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Quick question, since these are Ja.panese engines run in Ja.pan (coming from a half-cut obviously), what type of fuel is the best to use for these engines? What is our fuel like compared to theirs? Any ideas? Damo

Justen, You do the no speed limit days at wakefield? Or club events? I'm only 15 minutes from Wakefield (living in town), and would love to check out your car when your next at the track. Mine should be there within a few months all going well fingers & toes crossed, aiming for...

I'll pass on what little information I know for sure :) Half cut is your only option. That way you get EVERYTHING you need to do the conversion (even a schmick 4 spd auto box that is not too shabby apparently). Most ppl seem to recommend getting a Crown half-cut with the separate ECU & ECT...

I'm impressed with how long it seemed for you to get the conversion done. How long all up did it take? Hehe, maybe you need to tub the rear end to get some grip!!! Still, the car must be awesome to drive, so much fun.

Using this sort of setup, m90 etc, what sort of power gains would you be looking at (obviously very approximate)? If you ran a s/c, could this be done on the stock ecu, or would an aftermarket one be required? S/c is one thing that is niggling in the back of my mind, and Zuffen, if you...

Oooooooooo, just got an email from Rod at CRS and he sez they are going to be doing a 1uz into commodore conversion real soon, and will have a kit within 4-6 weeks that will make the swap "easy" (his words). Might be interesting.

I'm up to the stage of choosing my project car!! Holden VK Calais, currently running a 308 V8 with auto slushbox. Will soon be transplanted with probably a Crown 1UZ-FE (what else?) and 4spd auto. Bigger rims and lowered suspesion is also on the cards. Possible use includes drifting! (we'll...

It seems that "most" places are charging from $2000-2500 for a Crown or Celsior halfcut, but i have seen a couple of others for less than $2000. Having a cut stripped of its dressing wouldn't be a problem for me if it meant saving a few hundred bucks, as long as the silly thing ran goodly.

Fudge me, thats a rather large difference in price. Would this be because they would be older or higher kilometre motors?

Brett, very true, very true. I love that cobra shape, it just looks damn fast sitting still, on jacks with no wheels. I'm gonna have to double check it, but the pipe thats already on the calais i think is larger than standard, so i'm gonna try plug it all into that, add a bit more noise to it...

Cool, will have to starting scouting some wreckers then. The remote fuel cap release is a nice idea too. Will go well with the whole "Calais" thing (unless of course it already has one! As you can see I know so much about this car already!). After much more thinking and a bit of talking, i...

oh no, i've started a war!!! hehe :O k, so the basic thing i'm getting here is if i run petrol its a good idea to get an efi tank and associated bits from either my vk, a vl or other similar model (altho' i dont think my wife would appreciate me pulling apart her VS 5 speed :D). I'm not...

Zuffen, thats what I'm thinking, keeping the gas setup wasn't really at the forefront of my mind at this stage. As for the trans, well everyone keeps saying the stock auto is a good unit and i'm probably more inclined to stick with it. I love manuals, but that can be looked at further down...

In terms of the headers and such, I'll just wait till I get the actual cut and then me & my dad can have a real good look to see if its a feasible solution. Hmmmm, a japanese house? I've never seen a Japanese house so I dunno about that!! Actually, from what I remember of it, it looks like a...

O yea, forgot to mention, the 6 cyl EFI VK i drive is currently setup for dual fuel, so.......yea. BTW Zuffen, i can't throw nothing away!! Besides, that old 5.0L may just yet be sold to help finance my halfcut purchase!!! Or, I could fit that into my current VK...

Peewee - yea it was a carby job from factory, but my brother-in-law had a IMPCO gas conversion installed when he bought it. It's now got this weird looking "thing" sitting were the carby should be. So if I don't run with this LPG gear, does this make the conversion process that much more...

I had a thought, i wonder how feasible it is. Pleez excuse my stupidity you can laugh at me if u wish :) The current motor already has a set of extractors & big pipe, sooooooo, what about a cut & graft job? Like I am thinking, take the 1uz headers, cut the pipes off em, then cut the 308's...

Hehe, long weekend my bum, i have to work over it! Thanks guys for your responses. I was thinking along the lines of a crown half cut anyways. The one thing i had forgotten about was exhaust. I'd love to run extractors and a big pipe, but by the looks of it, this could cost as much as the...

Hi all, I must say firstly that this forum has so far provided me with truckloads of useful information on my planned conversion. But in the process, I think i have overwhelmed myself with the amount of information here and am confused. I have a VK Calais sitting here begging for some work...