Thread: series 3/stage 1 springs

What sort of competitions?

What you are talking about is SOA (spring over axle). It has some advantages, but will raise your landie too much (unless you use flat springs) and make it unstable. You really need to fit wider axles to keep stability.

SOA conversions are illegal in QLD and a few other states - probably all states when the NCOP comes in.

For a comp vehicle, you usually want to keep it as low and stable as possible. You can fit huge tyres to a landie with some guard mods.

Personally, although I love my IIA, I would start with a coiller if I was building a comp vehicle.

Yes now that i think about it, i understand what you mean about unstable.

mainly comps like at landcruiser park and if a mate says i wont get up that hill, I say i can, kinda comps
I dont expect to win and im not goin out to be hardcore, just to have fun.

So what about the body?

is it easy to turn into a good ol ute?



shedboy

So you have a hardtop (1 door each side) or a wagon (2 doors each side)? For ute conversion - 1 door good, 2 doors baaaad. If it's what I think, you just unbolt the roof and remove - voila! Add ute roof is desired (usually about $150 on ebay - you see about 1 every month or so)

If you have a true wagon (or omnibus as the build plate says) then you will need a ute back - still can be dones just a heap more work. Again, remove all the bits you don't want and add the bits you do.

i was thinkin more along the lines of tray back ute style like this: