Pictures!!

[beforethevision]

Gday all,

After seeing the thread for discos, i wanna see your freelander! bolt the mods on, find the scariest road tires you got (:angel:), and get pics up!

Here is my fine example!
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4623/dsc00450kt8.jpg

And here waiting for armour :P
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7933/dsc00431gn3.jpg

[djhampson]

I don't know who this idiot is....
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/296.jpg
or this one....
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/05/437.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/297.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/298.jpg

[beforethevision]

I don't know who this idiot is....

or this one....


HAHAAH take a picture of a land rover when hes down, !

I noticed thats the one you made huge :P
I claim technical difficulties!

ahh hang on,

Heres a good one...
Just no sign of the locked, lifted, v8 D1 that pulled you out :P

And i wont show your dads d3 stuck only 100m before you... :P
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


where was your last pic taken?

Cheers!

[djhampson]

Whats wrong with that pic Col?

I'm just parked there honest!

My last pic is from a trip Dad and I did out to Flinders Peak. Tom Tom told us that that track went thru to Swanbank Power Station.... it did for motorbikes. T'wasn't quite wide enough for the Freelander.

[101RRS]

Now, now boys - behave yourselves.

Now here are some pics of the best lookin Freelander around - not those whussy petrol engined toys or those Showpony LR2s.

Gazza

[beforethevision]

Very nice gary!

I love the lack of dents and scratches! Its gorgeous, nice colour! :P

How have you retained straight sills without a lift?

Cheers!

[101RRS]

I have plenty of dents and scratches, with the accompaning green plastic smudges from the car park trollies.

Sills still in one piece because I will not go near big rocks without protection. The front has some damage from big rocks though.

Garry

[DirtyDawg]

Nothing wrong with Freelanders.....they fit into small shopping centre car spaces. they can fit a couple of ankle biters in the back and my daughter loves them..great soft roaders but don't try and take the road out the soft roader......;)

[djhampson]

No road in any of these DD :twisted:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/181.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/260.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/261.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/262.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/263.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/264.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/03/265.jpg

[beforethevision]

Nicely dave! i will need to get that collection from you.

[WhiteD3]

No road in any of these DD :twisted:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/181.jpg

Funny, where's the 4 snatchstraps?:D

[djhampson]

Funny, where's the 4 snatchstraps?:D

Theres always a Disco driver to ruin the fun isn't there!

I suppose I should disclose that the Freelander is going backwards there not forwards :D

[WhiteD3]

Theres always a Disco driver to ruin the fun isn't there!

I suppose I should disclose that the Freelander is going backwards there not forwards :D

It wasn't so much going backwards that had me holding my breath, it was the going backwards at 45° to the slope that did it:eek::eek:.

Good photo though, sadly the steepness of the slope is lost in the photo as usual.

[beforethevision]

Funny, where's the 4 snatchstraps?:D

hahahaha thats what i was thinking. Or perhaps i was going backward at that stage...

[nosliwedaw]

My last pic is from a trip Dad and I did out to Flinders Peak. Tom Tom told us that that track went thru to Swanbank Power Station.... it did for motorbikes. T'wasn't quite wide enough for the Freelander.

If you keep going on that track(that's what the S3 is for) it does technically go to swanbank, but the big fence about 2ks from that pic with White Rock Conservation estate, no vehicles allowed, or something to that effect kind of ruins the drive. pity, there used to be some good track in there(10 yrs+ago).

[SuperMono]

Just a few recent pics of Grover out and about.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/182.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/10319) https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/183.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/10318) https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/184.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/10317) https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/185.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/10315) https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/186.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/10316)

[WhiteD3]

Tried to get your D shackle back the other day but the track's closed:(

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/06/181.jpg]

[beforethevision]

hahaha thanks! its ok, i have finally got the car going again, so i will be out buying new gear. I think my dad may have cooked my UHF playing with the battery terminals tho! :twisted:

Cheers!

[djhampson]

At CityView earlier today...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/08/665.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/djhampson/2767686160/)

300+'s D3 and and me at CityView...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/08/666.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/djhampson/2766906541/)

[samuelclarke]

OK, even though I don't own a Freelander - my mum does - I do every now and then drive hers. Great car, wouldn't mind having one down the track to go with the Defender...with a bit of skill and good tyres it's amazing where you can take them - except when you run out of ground clearance (anyone say sand :p).

Here's a pic of her hippo in action:

http://www.samuelclarke.com/media/misc/freelander.jpg

[djhampson]

Crystal Creek 23-24/08/2008 - a set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/djhampson/sets/72157606918322834/)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/09/1030.jpg

[beforethevision]

I saw this the other day, you think its coincidental???

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/



Cheers!

[atelierqcj]

My HSE i6

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/12/760.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/12/761.jpg

[djhampson]

Looks awesome mate. Love that colour... almost as good as Ramini Red

[Mockery]

On my first trip offroad:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[beforethevision]

Very nice!

Where is that at? Also I love the choice of tyres :P

Cheers!

[Mockery]

That's in the Wilbinga region, just north of metro perth.
Tyres are Sumitomo 'Serengeti', LT235/75R15. They grip nicely and look wicked! Here's the kicker: I picked up all 5 for just $400.

car still wants lift, working on that...

[inside]

At the beach today

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8984/fl2beach2of2pt9.jpg

[djhampson]

Bribie?

That roof rack makes your FL2 look tough!

[inside]

Yeah that's Bribie. I got new tyres so had to try them somewhere!

[djhampson]

Yeah that's Bribie. I got new tyres so had to try them somewhere!

ooo what did you go for?

[Reads90]

This is my brother freelanders

His 1.8 racer

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/273.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/611.jpg

His TD5 racer
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/270.jpg


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/271.jpg

And his camel freelander

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/612.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/613.jpg

[inside]

ooo what did you go for?
Bridgestone D694. Only got them on Friday but had a good chance to test them in the rain, way ahead of the OEM Wranglers in breaking and all round confidence. Road noise is up but not too much. They bag out nicely when deflated to 18 PSI and performed really well today in the sand but the FL2 was good in the sand before. Light car + 400Nm of torque = great fun in the sand!

They are called Revo in the US you can read reviews here although apparently not that good on snow :p TireRack.com Tire Reviews (http://www.tirerack.com/survey/SurveyComments.jsp?additionalComments=y&tireMake=Bridgestone&tireModel=Dueler+A%2FT+Revo&tirePageLocQty=&commentStatus=P)

[DiscoTDI]

This is my old one, I sold it to my parents and they still have it

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/599.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/600.jpg


Hopefully we will have another one soon:)

[beforethevision]

This is my brother freelanders

His 1.8 racer





His TD5 racer





And his camel freelander





Tell me more!!!

I know the FL handles very nicely on the dirt, but i have no idea how you get a 'race' K1.8 ... lol

Also whats in the td5, is it a D-lander?

Cheers!

[Reads90]

Tell me more!!!

I know the FL handles very nicely on the dirt, but i have no idea how you get a 'race' K1.8 ... lol

Also whats in the td5, is it a D-lander?

Cheers!

The freelander 1.8 beat bowlers , belive me i was driving it at the time. It can put the power down alot better than the Big V8's
Goes very very well and shocked alot of people when it first went out. But eneded up winning the british off road champsonships two years in a row, with my brother at the wheel

Nah it is not a D-lander the TD5 is a TD5 freelander that was made by land rover speacial Vechiles for the Paris-Dakar
This is it on the dakar

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/269.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/11/268.jpg

[Psimpson7]

but i have no idea how you get a 'race' K1.8 ... lol



Talk to Caterham! they got 230bhp out of the K series.

[beforethevision]

The freelander 1.8 beat bowlers , belive me i was driving it at the time. It can put the power down alot better than the Big V8's
Goes very very well and shocked alot of people when it first went out. But eneded up winning the british off road champsonships two years in a row, with my brother at the wheel

Nah it is not a D-lander the TD5 is a TD5 freelander that was made by land rover speacial Vechiles for the Paris-Dakar
This is it on the dakar





Yeah, ive heard that with any form of forced induction, they go like rockets. The head on my 1.8 is ported, cammed, valved, lol, and i have an eaton m45 and programmable ecu sitting on the floor atm.... hahahah if only i could spare the time (and money) to turn my DD into a rally car.

Cheers!

[Weimar]

Any idea what they do to modify the K series to make it last for racing?
They are well know to being very sensitive to over heating with dropped
cylinder liners and blown head gaskets, I had heard they moved the thermostat to help fix the problem but due to the design they are prone to failure.

I would imagine since it was such a common engine (Rover, MG as well)
that someone would come up with a good fix.

Tim W

[beforethevision]

Any idea what they do to modify the K series to make it last for racing?
They are well know to being very sensitive to over heating with dropped
cylinder liners and blown head gaskets, I had heard they moved the thermostat to help fix the problem but due to the design they are prone to failure.

I would imagine since it was such a common engine (Rover, MG as well)
that someone would come up with a good fix.

Tim W

Relocation of the thermostat and a good head gasket fixes almost all the issues. There is also a lubrication issue with poor oil pressure in the head, but apparently a few new parts in the pickup fixes that.

There is more, but those are the easiest to fix.

Cheers!

[Tombie]

Looks awesome mate. Love that colour... almost as good as Ramini Red

Rimini Red is better :angel:

[Reads90]

Any idea what they do to modify the K series to make it last for racing?
They are well know to being very sensitive to over heating with dropped
cylinder liners and blown head gaskets, I had heard they moved the thermostat to help fix the problem but due to the design they are prone to failure.

I would imagine since it was such a common engine (Rover, MG as well)
that someone would come up with a good fix.

Tim W

this what my brother had done to it . But the restriction are tight in the racing he was doing do you could not do alot . His was a pre production freelander he bought from Saftey Devices . It was there show truck to show what roll over kit they could do for the freelander and also the test bed for the camel freelander roll cages.

Engine

visit to the Autosport show in January 2004 introduced us to PTP (recommended by scrutineer Robbo). They are part of the Trinity group and were hugely helpful. We were very restricted to what we could reasonably do. The regs state that the valves must remain standard, as with pistons and porting of the head is not permitted. The throttle body must not be enlarged. After discussions with Robbo and PTP, we went for a 140 head kit – as this was all that we could do. An ITG air filter has also been fitted.

[BrendoR6]

Hi everyone!

I'm new to this forum and I thought this would be a good place to start. Here are a few photos of my 04 Freelander Td4 on one of its first trips out. So far I love it, but as you all know clearance is a issue. Hoping to get some bigger tyres when these ones need replacing.
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14901

14902

[SuperMono]

Welcome!

Good to see another Freebie getting off the flat black stuff.

[TripleA]

It's here! Finally! Get to go pick it up next Wednesday!

http://www.aulro.com/app/data/964/medium/FL2_in_Darwin_1.jpg

According to the salesman, quote 'It is oh so blue'

[djhampson]

Cool!

I like that blue...

[Dorko]

Very Nice!

Welcome to the FL2 :D:D

[SuperMono]

Hasn't been any new images here for a while, so I volunteer a couple.
Random Grover images from club trials events in 2009.

Get the Freebie out there and dirty :)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/10/862.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/15944)https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/10/641.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/15943)

[PaulP38a]

Here's my old Freebie XEi K1.8 - great car... lots of fun and surprisingly good power
http://paulp38a.com/gallery/d/1301-1/Resize+of+200210-001.jpg

and here's my wife's TD4 being just a little obscured by another Landie... wonder if you can guess what the "other Landie" is by reading the number plate? ;)
http://paulp38a.com/gallery/d/2507-1/IMG_1457.JPG

cheers, Paul.

[Mockery]

More pics!

Powerline track, Mundaring
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/RCMike/4x4/P1000360_crop_s.jpg

The Pinnacles, near Cervantes WA
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/RCMike/4x4/P7262099_crop_s.jpg

Disco Retro - this cleared strip is the (unnecessary) new highway under construction from Lancelin to Cervantes, right across some favourite 4WD trails. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/10/535.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[SuperMono]

Aggressive looking tyres you have there, what are they?

[Mockery]

heh, check my second post back on page 3...

[101RRS]

My club had a recent training weekend and as the 101 was off the road I took the Freelander which did very well.

The car
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e334/gazzz21/163.jpg

More car
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e334/gazzz21/149.jpg

Up hill
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Testing traction control
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/https://www.aulro.com/afvb/https://www.aulro.com/afvb/https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

We had a mix of later model landies and the improvements in TC are very noticeable. Mine being the oldest, I had to use plenty of revs to make the loose wheel spin a fair bit before TC kicked in. The early D2s also had to really spin their wheels but the D3s had virtually no spin before the TC kicked in.

Photos are courtesy of Chris Pieterse.

Garry

[PaulP38a]

Nice air Garry. Freebies are far more capable than they are given credit for, especially the diesels. Wish my wife would let me take hers out to play a bit more.

Chris and Susan certainly take some great photos. They sent me a bunch from the Brindies run on Sunday. I'd post some here but no Freebies on that run.. just other Landies and a couple of non-LR's. Gallery here 100321-LRC (http://paulp38a.com/gallery/v/100321-lrc/)

cheers, Paul.

[101RRS]

Looking at them pics - maybe I should have gone:). Looks like a nice day. I have never had an issue with the Freelander in the National Park area - even down to McIntyres Hut. It looks a bit crowded up on Corree.

Garry

[FL2 Td4]

Few pictures of my freelander2 and my mate's D3, We didn't do any hardcore 4 wheel driving, just visited places you wouldn't want to go with a family sedan.

[Hippo]

:)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/07/1493.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/07/1494.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/07/1495.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/07/1496.jpg

[A J Mango]

This is my Freelander 2 td4 on beach a Lennox Head and on bruce Lynton 4wd day at Beaudesert

[rokdog74]

Not many pics here but the car went well on an unsealed bush track at D'Aguilar in QLD

[entilzh]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/1015.jpg
pic of my freebie 01 td4 auto yes the bumpers are black took time and a few tins of black shoe pollish but looks heeps better than grey i think also 16 inch rims i got have the 15 in the back shed incase i need them
pod lights on the front xmaas project dont have the a frame nudge bar as yet but im looking they are very hard to find and yes there is a big dent where i dropped the cazr in a culvet under the passengers door next round of money fix this and side protection
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/1016.jpg

[entilzh]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/194.jpgfound these on gumtree a few weeks back so long weekend project
they are for a v6 so a bit of cutting and shutting was required also the lamps face inwards so some washers behind the lamp mounts to push them out to stop the hippo being crosseyed also some blask sicaflex to fill in the gaps just need to do the wiring and alls done so now some pics of the completed
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/195.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/196.jpg

[Meken]

73862
North stradbroke island main beach

[Meken]

83792
Duck creek rd

[rangieman]

Got this today as a project with the step son . Its a Td4 with a spun big end bearing. $400.00 ;)