Marino’s rwd Platz

[Dudley]

1 minute ago, RXFORD said:

Just cut and weld them. I mean its not like anythings going to be legal or safe anyway...

That’s legal up here ill Have you know 

[Marino Fischer]

1 minute ago, RXFORD said:

Just cut and weld them. I mean its not like anythings going to be legal or safe anyway...

Might as well. I saw this idea for a front rack on an ae86

 

[mjrstar]

8 hours ago, Marino Fischer said:

It shouldn’t ruin Ackerman im not swapping the knuckle left to right im turning it 180 degrees because they are a 2 bolt system and then the ball joint should be on the outside of the knuckle

I reckon if you could get the rotated steering arm to work (maybe with an odd looking roll centre adjuster) there is a fairly high chance that the caliper would want to occupy the same real-estate as the steering balljoint.

As generally most front steer cars will have the balljoint pretty close to the disc.

Also @cletus nice bit of artwork. 

[igor]

2 hours ago, Dudley said:

That’s legal up here ill Have you know 

Because, "This is Northland. That's how we roll."?

[kp60nick]

3 hours ago, Marino Fischer said:

Doing further research I think technically it would give positive Ackerman but the ball joint pickup would be on a weird angle because that arm isnt flat and Thatd be amplified when flipped so it’d probably end up on a 45 degree which probably wouldn’t be ideal. Do you have any ideas for McPherson with a front rack Thats capable of fitting 13s??

I've asked around. I will wait to here back from my people. 

+1 for Matt's answer all the driftas are doing it. 

[kp60nick]

2 hours ago, mjrstar said:

Also @cletus nice bit of artwork. 

It would be sick if they were lazer beams shooting from the car.

[Dudley]

45 minutes ago, igor said:

Because, "This is Northland. That's how we roll."?

Bingo

[ThePog]

On 15/12/2025 at 14:24, Marino Fischer said:

Igor, yes they are available here in 4wd but very hard to find. If I do find one I’ll end up buying it. 

There is one in Nelson for sale

https://www.facebook.com/share/17xgEJaH32/

 

[Marino Fischer]

14 hours ago, ThePog said:

There is one in Nelson for sale

https://www.facebook.com/share/17xgEJaH32/

 

Cool! Shame is an auto one

[yoeddynz]

On 30/12/2025 at 21:23, ThePog said:

There is one in Nelson for sale

https://www.facebook.com/share/17xgEJaH32/

 

I had a customers 4wd  manual vitz in a few times for various jobs. Fuck it was cool. I remember sending photos of it to Roman.

Pissed me off that they ended up selling it dirt cheap to someone else who I knew were going to end up killing it. 

[yoeddynz]

Found the pics.. 

 

[Marino Fischer]

On 02/01/2026 at 04:02, yoeddynz said:

I had a customers 4wd  manual vitz in a few times for various jobs. Fuck it was cool. I remember sending photos of it to Roman.

Pissed me off that they ended up selling it dirt cheap to someone else who I knew were going to end up killing it. 

Man Thats so cool! Itd love to get my hands on one. The tunnel on them is quite big I wonder if you could fit a t50 in the standard tunnel?

[4AG_Addict]

One in CHCH, Manual 4WD

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/platz/listing/5698346545

[Marino Fischer]

I had a look around a 4wd manual Platz today. The rear chassis rails still seem to get in the way if it was slammed so not much difference to a standard Platz. The tunnel also seems to not be hugely larger height wise than standers but is wider for the exhaust to pass through. No matter what you would do itd need chopping up because if you ran it off the transfer case it probably wouldn’t last very long. 

[Roman]

One of the main things I noticed with the 4WD echo was that the fuel tank was different. 

Had a bump to allow the driveshaft through.

[Willdat?]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/echo/listing/5875953528

Little bro just picked up this treasure, dat ass....

[RUNAMUCK]

1NZ-FE NO SHIT!