Simple strong rock rails which fit using bolt brackets. The rock rails use full grip brackets and not wire U-brackets which distort the chassis. The vehicle can be safely lifted/jacked by these rails!
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Priced: £280+vat
After almost a year of development all our products are now available to order! Please see our catalogue for available products, and the ordering page on details about ordering.
Front skid/diff guard showing reinforcement ribs
The diff guard and skid prototypes are complete and fitted. We’ve gone well ahead of our competitors.
The most important design aim was to protect the control arm brackets. The front brackets are fragile. The rear bracket is much stronger, but is a main “point of impact” under the vehicle and therefore also prone to bending. As well as bending, the rear bracket is often distorted due to impacts. Bending these brackets results in the front wheels being out of alignment, which then affects the vehicles handling, and means that the wheels are more likely to rub on the car body and arches.
The front brackets are protected by the diff guard’s front “skid” section. This is the section at the front which tucks up under the bumper. It helps the vehicle slide over obstacles rather than making an impact that would be absorbed by the control arm brackets. Additionally, the diff guard must be used in conjunction with our truss. The truss braces the two front brackets, helping distribute force between them.
Rear skid is made from single piece 5mm steel sheet, and is the only skid on the market that fully covers the catolytic converter, and mid chassis cross member. The skid is highly important because it protects the transfer case bracket – a weak and poorly designed bracket, which unless protected, quickly bends under minimal off-road use.
Front skid/diff guard – 350GBP +vat
Rear skid – 180GBP +vat
Rear skid covers chassis members, transfer case and bracket, and gearbox
Fitting bracket for rear skid uses existing mounting holes.
Mangled transfer case bracket showing damage caused when not using an adequate rear skid.
Front suspension arm truss
As well as stiffening the front suspension and helping to protect the control arm brackets from common damage, the truss is used to mount the upcoming undercarriage protection. It includes two threaded holes to receive the upcoming bash plate.
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Priced 120GBP +vat
Front winch bumper
The Hallam Front Winch Bumper for the Suzuki Vitara is now available for sale. Like the rear bumper, the front bumper has been carefully design in CAD to withstand a pulling force of 4 metric tons. It is made from 50mm box section steel with 4mm wall sections in the critical areas, and 3mm elsewhere.
A lot of design has gone into correctly mounting the bumper to the vehicle. This has been made particularly difficult because the front of the Vitara chassis dips downwards below the level of the bumper, and therefore makes it difficult to transfer forces from the bumper to the chassis. The usual solution is to mount the bumper to the turrets that hold the front of the body to the chassis. This is where the standard Vitara bumper mounts. However the turrets are made of thin steel and not ideally suited to mounting a winch bumper. Our solution has been to use thick 5mm steel brackets that cup the turrets and the chassis simultaneously, transferring as much of the force as possible to the chassis. The design also reduces the force transferred to the turrets using a lever mechanism, where the turrets support the bumper further away from the bracket thereby reducing the force by 50%.
Easy removal of the bumper was also a high design criteria. The bumper is not permanently welded to the vehicle. In fact there is very minimal welding required. The brackets mount onto existing bolt holes, and through the front chassis cross member. Two nuts are welded into the front turrets. The bumper then attaches to the brackets and welded turret nuts. The bumper can be removed in less than 5 minutes making servicing and access easy.
The bumper has the following features:
Priced: £550+vat
Front bumper brackets "cup" the turrets to distribute force
The Hallam Rear Winch Bumper for the Suzuki Vitara is now for sale. The bumper has been carefully design in CAD to withstand a pulling force of 4 metric tons. It is made from 50mm box section steel with 4mm wall sections in the critical areas, and 3mm elsewhere.
The winch bumper mounts directly to the chassis using the existing bolt holes plus an additional two M12 bolts which attached to nuts that need to be welded to the rear of the chassis. This combination provides a very strong attachment setup.
Some welding and modification is required to mount the bumper. Once the modification has been done then the bumper can be quickly removed using 6 M12 bolts. Removal takes approx 5 minutes which allows easy access and servicing.
The bumper and attachment is strong enough to be used for recovery, towing, and mounting specialist carriers such as “direct to vehicle” motorcycle carriers. The strong bumper and direct to chassis design makes the Vitara especially suited to a range of heavy duty tasks.
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e bumper has the following features:
Priced: £350+vat
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fter many months of development we are nearing the stage of full live testing of our basic armour kit for the Suzuki Vitara. We’ve developed and prototyped a front winch bumper, rear winch bumper, and rock rails. All these items are not built and fitted to our test vehicle and have had two rounds of initial testing. However we cannot begin full testing until the undercarriage armour has been built, so that the test vehicle is not further damaged.
Our second round of testing resulted in serious damage to our test vehicle and delayed development of the undercarriage armour by at least two months. We’re almost done recovering from the damage, and have started development of the undercarriage armour. We expect everything to be ready for testing in late May 2011.
Hallam Engineering are off road enthusiasts, and engineering enthusiasts. Our aim is to develop high quality innovative products for the 4×4 community. We don’t just build cheap products, we carefully design, prototype, and test our products to high engineering standards.
Our products are carefully designed on CAD to withstandard the rigours of off road use. We use aerospace quality fittings and take no shortcuts. Our products are rigourously tested in real off road environments as well as computer tested analysis.
Hallam is wholy owned by Ad Finem Ltd, and are currently developing our first range of products – a full Basic Armour Kit for the Suzuki Vitara including Front and Rear Winch Bumpers, Rock Rails, and full Undercarriage Armour.
Our products are currently in development stages. We hope to launch the Basic Armour Kit in September 2011 after the products have been fully tested. Products will be available on a made-to-order basis.
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