The conversion so far....
After spending few G's on the motor, and custom clutch,fly wheel,bell-housing and turbos. i now have alot of stuff, a ute. and about 100 screwed up pieces of paper laying all over the floor on "plans and ideas".
before i was doing this build some one said " there is always alot of stuff u miss think, or think it will be right, but turn out to be a massive problem"
No truer words where spoken. so for all the blokes out there thinking aww yeah its easy come on round to my place and give me a hand on building this thing!! besides all the crazy buying and forum searching and some sleepless nights thinking i have wasted a few grand, it is under Way.
Super Blue Ute history.
I bought the old 84 hilux back when i was on my l's when i was 16 of the bloke who lived next to me, i had seen the old ute driving around by a bloke who originally built it. was the ultimate machine back in the day. anyways i bough this ute off the second owner, against everyone warning biggest mistake of my currant life. it had a 1ggte ( twin turbo soarer with a w58 gearbox) it ran 12 pounds. and had a nice 2.5 '' exhaust sounded really nice, not loud but nice growl and purrrrr.
What ended up killing it was, the previous owner never changed oil( 4 years) later found out, and the bearings where shot and gouged crank and the oil was full of copper shavings. ended up going through all bearings and yeah it was grinding and knackered. rings where worn, and couldn't find a rebuild kit for it, because it was so old. 1989 and against all peoples theory's it ran 20 pound fine on stock internals and injectors. that's not what killed it.
so the ute sat in the drive way for a month and ended up growing grass in the tub when, i got the mad idea of putting a v8 in it because there where going cheap and why not put twin t3 t4 turbos, because there was a adapter cad file for my gearbox =] thought i was bloody superman. well pretty crash hot.
Engine Finding.
stalked eBay like a mad man, trying to find a suitable engine i was looking at a 1jz but they where extra 1g. and was kinda on a budget anyways spoke to a guy called Daniel at south-side jap. in Melbourne and got me a good one with only 150,000 full service log, and was only dinged in the side of the car write off cost me 1600 for engine and postage to my door pretty much and that's Aussie dollars =].
Asked many websites for help on this Awesome engine such as boost cruising and toy-mods, just got idiots on power trips with no idea. that's when i found u guys, and it was Free ( toy-mods 50 bucks joining fee )
seen on ebay that there was bell housing clutch and fly wheel combo in Thailand bought that fits aw-some but had to mod slight thing in alloy bell housing ( got my own tig, easy job).
also found some mid priced t3t4's and i have corkybells book on turbos and another earlier one that helped with working out the trim and A/r and all that crap and yeah good book buy it or download worth it.
Current.
well i got the wiring out and sent to auto sparky to get stripped and modded so i can just wire it in, im no auto sparky but im pretty good behind a lathe and on the welder.
so i went for the first try fit today with gearbox on just to get the measurements for the turbo manifolds and mainly the engine mounts so i can fab them up. oil filter hits on the chassis rail bell housing hits sway bar and sump hits steering arm, so atm i have go the choose remove sway bar, mod the steering arm ( not sure if dodgy or not,) or just burn the whole project and try claim on insurance lol.
im trying to use the previous gearbox mounts so i don't have to mod the tail shaft ( as the budget is blown out the ass) it looks like its going to fit but the sway bar is in the way and i cant get the gearbox down enough because the bottom of the motor is hitting on steering arms i have photos that i will post but yeah any ideas hits info i have looked up a lot of stuff on here, but some one who has tackled this kind madness before would be much thanked thanks for having a read hope i havent bored u to much as i said pics up soon =]
After spending few G's on the motor, and custom clutch,fly wheel,bell-housing and turbos. i now have alot of stuff, a ute. and about 100 screwed up pieces of paper laying all over the floor on "plans and ideas".
before i was doing this build some one said " there is always alot of stuff u miss think, or think it will be right, but turn out to be a massive problem"
No truer words where spoken. so for all the blokes out there thinking aww yeah its easy come on round to my place and give me a hand on building this thing!! besides all the crazy buying and forum searching and some sleepless nights thinking i have wasted a few grand, it is under Way.
Super Blue Ute history.
I bought the old 84 hilux back when i was on my l's when i was 16 of the bloke who lived next to me, i had seen the old ute driving around by a bloke who originally built it. was the ultimate machine back in the day. anyways i bough this ute off the second owner, against everyone warning
biggest mistake of my currant life. it had a 1ggte ( twin turbo soarer with a w58 gearbox) it ran 12 pounds. and had a nice 2.5 '' exhaust sounded really nice, not loud but nice growl and purrrrr.What ended up killing it was, the previous owner never changed oil( 4 years) later found out, and the bearings where shot and gouged crank and the oil was full of copper shavings. ended up going through all bearings and yeah it was grinding and knackered. rings where worn, and couldn't find a rebuild kit for it, because it was so old. 1989 and against all peoples theory's it ran 20 pound fine on stock internals and injectors. that's not what killed it.
so the ute sat in the drive way for a month and ended up growing grass in the tub when, i got the mad idea of putting a v8 in it because there where going cheap and why not put twin t3 t4 turbos, because there was a adapter cad file for my gearbox =] thought i was bloody superman. well pretty crash hot.
Engine Finding.
stalked eBay like a mad man, trying to find a suitable engine i was looking at a 1jz but they where extra 1g. and was kinda on a budget anyways spoke to a guy called Daniel at south-side jap. in Melbourne and got me a good one with only 150,000 full service log, and was only dinged in the side of the car write off cost me 1600 for engine and postage to my door pretty much and that's Aussie dollars =].
Asked many websites for help on this Awesome engine such as boost cruising and toy-mods, just got idiots on power trips with no idea. that's when i found u guys, and it was Free
( toy-mods 50 bucks joining fee ) seen on ebay that there was bell housing clutch and fly wheel combo in Thailand bought that fits aw-some but had to mod slight thing in alloy bell housing ( got my own tig, easy job).
also found some mid priced t3t4's and i have corkybells book on turbos and another earlier one that helped with working out the trim and A/r and all that crap and yeah good book buy it or download worth it.
Current.
well i got the wiring out and sent to auto sparky to get stripped and modded so i can just wire it in, im no auto sparky but im pretty good behind a lathe and on the welder.
so i went for the first try fit today with gearbox on just to get the measurements for the turbo manifolds and mainly the engine mounts so i can fab them up. oil filter hits on the chassis rail bell housing hits sway bar and sump hits steering arm, so atm i have go the choose remove sway bar, mod the steering arm ( not sure if dodgy or not,) or just burn the whole project and try claim on insurance lol.
im trying to use the previous gearbox mounts so i don't have to mod the tail shaft ( as the budget is blown out the ass) it looks like its going to fit but the sway bar is in the way and i cant get the gearbox down enough because the bottom of the motor is hitting on steering arms i have photos that i will post but yeah any ideas hits info i have looked up a lot of stuff on here, but some one who has tackled this kind madness before would be much thanked thanks for having a read hope i havent bored u to much as i said pics up soon =]
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