Outer Limits 4x4 Board

just a few comments from my experience running a supra 8 inch in the front of my surf.

100% centred diff was not an issue running a but clearance to gearbox may be an issue in an auto, I run a manual with twin hilux transfers.
The stress on the front is a hell of a lot less than a rear so worrying ...

Supralux conversion.

Same sort of effort/cost as a SAS conversion and goes everywhere the SAS boys in my club go.

Lots cheaper and easier to replace CV's though so i tend to abuse it more than the SAS boys dare

http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/forum/view ... hp?t=19571

2 things to check:

1. Check his steering stops.
- They get bent/snap clean off and then it the CV goes beyond the safe zone and break really easy.
- I ended up getting some rated bolts and grinding them into a steeping stop that lasts a little longer.

2. Check the droop bumpstop same thing, the ...

G'day,

I've got the powerjection 3 in the pics.

Supposedly there is a new model out ow Powerjection 3 Pluc which also has spark control as part of the system.

Mine cost me about $3000 from the austalian distributor (Australian Auto Accessories, in nunawading 9845 0800)

The manufacturer tells me ...

China's building Merc's, Beamers, Chrysler, Ford, Toyota, everything.

Chongquing in central China is todays equivelent of Detroit, almost every car manufacturer is building there cars there.

Wont be long and your only option with a new car is Chinese built, maybe they put the badge on in Germany ...

Here's mine, made up from 3" exhaust pipe, just bought a bit of straight and 3 mandrel bends.

Still cost me $200 in steel from the exhaust place (mandrel bends cost me $45 a U) and made it all up myself, so not exactly a cheap option.

sold the old safari snorkel for $100 so not bad upgrade for ...

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Just so the the toyota people can recognise this rare beast.....a Surf/4runner....just incase the cruiser people wern't sure what this thread was about :P

Supralux Front End
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j147/VicKrawlers/Gembrook/supraluxsurf.jpg ...

http://www.retrotekspeed.com/products/powerjection-iii/

Just put one of these on my V8 surf, bloody cleaver bit of gear and the kit came with everything!!

- self learning/tuning efi (dont need to get it retuned every time you change something on the motor)
- By the time you add up all the bits ...

Gold!! that'll be it!

thanks.

Just wondering if anyone can spot what our problem is, we are tearing our hair out and even the diff builder is trying to bodgy things.

we have a 4.56 V6 hilux rear diff housing with an airlocker, we got a set of standard hilux 4.88 gears (not from a V6 housing) and tried to put them in our housing ...

Here's a thought: Mog diffs on a Jeep chassis bolted to a 2dr Rangy body (cut down into a convertible ute) with a BMW engine finished off with Lada badges.

Look....a vehicle which doesn't use any Jap crap... :lol:

:lol: image the reliabilty!! :lol:

Being differrent is never the easiest but ...

G'day,

looking at going EFI and wondering what i need for the metal fuel lines?

Will the original Deisel metal line from the tank be fine? Are EFI metal lines any different from carby metal lines?

I know all the rubber ones on the high pressure side need to be replaced with EFI rated hose.

What ...

Personally, I've never had a CV go "pop". Just turned over 160k km, still have the same CVs that were in there when I bought it at 63k km.

Obviously, I don't break CVs because I'm not hard-core enough.

I'll have to put a Toyota front end in so I can break CVs - then I'll be hard-core. :armsup ...

An 8" front diff? Wow, that sounds pretty cool.
I wish my IFS had an 8" diff.
Oh, hang on...
:D

Ahh yes but does yours have nice long drive shafts that reduce the CV angles so that the CV's dont go "pop"

I was toying with using the Paj front end but the Supra has additional advantages ...

Total Chaos kit with a Supra 8" would be sweet as!!

Plenty of flex plus a strong front diff.

I've done the supra diff in my surf and given it some serious abuse, cant seem to break it. I can break the CV's but that still takes a seriously hard landing at full noise. (running Yuri CV's could ...

G'day,

Trying to work out what's the best combination for drivability & cost wise.

See spread sheet of my options and the resulting ratios

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j147/VicKrawlers/miscelaneous/Gearratios.jpg

(calculations are for final drive without taking into consideration tyre ...

Nah,

Its better to stay all in one, Us hilux people end up running all Landcruiser stuff underneath anyway to stop breaking things so we need the cruiser stuff and the hilux stuff!!

If you take away the cruiser stuff then people will start doing silly things like putting nissan bits under there ...

Holly Truck Avenger is the offroad carby, works a treat, never missed a beat for me, plenty of nasty angles havnt bothered it and it doesnt flood when you hit a washout too hard either.

Thirsty little bugger though.

Catcha
Leeham

Mate a front lokker in any 4x4 will make it 100 % better and knowing you have the locker will give you so much more confidence and you will probly go a millioon more places , any 4x4 ive had first thing i do be for anything at all is front locker

x2 :armsup:

Put in a front Lokka and you will go ...

My old mans diesel one gets around 9ltrs/100 round down and down to 8ltr/100 on the highway.

Pulls like a train even with a rallycar on a tandem behind it!

Pulls the oldies Jayco van around the country fantastic.

Great motor.

only ever had one hickup when it did a turbo on an outback trip but ...

on my discover (with lt230) I can put it in neutral and shift it, but only at 30k max

So it might work then....

I know its not recomended (by the book) to go between high and low on the move. Just that in real life the ablity that i have now to shift from Low range to High range on the move come ...

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I can shift from low to high range while moving if I get the revs right with my hilux geardriven transfercase in my surf with a R151 manual gearbox.

Would I be able to do the same thing with an auto or wont it work as you cant take the load off the drivetrain as there is no clutch? shift ...

G'day all.

I currently have a standard type plastic snorkel on my surf running a 308 V8 with a 470CFM Holley Truck Avanger (vacuum secondaries). I've been told by the Dyno tuner that i need a bigger snorkel as the vacuum caused by the snorkel is playing havoc on the carby.

I'm running a standard ...

That when you tap the brakes and it releases and allows you to turn quite easily.

Just like an Airlocker, if its heavily loaded up it wont release. so take a bit of the pressure off and it will release and let you turn.

Release , Turn, Reaply.

exaclty, each time you tap the brakes the lokka ...

Stays locked. holds car fine going down hills through wasaways/ledges/wombat hole etc.

A small turbo will boost up early, the other advantage of the turbo is it is load sensitive. A turbo engine will free rev to 5000rpm and create 0 psi boost but load it up with on a hill in top gear and it'll be boosting 10psi at 2000rpm.

When you've picked too high a gear on a steep hill climb (And ...

loves the lokka pulled the airlockers out for lokka reliability and better road manners.

Leeham

WTF
i dont know where to start with that too many things wrong in one sentence :shock:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :D

better let all the comp truck boys know
pull your airlockers out ...

Listen to all these blokes above and sell the lokka to me..I love em and wouldn't run anything else, best option front and rear lokkas. (I need a pair of cruiser lokkas for my new project)

I'd run the lokka in the front just because its better to be front locked if you only have one.

when i first ...

If you dont need massive reduction , the chaindrive transfer already has a lower ratio than the gear driven transfer which may be sufficent.

I think the chain drive is 2.6 reduction compared to 2.1 in the gear driver (better check them though as I'm only going off memory)

cheers
leeham

I just paid $1000 for a R series box with 40,000kms on it supposedly but you can usually get them around $400 or less with more kms on them.

I had a 253 originally and it went well but have put a 308 in the surf now, the 253 sounded awesome and went really well, I picked the 308 up cheap so put it ...