R100

Who on here was it i sold my old Daihatsu Max wagon too? Does anyone know? 

Crossmember moved forward and welded into position.

That came off relatively well 

Ok so last year i decided to build something different. I wanted something weird looking i could fit 6 people in and take to events such as beach hop and kumeu hotrod show etc.

Started out at a double cab L200 ute.

Plans are to chop the top off,  fit a 3800 and auto with twin turbos.

Move the front wheels forward to have engine sit behind front axles.

Make a custom flatdeck

Make up other stuff as i go.

I still have this. 

Still building it. 

I get slower at doing things the older i get.

I am in search for a person or company who could carry out some work for me.

Must be good with steel fabrication and panel alignment on a vehicle i have in at work.

Im guessing there is about 100 to 200 hours work to complete.

My budget is 10K 

Any help would be awsum.

Happy to deliver the vehicle anywhere from north auckland to tauranga.

On 04/07/2017 at 10:58, locost_bryan said:

Parallax error on the photo?  ADO16 had trailing arms, so lowering doesn't change rear geometry like wishbones or semi-trailing arms.  Would like to know how the rotary was fitted - fwd or rwd?

Was my car. No rotary in there. Just 8 english pushsticks

Can anyone recommend a place who can fit a pair of tires to a couple of rims that wont damage them.

the rims have just had new lips made for them.

17x13"

Tires are 335-35-17

Im based in Whangamata but happy to travel to Tauranga, Hamilton or Auckland.

No one in this town that fits tires will touch them.

Cheers

Owning one is like living with a thief. 

Have owned a few. They make good off-road vehicles and have heaps of torque.

Not the best on fuel.

I have never owned one long enough to say how far you can get on a tank.

Not bothered. Will just deal with it when or if a problem arises. I may never finish it anyway.

On 01/02/2017 at 18:15, nzed said:

Are the new a arms approved?

No. They have not been seen or approved by anyone from the LVVTA

Im too old and too fat. 

I feel like sleeping all the time.

I have receipt here for some of the fabrication $22000 but that included the 9" diff and drop spindles.

There was another $4500 spend on tin work fabrication, although i wasn't happy with the quality of work so redone a bit myself.

$2500 for the airbags

the rest of the work ive done myself.

So i think so far the airbag set up has cost around the 30K mark.

Its a pretty intense sort of set up though.

It could of been done much cheaper if i hadn't used such big wheels. 20x10" on the rear needed some serious  tin work.

Nissan TD42 bolted to a  4 speed RE4R03A Automatic from a 300ZX using the safari/patrol bellhousing.

Cheeeeep to run with plenty of chugga chugga 

Most of the work was done at diffs r us in otahuhu.  

I have a bagged Q. 

Big job to make it all work the way i wanted.

I am running 20" rims so alot of tin work was needed.