Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Wot ee sed.

If it's just a weekend toy does it need to be legal?

The way things are now as soon as you bolt 33s on it's illegal unless engineered, regardless of suspension/diff setup. I'm not intimately familiar with Qld legalities now, but I reckon you're looking at trailer queen if you want 33s ...

Stock-ish non-turbo LC80s are still going for up around $10k... damn. Wouldn't mind a 4.2T.

Similar vintage 75s are even more! Guess I stick with the Vit for a while then

Sooooo....?

For a run-around $5-7K will get you a good early Grand Vitara - 5 doors (LWB) were a 2.5L V6, which was a good little motor for a relatively light car. 98-04ish.
(3dr SWB also came with a 1.6 4cyl, the EFI version of the motor in your 94 Vit. Some also got the 2L 4cyl.)

The earlier ones (closer to ...

Wheel alignment, wheel bearings, steering box, tyre balancing.

Pics peeps!

What motor/box are going in? Do you know if you're likely to have firewall or tunnel clearance issues?

I think setting it horizontal for the moment and leaving or building in some adjustment so you can tweak to suit the transfer output if you need to.

Get the main fusebox from the EF and use that as well.

Not that familiar with Sierras, but consensus seems to be that LWB are definitely the way to go, especially for climbing.

The beauty part is that most stuff is bolt-off bolt-on, so if you're up to the work you could get the LWB chassis, a ute cab, some wide-track diffs and you've got the best bits ...

But there's a total wheel track width increase limit too, isn't there? So unless you start getting creative with offsets and clearing chassis/suspension bits when steering hard that's still going to be restrictive?

A 50% increase seems uncharacteristically generous!

The 275 or 265 etc is the tyre width, so 275mm = 10.8"

I think David is saying that you can go 1.5" wider, so anything up to 12.3" would be OK... annoyingly this leaves you just short of either 12.5" or 315mm.

To answer the second part of your question - if you already have a decent set of driving lights (pair of Lightforce 170s) then sure throw the money at an LED bar. If it was a case of one or the other I'd personally recommend some HID floods, but if you can have both that should be a good combo.

Vehicle Height :- Maximum of 125mm. This is made up of 50mm suspension, tyres 50mm (diameter) & body blocks 50mm. (Some other States are 150mm in total)

Vehicle height :- Increases over 75mm will require an LS9 (Design) & LS10 (Modification) plate fitted, this will also include a lane change ...

So being able to say 44.45 is 45 is okay but we can't say 50 is 2 inch love the way they can have two things the same but different. When I went to school 44.45 would be rounded down to 44 not up to 45. Wow I wish I worked in government lol

An inch is 24.7mm, so 2" = 49.4mm.


an inch is 25.4mm ...

stock 4runner wrote:So being able to say 44.45 is 45 is okay but we can't say 50 is 2 inch love the way they can have two things the same but different. When I went to school 44.45 would be rounded down to 44 not up to 45. Wow I wish I worked in government lol

An inch is 24.7mm, so 2" = 49.4mm.

My 93 LWB Vit:
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3" Calmini Kit with GV coils, OME ...

Why would you BL 1"? Why not just got 2" so you can get 31s under it?

^^^especially from LROR. Great service and reasonable shipping - they'll even give you a refund if they figure out they can ship it cheaper than the website works out.. Nothing but good to say about them

Call John at Consulmotive - RTA signatory engineer, told me exactly what I needed to do to get what I wanted approved.

My old 3VZe threw a rod and punched a hole in the block. Cost me over $5k to get it replaced (not something I can do myself).

Replacement was installed with a dodgy thermostat, failed within a month and the new motor blew the head.

Be careful with all the ancilliaries if you do get a replacement ...

As above, ARB make a steel winch bar, $1k+
ECB make an alloy (non-winch) I got quotes $1600 for my LWB

They were pretty much the only ones I found when looking around. I ended up with a second hand ECB one, which I am modifying to mount the winch behind (not actually using the alloy at all!)
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I used pop rivets to get a Swift Boss onto the Vit:

I know a guy in Melbourne is working on developing one...

Do steering wheels or bosses off swifts or other suzuki's fit on a sierra? (are all the sierra's the same spline count for that matter) Looking for a cheap steering wheel upgrade option until I have the coin for something nice.

Not sure about Sierras, but if it helps the Swift bosses fit the ...

silly questions you say!

i'll fit right in

hit the ball off with this then.

i'm keen on my 4wd. it's an X-90

i've got a 2"suspension lift my next steps??

leave the 2" lift guard cut liek crazy to fit some 29-30" tires..

or go a 3" lift and guard cut to fit 29-30" tires?? i'm currently using ...

Try auszookers.com

Fair enough point on the cheaper plastic used, but I wonder if painting would render the UV resistance argument redundant?

Well my back end has gone up 90mm since I took those measurements... waiting on the bits to match the front

This makes me miss my old beast - nothing like some of the above, but a good solid truck:


Dog looks young in that photo! Still got him, not the 'Runner.

Measured a few bits for the sake of comparison when the TD/OME stuff goes in:

NB - there was a winch, compressor, and front steel diff in the boot at the time these measurements were taken, so the rear was sitting around 25mm low.

From top of wheel arch to ground:
Front Drivers - 765mm
Front ...