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It's actually ~40-50mm too narrow, so was just gonna adjust with spacers (cheap) or new wheels (not cheap). Mostly after the 8.8 as a cheap way for extra strength and discs to boot. Are you running the same in yer Valiant?

Yeah, was thinking could just flick the arb carrier and compressor, switches etc and use that to fund one of the carbon clutch Ford performance LSD units ex the US, they pretty cheap so potentially break even for a brand new inside bits diff. Thing is the housing is also drilled for the air fitting so might be better to just sell as a complete diff for someone's offroad project and try and find another standard one for the hilux, hmmm...

Major diff sharn for this weekend... So I bought a new diff, and it came attached to this: Explorer was in Aucks with a dead trans for the same price as wrecker wanted for a complete disc to disc diff outa the same, so thought I'd drive up from Hams and transport back. Ring the dude up and get him to climb under the truck and check the tag, 3L73 yuss it's a 31 spline LSD 3.73 8.8, perfect. Mad mission up there showing up after dark, bundle it on the transporter without really any inspection getting home late last night. Then while basking in the 90s luxury Ford cockpit this morning I notice this on the centre console: Initially super excited holy shit has a moonbeams air locker in it, but then dawned on me I drove all the way to Aucks to pick this thing up and now I still have no LSD, as open/full locker setup less than ideal for what's sposed to be a fast road ute. So now can't decide if it's a win or loss, prolly come out ahead if I sell it to fund another diff (or new internal bits for this one) but mo time and wheeling and dealing while I should be trying to get this damn ute finished... As an aside also found this wedged under the truck, looks like someone's been explorer red necking

Hard to get motivated when its winter and the shed is cold and wet. Did a bit of welding today though... Been eyeing up twin turbo intercoolers and the one that I wanted is only available out of the US, so was going to be spenny to buy and then get it here. Then miraculously one came up on trademe so snapped it up. Is 3.5" thick and fits well width wise, though most of it is gonna sit behind the bumper with only about 1/3rd of the core in direct airflow. Hopefully will still work OK given its supposed to flow up to 1300hp. Needed to change the outlet position to point directly at TB, bought a 3.5" cast elbrow (aliexpress special) and managed to get the old one cutoff and new outlet grafted on there. Anyone ever experimented with fans for intercoolers? Could potentially get a few small fans on the back side of the intercooler for the bit thats behind the bumper, wondering if itd make much difference tho

Awesome that you can buy a brand new crank, are most other parts still available new for 4A?

So jealous, especially if it can RG500 Wicked car, def in for sound clips

Loving the steelies... That must cause some butt hurt among the purists

Ah yes, those, I recall much googling to figure those things out. What year is the DRZ?

Nice, I sold my one of dem last year. Does it have the factory carb? Makes a mean commuter for sure, good height/vis and brap from light to light. Not sure I agree re comfort, my butt hurt riding more than about 40mins - very windy at speed too! Wicked fun tho

That's pretty choice, what ya had her up to?

Sweet, is a kickass box so buy and deal with the consequences was my theory also. Depending on what it came out of different applications have different remote shifter positions - all of which are a long way back. You can also put the shifter directly on the box, that makes it really short. Hopefully one of the above works out for you, in my application it needed to come up somewhere in between the super short and shortest long so am gonna have a go at cutting and welding the linkages... Choice project btw, should be white knuckles. How heavy is the e36?

Those mounts are lush! Any idea where the shifter will come out? The tr6060 is loooong

Spent over an hour reading through that, and was well worth it. If the ambitiousness of yer project is ever getting you down, a read of what that guy is doing should set you right

If you hate the car and can't see the way through, sometimes its better to ditch and run in my experience. Feel way better after the fact too.

Strokey strokey?

Issue with hilux was that it was pretty much drag spec motor in a 2ton brick. Big cam, single plane intake, large runner heads and oversize exhaust which went great up top but midrange was seriously lacking, so was a lazy gas pig as a daily driver. True that It did epic wheelies though... Re LS1, I reckon persist with it as will probably be super reliable once you iron out the kinks, have that reputation at least... Is this the candidate for retro conversion? Why not turbo the LS1 that should make all your issues disappear

My '05 hilux was transplanted with a '97 350 chebby (LT1) and was certed as such. I bought it that way so prolly also need to see a psychiatrist and certainly felt like I needed therapy after driving it for a while as was depressing what a horrible pig it was. Sounded good but

Off topic, this is the thread that's sposed to be about stuff that's not worth its own thread, thread, and I yer impala is about as deserved of its own thread as any thread... thread

Cher. Got its own woodshed now too. And a pic of the boxing day lamb for yer salivating pleasure. Lamb crackling ftw

Pics of one of this summers projects... Been wanting to make a sth american asado rack for ages, then one came up on trademe cheap so snapped it up (so no fab to show off there). Needed to make a firepit to use it though, and because asado requires epic low and slow action, came up with this pit and windbreak in one: That worked so well that I rebuilt it, this time properly levelled with more 'patio'. Also built some outdoor furniture out of some macrocarpa sleepers, came out pretty good and should last a while, they are fucken heavy

Haha that's good info, will need to take a look at some stage. Cool that the cert info is there as well, and that yours is the only v8

Rear wheel/tyre combo looks so good on this, looks tough but retains some sleeper feel also. Re number of wagons left, where do you get this info? Have heard other people say similar things about other cars and wondering where this data comes from

Because of this ^. It seems to own all other trucks everywhere so wondering how it'd go in the rocks. Not that I've seen/done much of it but rock crawling is pretty fun, something about an adrenaline rush at 2kmh...

How do you think it would crawling through a rock field, do you have the throttle control to keep it in its powerband and still under control at very low speed? This is where I'd expect it could get tricky compared to a low revving big flywheel 8 for eg. I imagine the 4-links would carve up the rocks tho

P.s. Nice jump, you got like 3 foot of air that time