[DesertKing]

Hi Fazal, you really built a great Jeep. Your work on the rear suspention is very unique and along with Vinod and others, I am also waiting to see them in axle twist.

Hi 4x4 loaded, I have already tried a lot to know about fitting a turbo charger on XD3P and understood from some very senier person from Mahindra is that XD3P had an original turbo version but it was never brought to India. Do not try it, the crankshaft material is different, your crankshaft will break like a twig.

If you want to increase the power a bit, you can try for LPG fumigation. Source more info on this from here. LPG Fumigation - Page One | MrSharkey.Com

[fazalaliadil]

Originally Posted by Ricky_3007

Hi Fazal Bhai,

Could you pls give some info?

Tarkesh

Tarkesh,
Yes the bumpy ride is reduced to maximum, the body roll is controlled like I have not experienced in any Jeep, magnificient results.
The leaf is attached the same way like on stock jeeps, only the helper (second set of leaf spring) lower one is half version of the full leaf spring set and is attached till the middle of the full leaf spring set. The height is what we desire, if we want it high or low, the person who did it asked me what height I wanted and and set it accordingly. I thought as we added another leaf spring to the existing it would make the ride rigid and hard, but he said "wait and see". After the job was done words are in sufficent to describe the soft ride inspite to an addition of an extra leaf.

Originally Posted by DesertKing

Hi Fazal, you really built a great Jeep. Your work on the rear suspention is very unique and along with Vinod and others, I am also waiting to see them in axle twist.

Naren,
Thanks for your appreciation, and yes the leaf spring job done is very unique, though I am not the first in Hyderabad to get this done. There is only guy in India who does this job, who is luckily in Hyderabad. Others here have tried to replicate his work but have failed.
I can vouch for it that every extra penny spent on it is worth it.
Unfortunately the axle flex pics or video I will not be able to post, as I have already delivered the Jeep to my cousin and it now is in Masniagudi, near Ooty.

[4x4 loaded]

thanks desert king. can you tell me the difference in performance between XD3P and DI (both turbo and non Turbo)?...today I got to know about a jeep with international engine. i asked him to quate the same with a DI engine. he asked whether is it the DI from marshall or maxx.. can you please let me know the difference.

[DesertKing]

Originally Posted by 4x4 loaded

thanks desert king. can you tell me the difference in performance between XD3P and DI (both turbo and non Turbo)?...today I got to know about a jeep with international engine. i asked him to quate the same with a DI engine. he asked whether is it the DI from marshall or maxx.. can you please let me know the difference.

MDI super engine 58 bhp @2800 rpm / torque 16.5 kgm@1500 rpm
Di turbo engine 63 BHP @3200 rpm / torque 18kgm@1500-1800 rpm
Bolero XD3p 72bhp @ 4000 rpm / torque 15.3 kgm@2000 rpm
Army MM550 XD3p 76bhp @ 4000 rpm / torque 15.5 kgm@2000 rpm

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Engine life ::

Di engine typical life about 2 lakhs (well maintained)
Di turbo modern 2.5 lakhs plus (Well maintained)
XD 3p 1.5 lakh (Well maintained)
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Mileage is about 12-13 kmpl for Di turbo and 13-14 kmpl for MDi super in city conditions. Highway- MDI super goes up to 16-17 kmpl , di turbo best gives about 15-16 kmpl.

XD3p boleros are known to give 9 kmpl in city and 13-14 on highway. Add 1 kmpl for MM550 being lighter.
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Source - Vinod Nookala

[harjeev]

Also do you think that DI's are more noiser than the other engines too.
Buy they definitely give superb FE...

[josepeter]

Hey Fazal, I believe the roll cage was custom build. Is there any way the tube can be bend without those wrinkles? I have head from a local tinker that filling sand in the pipes during the heat and bend process can keep the wrinkles away. Is that correct?

[fazalaliadil]

Originally Posted by josepeter

Hey Fazal, I believe the roll cage was custom build. Is there any way the tube can be bend without those wrinkles? I have head from a local tinker that filling sand in the pipes during the heat and bend process can keep the wrinkles away. Is that correct?

Jose,
What your fabricator says could be right but I have not tried it, then where does the extra metal go when the bend takes place due to compression of the metal ? As the metal is bent in hot or cold conditions one side is streched and the opposite side is compressed due to which the wrinkling takes place... the sand in the tube at best could help in evenly distrubuting of wrinkles is my conclusion. Let me know the results when you get this done.
Regards,

[DesertKing]

Fazal, a quick question. Were the pipe bent by the moulding press machine.

[fazalaliadil]

Originally Posted by DesertKing

Fazal, a quick question. Were the pipe bent by the moulding press machine.

Yes! it was done by the pipe bending contraption.

[Parm]

i would be checking few wranglers to see if their roll bars have wrinkles at the bends.

im curious about the wrinkles after reading your posts!

[fazalaliadil]

Originally Posted by Parm

i would be checking few wranglers to see if their roll bars have wrinkles at the bends.

im curious about the wrinkles after reading your posts!

Parm,
There are Jeeps here, I have seen without the ripples / wrinkles.
They cut and weld sectionals to get the 'L' bend at the two right angle area (where the wrinkling happens) and finish it with grinding. I did not have the time as my project was way, way behind schedule, hence couldn't afford this luxury. This is one technique I am aware of to avoid the wrinkling.

[josepeter]

Let me be honest here Fazal! I really do believe that the the white and orange MM 540s are the best looking Jeeps of that type I have ever seen...Nothing OTT just kick a** Jeeps. But those wrinkles on the roll cage in the Orange one just don't cut it...Please Please don't do that! Tell your impatient cousin in M'gudi that the guys in TBhp just wouldn't like him drive in that almost perfect Jeep. He'll understand.. trust me!

[4x4 loaded]

Thanks a lot desert king. Thats the kind of information I was looking for. By the way you mentioned about the engine life...does that mean that after the life cycle as you mentioned the engines are useless or just needs rework done to run once again smoothly?

[fazalaliadil]

Originally Posted by josepeter

Let me be honest here Fazal! I really do believe that the the white and orange MM 540s are the best looking Jeeps of that type I have ever seen...Nothing OTT just kick a** Jeeps. But those wrinkles on the roll cage in the Orange one just don't cut it...Please Please don't do that! Tell your impatient cousin in M'gudi that the guys in TBhp just wouldn't like him drive in that almost perfect Jeep. He'll understand.. trust me!

Thanks Jose, for your appreciation and kind comments.
I really did not understand, do you want me to get rid of those wrinkles or keep it as they are? Awaiting your clarification.

Originally Posted by 4x4 loaded

Thanks a lot desert king. Thats the kind of information I was looking for. By the way you mentioned about the engine life...does that mean that after the life cycle as you mentioned the engines are useless or just needs rework done to run once again smoothly?

4X4,
No engine in India is useless, here we have the luxury of cheap and available labour, parts.
You can completely overhaul the engine with new parts and do another 1 lakh + kilometers after that.
My serious doubts is, we can never attain the factory precession in an overhauled engine though we may do it with brand new spares,
when you are doing the reboring for new oversized pistons, the man and the machines at the lathe machine shop has to be the best.
This is an example of just one component of many things to be done on an engine overhaul. There are are many who do the job, the difference between a job and a great job is VAST.

[josepeter]

Originally Posted by fazalaliadil

Thanks Jose, for your appreciation and kind comments.
I really did not understand, do you want me to get rid of those wrinkles or keep it as they are? Awaiting your clarification.

Fazal, if the wrinkles can disappear it would make the Jeep much more perfect. That's what I think!