Yep, Patrols must be ****, that's why you see so many in the comp scene. Great value for money, strong drive train, a diff that won't crumble at the sight of engaging 4wd, IFS in the front (must be a soft roader). So I guest your right Joff, all these comp guy's have got it sooooooo wrong......
PS: I don't have a 3ltr......The ever reliable 4.2TDi...... 
Patrol all the way..... 
Some years ago I did quite a bit of rallying. My favourite car in those days was the venerable Holden (Isuzu) Gemini. Great little car for rallying; an engine that would rev till the cows came home, you would shift gears when you couldn’t stand the noise anymore. A gearbox that would only give out in the syncro’s after many hard miles. A diff that in all the years I was involved with Gemini’s I never saw blow. A rear end that, driven aggressively, would hang on to almost any road and a tough front end that never ceased to amaze me.
Why were, and still are if my mail is correct, these little rust buckets so good? Well there were a few reasons but not one of them had anything to do with the cars intended vocation. It wasn’t a particularly good commuter because it was plagued with lecky trouble. It had lousy resale because it was prone to cancer. Out of the box, it handled pretty ordinarily understeering like a HQ. The window winders were too short and broke often, they too leaked dust like the proverbial sieve. Sans seam welding and bracing, they would eventually cave in in the front to the point where they had so much camber the front tyres would chew out in 5,000 km. The front lower ball joints would need to be welded in almost from factory because they pop out. Oh! And the steering column wasn’t square in the car (that was a bit of engineering genius).
So why were they used, well I’ll tell you. They were
great value for money, strong drive train, a diff that won't crumble at the sight of a big rev’n’drop around a rocky corner. And there was one other BIG reason; there were tonnes of em lying around in WRECKING YARDS.
Sound familiar??
Comp and real life are worlds apart. BTW I didn’t see one Comp Trol crabbing it’s way up the Oondy track recently
P.S yes I am bored tonight
