Russ81

Had a photo shoot with Graham Cahill from 4wd Action a little while back which is in issue #204 Sent while temporally motionless

Seeing as I can't sleep and I'm bored out of my brain, I figured I would play with some editing software. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukNu_tQ9ys Sent while temporally motionless Sent while temporally motionless

Decided to head out for a play today,
The recent rains have made the tracks that bit more challenging.

The first hill of the day saw me destroying a sway bar link. You will hear it go in the vid .



Then headed over to the quarry for a play








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Got the car on the dyno today.

The car tuned up great, runs real sweet. I wasn't able to get the figures I wanted due to the restriction of the factory air box. The 35's also caused a great loss in the figures



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Got the car on the dyno today.

The car tuned up great, runs real sweet. I wasn't able to get the figures I wanted due to the restriction of the factory air box. The 35's also caused a great loss in the figures



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Another short vid from the tracks today

Here is a short clip i took tonight to wet your whistles, I will post another vid ince the car has gone over the pits and the hiflo cat has been put on.

All good with the engineer today, installed the recaros today and put the 35's on although I have left the lift at 2" until it has gone over the pits





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Here is a short clip i took tonight to wet your whistles, I will post another vid ince the car has gone over the pits and the hiflo cat has been put on.

Fitted up the diff armour and replaced my aux battery

Picked up and fitted the factory alloys today ready for the pits

This pic was taken in 2010 up in the Vic high country

Here are a few pics of the new motor. The sump has been replaced and the altenator has been relocated.

Cooked one up tonight after reading this thread, can't believe what I've been missing out on.

Much as I like forums and have learned so much from them, they often Chit me to tears.
And before I say anything else, none of the following comments apply to THIS forum as so far thank god, It is a refreshing exception to what I normally see.

On every forum I have been on ( bar this one) of wide and varying subject matter, a mentality of certain things develops which seems to fly in the face of reality, practicality, real world experience and evidence.
People develop a pattern of thought and parrot advise which is completely ignorant and usually in no way reflects the happenings of the real world.

Mentalities develop and are then considered fact when in many cases I have seen, the facts of Physics, laws of science and just plain common bloody sense make these parroted mantras completely stupid. Of course when anyone comes along and points out facts or asks for any sort of verifyable evidence to back up the position touted, the fact that 100 idiots have parroted the same flawed info is given as being proof in itself.

There are many I have come across which are not based on physics or science but just belief and position which are also stupid. I have to say that far and away the Yanks are the most ignorant and the worst offenders Of "Forum Mentality" garbage of all. Maybe that's why this place is free of it, we don't have any/many septic's here.

A great comment I read recently was on a photo forum where a guy was getting all sorts of impractical and stupid advise on how to price his work.
One guy who just happens to be far and away the worlds most successful at what he does and what the other guy was asking about, was getting lambasted by wanna bees for his against the grain comments.
After a bunch of clowns had said their piece, he simply asked how many people were actually following the advise they were giving in their business and pricing their work according to the formula they were insisting to be right.
He also asked whether they were full time or weekend warriors.

Despite him asking several times, not one person said they were actually following the advise they were trying to ram down everyone elses throats.
Amazing!


What I find laughable and annoying is the now numerous occasions I have spoken out against certain mantras/ practices and policy's and called them wrong and flawed and given evidence why, only to be shouted down, called an idiot etc. After a while someone else goes against the grain, tries something for themselves and discovers I was right. they pass it on and after a long while, the very thing I said becomes the mantra and the ones that push it the most are the ones that gave me the most flack for it in the first place. Of course they then go on to make out that THEY were the ones whom were responsible for this contribution to the interest group in the first place.

I swear to god there are people out there I would walk up to and smack in the face without a moments hesitation for the chit and hypocrisy they have given me. The court appearance and fines would be more than worth the satisfaction!

I think it really comes down to too many people sitting on their computers and not actually having any experience in what they talk about. I have got into debates where people were incessant in their position and would not hear of there being any possibility of anything being right other than their position. You then find out that they have NO actual experience with what they are talking about. It's all what they think based on what they have read on forums or wherever.
You might have been doing something for years or dozens of times but still, you are wrong and they are right and if you point out the real world experience difference, you are just being a smartarse or a mongeral or whatever.

Loads of times I have read something, got up, walked out and tested the theroy, come back and written what I found and people have said it is wrong. Again, when you can get them to finally admit it or ask for their findings, they admit they have never done the test or tried what they are saying. Somehow though, you are wrong and they are right!

There is a whole world of things you can learn from the net and forums but you really have to learn first what to take notice of and what to ignore. The commonly parroted mantras can be real traps and it's wise to ask the people championing them about their actual real world hands on experience before you put too much credibility in anything.

I destroyed my auto hubs on an 08 patrol earlier this year the one time I didn't manually lock them and they crapped themselves

Nah at this stage I am still waiting for the insurance company to release the donor vehicle. I am going this route as I will also get recaro seats, long range tanks, diff armour, chromoly cvs plus a range of other goodies. If they decide to no write it off it's just a matter of ordering everything, 3-5 day wait for delivery and then it's on. I wouldn't have pulled my motor out yet except I sold it to a bloke who had his zd30 grenade on him.

The pics are coming I promise

Wheel studs are the same, depending on what rims you go will determine whether you need to change wheel nuts. I am running a set of steelies that use the factory nuts.

Spent this morning removing the wiring harness and ECU, sent the CRD to its new owner and badged the patrol

Spent this morning removing the wiring harness and ECU, sent the CRD to its new owner and badged the patrol

How's it going mate
I am chucking in a 6.0l LS2 V8

If you get a snorkel you can hide the wiring pretty well


Wiring coming from engine bay


Wiring up the A pillar

View from the front

Fitted two more 12v power outlets to the rear of the centre console to run the 12v oven and power the kids electronic gear