS Antenna
Extra spare tire
Fire Extinguisher
Some basic recovery gear
Headlight covers and bonet bug deflector
Parking sensors
Couple of things are on the way too, will be updated once done.

Kiwi not from Newzealand

[Jimbo]

Hey Khaiwi,
Out of curiosity did you mount these lights on the roof on a rack or just find space on the bumper (if plastic did you make a bracket?). Thanks for the info I am thinking about adding tracklights as well and kind of debating how I want them mounted.
JF

[khaiwi]

Jimbo,

As you know the front bumper on these Patrols is Fiber and will break very soon from the vibration if u mount lights on them, so, I had a custom fabricated bracket, I will post a closeup picture soon, hoping I will be able to post (upload) one without pointing to a location on the web.

Any advise on which Air filter to go for? e.g. K&N etc, and how beneficial they are against the stock filters?

Regards,

[Jimbo]

Ya that's what I thought about the fiber bumper. got the plastic bumper myself and can't force myself to install a rail over the roof, so was thinking about the metal bracket solution. How did you do for the wiring (relays etc..)? Was that a tough one?

Go for K&N, makes a big difference when there is a heavy load on the engine, you can actually feel the car sucking in more air. Well at least that was my experience with it. Most of the Patrol owners I know have it. The one sticky point is that I am not sure K&N makes the barrel model that would fit your casing. The most popular option is just to get an oversized cone filter and build a bracket around it to keep it from sucking in the hot air around the engine. Most of the brackets for K&N air intakes for US engines actually have plastic separators to avoid that specific problem.
Ramy sells a socket to put around the filter for AED50 (not sure about that quote) to protect from sand etc.. My experience with the filter is that you go offroading a lot, just clean the d**n thing every month (unless mucho dust) and you will be on the safe side.

[Prasad]

Okay here I go....

Land Cruiser GXR (2001)
ARB sahara Bar
4 Warn driving lights on roof
Lightforce 240 Blitzes
OME NitroShocks
OME Rear Springs
(Total 2.5" lift)
Clear Headlight guard + bonnet bug guard
Future hopefully additions:
RockCrawler 34mm torsion bars.

[khaiwi]

I am not able to load the pics cause they should be somewhere on the net to point to them.

Anyhow, I can send an email to whomever is interested. Alternatively would appreciate suggestions for simpler solution.

Regards,

[Fouad Berjaoui]

Send me your pictures I will post them for you, this is temporary until I figure out a way to have a public ftp diretory or something. in the meantime, send me your pics I will post them.

FOuad

[khaiwi]

Fouad,

Pictures were e-mailed to u early morning today, hope 2 C them here soon.

Any news on NISSAN trip? January is few days away unless they shuffle month names ;D

Cheers

[Fouad Berjaoui]

Something is in the works for the 9th, 16th and 23rd. announcement are to come soon, I am finalizing it with Nissan.

Fouad

[Fouad Berjaoui]

AK's ride








Enjoy

Fouad