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Thats all well and good if your car is pinched but do anything for you if you crash into someone or the car is stolen and burnt out

Quuick ebay gives me $325 each from tempe tyres for 35's - reputable shop There is also someone called 'international tyre trader' who has them listed for 286 each. No idea what freight would cost from either of those though At those prices I would just buy locally - IMO not worth the potential ...

Thanks, figured as much, will definatly be changing over when I redo the brakes

What is the advantage of going to a stainless piston? is it just that it won't pit down the track?

I am only a backyard hack, but imo with tig you can definatly run without filler and just melt the corners into the weldpool. Probably not a bad way to learn as well as you can concentrate on the arc and just move metal around without having to also worry about dabbing filler rod in.

we have a 1997 2.8L at work which has been serviced at toyota service intervals which is 10,000 i think, it has well over 400,000 and being a work car it doesn't get treated gently - still going strong. 8000km will be fine

Hats off for trying something differant. Turbos on hilux's can be done cheap using the turbo setup off a 2.4L surf ect from wrecker or ebay. As well as buying the supercharger you will need plenty of other bits to make it fit as well as working out how to run pulley/belts. One issue you will have ...

Yeah user name is Mick. from Newcastle area. If you search on here for lic40 you should find a bit of info.
Is there any particular measurements on the fuel tank you need or just overall dimensions. I will be selling it at some stage as I am using a gq patrol fuel tank

If it is going to be a knock around 4by I have heard really good things about lic40 - get in touch with Mick on here as he is a painter and seems to swear by the stuff. I think it can even go over bare metal ruffed up with 80grit I think. I would also hit it with a rust converter of some description ...

CAn you get longer pins for the factory disconect off the shelf somewhere or do you have to modify the original to suit the lift?

If you are after a bit more poke out of the 1uz why not put a blower on it, fron the sounds of things it would be more reliable and probably cheaper in the long run - eaton m90 and eaton m112 can be bought for less than a grand on ebay then some fabrication

Anyone got a 90-97 HIlux Chassis Diagram - LN106? I can only find a diagram/dimensions for an 85 which I assume is differant.

Thanks
James

I did also speak to John however I found him really hard to contact and he never replied to numerous emails, but I would ring around and see who you think will be the best for what you want

sounds very cheap, if the conversion is done using marks adapters then you shouldn't have too many dramas getting it engineered

Also check out Athol Mullen who is in Newcastle (cardiff) not sure on cost for just an engine swap though

How is that going to work? A hilux seat sits almost on the floor, a Patrol seat is mounted quite high, and has about a 4" "spacer" between the slide which bolts to the floor and the actual seat base. So if you had the floor pan of the Hilux Chassis sitting at the same spot as the Patrol body, the ...

I am doing a built with a GQ chassis as the base and will be fully engineered etc. The amount of 'body lift' is determined fromt the front seats of the body I am putting on (LN106 hilux) - I am allowed to go 4 inch total lift so if the seat in teh hilux sit at the same height as the original patrol ...

As sugested look on ebay for seats out of higer spec ricer cars, some are even genuine recaros for a few hundred $$. You can get a mounting kit and rails from ideal seat co to mount recaros into a hilux for about $750 for pasanger and drivers side if you ar looking for a bolt in no fuss easily ...

I have a token tools tig/stick/plasma which as far as I'm aware are the same as Everlast just painted red instead of green. Mine has been great for the $$ not sure how mig goes though. I have a cig transmig 165 mig which has been fantastic, gone through a few spools of wire and a few bottles of gas ...

I am in the middle of a build which involves putting a ln106 hilux (1990) dual cab body onto a gq patrol chassis and just trying to work out where to sit the body so that tires clear. On the hilux's it is common practice to move the front diff forward 30-40mm which allows bigger tires to fit without ...

I have heard good things about the excide extreme batteries particularly if you can pick them up on special from kmart. I have always had a good run with century batteries in both commodores and my hilux's

The Bionic blue your referring to is actually a pearl from memory but you need to look very closely to actually see the pearl. I got a small sample pot mixed up and I am pretty sure it is a solid colour, from memory there is a similar ford colour which is a little bit lighter which has a light blue ...

Thanks Mick, I will pop into autolac in the next few weeks and check them out. after a bit of googling I found this hilux which I like - bionic blue, although mine won't have the submarine feature fitted :roll: http://tassie4wd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10002&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 If I ...

NSW is the same - with a body swap it is registered as whatever the chassis is and in nsw depending on what year the chassis is from you may have to modify the body to bring it up to the same adr that the chassis had to comply with. Why do you want to keep the rego - it will have to be certified ...

What's wrong with Teal? Nothing really, I was just wasn't expecting it to have any green tint to it - still going to spray a panel with it to see how it looks. I spent many hours drooling over the VK SS when I was just getting into cars as a teenager so it would be cool to have it that colour. if ...

I am building up a ln106 1990 hilux dual cab and trying to decide on paint colours. Initially I was dead keen on the new toyota colour called graphite (charcoal metalic) but if I went that colour it works out to be around 2grand in paint by the time I get primers and clears etc vs a solid colour ...

The original plug leads have the build date printed on them. That ecu is identical to mine 94 ls400, the earlier ecu has 1 huge electrical plug held in with a central bolt . My guess would be 94-97. I think the ecu's that have the 'large' plug - 3 x 40 pin plugs are from toyota soarers - the number ...

I think it was the number under TOYOTA, and yes I think I got my info off lextreme which appears to be broken at the moment.

Evan I also have a spare crispy soarer engine which will have a rear sump on it - I got loads of useful stuff (some may call it junk) clogging up my driveway

I am not sure if you can get it off the engine number but I worked out mine was a 91-94 soarer from the number on the ecu. Maybe try over on lextreme.
Evan if you need an auto box I have one I looking at getting rid of (i'm in newcastle)

Cheers
James

Off the top of my head I think the fuse and relay for the ac is in the passenger side kick panel right up near the bottom of the dash. If it isn't there I have a dual cab with the dash half pulled apart so should be able to go looking for it easily (i'm not home at the moment)

Cheers
James