Offroad-Express

DieselBoy wrote: will still do 140kph on a straight road, just a little slower to pick up speed to pass and a tad slower up hills but the difference off road makes up for it 10x

Mine struggles on 33's to do that! Have you tweaked the pump?
I've also found that mine gets to 3/4 temp on steeper hill while pushing it (on road), so wasn't sure if this will make it worse.

Will have to order something then. Are Creepies the way to go?


Cheers

Yep, just a little tad more fuel, and advanced the injector timing. I like the creepies, but your fellow southerners seem to prefer the Wrangler MTR's.

But just to stir things a bit, i know a guy that runs the Wrangler MTR's as his road tyres and uses the Creepy's as his serious off road tyres, so go figure

Thanks for the info, will start looking for a good price on the creepies I think.

DieselBoy wrote:
But just to stir things a bit, i know a guy that runs the Wrangler MTR's as his road tyres and uses the Creepy's as his serious off road tyres, so go figure

yea and thats on a VX ltd cruiser that weighs about the same if not more than the safari ... MTR's are good for light trucks off road as they are soft in the walls and bag very easily,not so good for heavy trucks.... in my opinion,never had them so dont know

wopass wrote:went for a quick trip up thompsons today,me pete,andy,dwayne,and dan. bit of a test run for me and pete all ok,nothing broken and home in one piece so thats cool.

vid of the fiddy goin up the summit track
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... V03712.mpg

me doin a different summint track
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... V03708.mpg

last one, me playin.
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/images/ ... V03714.mpg

oh man i would have joined you if i knew you were going

mercutio wrote:
oh man i would have joined you if i knew you were going

sorry dude, was a bit of a last minute thing

an add on to my whirinaki report hit the drivers side door as well and the passanger side sill

great vids ben

yeah i only just watched them

Spent the WHOLE week previous to queens birthday weekend making my Supra 2JZ-GE powered VZN130 go.
Engine fits very nicely
complete with Megasquirt ECU and a somwhat flimsy IFS lift kit,
Manualised V6 auto

Maiden voyage down to national park on queens birthday weekend to do the 42 with sum mates.
all went well, aside from radiator hose blowing and a broken panhard rod mount due to some heavy rut action. will have to strengthen this part of the flimsy lift kit.

Altho partially flimsy, lift kit works very well and im most gratefull to suprasurf for putting me in touch with his mate in chch who had one sitting in the back of his shed.

did the 42 in 31/10.5 road tyres.
theres probly only a dozen spots that you wouldnt get your mums "fwd automatic honda" through.......

Whats the Megasquirt like? Who installed and tuned it for you?

Cheers
Matt.

hey matt,

it was all my doing,
you culd call it tuned.
badly, but nice enough to drive
used 50L of gas to go from west ak to taumaranui.

ive done a few so far
my old chev TPI hilux
3T-GTE in a hilux
datto 1200 in an offroader
turboed cortina

next for MSing are my
1UZ TT supra
78' GS citroen turbo

Ur on the MSEFI forums aye...

Nah not on the forums.

Currently running a Link G1 on my 1UZ which is okay but looking at options.

What motor are you going to run in the GS?

The TT 1UZ will be a beast!

Cheers
Matt.

GS is running the 1300 from a GSA <oooooo extra 80cc!!!>

ah yes, ask again in a few months, should have my mates 1UZ powed VK holden racecar going by then, hopefully the supra a few months later.


check out http://www.msefi.com

theres a hand full of ppl running 1UZ's
they are realy no harder to make go that a normal 3 crank/cam signal
toyota.

My old man ran the Citroen importers in Palmy for quite a while, we had plenty of them as family cars for quite a while.

You don't see many GS(A)'s around any more.

Matt.

finally got the truck cleaned out from queens birthday on sunday. finally got some photos uploaded today.

Stayed at blackball fri-mon

Sat went exploring lots of dead end (locked gates) roads between there and Ikamatua. got this shot on one of the side trips (Cragiburn road)



Sunday did Napoleon Hill from Waipuna end
the river was fairly high and at this point the trail bikes we met were having trouble crossing



Having not been there before and running the track backwards from brief instructions I wasn't expecting the tunnels off the side of the river but good thing they were as if the whole river was flowing though them we would have had little hope of getting through





Went round and over the tunnel and dropped back down just beyond the second one



Met Daz and a mate just before heading up the papa track


I got up no problem in my cruiser but did some track work on the hill for the shiney to get up


also met another chap heading down



Also tried to find to road the Sewell Peak but I think the Kart and Gun club have been put in recently and its all changed???

Monday we tried Mt Fox, got up there ok but couldn't get out the other end all locked gates, met these other chaps at the gate out and they 'said' they didn't have a key but have a suspicion other wise. Had to back track a fair way but met some people loading a digger on a truck and had to wait for them, turned out we knew them so they let us out a different route which saved a lot of further backtracking.

Lunch at Moana and then the shiney went home and two of us cut through to Kumara to go through the forest to the top of Cockeye but new locked gate there so went right round to shanty town end and headed up there entering the creek at about 3pm, some badly washed out bits and got nicely stuck



Broke about 4 temp shear pins and also needed a tow and hilift over a stump to get out. Got to the top of the track after 2 hours and started heading back just on dark, got out in ½ hr at a fair pace and headed back to Canty only to run out of fuel about 5 mins before Rangiora!!!

now that sounds like it was an interesting trip