Mud-club

Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Grant on March 23, 2006, 23:46:09

Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Grant on March 23, 2006, 23:46:09: Hi, are there any other P38 owners on here or am i on my own?

if so what have you done in the way of mods, tyres etc? how you finding it in the mud?

cheers
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Big Rich on March 24, 2006, 13:32:22: Thrasher is the best person to ask about Range Rover's in the mud.

Rich
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Thrasher on March 24, 2006, 13:59:50: Hello!

There are a few P38a owners here - I've only ever offroaded L322 Range Rovers (the new ones)

What sort of mods are you after, as I can help with that (being a bit of an anorak ;-) )

Check http://www.pigletsplace.com for pics.

Goodyear Wrangler MT/R tyres will give your vehicle the ability to go further than normal ;-)

..and funnily enough I seem to recall I'm selling some 255/55/R19 MT/R's on alloys....
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Grant on March 24, 2006, 15:03:59: Hi, want to get it sorted for greenlaning but i have to be a bit careful as its a daily driver, will spend most of its life on the motorway.

Thinking all terrain tyres, manual inflation kit for the EAS, anything else that should be on the list? Sold the wheel arch protectors (cant find these for love nor money!) and bull bar from my last P38 on ebay after i sold it so im a bit [!Expletive Deleted!] off with myself lol

If theres any events, meet ups etc this summer i'll be interested

cheers :)
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Mace on March 24, 2006, 15:23:12: I've got a set ot thule roof bars for sale if you need some. Ski rack to go with it too !!
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: murph on March 24, 2006, 15:26:47: I have a 98 P38, I have done some laning with it, aslo done apy and play day a Bures, I was well impressed with it off road, I done most parts the 90's and Disco's were doing.

Up the steep hills it was very good, help's having traction control, only bit of damage was the rear bumper, managed to split that. :cry:

I think a few people there were surprised it went where it did.

I'm running standard tyres, no mods apart from bolt on styling goodies.
:)
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Xtremeteam on March 24, 2006, 20:32:11: get in touch with maddison 4x4 in thirsk as they have just built a bobbed P38 for challenge use :wink:
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: waveydavey on March 25, 2006, 09:47:27: I will be a P38 owner next week, I have just brought a DHSE, I guess the Disco will be for sale soon.

Mace; how much are you looking at for the Thule Roof bars?
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Mace on March 25, 2006, 11:11:00: Quote from: "waveydavey"
Mace; how much are you looking at for the Thule Roof bars?

Ã‚Â£40...Thule 302 Roof Bars (Ref: 1052-109-744). Fit 1995Ã¢â‚¬â€œonwards Range Rover (P38). Directly into roof channels. (Lockable). Ã‚Â£95 brand new today.

So you're not intersted in the ski-rack to go with it ? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Snake110 on March 25, 2006, 11:15:37: Am i right in thinking p38's are a fair bit wider than a classic :?: :?:
i've offen fancyed getting a 38 but the sheer bulk of em
putts me off the idea of laneing one

thrasher you took an L322 to bures :shock: you must have more money
then sence mate :lol: :lol: still good on yer i would have liked to
have seen that.
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Grant on March 25, 2006, 15:32:55: yep- 3 inches wider, 10.5 inchers longer and a few inches taller. suppose i'll have to avoid tighter lanes
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: SteveG on March 25, 2006, 19:03:04: Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of?? :wink:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/sgl322/RR%20Tyres/RRtyres033.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/sgl322/RR%20Tyres/RRtyres002.jpg)

You can fit 247/75 MTR's and they will only rub on dropped suspension setting. Best manual suspension kit is AirBagMan on from Australia as it has the taps on.

For just laning I would remove bottom of the front bumper, fit diff guards and a good rear recovery point at least. If you have the LR Type III tow bar fitted, just remove it and fit a rated Jate ring through the type 3 hole.

I wouldn't bother with the arch protectors as they will just fall off when you catch them on a tree or bank. Best advise I can give is to fit side bars. If you take it to play days and go into the 90/110 sides deep ruts you will keep slamming the bottom of the doors in. Fitting the side bars wil stop this :)

For serious off-roading you'll need to sort out front recovery points, trim rear bumper, fit some 33'' tyres to give some extra room, fit a fuel tank guard, and lift it by about 1.5". Then you'll just have the approach, departure and ramp over angles to content with, but apart from that obvious drawback the P38 is excellent off-road.

Cheers

Steve
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Snake110 on March 25, 2006, 19:55:44: :o now that IS a nice toy Steve :D
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on March 25, 2006, 20:50:26: Got to agree, it looks fine
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Grant on March 26, 2006, 11:42:51: Wow!

Think i saw your P38 on the rangerovers.net site a while back, very impressive

Where did you buy the side bars?

cheers for the help

Grant
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: SteveG on March 27, 2006, 09:11:03: The side bars were custom made by a friend and were very neat in that they bolted on through existing bolt holes.

I originally had some brackets made to do the same, but when they arrived the design meant I would lose about 3/4" of ground clearance at the sides. If this is ok for you - you are welcome to have them FOC. Just need to pick them up near Cambridge/Newmarket. You could then have tubular or box section side sills welded on.

Cheers

Steve
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: WishIhadaLandy on March 27, 2006, 10:53:29: i've often wondered why that model of RR was called the P38.

Some one out there wish to enlighten me?
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: SteveG on March 27, 2006, 10:58:48: P38A was the internal project name at LR, simple as that :wink: L322 is latest RR.

Some harsh people have said that P38 was used as it was just a 'filler' until they could produce a proper RR :( - I just ignore them :wink: :wink:
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: waveydavey on March 27, 2006, 13:47:12: MAce
I have sent a PM regarding the Roof Rack, quite keen if I can work out a way of getting it sensibly from you to me.
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Thrasher on March 27, 2006, 14:08:10: The P38a is a nice vehicle and *IS* a Range Rover - I tried to buy one once - and then some git ran my deposit off the road :(
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Mace on March 27, 2006, 20:15:34: Quote from: "waveydavey"
MAce
I have sent a PM regarding the Roof Rack, quite keen if I can work out a way of getting it sensibly from you to me.

No PM received !
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Spooky on March 28, 2006, 18:37:14: I used to off-road a 38a, but have since sold it to make way for the Disco ...

It was fitted with the wheel arch protectors that you speak of, along with the standard L-R bullbar. It ran on 245/70-16 BFG A/Ts on 7x16 Disco 2 rims (the largest tyre size that will fit into the spare wheel well without the aid of a sledge hammer!).

The only other thing I did was to remove the bottom of the spoiler and foglights when off-roading ...

Below is a piccy of the car emerging from the underbelly wash at Billing.
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Xtremeteam on March 28, 2006, 19:23:19: some pics of the maddison 4x4 Bobed P38 steady hand makes light work (http://www.maddison4x4.com/component/option,com_rsgallery/catid,3/)
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Arightpest on March 30, 2006, 23:00:13: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: all i need is the spair money and a big grinder i love it :(bigsmoke): :(shades):
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Porny on March 31, 2006, 07:56:50: Quote
i've often wondered why that model of RR was called the P38.

Some one out there wish to enlighten me?

Quote
P38A was the internal project name at LR, simple as that L322 is latest RR.

Some harsh people have said that P38 was used as it was just a 'filler' until they could produce a proper RR - I just ignore them

P38a is incorrect...

It should only be called 38A or Pegasus....

Pegasus was the official project name....

38A was the buidling that the Range Rover was designed/first built in at Solihull - and was adopted as the unofficial project name.

It was never officially known as the P38A - as this is just giving it two names :roll:

Ian
Title: Any P38 mud-clubbers?
Post by: Grant on April 01, 2006, 10:38:34: pegasus was the name of the chosen styling proposal, 38a was the codename of the project when it started in 1990 (after the building) so it became p38a. P38 has a ring to it to thats what its usually called

how sad am i! :lol: