Drizz
Well-Known Member
Soooooooooo.....
I started building a Defender over the last 4yrs but had a change of heart, Sold it all and bought some Disco's!
Firstly i bought a shed of a 3dr:
It kept overheating, so replaced the head and got it going lovely, 200'd the front end and had some enjoyment:
but with all the rot it inevitably ended up like this:
So bought another:
I sold the off-road bits off it and fitted the following mods:
Terrafirma +5" Extreme shocks
+2" Bearmach Springs
Front dislocation cones
X-Eng Wide angle A-frame ball joint
X-Eng rear arms
X-Eng X-springs
Defender steering set up
Teflon Swivels with Castor correction
Janspeed exhaust
10x15 ET-50 Modulers with Insa Super Special Tracks
+2.5" Spring seats
200TDi rear prop (no cush)
Shallower front winch bumper (6" shallower then the original)
Defender arches with a lot cut out for clearance
Plus more.....
The ongoing plan was to galv a chassis and do the swap with more mods at the same time.
Then this appeared on eBay nice and local so i brought it home:
I wanted a commercial to start with so this got the ball rolling. I started stripping it down to see what it needed:
Not too bad. Needs boot floor and sills..... Pretty much the norm!
So that led to todays work....
But before it came right off, mike offered up the cage mounts
More to come
I started building a Defender over the last 4yrs but had a change of heart, Sold it all and bought some Disco's!
Firstly i bought a shed of a 3dr:
It kept overheating, so replaced the head and got it going lovely, 200'd the front end and had some enjoyment:
but with all the rot it inevitably ended up like this:
So bought another:
I sold the off-road bits off it and fitted the following mods:
Terrafirma +5" Extreme shocks
+2" Bearmach Springs
Front dislocation cones
X-Eng Wide angle A-frame ball joint
X-Eng rear arms
X-Eng X-springs
Defender steering set up
Teflon Swivels with Castor correction
Janspeed exhaust
10x15 ET-50 Modulers with Insa Super Special Tracks
+2.5" Spring seats
200TDi rear prop (no cush)
Shallower front winch bumper (6" shallower then the original)
Defender arches with a lot cut out for clearance
Plus more.....
The ongoing plan was to galv a chassis and do the swap with more mods at the same time.
Then this appeared on eBay nice and local so i brought it home:
I wanted a commercial to start with so this got the ball rolling. I started stripping it down to see what it needed:
Not too bad. Needs boot floor and sills..... Pretty much the norm!
So that led to todays work....
But before it came right off, mike offered up the cage mounts
More to come
