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Cheers Cletus, I will have a gander. Admittedly I didn't look in the CCM. I've seen an example of Matts KP60 build where he has boxed it in (or whatever its called) and an example of Snoozins where he has retained the original appendage for the shock to slide onto. I will check with the certifier too, as most people would recommend but thought if it was black and white in a rule book, I could avoid interrupting his busy day.

Is anybody able to point me to where in the rule book it talks to what is involved (if anything) with lower shock mounts when changing the differential? Basically, are you able to chop off OEM lower shock mounts and weld onto new diff housing or does it require additional strength/boxing? Maintaining separate shock/spring combo rather than going to a true coilover but while I am there, if it make sense to strength to leave the option to go to true coilover, I may as well, right? Please and thank you

I have always loved Advan A3As and I managed to I pick up a set of 13x6s. I got the lips fixed, painted the centres and convinced the bro to polish them for me (not a member but cheers mate). Orange and blue is a sharp contrast, but it's grown on me Which brings us now back to first sentence of the previous post. I've just driven this from Wellington to Horopito to Toyota Fest at Hampton downs and back (1300 kms) with a couple of mates. There were a couple of small issues with the KP on the trip but those were quickly and easily rectified. It might be slow, but it got there ha } Have a squiz the oldschool.co.nz sticker I got over a decade ago and never used until now. That's all for now

I've just driven this on a 1300 km round trip so I am feeling inspired to talk shit about it but more on that later. Jeepers, it's been a few WOFs since the last post.. I'll sum up the last couple years.. I did a grass auto cross, it was a hoot I changed the cluster for a rev gauge one (shout out to Matt for the wiring diagram. that would have taken me far too long to figure out) The inevitable happened, and the 2k just wasn't cutting it anymore so I started to build a 5k (got a cheap van, drove it home and pulled the motor). While I was building it, a well used 5k came up for sale locally and for what it came with, it was too good of a price not to grab. I gave it a birthday, put that in, blew the head gasket driving home from getting it tuned, replaced the head gasket and then had a few months dorting around. I was told all the classic yarns when I got it.. bored block, ported 3kb head, oversized valves, massive cam, high compression etc. Which surprisingly, were true. Unfortunately the lifter prolapsed. With my tail between my legs I ripped the trusty 2k out from under the house, gave it a spray can rebuild and put it back in place.

Sounds awesome!

Looks awesome man, looking forward to following the progress

For what it's worth, he was really helpful to me (as a commoner, who knows nothing). Pricey, yes but not much more expensive than if I imported plus he gave his time on several occasions to help work through various options which isn't something you get when scanning through a website You may have caught him on a bad day

Flat front is master race

Nice! They've got a bit of a cult following. If you've got any unanswered questions, the GB facebook group is an incredibly helpful bunch of people https://www.facebook.com/groups/1689304681350865 Heres my old one that I ruined (In the purists eyes)

Few small updates.. Due to failure to locate beige headrests, I picked up dark brown headrests awhile back.. I've always kept an eye out for the correct brown and recently got my hands on some very dirty beige headrests. The waifu offered to bring them back to life to which I jumped at.. Top is how they came, bottom is scrubbed Another win that took far too long to find, was locating three of these clips as there was only one present when purchasing the vehicle I also re-painted the number plates, attached some Toyota backing plates and got my hands on an S front badge albeit faded..

Loving the progress so far! No input for the issues you're experiencing but this puckers my butt.. Avoid speed bumps at all costs! haha

I want to keep the paint work as original as possible but it was in desperate need of some love. Off to a groomer it went for a full exterior detail including ceramic coating. It's hard to tell on camera but wow, what a difference it's made. The paint really pops in the sun Something else that I had acquired was a WOF. Not just any old WOF but a clean sheet WOF! I didn't anticipate there being anything major (or minor to be fair) but it's always a sigh of relief when it does pass

Interior wise I think I will keep modifications to a minimum at this stage. If in the future the scope creeps up, i'll get some period correct front seats and try to match the original pattern as much as possible but for the mean time I did want to do something about the steering wheel. I picked up a wood grain Kaizen steering wheel which I believe (correct me if I am wrong) is from a late 70s early 80s land cruiser and was an optional wheel from factory. The only issue there is I have had a hard time sourcing a horn button that fits. All the ones I have seen for sale at 51mm inside DIA and by calculations I need a 56mm one. If anyone has a toyota horn that suits, i'd love to hear from you. I also managed to get my hands on a Wildcat wheel with a Toyota horn button which suits my application perfectly. I love the feeling of the wild cat, it's small, comfortable to wield and period correct. Fortunately, the wheel came with the boss kit as well which can be hard to come by. I did have to do some minor modifications to it for the horn to work consistently, gave it a good polish and slapped it on. Stiffer suspension, excellent tyres and now a smaller steering wheel has made a world of difference in terms of drivability. A+ would trade again

Now that the KP isn't feeling like a boat anymore, I had to address the wheel and tyre situation. Continuing with the OEM+/Maintained vibe, I wanted to get my hands on a set of KP61 sprint wheels. I managed to get my hands on a pretty run down set but I was optimistic that I could make them look cool again. I spent several hours cleaning and polishing before the optimism ran out and I gave up and started to look around for somewhere to do it. I actually ended up searching the forum and I found a post from 2009 mentioning a potential lead. I gave him a call surely enough he was still doing it for funzies They came out pretty neat I then spent many hours with some sand paper, a couple of different paint brushes and some black engine enamel paint I wrapped them in some Yokohama A539's, got a wheel alignment and put them on. So far they have outlasted the mighty 2k engine. I used to collect stickers back in the days and had an reproduced rego sticker that I had intended to use on a different but I never ended up using it. Same year too which is cool

The rear carpet had seen better days and so I decided to replace it. I grabbed a second hand one that had also seen better days but no holes or rips and cheap enough to give it a go After some elbow grease After more elbow grease and fitted