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Miniman:
I will be taking my 88" off the road after Xmas to convert it into a Toy for off roading. I want to shorten the chassi a short as possible what is the shortes you have seen or know of a landy without it costing the earth on new special parts. What problems may arise from this and how do you over come these. Any info would be appreciated.

Henry Webster:
Ok, question is what do you want to acheive? :?

If you want a shorter wheelbase for manoevrebility then that is fairly acheivable and has been done many times.  This requires cutting and shutting the chassis and body work and shortening the propshafts, but little else.

My dad built a 79" 86" series 1 for trialling. :D  

Losing overhang is more difficult and of negligeable benefit, because of where the springs pick up.  Coiling would be the only sensible route to acheive this, but again is it worth the effort or would you be better picking up a cheap Discovery/RR/90/110 to start from?

Regards

H

Miniman:
Yes it is only for playing off road so it dont matter about the legality if it. When playing this weekend I kept grounding on the cross member. I wish to make it as short as possible to gain the abilty....

Henry Webster:
I would go down the large tyres and possibly a suspension lift job if I were you. :wink:

With decent 750x16 tyres and your original 4.7:1 diffs back in it should go anywhere you want.

If you want to get silly then you could lift it with some longer spring shackles and put even bigger tyres on.

Cutting and shutting the chassis is a pretty radical solution and doesn't do anything for your ground clearance which will be your next issue.

H

Miniman:
I dont like the idea of lifting it as it makes them very unstable and I do play on some silly angle's. I must disagree with you about shortening the chassi as if I shorten it I have the wheels closer together the middle will not bottom out as easy on a sharp hill if you understand the term. I suppose I should have posted the message as how near can you get the axels together. I have 205 16 80s profile on the landy right now and it was bottoming out at whitworth this weekend. If the wheel base was closer together it would not have done this as much. As for the shortening of the chassi that is not a problem at all I have the tools and the facilitys.
I was thinking about making a totaly new chassi and seeing if I could lose alot of weight aswell.

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