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Matt, Defender of the realm

One Life, Live it

About Me

Im 23 from a little country village in the sticks, it can be a bit boring but I love the countryside, Towns are only good for clubbing and i do like clubbing and drinking and havin a good time. I have just come back from Morocco and the sahara desert in my v8 land rover I spent a week with my mate in the dunes just exploring and hittin the dunes in the truck.I love offroading as you can tell from my pics and vids. I rebuilt a 79 firebird with a hyperactive 4bolt main 350 chevy small block i built but had to sell it to pay for my trip. I love adventure and live by the old camel trophy moto of One life, Live it! If you ever need help with a land rover or a v8 im your man! Read my blogs to find out more about the truck and check out the pics and vids. Im looking at going Norway in the winter next year for a taste of the arctic!Land rover Spec updated The Spec. LAND ROVER V8 90 CSW 1988. ENGINE: 3.9Litre Rover alloy V8, viper camshaft, 9:35:1 compression. CARBURATION: Weber 500cfm 4 barrel carburetor. IGNITION:MSD6AL, MSD offroad coil, moroso spiral core leads, bosch 4 point plugs. COOLING SYSTEM: Standard water pump, Alisport H/D custom Aluminum radiator, Twin kenlowe electric fans on X-eng thermostat. TRANSMISSION: LT85 5 speed gearbox, LT230 Transfer box 1.222 ratio. Permanent 4WD centeral diff lock, X-eng disc braked hand brake. RUNNING GEAR: H/D double cardon front prop, standard rear prop. 3.54:1 diffs 24 spline front, KAM electronic locking rear diff. BRAKES: Front drilled and groved discs, rear solid discs. SUSPENSION: 2"lift front coil springs, 2"lift 200kg H/D rear coil springs, Front Twin Pro comp ES9000 2"lift shock absorbers on H/D tubular mounts, rear pro comp Es9000 shocks. front dislocation cones. Rear X-springs/ dislocation cones from x-engineering. TRACTION: 8 spoke steel chrome rims with 33x12.50r15lt B.F Goodrich mud terrains. ELECTRIC WINCH: Front 12,000lb, rear 12,000lb. COLOUR: bonetti grey.. v8 sahara

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My Interests

women, Land rovers and offroading, V8 muscle cars, bushcraft. JCB Diesel Max Challange. Check out jcbdieselmax.com to see a JCB break the diesel land speed record! desert driving

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I'd like to meet:

Ray Mears, Jenson Button, lucy pinder, Girls aloud (except the ugly 1) and the late great Steve Irwin, RIP stevo land rover offroad
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Music:

Classic rock like ac/dc, van halen, guns and roses and also wolf mother, blink 182 etc and dance/trance music, electro tech and daft punk. land rover v8, tixover
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Movies:

smokey and the bandit. Waynes world. anchor man. Ice cold in alex. Crocodile Dundee. Ace ventura!

Television:

Top gear, The A-team, i love it when a plan comes together!ray mears extreme survival Add to My Profile | More Videos

Books:

Land rovers manuel for africa.

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Heroes:

Howlin Mad Murdock You crazy fool. Ray mears. The bandit. Joseph Cyril Bamford (Mr JCB) v8 landy

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My Blog

monster trucks the greatest thing ever

Went santa pod at the weekend and watched the monster truck trials. Awsome stuff! check out the vids
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Mon, 05 May 2008 03:24:00 PST

series 2a

Work has begun on the series 2a, an engine has been found and stripped down  but it isnt a 5 bearing crank like i was told its a 3 and with the cylinder head im having 40thou skimmed off it might...
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:23:00 PST

series 2a

Work has begun on the series 2a, an engine has been found and stripped down  but it isnt a 5 bearing crank like i was told its a 3 and with the cylinder head im having 40thou skimmed off it might...
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:24:00 PST

New New New

New bearings fitted to rear axle diff backlash adjusted new brakepads fitted ready to roll. And also new series 2a land rover on the way in the next few weeks
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:35:00 PST

Msd ignition fitted

Now fitted MSD6al ignition system, awsome
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:47:00 PST

Highs and lows!

This is a long story but now quite funny, this weekend I was supposed to be going on a pre-Norway test run up to Aviemore from Northamptonshire in my V8 90, now a friend came with me and another mate ...
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:28:00 PST

new fuel tank

after removing my old rear crossmember the fuel tank had sympathy pains and sprung a leak so new rear winch crossmember and new fuel tank
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:06:00 PST

New winch and roll cage

Now fitted a 12,000lb electric winch and internal roll cage
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:22:00 PST

KAM diff lock complete

Ive finished fitting my kam locking rear diff!
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:35:00 PST

Land rover Spec updated

The Spec LAND ROVER V8 90 CSW 1988 ENGINE: 3.9Litre Rover alloy V8, viper camshaft, 9:35:1 compression CARBURATION: Weber 500cfm 4 barrel carburetor IGNITION: MSD offroad coil, moroso spiral core le...
Posted by Matt, Defender of the realm on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:59:00 PST