Thread: Lucky8’s Project Discovery 3

Changing the offset by too much will start to impact on the CV's - remember it's not a live axle vehicle.

Cheers,

Gordon

Hanging the tyres outside the guards is a fail for road worthiness in Australia, and same goes for wheel spacers.

Several of your countrymen on Discoweb described it as Redneck ....whilst form should follow function on a 4wd I have to agree. And increasing unsprung weight is not a good idea.

Cheerx

Originally Posted by Redback

Love reading all the stuff you guys do, you should more here

Baz.

Thank you

Originally Posted by rb30gtr

Looks really good,

The offset is a bit confusing, what offest did that end up as?

Has anyone tried hanging the tyres out of the guards with spacers or extreme offsets to fit, say a 315/60/17? wide but still a 32

They are 4.5 inch back spacing. It is 2in more then stock.

Originally Posted by gghaggis

Changing the offset by too much will start to impact on the CV's - remember it's not a live axle vehicle.

Cheers,

Gordon

I don't know how that would effect the CVs. It will put more stress on the wheel bearing but this is also true for a solid axel truck.

Originally Posted by ozscott

Several of your countrymen on Discoweb described it as Redneck ....whilst form should follow function on a 4wd I have to agree.

I don't understand? Do you mean function should follow form?

We are making the wheel fit and the design is what came from that task. This would be form following function.

Originally Posted by ozscott

And increasing unsprung weight is not a good idea.

Cheerx

Are you saying not to add bigger heavier tires? Or do you think the steel 17in rim weighs more then the 18in alloy?

Lucky8’s Project Discovery 3 Update : Ugly shoes

Ok so everyone and their stepmother hated the silver rims. I get it! Please stop with the hate mail.
Really
Please stop.

I was hoping the silver and green would look good. Unfortunately for me this was wrong but I have made amends. Here is the rim in black.



Full of chest pounding confidents in my new black rims we headed off to the winter romp.



The best way to describe the conditions at this years winter romp is sugar. This powder sugar type snow made movement almost impossible and if you got off the beaten path , well as they say in the big city forget about it.



After battling most of the nigh through mounds of sugar snow I had no love left for the LR3. I’ll throw this question out there. Why the hell did the engineer responsible for traction control turn off power to the motor when it is needed most?



I had enough of traction control, terrain response and kinetic straps for one night. It was time for bed.



Early the next morning I went out to scowl at the Lr3. Believe me when I tell you this, I wanted it to be good. But every time I need it the truck it would let me down. I finished my tiny breakfast at Big Gs and went back out to give it another go.


Photo by Zack Griswold

The trail conditions changed a little over night for the better giving the Nittos some solid ground to bite. If you listen closely to this video clip you will hear how hard I had to work the truck to get it through what seems like an easy snow-covered trail.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRyIKaTSTgU&list=UUUnCLXtAqip_9qd-T1NenbA&feature=c4-overview]Short LR3 Winter Romp clip - YouTube[/ame]

I was able to enjoy the truck a little more the second day, and to be honest everything was getting stuck out there.


Photo by Zack Griswold

There is no poser pic today but I do have two videos and a question.

Video one is a well equipped Disco3 on a 2in lift running snow chains. This truck was in rock mode as it tried to cross a sugar patch. Although both lockers were engaged the computer would not let the truck pick up the speed needed to get across.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWW2ys-9BjM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUUnCLXtAqip_9qd-T1NenbA]Short LR3 Winter Romp clip 2 - YouTube[/ame]

Video two is the L8 Disco 3 in sand mode. I had to flog it all the way through the sugar patch. By keeping the REV’s up and all the wheels spinning about the same speed my new nemesis, the computer did not shut down the engine.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6ZNYoUP3M&feature=c4-overview&list=UUUnCLXtAqip_9qd-T1NenbA]Short LR3 Winter Romp clip 3 - YouTube[/ame]

Now the question.
What setting in terrain response is your favorite and why?