[suzukikid]

Ok so I have a sierra 34s all the go good stuff but lately have been to scared to take it out after having 3 very close calls with the police......

Has a big guard chop so I have been thinking of dropping stock suspension into it and a set of 31s....

Doesn't have a straight panel on it so not worried about having to have a crack on 31s.... Driveline and gearing would be bullet proof and hopefully I wouldn't have to worry about finding out where police are out bush.....

Anyone done this or always just gone bigger?

[Gwagensteve]

31's aren't legal anyway so if your car has panel damage and any issues with tyre coverage you'll get a canary regardless.

Steve.

[suzukikid]

Tyres are covered... Will have no lift and 31s... Surely 1" over in tyre size is better then 6! Haha

Is panel damage in roadworthy? I'm just thinking out loud really....

It's either go to 31s or wheel it until its get a canary... Then start again.... Night drives are the future I think

[Gwagensteve]

Yes. Panel damage is a roadworthy fail.

31's are 5" over stock and 3" over the largest legal tyre.

[suzukikid]

I thought sierra came out with 28" tyres?

[Bruce]

Memory tells me they come out with 26"

[Blkfxx]

Stock (WT) is 205/70r15 which works out to 26.3"

[Gwagensteve]

Yep. 26". I don't actually think 7" rims are legal depending on offset.

Steve.

[suzukikid]

Well there gos that idea! Night drives it is cheers guys

[Toughy]

Buy a trailer and don't wheel long weekends when the law like to go bush
The crushed coke can look is cop bait for sure

[suzukikid]

I don't mind driving it there.... 2 of the 3 times have been in the bush on normal weekends no way I would even park it out the front on a long weekend! Hahaha some of it has been straightened out sence you last saw it Toughy and some is worse! Hahaha we have to wheel again soon

[Toughy]

Yea mate need to wheel again soon you got me thinking about tyre size on the lj
I think they were 600 16 on ljs equates to 28 inch I think. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong
That means 31s are legal on ljs? Not sure about the width of mine though

[christover1]

You need to look legal and safe, then they usually leave you alone,
unless of course they want to hold you on suspicion of something serious.
Need to go sleeper style

[suzukikid]

Yeah mine is all legit as in tyres covered mudflaps for on road all light working ect it's just the tyres look so big with minimal lift and the dints!

I don't want to go into it in an Internet forum but one time I avoided the police was thanks to a row of lifted patrols on 35s.... I don't look out of place when wheeling with patrols cruisers and I mainly wheel with jeeps on 37s or zooks.... It's when they look at tyre placards I would be done

[steve125]

Gwagensteve wrote:

Yes. Panel damage is a roadworthy fail.

So a Tim Hardy replica is out. Bummer.

[jdk81]

Our drover has a tyre placard listing 6.00r16 for all models except 4 seaters.
There is a copy of the same placard on the forum somewhere.

600r16 is 28", modern equiv is 205r16 205/80r16

So 30" would be legal on 2 seaters.

[tanshi]

in a drover yes. but sadly a drover is not a sierra. same same but different

[Gwagensteve]

I believe that 31" tyres can be legally certed on commercial Sierras (2 seat vans and tray backs on 16" rims) and this has been used for justification that any Sierra can have a 31 certed, as all components are shared.

[suzukikid]

Mine is looking a. Bit like hardys now.... I love the look but don't the police do.... Haha

[pezz]

Post up a current pic so we can see what we are talking about...
Ive been bretho'd in mine on 33s.. had no dramas

[suzukikid]

Leave it with me....haha ill see if I have some already on photo bucket

[suzukikid]

The clean too are older photos.... Drivers side has been pushed around so I could get a window back in after a flop on Ellis....

[jdk81]

Try the "errm officer, all those dents and shit are custom panel work. VSI 8 says its ok as the car is pre 1995"

How many of your mods are reversible?

Get spare flares, spare front clip and spare windscreen, or a car to temporarily swipe bits from if you have to present it to vicroads.
Try to pull some of the rear dents out.

Tyre wise, there's a couple of threads about placards etc.

This is from a 1.0L ute I believe, stole the pic from want33s

Its the same as on the drover.
Get the tyre placard made/reproduced, so then you can run 30s, or you could try and track down the placard from the euro e47 that had 650-16 to try to run 31s, in either case you would need to remove the two rear seats.

[suzukikid]

I don't run rear seats..... I think I'm just going to wheel it until the time comes then I will track down a lwb or ute and go from there!

All it really has us a 2" lift that is about 1" because I have played with springs.... All the rest is guard chop....

[Gwagensteve]

Clean flares would make a pretty big difference to the visual impact of the car.

Steve.

[suzukikid]

I can't get stock flairs to fit! Haha got some in the shed... But I have been thinking about the Clark rubber flairs.... I might have a go at pushing out dints but the bottom corner of the passengers door the sill is that bent I can fit my fingers up between the sill and the door... Ill have to sort something out somewhere! Haha maybe just a body swap.... Anyone know of any body chops going cheap?

[pezz]

Id fit up some full width rubber flares, ditch the simexs for a conventional muddy and it look like a whole differeng thing

[suzukikid]

Yeah might do that! They are swampers and I love them but probably need anything so aggressive looking.... What's a good tyre in a 33-34 that looks tame but performs well?

[Gwagensteve]

35 10.5 15 BFG Baja T/A (Might be tough to get though - I think they're a contingency tyre only for US race teams)

255 85 16 Maxxis Creepy Crawler



There's lots of options, but on those flares/panelwork, you're going to get a canary regardless of what tyre is on the car.

You're slightly missing the point with the way the po-po deal with a canary. They don't have to find 56 things wrong or prove what the size your car had on it. They find one thing that's worthy of a "notice to fix" (washer bottle empty, missing mudflap, torn seat, missing mudflap, cracked taillight, panel damage, whatever, it doesn't matter) then they tick the RWC box on the form. They can be pretty certain they've taken the car off the road without having to know exactly how it was modified or what is wrong with it - the RWC provider has to sort that out. It doesn't matter what tyres are on the car, with smashed panels you're getting a canary regardless of tyres, it's the up to you whether you pull the car off the road or fix it to get a RWC. From a law enforcement point of view, the objective has been realised regardless.

[got_bar_work]

Bash the panels back in to shape and weld some plates over it like steve did
Make some sliders and tube flairs to keep the rocks of the panels
Just drive it with the 34 on it. If u get pulled over just swap some stockers on to it and get it cleared