My Luxury Ride

[gaddy]

I reckon the ally looks good , a bit of bling

[nissannewby]

Sliders look good mate! How can you say they are as strong as steel? Even if they are engineered differently, surely the same design made from steel would be stronger?

Cheers

As I stated the grade of ally used is far far better then your everday run of the mill stuff. The only ally strong is 7000 series and that is aerospace sort of stuff and high end suspensions etc. Its used for the same reason weight:strength ratio. They are also properly engineered as my mechanical engineer friend is helping me with them.

[megatexture]

It looks good matt, I'm not sure on the painting unless its done with something you can touch up yourself. But its coming along nicely! You doing the welding?

[nissannewby]

It looks good matt, I'm not sure on the painting unless its done with something you can touch up yourself. But its coming along nicely! You doing the welding?

Cheers mate, yeah I think just a Saturn black or something in a pressure pack will be fine. They are a one handed job to remove and refit.

Yeah I have been doing the majority of the welding, with some help doing the end plates.

[megatexture]

Sweet I'd be interested to see how they take the weight of the car

[nissannewby]

Sweet I'd be interested to see how they take the weight of the car

Yeah when its done I will throw some pics up jacking the car off them.

[megatexture]

Some measurements if they move would be good also, what distance from the body are they atm?.
I'm keen to modify mine soon and repair the dents caused by pushing the sliders into the body so might take a look at your mounts if you don't mind lol

[nissannewby]

You can get your fingers easily between the tubes and body but I will try to remember to measure for you.

[megatexture]

No worries I was just thinking mine were about that far away say +15mm and when it came to the crunch they now currently sit at -20 mm lol it ain't pretty, so if you anticipate some flex factor it in lol

[PMC]

I wish I had more time though lol. I spent the long weekend making a start on my sliders. These are a little different, I am using aluminium and when they are complete will be just as strong as steel items at about a 1/3 of the weight. Its an aircraft grade aluminium and some thought out bracing and mounts which make the strength.





These are how the sliders are mounted onto the chassis.




And this is the passenger side nearly complete. I need to throw in a couple more braces between the tubes and then I will box them up

G'day mate,

Love those sliders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! mm i wounder if you could make a set for my Patrol. lol

Good onya mate, good to see you back working on your Patrol!

Regards,

Paul