Rogue Trooper

[Warren]

Neil

Great work there 

A couple of questions.

Why the Full length chassis ?

Have you widened the track of the Jag diff ?

Why the rear facing steering rack, won't it place the steering wheel to far back ?

Warren McQuizzative

[Merlin]

G'Day Warren Q1 I am running an LS2 (6litre) mounted under the seat and the Bedford intergrated chassis aren't very strong .I did a tortion test on one once and managed to get almost 150 mm of twist  .Q2 no its standard XJS track ,as im running 18 x 12 rims on the back  ituts my track back in spec (all legal) Q3 the rack is the original jag rack and has to go on the back because the Jag control arms sweep back so if the rack went on the front it would foul on the control arms I am running two redirection bevel boxes from a Jap van so the steering column will be where I want it ,also rear mounted rack is the best position for handling/tunability . Hope that clears up your Q,s      Cheers Neil

[John Abbott]

OOOOoooo    the stuff you know Neil ....How does all that knowledge stay in that head of yours??

[Merlin]

earplugs Johnno earplugs

[obsession]

hey merlin whilst I have your ear I didnt think we had to have tar and agg readings on the side anymore to get over the pits?

[Warren]

Thanks Neil

Yep that answers my questions.

Warren

[BusyKiwi]

Rogue, the bushes were pressed in, I just matched pipe and bolt to bush from catalogue, i put up the pic with part numbers showing. I have some other pics of the plates and stuff if you want them

[Merlin]

Yep I be thinkin you right about that Craig

[Rogue Trooper]

Rogue, the bushes were pressed in, I just matched pipe and bolt to bush from catalogue, i put up the pic with part numbers showing. I have some other pics of the plates and stuff if you want them

Absolutely fantastic David. I've directed Phil to this thread so he could have a look. Will probably have a chat with him later on today or tomorrow and will go from there. I'll let you know.

Thanks very much!

[Rogue Trooper]

Time for an update as it has been a while.

After a few helpful comments from the last update we went back to the drawing board and Phil came up with the soft-mount from hell. It's really cool and there's nolathane for Africa. Unfortunately we've been dodging the weather a lot and have been trying to get the diff fitted all week but it has been continually pissing down so I had enough today and skived off from work for the afternoon while the sun was shining and we got into it.

Here are a couple of pics of the mounting bracket. As you can see it's a pretty solid piece of engineering.





And here are a few after this afternoon's fitting effort. I was in such a rush to get into it I left my good camera at home so I had to make do with the phone. I'll post some prettier ones up later. We still have yet to fit the trailing arms.



















Unfortunately there was a wee issue when we dropped it down onto the wheels. The springs were too soft and the whole van sank about 50mm lower than the original ride height and the whole thing was really spongy. We are now investigating getting some stronger springs for it. I may have to have some made but we'll see what is available first.