Bike has GONE!!

[Johnny GSX-R]

SOLD it, the BUSA went this lunchtime to a new home in Kent, i now have a stack of cash just waiting to be ploughed into my new 4x4..................yipeeeeeeeeee.

[McGee]

Congrats man,

What mods you got planned ?

What kind of lift you getting etc ?
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[Johnny GSX-R]

LIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!! no lift on mine matey, LIFTS are for people who don't have a clue. The lowest part is the diff casings, its that which causes most of them to stop dead in their tracks, a lift won't pick the diff casing off the ground.

A lift will also make it more unstable. More suspension travel is the order of the day my 'YANKY' mucka, if the wheels are on the ground then the roof is pointing upward.

[Ted]

That 4x4 better be an older Landrover... and not something like a Rav4... otherwise I will have to bitch-slap you back to..erm... somewhere...

[Pete.]

Hey Johnny can yours do this?
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[APNess]

Is that you done with biking then Johnny?

Really liked your bike, but my own 'busa fund' fell short of your asking price (by a few grand) and took a major hit (from which it may never recover) when I got burgled a week and a half ago - I paid for every downstairs window taking out and reinforcing and that left me well short of what I needed for a busa

So sticking with the Thunderace for a while longer yet. Maybe a blessing - learn to properly handle that bikes power before I make what would definitely be a step up... Only been riding a year (or will have been, next month) so maybe a busa would have been 'too much too soon' - but I'm a firm believer that my brain and my right hand would have acted as limiters till used to it.

Ah well, one day!

Enjoy the new hobby!

[Johnny GSX-R]

Thats simply mental. I have the DVD about rock crawling, an absolute art form.
Mine will be simple, functional, minimal and legal ish.
It will be V8 auto, with a nice custom built stainless system running on an altered Range Rover chassis.
I'll be a sad twat and post pics of the Range Rover strip down as i do it and show it being reincarnated.

[Ted]

[Johnny GSX-R]

The 5 dr chassis is tha same as the 3 dr.... its only the body shell which is different. I'm using a 5 dr shell cut down to 88" wb with no rear bodywork, a simple tray back and a snub nose front. It will have a full external cage for the inevitable roll.

[jimbothe]

[Johnny GSX-R]

Plenty of SII's about, the SIII was a rot box. My bro has a SI with a canvas tilt and a SIIA truck cab.
I have 2 R/Rovers and a Discovery, have had a R/Rover before,a SIIA Station Wagon and a 110 pre production. I find the Land Rover Series and defender to small inside.

[Pete.]

APness you can buy early-model 'busas for under 3 grand nowadays. Seen a tatty model go for £2600 last year. You would be very hard-pressed to find one with a bad engine.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Johnny GSX-R]

I've been using AUTO since last year and i find its better than manual as your not breaking traction to change up... Why would you want to get the revs up on soft ground anyway???????

So many people rev the nuts off them off road, its asking to get stuck. Keep the revs down and you'll go much further.
I'm not a novice at this, i've been at it since i was a teenager, just had a break for a few years and now i'm back into it.

[jimbothe]

[Johnny GSX-R]

So you actually got places in the Shogun in the pic A/T tyres, runner boards, bull bar......... ..

Whats with all the chequer plate?? It seems to be En Vogue for 4x4 folk to adorn the vehicle with naff chunks of diamond plate, i don't get it.
The other dumb ass thing is 'ONE LIFE LIVE IT'.... so many 4x4's with that written on.

[Johnny GSX-R]

The RR V8 auto in low range has enough guts to tip itself over backwards LOL.
No need to worry about what gear to choose, its always in the right one plus the wheels don't lock on decents when its slippy.

I was always a MANUAL box fan until i started to use this. My mate has a 100" Hybrid comp safari motor with a 4.6 V8 running a Jag 3 speed auto.

[Pete.]

My mate and his son are having loadsa fun with their road-legal Vitaras. The run them on a very low budget. One of them has a Cal-Mini kit or something on it.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[jimbothe]

As i said steep hills at specified pits and byways.Probably not the same league as you.That was a very early pic when it was just starting out.The front was replaced with a winch bumper and winch,the side steps were replaced with rock sliders and off road tyres but not the really meaty ones - just good enough for what i needed.

The chequer plate was to provide somewhere to stand when the safari rack was put on
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[DaveH]

[Ichy]

Am I in the right place? Surely this should be 2x2?

Hey at least your planning to keep it where all 4x4's belong, at the bottom of a disused gravel pit Have fun.

"It's gripped ... sorted ... let's offroad!"

[Darkside]

The best 4x4 I have ever seen was on Top Gear it was the Bowler, tested by the hampster............anyone? "I am a driving god!!!!"
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