No, but I thought about just that before I talked myself out of it, and picked an OE color instead.  It's Land Rover Discovery Challange orange.

The Race Pack dash showed up today, but being 107 inside the shop put the stops to any progress today.

I'll take the splash shields w rubber and the lower grill trim.

hows $50 shipped sound?

Rudi wrote:

I had 180 temps at all times and never overheated, I was in a parade a while ago with the Zirgo and the engine got up to 210 before I bailed out.

not to argue, but 210 is not hot.  Water doesn't boil till 212, if you have a properly functioning pressure cap and recovery system, you should be able to run water temps up to 250 and not have a problem.
After exploding my past flex fan, I drove my car for a whole without a fan.  In 100 degree temps in SoCal stop and go traffic, the car got to 220 a couple of times but it wasn't an issue.  Obviously I didn't leave my car idling in the parking lot.

My brother now owns my old XJ jeep.  He recently took the fan and motor controller out of a Volvo (it's the same fan motor as the Taraus but with a bolt on shroud) at a pick a part, and installed it.  It gets two miles per gallon better on the freeway than with the fan clutch, is much quieter, and actually cools better when he's out crawling.

Fan selection is really important, and most of the aftermarket ones are garbage.  The Spal stuff is okay, and the "adapted" OE stuff is best, IMO.
 

personally, I'm just super busy farming these days.  I took exactly one day off since May 17th, and still went to the office for four hours to pay bills.  Things have slowed way down in the past couple of days.

Steve:

Please look closely at the pictures of Novi Rick's shocks.  See the spacers on the mounting studs between the car and the bracket?  That fixes your shock too long/wheel travel issue.

Good luck with the thrash.

FYI

the chemical  stripper works a ton better if you scuff the panel with sandpaper beforehand.  It gives the stripper a path to lower layers of paint.

In California, if you get caught with a non compliant can in the bed of your truck, it's a ticket to $500 fine from the Highway Patrol.  For each can.  I know somebody who got nailed with four headed to the desert to ride motorcycles.

At least in California, the letter of the law requires a vapor recovery system on anything that holds and/or dispenses fuel (the level of emissions from a small amout of spilled gas that has evaporated is surprisingly high).  Sadly, the solution doesn't scale well from a gas pump to a gas can, and my choices are to either break the law, or spill a bunch of gas filling up small pump engines we use to transfer materials on the farm.

The small 1/2 gallon can isn't too bad, but the rest of them are awful.

The small spring is a "tender spring" to keep the big spring under tension at full suspension droop.

At ride height, the tender spring is fully compressed, but under droop (like if you jack up the car) it expands and keeps the spring from falling out of the bucket or making weird noises if you go over a rise in the road.

McStang wrote:

Hornman wrote:

The highest temperature I measured on my back porch last year was only 115 F. Forty miles west of here it was approaching 120, not counting the range fires.

That's HOT! Where I'm at I did the opposite of what Tmac did - I deleted the AC instead of deleting the heater. I've always got the windows open when I'm in the car, in the daily driver too, just like it that way and it's only ever been hot enough around here for AC maybe a couple of times a year. Stay cool!

Dont drive to Bakersfield in the middle of the summer!

That's correct.

a visa branded credit card has a $50 max liability to the holder by law (they never collect it).

a visa branded ATM card does not - it's a "fake visa" so the processor can fleece another 2% out of the retailer under the guise of "covienence" for the customer.  They can clean you out and who knows if they will take care of you or not.  There have been some changes over the years, but it's no where as good as the credit card protections for the consumer.

When the bank would issue me an ATM with no visa/mc logo, I'd carry one.  At some point they stopped so I stopped carrying one and switched to cash or credit cards only.  If I need cash, I walk in the bank and cash a check with the teller.

How did you drill a square hole?

serious question!

This car has either 16x8 or 17" wheels and stock wheel houses (class rules only allow for "stock" style suspension and minimal body mods).  it has 4.5 leaf springs and has to be pretty street able because its an endurance race car that runs on public roads.

That look like enough cornering grip for you?