Discovery off-road project

Sep 07, 2003 16 Replies

After lots of faffing around looking at over-priced 90 Tdi's to base my off-road project on, I have thought about using a Disco.



The plan - buy 3 door TDi Disco (lots around under £3k) lift it (3"?) and trim the wheelarches for bigger tyres (255x85x16?) fit 110 t-box to maintain gear ratios with big tyres, ARB's or Truetracs in both axles, rollcage, HD bumpers front & rear plus a few other bits and bobs like a snorkel.



As I see it:



Pros - cheaper, roomier, comfier, bit different.



Cons - longer overhangs, slightly longer wheelbase, bit heavier.



Any opinions or advice on bits to use such as the best way to lift it for bigger tyres etc, etc would be appreciated, or alternatively just take the piss like most of us in this group do! :)


Julian Hi,

In order to reduce the overhands you can either remove or modify the front and rear bumpers.

Take care Pantelis

Good idea - a mate of mine who is handy with metal is going to fabricate me a pair of HD thick bumpers with minimal over hangs which should help.

Cheers.

Even Better!

Buy a realy cheep 200 TDi disco (£1500ish they are out there in reasonable nick I have bought 2) Then get out the 9 inch grinder and bobtail the back end. This way you keep all the luxuries of the Discovery and have the same or even less overhang than a 90 at the rear...

Brian Tonks

Do you have any pictures I would like to see that

I saw a bobbed Disco a few days ago - it certainly looked interesting, but I often have a couple of people go off-roading with me so I need back seats and room for recovery kit in boot plus food, tent, cooker etc so the angle grinder will have to stay in the drawer! :)

Here is an artists impression....

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Brian Tonks Tonks4x4

It wasn't

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was it? (Crap photo, Iknow. Was taken at the Optima Final at Tong last year)

-- Paul Everett repton at repton dot org

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Nah, if it was mine I would have managed to find you a better pic than that ;)

It was for sale at the time of the optima, so I guess whoever owned it then and now are different anyway.

Paul

-- Paul Everett repton at repton dot org

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On or around Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:33:23 +0100, Llandrovers! enlightened us thusly:

or a rusty one.

still reckon they missed a trick by not putting an extended Disco shell on the Classic RR LSE chassis. Presumably, they thought it'd hurt the RR sales, or something.

Have a look at

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Looks like two bobtail Discoveries, one looks like the unit already mentioned (did they bob the alpine windows?) and one that looks a fractions stubbier.

Tim.

No landy as yet.

Yep, but the two are similar, suggesting someone's gone into business making them! Both early examples, but the deep blue one is on a Rangie chassis, methinks.

On or around Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:35:02 +0100, Llandrovers! enlightened us thusly:

how d'yer know, they're virtually identical...

Number plate! Don't forget, it's the one I spotted at Peterborough!

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