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| stu |
Beast Kat (Stu's Orange Hybrid) for saleAfter 18 months of ownership it's unfortunately time for me to part company with the Beast Kat due to ongoing storage difficulties. It has been in the club for years, previously owned by Adie Cannon who took it it to the Mod 2 championship win in 2006, before he moved to the Isle of Arran last year.The details are as follows... Basic spec: 88" Land Rover Hybrid. 3.5 V8 on twin SU carbs. Range Rover running gear. Discs all round. 4 speed LT95 gearbox. Twin fuel pumps. Twin K&Ns. Twin electric fans. Taxed. MOTd. Insurance costs me £160 per year, fully comp. Off road kit: Full rollcage (based on Tomcat design). 3" lift with cranked radius arms QT services kevlar bucket seats 5 point Luke harnesses Milner fiddle brakes. QT Bikini diffguards front and rear Rebel steering guard Heavy duty track rod Hi-lift jack mounted to rear of cage Checkerplating where it's useful Bronco Grizzly claws on steel eight-spokes. Dedicated recovery points on front and NATO hitch on rear Fire extinguisher Other details: As you can see from the bonnet bulge (which allows the bonnet to clear the carbs) the vehicle has a body drop on it, so while it sits high on its suspension and has lots of clearance under the chassis, the centre of gravity is still nice and low so it's very stable and can lean a long way over in safety. It's also stripped of unnecessary weight around the body, helping it's low centre of gravity. Another more subtle detail is that the body is actually narrower than a standard Land Rover (I think it's the width of a series 1). You can see the body doesn't bulge out at the waist, and the grill is infact narrower than standard. Good for getting through tight spots. The short wheelbase gives a great turning circle, and with the fiddles you can spin it on the spot easily. I've been deactivating the fiddle levers whilst driving to events to keep the boys in blue happy. The sill guards are welded directly to the chassis, and are in fact a structural part of the rollcage, so they're extremely solid. The front bumper is above the chassis line, and there's no rear overhang whatsoever, so the approach and departure angles are brilliant. It'll happily drop off a vertical step without catching the back end. It has a triple wash/wipe setup, with the washer jets mounted on the wiper arms. The cab and doors were professionally built out of alloy a couple of years ago and are very good at keeping out the weather - with the doors on it's as waterproof as any other Landy. The windows in the doors and back of the cab are made from impact resistant lexan, so can take a battering, though I generally remove the doors for offroading. The doors are also fitted with deadlocks, so it's secure when locked up. The coil is mounted in the cab to keep it dry. The entire vehicle is completely solid, 100% rot-free, and has been dry stored for as long as I've known it. It has a specific towing A-frame (even painted the same orange would you believe) that attatches to the front recovery points, so it can be happily towed behind another vehicle. With overrun brakes fitted to it, it would be a great way to transport it to events. I've never done this, but I've been told it tows well. Like Adie before, I have been quite fastidious in keeping it all maintained and cared for, so eveything is in good working order. Over the last year it has had the attention of a pretty knowledgable mechanic and all the earlier bodges and snags you find on custom motors like this have been put right. Other bits recently fitted have been new bushes on the rear radius arms, new track rod ends, new bumpstops, handbrake oil seal (the handbrake works now - joy!) and I've got a set of QT flexible extended arches in the garage that I might have fitted by the time you read this. Everything else is in tip top shape, with all transmission, axle and engine oils renewed frequently. Both myself and it's previous owner are quite light-footed drivers and you find with light revs and low gear it'll go pretty much wherever you point it. It starts first time every time no bother and runs and sounds great. The only issues I've ever had with it have been self-inflicted. A broken rear diff and shaft earlier this year (which I didn't actually do...), and the rear axle caught a brake pipe union under full articulation at the last public playday and I lost the back brakes. We renewed the pipe, and the bracket on the chassis has now been repositioned to stop this happening again. It's not a particularly fast motor with it's current setup as a trial vehicle, but it has bags of torque and will climb up near vertical slopes at tickover where most other trucks are struggling. With different gearing, less-ridiculous tyres and in different state of tune it would make a competitive comp safari motor. If you want to see (and hear) it in action, click the following link which should take you to a Youtube video from the summer playday last year 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBnp3mFojNk The problems are sparse. The steering box has decided it's time to behave like a normal Landy box and start dripping a bit, and the transfer box is doing the same, I think from where the lever goes in. But that's yer lot. And you wouldn't believe it was a Landy if it didn't leave a bit of oil on the floor... Reason for sale: As it is, and as proved by Adie, it's pretty much the ideal trial motor and in the right hands more than capable of taking home trophies. That has been my intention - to use it as a trial motor and take to various playdays - but unfortunately living in a terraced house with no garage, finding storage for it hasn't been easy. All the local garages seem to be getting levelled to make way for blocks of flats, which doesn't help. I currently store it in a friend's barn, but with lack of access to it when I need it I'm too frequently missing events. So in my current situation I'm just not making enough use of it to justify keeping hold of it. Somebody else can make more use of it than I've been able to, and it'd be nice to know it could be out doing it's thing a bit more often over the coming summer. After all, she ain't no garage queen. Price: I'm advertising it exclusively to the club first, as I'd like to see it go to someone who'll look after it. It's hard to value something like this, I paid £3200 18 months ago and it's in better nick now that it was then and hasn't really had a great deal of use - maybe 5 trials and a handful of playdays - so I'm looking for offers of around the £3000 mark. If you're interested, let me know. Sounds great, looks great, goes great, just currently woefully under-used. |
| Landyzookbabe |
If only we could have it up here!!!
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| Shadyadie |
I'd have it back in a second if there was somewhere up here to use it.
Anyone that saw me trialling the grey rangie last year will vouch for how good the beast Kat is! with a bit of practice it will go virtually anywhere. |
| stu |
Will take low offers if anyone is interested.
Same condition as before, still ready to trial and win, but with MOT expired (not got round to renewing as I've not been using it). Taxed till end of March I believe. Now has full set of Insa Special Tracks on black modulars - 95% as new. Old wheels and tyres (Bronco Grizzlys) included. Still a great car as always, circumstances are just against me 
Make me an offer (whatever you think it's worth - I won't be offended) and I might suprise you 
(In fact while we're at it, my Xantia's going too if anyone could lower themselves... Tidy W Reg 2.0HDI £900ish.) |
| 86110landy |
hi
pm sent |
| Shadyadie |
hi Stu
have you sold it? Adie |
| stu |
nope. |
| Dave D |
Hi Stu, Its David Dewsnip here, is the beast Kat still for sale? if so how much?
thanks David p.s Hope your keeping well |
| stu |
Eyup David, yep still got it. You got mail. |