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Re: my latest idea

Post by ScottieJ » Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:48 pm

You don't necessarily need to base it on a LWB, I't wouldn't be that hard to get an extra 10" of wheelbase on a SWB chassis.
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Re: my latest idea

Post by dan_2k_uk » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:13 pm

ScottieJ wrote:You don't necessarily need to base it on a LWB, I't wouldn't be that hard to get an extra 10" of wheelbase on a SWB chassis.
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Re: my latest idea

Post by Edweird » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:25 pm

dan_2k_uk wrote:
ScottieJ wrote:You don't necessarily need to base it on a LWB, I't wouldn't be that hard to get an extra 10" of wheelbase on a SWB chassis.
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Or you could shorten the Caddy, because they're quite long anyway.
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Re: my latest idea

Post by 4x4edd » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:51 pm

Looked into this myself, but fancied a swb samurai with a mk2 golf shell. sure its something like half a inch different.

Get it done. The caddy's are going up and up in price tho so do it soon.
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Re: my latest idea

Post by Edweird » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:56 pm

4x4edd wrote:Looked into this myself, but fancied a swb samurai with a mk2 golf shell. sure its something like half a inch different.

Get it done. The caddy's are going up and up in price tho so do it soon.
If you chopped out the arches slightly off centre to accommodate the bigger SJ wheels and tyres that half inch would disappear.
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Re: my latest idea

Post by dan_2k_uk » Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:22 pm

Ive also got images of scale drawings for the chassis and body transposed on to of each other. Its 10cm difference in wheel base but like Ed said I plan to loose that in Virtual lifting the Caddy arches.
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Re: my latest idea

Post by trotter » Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:50 pm

workshop 1st new project 2nd lots of noisy grinding 3rd :thumbup:
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