Thread: Dangerous modifications. What’s your mind set?

Interesting, all bullbars - no one’s concerned about the really dangerous stuff - the day to day missile mods?

I have done a few mods to my rig over the 20 years I have owned it, one of the first to do the repairs on brake modulator and it is still going strong. Fitted a hydraulic winch and bumped up the pressure to 3000 psi it is fast and strong had to make my own mount to secure the winch.

have also made and fitted my own bull bar it has no sharp edges and is all curves and used the crush cans from the TJM bar that was fitted to it has the clearance so cans can fully collapse before hitting winch.

Probably the next car will not be able to modify as to much electronic gizmos on it ( have ordered a D5 lux ) but will keep the D2 for a couple more years as want to do Cape York.

there has been some bloody good projects on this forum and it is good to see and yes there has been some dodgy things done too, when I was an apprentice had an old CA Bedford van turned it into a sleeper, ripped out the old 4 cylinder motor and fitted a motor out of a stock race car (186 Holden motor fully worked) this envolved a lot of chassis mods to get it to fit but made it strong, not something that can be done now (was living in a place called Invercargill in NZ ) cost me $600 to do but could beat the V8s in town easily.

So it seems time to fess up and admit to ones sin`s

I once modified a non winch ARB bar to accept a winch on my old RRC.

oh im so bad and so sorry precious one`s

Originally Posted by Zeros

the day to day missile mods?

missile mods?

Originally Posted by Eevo

missile mods?

As sbove, homemade poorly conceived restraints for: jerry cans, gas bottles, hilift jacks, loose tools in utes, ladders, pipes, etc etc.

I think in offset frontal collision a steel bull bar you must get better protection because the chassis rail on the side that is not struck shares some of the force by the bar dragging on it. Every bit helps. An inch or so less intrusion due to the bar helping to disperse the impact to both rails may mesn tbe difference between keeping or losing your patella, hip or life. Cheers

Nannies little helpers up in here!

If you want to play around with custom modifications, better to get an older 4x4 with less legal restrictions. Or tack on a bar to your D5 if you are feeling special - why should I care?

Id rather share the road with a jacked up humvee with fake rocket launchers welded on the sides, than a tesla driver on ice in insane mode.

If you wanna risk your house/life/liberty on illegal modifications, go right ahead. Just do us a favour and dont drive like a dickhead!

Originally Posted by rangieman

So it seems time to fess up and admit to ones sin`s

I once modified a non winch ARB bar to accept a winch on my old RRC.

oh im so bad and so sorry precious one`s

I once installed tarago bench seats in the back of a Suzuki 800 hatch (hatch version of the mighty boy). It had a restraint bar to fix the seat belts to (the previous owner put a baby seat in the front seat and needed a restraint point), but there was no head room. Everything was securely fixed but no eng cert as i was ignorant to what was required at the time. its apparently passed the rego inspection many times since then...