Land Rover Portal Axles Available in Australia

[CJT]

You can now buy a full Land Rover portal kit in Australia.

Landrover Tuning have them for $16,260.

Expensive but around the same price as those developed and sold by Marks 4wd Adaptors for the Nissan's and Toyota's.

Here is the link;

Landrover Tuning :: Defender BOLT ON PORTALE available in a ratio of 1.6 to 1 and 1.16 to 1s.

[uninformed]

MaxiDrive made these years ago, but alas, as with the closing of MD so stopped the loacl portal production. Wolfgang makes the ones in the link above in Germany. Im sure "Oilworker" will be along to discuss more as he has a set on his 130. It will be interesting to see how this Australian on seller takles road registration and engineering. Ill beat Wagoo to it by saying the 1.16 is not much point in the strength increase one would be after if fitting portals...

[justinc]

Looks tempting...

Serg, are these noisy at all as the pics show straight cut gears...?

I would say that if I could, I would.

JC

[LowRanger]

MaxiDrive made these years ago, but alas, as with the closing of MD so stopped the loacl portal production. Wolfgang makes the ones in the link above in Germany. Im sure "Oilworker" will be along to discuss more as he has a set on his 130. It will be interesting to see how this Australian on seller takles road registration and engineering. Ill beat Wagoo to it by saying the 1.16 is not much point in the strength increase one would be after if fitting portals...

The onseller won't have to worry about road registration or engineering,as he is only selling the product.There is no problem getting a Defender engineered in NSW with Portals and 35's fitted,as long as the vehicle passes the swerve test,and the brake test,which the new slotted rotors and 4 piston calipers will address and the speedo is calibrated to read correctly,and the front bumper has to cover the wheels completely.
BrendanM has his fully engineered and it is fabulous.Brendan is using Maxi Portals though.
If I had a spare $16k I would be in like a flash,but I would import it myself and save a few $$$$.

Wayne

[CJT]

I know that the Toyota and Nissan kits can be approved in QLD but is a lot of hassle from when I was talking to Marks Adaptors.

Aparently QT wont allow anymore than a 50mm increase in wheel track even with portals and you can only run up to 33" tyres, not 35" like other states can with the Patrol kit etc.

[alexturner]

Just out of curiosity - when will this $16k addition to your car be necessary?

I've seen Land Rovers with strengthened driveline components do some amazing things... This seems a tad overkill to me - someone educate me otherwise.

[wagoo]

I know that the Toyota and Nissan kits can be approved in QLD but is a lot of hassle from when I was talking to Marks Adaptors.

Aparently QT wont allow anymore than a 50mm increase in wheel track even with portals and you can only run up to 33" tyres, not 35" like other states can with the Patrol kit etc.

A track width increase of only 50mm would make for a very tippy vehicle in steep terrain. The 1.16:1 versions provide a 100mm increase in ground clearance, whilst the 1.6:1 version gives 125mm. The general rule of thumb to maintain stability is, for every 25mm height increase, the trackwidth should be increased by 50mm.
Re noise levels of straight cut gears,. Halfshaft and upper portal gear speed at 100kph on 36'' tyres with the 1.16 ratio portals would be only about 600rpm. The contact pressure of the gear teeth with 2 idler gears would also be very low, so noise levels would be negligable, as indeed they were with Maxidrive portals.My own portals which only have 2 gears are also quiet despite the fact that I used old second hand Series straight cut transfercase gears that were real screamers in that application .
Bill..

[LowRanger]

Just out of curiosity - when will this $16k addition to your car be necessary?

I've seen Land Rovers with strengthened driveline components do some amazing things... This seems a tad overkill to me - someone educate me otherwise.

Depends on where you want to take it and how often

Wayne

[uninformed]

Looks tempting...

Serg, are these noisy at all as the pics show straight cut gears...?

I would say that if I could, I would.

JC

Hi Justin, as Bill said, although he gave an actual technical response, mine is only from seat of the pants, or ears in the truck so to speak....the vehicle I have spent some time in, running MD portals, it is no more noisy than my defender. Ad you are probably aware with defenders, its no one part making the noise, but the sum of all those bits and the terrible wind noise.

[brendanm]

16 Thousand is the start of expenses. Upgrade to 35's $2000, Engineers Cert $900, Speedo correction $300, Custom rims to protect the brake caliper and limit offset $1000, wider flares to cover tyres $400, strengthened trailing arms to correct axle mount $500. This is before diff locks I imagine.
Ability offroad priceless.