My yellow fronterror started off life as a stock Fronty A sport leaf sprung 2.0i...
Did a torsion bar lift and SOA conversion to the rear to start...and fitted a set of landcruiser steels with 31-10.50-15 Bronco Dirt Devils I had lurking around..
The fronty the went into my workshop for some minor repairs and then everything got a bit out of hand
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Spec of the Fronterror...
J reg 2.0i sport...
Full respray in daytona yellow...
Gregster splat attack paintwork on engine bay and wheels and subs...
Full external cage, with tree and rocksliders...
Swing away rear cage, incorporating twin jerrycan rack, highlift mount and highlift softground plate..
Rockcrawler style monster bullbar, bolted into cage, and housing a warn m8000 winch and 4 8" wipac4x4 driving lamps with 150watt bulbs
Further 8 rectangular spots on cage, 4 forwards, 1 each side and 2 rear facing...
Landrover snorkel..
Front bumper removed for better aproach and tyre clearance...
33-12.50-15 Wildcat touring A/T tyres on 10j x15 8 spoke wheels...painted to match car...
Spring over axle conversion at rear, with extended prop shaft...
Torsion bar lift at front which shortened droop stops...
Heavy duty battery..
Brush wires, and screen bars at front of cage...
Side step to enable roof access on side of cage...
Twin side exit 3" diameter exhaust system...
Rear set removed cos I gotta big dog!
Hardtop removed and fronty soft top now fitted...
Moonraker CB and magmount aerial
Alpine CD head, 2x 12" kicker solabaric subs, pheonix gold components in rear, alpines in front, 2x alpine v12's running subs, denon 6 channel running components via active cross over...2 x 1 farad stiffening caps..
First car was partially stripped and then cage building began...
Used gas barrel for this cage, slightly smaller diameter than scaffold tube...
Wanted a winch on the front but not low down so bullbar sort of started the whole concept...
Winch to be fitted was warn m8000, the knackered ramsey was just used to get an idea of size..
Then the rest of the cage started to develop...took a lot of bending as I wanted to the tubes to follow the curvy lines of the sport, and not look all square on a rounded car....wanted all round protection also...changed the wheels and tyres to a set of 10j 8 spokes with 33-12.50-15 Wildcat touring all terrains to check they would fit after!
With the cage taking shape, a snorkel was added....snorkel is a landrover one, as cheap to get top cans for when they get battered...Simply welded a tube into a whole cut in the wing, ran a flexy hose from the hole to the airbox (industrial hoover pipe!) and sealed both ends in...then used a rubber 90 degree angle tube off a bmw intake manifold and joined this too the snorkel tube...snorkel brackets were welded to the cage...simples, and no cutting of anything that might me structural/crash zone..
Wanted to protect the rear also...but also needed to still use the rear door, so I devised a swing away rear cage, which incorporated twin jerrycan storage...one for petrol and a brand new jerrycan for water for the dog!Rear cage also stows the hi-lift and carries the rear spots...This is secured closed on the N/s with 2 antiluce catches...which can be padlocked to stop the spare tyre getting stolen..
I was concerned about the risk of idiots setting light to the jerrycan of petrol, or nicking it, so I made a plate that padlocks over the top of the jerrycans to stop them being removed or opened...this plate is made of steel chequer plate, and on its lower side has a rectangle of angle steel welded on to it so that the plate doubles as a larger foot of the highlift, the angle keeping the foot of the jack in location in the middle of the plate, the chequered surface providing more grip onto the ground. CB magmount eventually ends up on this plate...
the finished cage...ready for painting...removed to fully weld, then filled the welds to make it look really pretty (and cos the wire feed motor had been playing up in the mig,so some of the welds looked none too pretty!)
Then came paint....daytona yellow...Cage was painted off the car and welded on after...
Then reassembly...bubble wrap was to protect the paintwork as cage was lifted back on...
Spots were mounted on the top of the cage...inner ones are driving lamps for better long range lighting, outers are fogs which give a wider beam that lights up down the sides better...Did a Greg special engine bay paintjob (the splatted engine bay is a gregster trade mark on many motors!!)
then graphix..
The mark of the beast....created by my matey graphics company...I told him I wanted FRONTERROR but in scary writing...the boy did well!
(the red thing if you are wondering, is a drop down step, that makes climbing onto the roof real easy...a spare part that had been kicking around off my mates old classic army lorry)
The finished article
Experimenting with a set of my bigger tyres...38x20x16"
and adapters...Steering was an issue...so needs SAS front to do!!
Recent pickies with soft top, and small 31-10.50 15's on her as I moved her back home....to clear other projects up the workshop before it can get up there for Chevy 350..live axle conversion and 38.5" boggers...watch this space...
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