Chris’s Land Rover Discovery

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2004 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II SE7

UPDATE 05/13/08: Sold some defender parts today hoping to buy some Equipe 4x4 diff guards with the money. I also got the car back from 30 service got its coolant, tranny, dif, and brake fluids swapped. also got my spark plugs wires replaced under warranty, new wiper blades, and ordered rear upper and lower taillight guards.

UPDATE 05/10/08: FMR meet last night, we took out a tree with a 240...check the video. Also put in half a can of seafoam into my gas tank today.

UPDATE 05/10/08: Drove to Lehigh Acres for some mudding today. got a bit intense, but i never got stuck and the car took it like a champ. I was a bit nervous with all the mud in my engine bay, but i cleaned the majority of it out with a combo of a light mist from a hose, rags, a shop vac, and an air compressor gun. the car is sparkling clean once again.

UPDATE 05/08/08: I went out today to a local sugar sand pit and had some fun with a friend. he was driving his little brother's 2wd Mazda B3000. we got it stuck and unstuck in about 30 seconds thanks to my car lol

UPDATE 04/19/08: Went on a little dirt road I found today near campus, and found a little 200ft cut back into the woods, was a bit fun just because of the rain last night, but nothing special. Snapped a few pictures, the spring greener made a background I just couldn't resist. However, I noticed my tires acted like drag slicks in the damn wet ground and I did scrap off all the zipties which held my HID wiring and ballasts in place, so I had to redo all of the anchoring points for my foglights.

UPDATE 03/29/08: Went to the www.VintageVW.Net swap meet in montgomery AL today. I bought a new tshirt, a plug in flood light, a foglight, and a war eagle sign for $27 total. there were alot of badass euros and VWs. here are some pics, the rest of the pics are on page 4.

UPDATE 03/25/08:

video of the dyno day...i didn't include the lightning (sorry)

MORE PICS ON PAGE 4

^gayest dyno sheet ever haha...what an odd outcome compared to my old mustang

UPDATE 03/22/08: Last Day in FLA, I leave for AL tomorrow. FMR meet tonite. anyway we had a Dyno Day at Harbor Nissan in Punta Gorda. Everyone was dissappointed with their numbers i pulled 155hp and 213ft/lbs which is bullshit i should be getting about 20-30 more ponies and around 20-30more ft/lbs. fucking 4WD eats that power up from the engine....i need boost :)

UPDATE 03/19/08: got back together with FMR last night, we ended up taking a rediculous cruise night. there is the video

UPDATE 03/18/08: installed the exhaust today. doesn't sound much louder than stock, but its a much deeper note, and the car feels a little less restricted with the lack of resonator and new magnaflow muffler. we reused the factory downward facing tip and welded it to the straight pipe (where the resonator used to be). The tip is clear of the bumper, but its a little bit higher and shorter than before for clearance purposes. i will post some videos of the sound later. I wish it was a bit louder, but its a classy performance sound like a rover should rather than a straight-piped chevy silverado.

UPDATE 03/01/08: I had the oil changed to Mobil 1 today.

UPDATE 02/22/08: My Atl. British Trailer Wiring Harness came in and I installed it in under 5 minutes. I popped my headlight off, took off a cap, plugged in the harness, ziptied the wires, and put the light back on DONE. But before I did that I went out to Tuskeegee National Forest and played around in a recently washed out bridge thanks to the pounding rains of this week.

UPDATE 02/19/08: Ordered my Atlantic British Trailer Wiring Harness today, should have it here in Auburn this weekend hopefully I'll have it installed by sunday, although I don't have a trailer to test it on yet...

UPDATE 02/16/08: I downloaded my RAVE manual finally! Greatest tool you can have if you own a land rover, manual for EVERYthing. If you own a rover and want it check this link out:
http://green-oval.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=13&Itemid=29

UPDATE 02/15/08: I love my michelin Diamaris 4x4 tires, they are the nicest tires I've ever driven on an SUV. Not bad offroad for street tires...but I am having some tire pressure woes. I have a feeling its from my dealership not cleaning the rims properly before mounting. In a 6 week period my Right front, and both rear tires lost an average of 1-2 PSI (not bad), but my front left tire lost 21PSI...talk about a pain in the ass and a safety concern. I'm going to address the issue when I get back to florida 4 weeks from today (in the mean time I'll be spending quarters at gas station air pumps left and right until then considering I have no air compressor in my apartment.

UPDATE 02/11/08: I didn't realize until today I've hit 10,000 hits (almost 10,100 now) with the rover. I can't wait til later in the month, early march when I get to order my genuine parts bull bar for the front end. Its gonna look badass. I'm just gonna day dream about it until then and hopefully get some wheeling in this month.

UPDATE 01/19/08: Well happy new year. I'm back in Alabama. Nothing really new on the car, had some starter issues last week that seemed to go away. Today the car got its first taste of snow. it wasn't much, but it still made the day fun.

UPDATE 12/27/07: I bought a dynamat license plate kit, took away some of the rattle from the (newly warranty replaced) factory rear speakers. definetly an improvement. Pictures above of the new manifold, new ladder, and dynamated license plate.

UPDATE 12/26/07: Rear Ladder and new right side exhaust manifold was installed today! pics will be up soon!

here are 6 pics from yesterday, 29 more pics are on page 4.

IGOR DRIFTING THE 240!

UPDATE 12/23/07: Went to the Florida Car Club Annual Meet in Naples today with FMR. I got tons of pics, but I ended up running into the new owner (who i have never met due to the car was sold on a trade in) of my 2005 Mustang V6. I took pictures of the stang, the new owner, Brandon, took me for a spin and he has some big plans for it. I really happy it found a good home. Anyone, we out tonite with FMR. We had some drifting going on when the cops came and busted us up...but anyway, I got some good footage of Igor in his new S14 240. I'll have a new vid and pics up tomorrow!!

UPDATE 12/21/07: Suprise! the dealership didn't have the parts yet. But I did finish the video (As seen below) and I also bought 2 huge shackles from Northern Tool Co. The new shackles fit right in where the Warn reciever shackle was. Now I can more easily put my straps on and off as well as make it easier on towing other vehicles. Also, the pictures of the Riminy Red LR3 is my dad's new car. So now my family owns 2 Acuras (2003 MDX, 2007 RDX) and 2 Rovers (2004 D2, 2006 LR3).

^naples offroading video^

UPDATE 12/20/07: Car goes in tomorrow to repair the exhaust manifold and to install the ladder. my buddy in the GLI gave me the raw footage so i should have the video from this weekends offroad fun up soon!

UPDATE 12/17/07: Dropped the car off for service, ordered a rear ladder. We put side moldings on my dad's new LR3 and we're picking it up in a few hours. I made a video of the land rover offroad day.

UPDATE 10/16/07: My dad just bought a 2006 LR3 so now we have to Landies in the family. Anyway, FM Imports had an offroading event today (the local Land Rover Dealership), we went out with 3 LR3s, 3 Disco 1s, My disco 2, and a P38 Range. It was pretty basic stuff until we got to this one mud hole, where it got really deep. The Disco 1 behind me got stuck almost instantly...i went through the same home on 4wd Hi with the center differential lock engaged.

YESTERDAY'S OFFROADING!

UPDATE 12/15/07: I went offroading today with a lifted TJ and a VW GLI (he just spun around in the dirt)...i got pics but on a high end nikon which are too big to upload on cardomain. tomorrow i am going wheeling with the Land Rover Dealership, should get some good pics then too. I also noticed a small whistle when i hit the throttle on the rover, i popped the hood and saw a chunk of metal missing from my passenger side exhaust manifold... I'll also be ordering a ladder on monday.

UPDATE 12/14/07: Roof rack is installed...my night pics were awful. I should get some wheeling done tomorrow so i'll get some day pics then.

UPDATE 12/13/07: I just started putting together the roof rack...it will be done tomorrow.

UPDATE 12/03/07: The roof rack is sitting in its box in my garage back in Fort Myers. 10 days until install! My sister sent me a pic of the box...its big!

UPDATE 11/29/07: I talked with the freight company today, they will be delivering the roof rack on monday sometime. I can't wait to see it on my ride on december 13th!

UPDATE 11/28/07: GREAT NEWS. 1. the roof rack has arrived in Fort Myers, and will be dropped off at my doorstep either tomorrow or friday. 2. Hannibal told me in an email i can safely (if even distributed) put up to 350kg (771lbs) on top of my roof rack 3. I will be coming home to florida 2 days earlier than expected. So I will be home December 13th and that will be when the roof rack gets installed!

HANNIBAL ROOF RACK (ORDERED 11/26/07...will not be installed until December 13th)

240/Rover Offroad fun with KRrotary:

UPDATE 11/26/07: I ORDERED MY ROOF RACK! I ordered a Hannibal roof rack from Atlantic British. I have posted multiple pics of the rack on other cars, and I finally got to upload some of the pictures from offroading in the 240 with KRrotary.

UPDATE 11/23/07: Drove back to Alabama today, I now have an Escort Solo X50 (blue) radar detector on board the rover. cool stuff! yet, i still cannot upload new pictures...fricking gay. hopefully cardomain will fix it for me

UPDATE 11/22/07: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Well yesterday I went out to KRrotary's property. we rallyed his stripped/wrecked 240sx S14 with a crappy KA24DE engine. Well we ended up offroading in the rover. I towed the 240 when it got stuck, we lost the battery in the 240 due to a massive bump and the S14 eventually overheated....it was a blast. here is a video!!

UPDATE 11/19/07: Dropped the car off at the dealership got the oil changed, fixed my cigarette lighter outlet,and put on a new alternator belt. and this frickin page still won't upload any new pics...i dont know why.

UPDATE 11/18/07: I drove from Auburn, AL back to Fort Myers, FL last friday. Rover ran flawlessly through the 12 hour drive. The only hitch was the fine police work of the Georgia Highway Patrol led to me being pulled over for the first time in my life...but i got a warning. So its all good. I found a new trail about 30 miles south of my house in Florida which i will check out at some point this week. We also drifted the tires off of my friend's evo yesterday in a parking lot near the entrance of the trail....literally. Right now my cardomain page is not letting me upload photos...i have no idea why, so no pics of the evo carnage until after its fixed

UPDAE 11/13/07: made a compilation video of the car show (it will be on page 1, page 2 and page 4)