The V8 Panda...

[Henry]

Starting a new build thread now

This is my latest build, and the biggest i have ever undertaken. Im not doing it Alone, A good friend of mine is also helping

The build consist of :

1992 Discovery chassis

1986 Fiat Panda Sisley (originally a 4x4)

1979 Rover v8 and manual gear box.

Along with a few other bits hear and there.




So first i got all the parts (that where spread over three locations) together.


Body



Chassis pushed into the workshop.




Followed by the removal of the fuel tank for a quick gas axe session

[twiss]

Sounds like a very amusing project... please make it road legal

Gas axe rules

[Henry]

Gas axe never fails

Sadly will never see the road, chassis chop

[twiss]

Yeah you can get it SVA'd... it would be worth it for a 4x4 V8 panda

[Edweird]

I agree. Get it road legal. You could make people jump at traffic lights with that thing, and then they'd go crying back to mummy because the Citroen Saxo lost to an old Panda

[Henry]

Had a spare hour this morning, too wet to do anything else!

I have started by cutting 10" out of the chassis. I will then tac it together and drop the body on to see how it looks. I dont want to go to short just yet, but i want to make sure that the tires dont bind on the front bulk head.

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Henry

[ScottieJ]

looking good Henry, this is going to be the fattest panda 4x4 i've ever seen I think

hope ya don't mind but i might move it into another section though as there isn't much sammy on it anymore

[Henry]

I know, it has drifted from the Suzuki side of things!


Hopefully i will get some sort of suzuki bits in there... Maybe my spare Rock Lobster behind the rangerover t box? Super low!

[ScottieJ]

the rear prop would end up about 2" long

[parrotveasey81]

this is going to be one sweet pandrover
what size tyre's are you going to be running