Sheepers buys a Hilux.

[fuel]

Amayama have become so bad lately. I placed an order for a new lower timing cover for the GTO before Xmas and they said it would arrive mid Jan which was fine because I was still in NZ until end of Jan. Come end of Jan it was nowhere to be seen and Amayama were just flat out ignoring my requests for them to look into it and just kept copy/pasting "expected delivery is Jan 16" despite them sending that message on Jan 24 and again on Jan 27. I also had another order I placed same time for some engine mounts to be delivered to my friends in LA as I was stopping over in LA end of Jan on my way back to Toronto. To their credit the parts went from Japan to California basically overnight.. only to be lost by UPS as soon as they hit the US. It took them two weeks of me pestering them to look into it before they advised me to visit my local post office and see if they were there. UPS has nothing to do with USPS. I ended up getting a refund and had to place the order again for the parts to arrive direct to Canada (with extra customs duties added). I had such a great run with them the last few years but they just turned to shit recently. Someone put me onto www.tosshin.com and their prices are even better than Amayama but they don't tell you the shipping cost until everything has arrived to them, but have been assured they are more than reasonable. I placed an order with them a couple weeks ago but they haven't even bothered to update anything and let me know how it's progressing. I don't want to use Megazip or Partsouq cause their prices aren't great and Partsouq sends everything from their UAE warehouse at a larger cost and time to get here.

[Vintage Grumble]

12 hours ago, sheepers said:

in typical amayama fashion they listed it,  sold it to me,  took my money,  waited two months and then told me they are NLA.

I love how amayama do that.

This happened to me recently too, really kicks you in the spuds. I was super excited about finding a heater fan speed resistor, then all hope was crushed. 

[ajg193]

Nah that's always been the case.  Especially as the cars are getting older, you can't expect everything to exist.  Usually best to check if parts partsouq has anything in stock as they seem pretty accurate

[sheepers]

I got updates.

EGR removal is a complete win

Cleaning all the shit out of the intake gained a very noticeable increase in powah

Attaching the wastegate  to turbo pressure has been a great win too in that is not just free boosting and yet it goes faster.

It uses WAY less diesel

Side exit exhaust had eliminated all fumes from the truck whilst back window down cruzing.

 

 

Also I put the new stick things in the steering column and it looks all new and fancy.

[sheepers]

OMG the new "clunk" noise the indicator stalk makes is fucking amazing. 

[sheepers]

this truck is still amazing just fyi. 

[sheepers]

What a fucking rig. 

[sheepers]

She's fair dark in the mornings on my way to work and Nick had these lights he took off something so I put them on thy hilux. 

I'll try them out tomorrow morning and see if they do anything good. 

[sheepers]

update on lights.

yes.

much bright, can see, very wow.

they're not wired in properly but ill address that, wont be too much of a drama. im going to put a dip switch on the floor that you can turn them on and off with but only when the standard lights are on high beam.