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Old 5th June 2008, 04:17 PM
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Project 89 Blown away

It is another bloody range Rover build up. This one may have a twist hopefully.

It started life as a standard 89 Vogue with 3.5 EFI ZF auto and bloody Borg Warner VC. Anyway we have here, LRA 2.5" body lift, LRA XL flares, Eastern Creek 8" -25mm offset rims with 35's, 4.11CWPs, Maxi Drive front and rear lockers with axles, heavy duty Tie rod/Drag link/RTC Damper, some suspension, M90 supercharger (Was Rovercare's) came with Uni chip looking at using Delco with hall dizzy and Haltech E6GMX Management.(A bit of mix and matching to do here) Plan to make a start on this one this weekend after I get all the broken **** machinery out of my workshop
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Old 5th June 2008, 04:29 PM
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Carefull mate, there are threads on here about how WORTHLESS RRC's are, so if you spend more than $2 your over capitalising!

Seriuosly, I think Rover owners are their worst enemies! If we have an attitude that these beautifull machines are worthless, then other non-Rover people are going to think worse!

Side tracked a bit there, have fun with the build up, and of course, pics please or else it never happened
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Old 5th June 2008, 04:37 PM
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Carefull mate, there are threads on here about how WORTHLESS RRC's are, so if you spend more than $2 your over capitalising!

Seriuosly, I think Rover owners are their worst enemies! If we have an attitude that these beautifull machines are worthless, then other non-Rover people are going to think worse!

Side tracked a bit there, have fun with the build up, and of course, pics please or else it never happened
WHO CARES WHAT THE OTHER PEOPLE THINK!

This thing is gonna be a BEAST !
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Old 5th June 2008, 06:15 PM
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IMHO it's the Discoveries that are a worthless bit of .....

Until the Discovery came along RRc's held their value fairly well. When the Disco came along (and the p38a) the price of RRc's fell through the floor. However compared to the RRc the Disco has performed very poorly. They need towing kits which were never required on the RRc, there were the disasterous design problems where the engine oil pump failed on the Td5, they have numerous chassis cracking problems and their value falls through the floor while your having lunch.

Compared to the Disco 1 and 2 the County and Defender are great value and they hold their value far better than their up-market sibling.

Rangier Rover, good onya with your '89 project, keep us all up to date on the progress.

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Old 5th June 2008, 09:17 PM
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Carefull mate, there are threads on here about how WORTHLESS RRC's are, so if you spend more than $2 your over capitalising!

Seriuosly, I think Rover owners are their worst enemies! If we have an attitude that these beautifull machines are worthless, then other non-Rover people are going to think worse!

Side tracked a bit there, have fun with the build up, and of course, pics please or else it never happened
Pics soon As far as over capitalising This is the best part of a RRC. If I trash this one I just buy anothery for stuff all and swap the goodies over
I say make people think they are worthless. More fore us
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Old 5th June 2008, 09:31 PM
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IMHO it's the Discoveries that are a worthless bit of .....

Until the Discovery came along RRc's held their value fairly well. When the Disco came along (and the p38a) the price of RRc's fell through the floor. However compared to the RRc the Disco has performed very poorly. They need towing kits which were never required on the RRc, there were the disasterous design problems where the engine oil pump failed on the Td5, they have numerous chassis cracking problems and their value falls through the floor while your having lunch.

Compared to the Disco 1 and 2 the County and Defender are great value and they hold their value far better than their up-market sibling.

Rangier Rover, good onya with your '89 project, keep us all up to date on the progress.

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I agree with you here But I think we might get into soup with the defer and disco owners
Most of them (Not all) and Rice Burner owners have never driven or owned a RRC let alone a modded one. Its the charm that does it
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Funny - everyone I have asked about them has said to no end how good the RRC is - its the reason why I decided to keep it & do it up

Will be watching this close as I do my own as well
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Old 6th June 2008, 01:51 AM
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Thanks for intrest here. I need the inspiration to get this one done. Always helping others and not my self So at mid life time to be selfish and do my own big time. Was looking for a 94 LSE to build but none came up at right price in time so we are stuck with the 89 for now.:. It's in good nick for age though.
As some of you know I have a modded 2 door and still restoring a 84 Ph2 RRC. Toooo many projects I must say the 2 door has been a good one.
Have been doing some midnight oiling to help clear the work shop for this one.
Problem is on a place this size with a fleet of over 50 inc machinery and hard operators stuff seems to break So work shop is trashed.
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that sounds like a great project...just dont turn it into a ute...it suddenly becomes worthless....sorry had to say that

seriously, who cares if its a RRC, Disco or defer, they are all great and I reckon modifying them makes them even better.

Cant wait to see some pics and watch the progress
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Old 6th June 2008, 05:27 PM
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that sounds like a great project...just dont turn it into a ute...it suddenly becomes worthless....sorry had to say that

seriously, who cares if its a RRC, Disco or defer, they are all great and I reckon modifying them makes them even better.

Cant wait to see some pics and watch the progress
But disco's have that ugly hump in the roof, EWWWWWWWW









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