Lucky 8’s Project P38
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R-Overland
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can you post links to the vids?
Fivespddisco
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First and foremost the P38 did great!
Fernando in the RRC with 37s goated me into climbing the hill in an area that no one went up. It required a lot more momentum than I liked but was a good test for the Terrafirma shocks
link to that video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLh7ZFbAx2s
Fivespddisco
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The 2nd P38 was Shane's and as you can see in this video with his P38 it was slippery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDESmiO_br8
Fivespddisco
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I should have the official Video in a few weeks
R-Overland
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Would love to bring my Crusader to one of those meets
Fivespddisco
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Come to Conclave
R-Overland
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see you there
Fivespddisco
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mini Project update
Just a quick update on the 4.6 motor. When we swapped the head gaskets we also put in a new computer and BECM. The new computer was from a SAI truck. Our truck did not have all the secondairy air malarkey just standard heads. Unfortunately this gave us a big problem with New Your State. The truck would not pass the safety test for emissions but this little update ends with good news. To turn a secondary air truck into a non-secondary air truck all you need to do is swap out the ECU to a non secondary air ECU and mate it to the BECM. We were able to keep the better condition SAI BECM and mate it to our non SAI ECU. With that done the truck no longer throws the check engine codes associated with the secondary air and we passed the safety and emissions check.
Just a quick update on the 4.6 motor. When we swapped the head gaskets we also put in a new computer and BECM. The new computer was from a SAI truck. Our truck did not have all the secondairy air malarkey just standard heads. Unfortunately this gave us a big problem with New Your State. The truck would not pass the safety test for emissions but this little update ends with good news. To turn a secondary air truck into a non-secondary air truck all you need to do is swap out the ECU to a non secondary air ECU and mate it to the BECM. We were able to keep the better condition SAI BECM and mate it to our non SAI ECU. With that done the truck no longer throws the check engine codes associated with the secondary air and we passed the safety and emissions check.
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Fivespddisco
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Project update : Snow problem
The conditions at Winter Romp were crazy slippery, even for Maine in February. I tried airing down to 15psi to get more traction. The snow and ice just laughed, so I let the pressure down to 8psi and that was the magic number for the Nittos. This turned into a good test for the new Terrafirma rims. Whether it be on the trail or street the bead never came off the wheels.
The P38 is the first Land Rover I was afraid to play in the water with. Every crossing was done only after I knew how deep the water was. Next week I am going to focus on doing something with the BECM and ECU.
Unfortunately the Winter Romp was not kind to the P38s Fender flares. The tight trails and low hanging tree branches were like driving through the living forest of Middle Earth and someone told the trees that each flare was a Ring of Power.
We will have to get the heat gun out and bend the flare back into shape but with out them we could not stuff the 33s like this.
Winter Romp poser shot
The conditions at Winter Romp were crazy slippery, even for Maine in February. I tried airing down to 15psi to get more traction. The snow and ice just laughed, so I let the pressure down to 8psi and that was the magic number for the Nittos. This turned into a good test for the new Terrafirma rims. Whether it be on the trail or street the bead never came off the wheels.
The P38 is the first Land Rover I was afraid to play in the water with. Every crossing was done only after I knew how deep the water was. Next week I am going to focus on doing something with the BECM and ECU.
Unfortunately the Winter Romp was not kind to the P38s Fender flares. The tight trails and low hanging tree branches were like driving through the living forest of Middle Earth and someone told the trees that each flare was a Ring of Power.
We will have to get the heat gun out and bend the flare back into shape but with out them we could not stuff the 33s like this.
Winter Romp poser shot
stonemm2
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went riding last night with some friends in some nasty mud ...they couldn't believe my range Rover was going every place there big jacked up 4x4 would go...even with the wore out slicks I have on I was right behind them wish it would have been daylight so I could have taken some pics...that traction control is awesome
Fivespddisco
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Correct.
Fivespddisco
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mini Project update : Make it stop
With all the work we are doing to the P38 the constant beeping forced Mike to the verge of a mental break down. Armed with a screwdriver and a 10 lb sledgehammer Mike had a life or death match with the instrument cluster. I'm happy to say the cluster is fine and no longer beeps, Mike on the other hand is in therapy 3 times a week.
To see how to De-Beep your P38 watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzywClPcVpo&list=UUUnCLXtAqip_9qd-T1NenbA&index=5
With all the work we are doing to the P38 the constant beeping forced Mike to the verge of a mental break down. Armed with a screwdriver and a 10 lb sledgehammer Mike had a life or death match with the instrument cluster. I'm happy to say the cluster is fine and no longer beeps, Mike on the other hand is in therapy 3 times a week.
To see how to De-Beep your P38 watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzywClPcVpo&list=UUUnCLXtAqip_9qd-T1NenbA&index=5