Vintage Grumble

^ Yep, the std manifolds are truly heinous, if I have the room I will try get some nice headers in there.

Well, with 400nm and near on 300hp, it could nearly work

^ Thank you for that info Sir, champion. 95% of the driving in do in the ute is open road, so it looks like the 4L V8 may end up more economical than the 1.6L 4 pot, ha.

If I had the cash, I so would.

I did, but then 5macks pointed out his odometer dont work, so we believe he is just making shit up. I would ask Simon from the bay, but im sure he drifts/b-outs everywhere, so that would also be in·ac·cu·rate. Simon, this is poo's, I had my heart set on the vvti version, but not ken on another $1500 or so for a Link. Also, my Alto was just a cunt. Only car I have purchased without viewing first, will never do that again.

Also, Mr Simon, I did not think about the security/key shit with the vvti 1uz, thanks for the heads up. I know this is a big problem with ppl putting the holden ecotech v6's in shit, you have to get the ecu's reflashed or pissed about with to run them dont you? Wonder if anyone can do this to the 1uz ecus? Was hoping to stick motor and box in and run it all as std to save time/money. I know a few inputs will have to be fooled to get it to run correctly anyhow.

I'm sure the conversion has been done a trillion times before, but will keep researching to see if there any problem areas. One thing with the lux is that the steering box is rite in the front of the engine bay which is good, I know a lot of ppl have trouble with the exhaust pipes rumbling with the steering boxes. Also, i'm not doing the conversion to save gas, if I was, I wouldnt be using a 4L V8, i've just wanted to put one of these motors in something for years. And i'm not buying another Alto .... ever. I just wanted to know what I can expect the gas consumption to be like, by the sounds of things around 10-11L/100kmh? It is interesting tho, that my olds VT, with its 3.8L V6 can get 8L/100kmh, and it weighs about 1800kg. You would think a motor thats only 200cc bigger, and from around the same time, in a much lighter car should do better? Mind you, ppl dont normally put 1uz's in things to drive like nana's I guess.

Yeh, I will go for as low a final as I can use, im sure it would be happy doing 2K or so at 100kmh. The lux must only weigh about 1200kg also, so must be a good 400kg lighter than what the motors normally push? The 12R is using about 9.5L of 91 per 100km at the moment. I'm hoping if I cruze along with the 1uz it will use somewhere around 10/11L per 100km, only diff being that I would have to run 96. So my weekly gas bill will hopefully only go from (by todays prices) $90 to $100, and I will go from 90hp on tap to 290hp.

You people out there that have 1uz powered items, i'm trying to gauge how much gas one of these would use on the open road. I'm looking at getting a vvti version, so guess it would be slightly better on gas than the older version. Also, im guessing by the comp ratio, you would need to run them on 96? I just want an idea on this as it will be in my daily and doing about 500km a week. Any info would be chursome.

Nice car that, have always had a soft spot for them. When I was at high school a mate had one, was all black and white, with black leather interior from memory. It had a few things done to the engine and he always ran it on ave gas, sounded/smelt (due to ave gas) /and went really well. With the polishing of the lights, afTer the plastic polish, is there some sort of sealer you can use? The lights on my wifes car come up beautifully, but then go yellow (clear head lights) again very quickly, as the car lives out side, I need some sort of UV protectant or something? Good luck with the clean up/resto on yours!

Im pretty sure its not a LSD, from the second pic on the auction, you can tell it has four spider gears, and they seem to take up all the room inside, theres simply no room in there for LSD tomfoolery.

The std ones do have spider gears, two of em, and the little shaft they run on is what snaps off:

Also, dont buy a std one, get a TRD/after market one, the std ones are not overly strong, and once they brake, you cant get the parts to fix them.

^ Yep, thats the bugger.

My car had a factory one, and it didnt look like that. The factory LSD's only have two spiders, the one in the pic has 4 shafts, so assume it has 4 spiders. Also its an 8 bolt rather than 10.

Until you need to use it?

That fluid paint system sounds awesome. Was joking to a mate the other day about wood graining my hilux with that plastic car wrap, you can buy it in from china pretty cheap. Also, regarding roof, it would be very hard to get the paint to match if you did it red, black would be a much safer bet, and look better imo. Wouldnt have to worry about matching paint, and it fading like a bitch in the future and so on.

Yeh, these cunts are never happy, tell em all to get fucked. Also, paint roof, fix plate.

I heard it was the herps.

So did it just run out of gas and lean out/melt a piston? I have wondered how many HP's one of those six speeds would take. Theres a trillion turbo tezza's around, so they must not be too shit. Also, good luck with the rebuild. If this new motor gives you shit, you know what to do. (atlantic 4age)

I figured the last owner must have had them changed to crazy positive offset to fit inside his flat rear guards, did wonder how they would fit. Im sure it wont take much to get them to fit nicely.

I vote leave it as is.

I think they look good, but like you say a lower profile tyre with a little bit of stretch would look much better. And you wont have any trouble finding tyres for them, we managed to find tyres for Duds 13x10's easy enough.

Niiiicccceeee.

Well, this has been off the road/in my shed for two years as of about now. I did a little work on it today, first time i've touched it in about 4/6 months, so to celebrate I thought i'd post up some lame pictures of where it no longer has rust. It not longer has rust here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, And it never had rust here, but this section has been replaced after a crash, and was a #%@* of a %$#@$ whore's %*#@ goat, to get back to the rite shape. I hope to make good progress on this in the coming months, as I now have the $$ to have it painted, due to selling my motorbike. But I am a lazy cunt, so who knows. Regards, VG.