The Range Racer

[The Wookie]

RacerMike said:

In fairness, there's a difference between Chassis and Vehicle Dynamics at JLR. The Chassis guys are component engineers. I don't believe these guys are in Vehicle Dynamics.....and I'd say that actually most JLR stuff steers pretty well!

I'm only jesting, after all I own two current JLR products and I used to be a dynamics engineer so they can't be that bad

[anonymous-user]

[S54B32]

Max_Torque said:

From the facebook video of the crash, looks a lot like you just locked the wheel and planted your foot. If you want her to dance then just sending drive to the rear is clearly not enough, get that weight moving, make it work for you. Is it an open diff at the back?

always easy to be an armchair pundit though

[chrisga]

Any updates?

Looks like you guys have got some competition (though perhaps not quite the same budget) : https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/restomod-we...

[eliot]

chrisga said:

Any updates?

Looks like you guys have got some competition (though perhaps not quite the same budget) : https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/restomod-we...

Never seen someone go to the trouble of converting a live axle into wishbone. Cant quite see how the front axles pass through the coilover.

[Boobonman]

I see you've gone RWD now anyway, but years ago when we filmed Fast and Furious six we had at least one L322 converted to RWD with a welded diff at the back. That lasted longer than anyone anticipated before going bang, quite funny watching a full fat do donuts.

[DanG355]

I wonder if this is still alive? Hope so as it’s one of the more fun threads. Be nice to know if it’s now a 1400kg, 550bhp track weapon!

[ColdoRS]

DanG355 said:

I wonder if this is still alive? Hope so as it’s one of the more fun threads. Be nice to know if it’s now a 1400kg, 550bhp track weapon!

Weirdly, I looked up their Instagram yesterday as I saw a V8 in the gym car park.
Unfortunately the last post/update was over a year ago and the car was in its crashed state, so it doesn’t look promising.

[UnluckyTimmeh]

Any chance of even an “it’s still alive” post?

[breezer42]

Hope she's still going strong! I'd love to see an update of any kind, even if it's "we had to give up". Fingers crossed!

[DanG355]

This was the last photo seen of it



They thought it was only cosmetic and did have it running again in the RWD only form, but radio silence ever since. Maybe that’s the end of the story or maybe like many car projects, other priorities in life have taken over.

[breezer42]

DanG355 said:

This was the last photo seen of it



They thought it was only cosmetic and did have it running again in the RWD only form, but radio silence ever since. Maybe that’s the end of the story or maybe like many car projects, other priorities in life have taken over.

Thanks Dan, that's much appreciated. Hmm, yes, life often gets in the way!

[BFleming]

SORNed currently, MOT ran out in 2021 and it had a new V5 issued in April 2022. I'd say it's dead.

[charlie-5mkmt]

Well well, its been a little while hasn't it

Lots has changed with job changes, house moves and life for all 3 of us.

However the range racer is not dead....VERY neglected and still looking sad from its bump on the nose but not yet dead.

We have treated her to some parts to repair the damage and some new coil overs to finally get rid of the far too soft air springs (who knew someone made coilovers for range rovers?!




We plan on getting back to it through 2023, dont expect rapid progress but its time we got this stupid project back on track ASAP.

Hope you are all have kept well!

Edited by charlie-5mkmt on Friday 23 December 23:33

[Huff]

charlie-5mkmt said:

Well well, its been a little while hasn't it

...

We plan on getting back to it through 2023, don't expect rapid progress but its time we got this stupid project back on track ASAP.

a luta continua: Oh YES!

: )

[and31]

charlie-5mkmt said:

Well well, its been a little while hasn't it

Lots has changed with job changes, house moves and life for all 3 of us.

However the range racer is not dead....VERY neglected and still looking sad from its bump on the nose but not yet dead.

We have treated her to some parts to repair the damage and some new coil overs to finally get rid of the far too soft air springs (who knew someone made coilovers for a range rovers?!




We plan on getting back to it through 2023, dont expect rapid progress but its time we got this stupid project back on track ASAP.

Hope you are all have kept well!

Brilliant!!

[Rene Souffle]

Great to have you back!

Wishing all three of you the best with it

[BrettMRC]

Awesome

[rs48635]

Great work by @charlie-5mkmt have enjoyed reading the whole story in two sittings. Brought here by link in Sith & Sniff so credit them with getting me back. This thread mercifully light on snarky comments so may even return.

Chapeau! Charlie

Bookmarked coilovers for my own bog-standard L322.

[morgs_]

Hallelujah!

I got a little thrill seeing this show up in my recent posts but feared the dreaded bump post.

Looking forward to updates.