Thread: Coil sprung suspension for a S3

Cut down Range Rover chassis would be the way to do it.

Then weld on Bulkhead outriggers from series chassis and put your series body on it. Then you have a V8 powered, coil sprung series "hybrid".

Take a look at "A 4x4 is born". It is a great example of building a hybrid, although theres is 100 inch instead of 88 inch but all the info is there.

For licensing ease you need to start with a coil chassis.
Go the early Rangie,as early as possible so you can avoid emissions/ADRs imposed on new stuff.
You then get a V8 with coils all round,disc brakes and easily complied.
Your vehicle will be regoed as a Rangie as thats what the chassis is but will look like a Series.
Contact Julien at Discovery Automotives(they advertise on here),he has a "Series Rangie" Hybrid he built.
Andrew

Originally Posted by garryseries3

Adapting a series 3 chassis locally would seem a good alternative is there someone that does this conversion in Oz.

There are several other alternatives.

Buy a County or a Defender, which already have coils and you don't need to have them certified by an engineer!

Fit parabolic springs (which is the cheapest alternative). Santana Land Rovers are still made with parabolic instead of coils.

Just a couple of thoughts!

Diana

This is how I did it. What I did was learning and not very well executed but it takes some time to do it.

www.slunnie.com - IIa LC60 coil conversion

Something additional to consider, is the series axles are a lot narrower that coiler axles and you may find that the spring perches etc wont fit due to the narrow series track