By Steve Clarke (Stevec) on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 04:37 pm: Edit

A guy in the land of aus has spent all of his pocket money you guys over there got a better one?

And will it do this to those old tyres?

No i didn't fake the pics.Its a 4.6 litre fitted with an Eaton M112 blower,aquamist water injection and a motec m4 pro engine managment system.Oversize valves,isky double valve springs,crane rockers ,custom cam ,tuned custom exaust matched to the flow characteristics of the motor,k&n air filter, custom throttle body with a flow figure in excess of 550 cfm,twin fuel pumps one in the engine bay.Robert has dyno tested this machine thoughout the building program his latest results were 340kw or 462hp!!! :-)

By Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 05:36 pm: Edit

No , we are trying to get more life out of the tires An old pinto can also put on a power brake burnout show.. Whats all th HP for anyway?

Kyle

By hadaz on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 06:32 pm: Edit

its just the Disco going up in flames from a lucas electrical fire....What did he do disconnect the front drive line? I do not think that he is doing a 4wheel burnout.....

By Steve Clarke (Stevec) on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 06:47 pm: Edit

He removed the front prop shaft? It confuses me too!!I think he's a frustrated drag racer venting his frustrations on the wrong thing!

By Steve Clarke (Stevec) on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 07:01 pm: Edit

I think he is trying to build a race car station wagon a rare beast specialy designed to get to seven 11 in low 13's it does no off road work!

steve

By Wes Legaspi (Wes) on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 07:09 pm: Edit

Must be a soccer-mom late for a game J

By pjkbrit on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:03 am: Edit

Come on guys...I'd love to have that kind of setup...BUT...I'd drive it real gentle cos you know the tranny and in particular the diffs were never designed to handle that kind of torque...and if he really has disconected the front propshaft that rear diff will be toast real soon. Oh yeah...and I hope he spent up on doing the brakes over too...else I'll be real nervous about seeing him in my mirror....and finally, if you read up on the RPI site, you'll all see the reasons why those superchargers tend to burn out your valves by uneven charging of all 8 cylinders....but I'd still try it all out..just for kicks.
Pete

By gil on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:32 am: Edit

that guys tranny and diffs are modified as well. there was an article on this truck in an issue of LRM a few months back. if youve got the money to do that, and you only use the truck on road, why not? that would be pretty cool to pull up next to a hopped up Mustang at a traffic light and blow his doors off....imagine the look on peoples faces. Im not a big fan of superchargers but there is something cool about a tire smokin 450 hp disco...

By Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:39 am: Edit

Even with the HP he would still get scalded by a little horse. Thats really my point. Its really just not good at anything then. Too heavy to be fast and not really practicle as a reliable trail rig..


Kyle

By gil on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:40 am: Edit

and a good point that is...

By Jeff Bieler (Mrbieler) on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:41 am: Edit

When my mind wanders to "hot rod" toys, the word Land Rover NEVER enters the equation.

I just don't understand the fascination with making trucks (especially 4wd trucks) into faster street machines.

When I think of creating monsters out of modern vehicles, I think of the guys in San Diego county shoehorning high performance V8's into Miata's and things like that.

By bengott on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:46 am: Edit

I wouldn't mind a crazy fast 4.6, new range rover.. nice get-away truck..

By Jeff Bieler (Mrbieler) on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:56 am: Edit

Yes, much faster then that LWB Classic from last week in Los Angeles! ;-)

By Gil Stevens (Gil) on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:58 am: Edit

there is a superchraged 4.6 on the Dupont Registery site for the paltry sum of.....$175,000!@#$ What a bargain.

By andrew on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 03:48 pm: Edit

www.fastlane.com.au/Custom_Shed/Smoking_Disco.htm

By mike w on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 04:32 pm: Edit

fast yes, this i am sure but can it out run MOTOROLA...hehehehe

By Norm Orschnorschki (Norm) on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 05:08 pm: Edit

A Land Rover dragster -- now that makes about as much sense as NASCAR pick up truck races.

So where's the oversized Rat Pfink wearing a pith helmet with a Union Jack, sticking his head out the sunroof, bloodshot eyes bulging out of his head, tongue hanging to the ground, grinding gears with an giant shifter through the passenger window?

Oh well, whatever floats yer boat...

Norm

By AL on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 06:47 pm: Edit

Advise for Mr.Dragster,
its cheaper to buy a brand ne 2001 DISCO and
a 2001 CORVETTE.
Trust me i used to do what your doing, those projects are unrelliable and expensive.

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 01:22 am: Edit

Give this guy a break!
Obviously he's not in it for the off-roading, but nevertheless its an astonishing car. To do all that requires more mechanical knowledge than most of us put together (IMHO). Take the car for what it is - somebody obviously takes care if his baby and has joined your club, which I thought was for ALL kinds of Discos.

Dean

By Giles Lilley on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 02:39 am: Edit

Hi all!
I'm from oz too and have been for a ride in that disco. In a word frightening.
The rear diff is a tru-trac lsd front is open, std axles etc and no breakages. The zf 4spd auto coped till about 350hp and died then in went a 3spd 727 torqueflight, no more probs. The reason the front prop is off for the burnout is that the centre diff would probably let go so best not to try it.
The mob who did the mods have done heaps of supercharger installations with no probs.
The reason that the UK and US kits unevenly fill cylinders is that they use the eaton m90 blower v's the m112. The m90 is too small for the application and so starves the cylinders but the m112 is just right.
Regards
Giles Lilley

By Redneck on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 03:26 am: Edit

Redneckism is an international phenomanon.

By Steve Clarke (Stevec) on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 03:54 am: Edit

We call them hoons I should know I had a rotary powered sierra(samuri)

By Jeff Bieler (Mrbieler) on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 03:59 am: Edit

It's the BFI (Brute Force & Ignorance) approach.

Throw a big enough engine behind a brick and it will fly. Same theory was used on the F4 Phantom.

By Steve Clarke (Stevec) on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 04:04 am: Edit

Just because it takes 4 lanes of the freeway to sit on 60mph dosen't mean it ain't FFFFUUUNNNN!!!