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Hilux diffs with toyota Prado rear housing. Lines the driveshafts up nicely.

I will try and put up some more pics. Yes the engine and box are mounted longitudinally in frame, the gear box now being 90 degrees to how it was in rear of MR2 car. Basically the diff in gearbox is roughly where 4WD transferbox would be. The gearing is low, but thats what I wanted for our NZ...

Wanting to build a 4WD with a V8 engine and short transmission led to adapting a Toyota MR2 SW20 transverse 5-speed manual gearbox to the Toyota Lexus 1uzfe engine. Two years later I have the finished product, a 4WD with the most awesome engine and gearbox combo I could figure. The differential...