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Holden Drover exploration.....

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Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by Bazzooki »

G'day guy's

Just recently bought a 85 Drover, and have plans to turn it into a tuff truck/ rock hopper. :lol:
already have plans to give her a 2 inch suspesion lift + 2 in body lift but did'nt know where to start with the motor so i thought i'd throw it out there and try and get some idea's. The exhaust will be 2 inch all thru with high flow cat very soon too.
idealy i would prefer to keep the motor light but yet still capable of producing high torque and good power...
and was also curious if there is a way of getting more from the little 1.3 in it while i decide, carbi and/or stage 2 cam i was thinking. :?:

one more question is the Drover completly compatiable with the sierra or are their some changes other than cosmetic?? :twisted:

p.s all mechanical and fab will be done by myself.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by BlueSuzy »

Sounds good.

The most common motor conversion is the 1.6 efi. As the carbs dont live very long offroad..Also depends how you treat them i guess. Cam mods seem to make the motors better also, from what i've heard.

The Drover is practically a 1.3 Narrow Track Sierra.

The square headlights is Drover only.

And there will be some minor changes, but parts will still be all compatible.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by V.W.Dave »

sounds like your going to have a project on your hands. you should start a build thread.
Have a look in the Suzuki Bible you will find all the different engine conversion. Every thing has been done. C18, 4age, 4agz, rotors, GTIs,Balinos, Vitara tey will all work it just comes down to what you want and how much work you want to put iinto it.

GTI is by far the easist but not the best.
Balino is one of the harder ones but worth the extra work.
The mpst common and one of the best is the vitara.
The others are good but take a lot more fab work.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by Kitika »

The motors and gearboxs etc are all interchangable between the 1.3 sierras and the drover as I've swapped them over in mine. Stage 2 cam and quad carbies liven the 1.3's right up! Great throttle response and upgrade in torque I reckon it'd be comparable with a stock 1.6 and is a fairly cheap mod if you do it yourself mine would have been under $400 for the cam and the carbs. Is it going to be a licensed rig? If not I wouldn't bother with the cat as they are expensive and only put a nice stop to the flow of air.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by joeblow »

V.W.Dave wrote: GTI is by far the easist but not the best.


nope..........that award would go to the 1.6 8 valve carby motor.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by BlueSuzy »

joeblow wrote:
V.W.Dave wrote: GTI is by far the easist but not the best.


nope..........that award would go to the 1.6 8 valve carby motor.
Not with his history. :finger:
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by SuziBlu »

Kitika wrote:The motors and gearboxs etc are all interchangable between the 1.3 sierras and the drover as I've swapped them over in mine. Stage 2 cam and quad carbies liven the 1.3's right up! Great throttle response and upgrade in torque I reckon it'd be comparable with a stock 1.6 and is a fairly cheap mod if you do it yourself mine would have been under $400 for the cam and the carbs. Is it going to be a licensed rig? If not I wouldn't bother with the cat as they are expensive and only put a nice stop to the flow of air.

Where do you get, and what make are a Stage 2 cam and quad carbys for under $400, sounds excellent.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by Bazzooki »

Sweet, So i didnt buy a dud.... :armsup: Cheers for the info

Ok
After a bit of research and too much reading i'v decided on a 4agze for it...!
mainly cause as i own a rolla with a 4age and know them backwards, plus after watchin a few utube vid's and see the power they put down, i just cant help myself :shock: converstion doesnt seem too bad either.
And yeah it will be road registered

So i was wondering are all the drover's NT (narrow track) or was that pretty much standard, how can you tell without measuring???
in saying so would i be better of putting sierra WT on it or should i look towards something stronger like the hilux??
however i'd rather keep the weight down and i know the hilux axle's are pretty heavy...

Hey Kitika just wonderin did you get your cam made up or was it off the shelf??
and wat quad carbs did you use???
And if you dont mind my asking wat are you running now??


I'm a bit illiterate but wats a build thread?? :?:
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by Kitika »

The cam is made up off the shelf item made from billet steel not a reground stock cam. I got it from lowrangeoffroad.com and seeing as the dollar is pretty high it'd be a good time to look at them. And the carbs are off a gsx750. Very fast setup for a 1.3 could easily do more than the N.T. speed limit ;) And being from a motorbike they won't flood on angles.
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by Bazzooki »

Cheers Kitika

Tell me should i be looking at changing it to a WT, wats the advantage??? :?:
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Re: Holden Drover exploration.....

Post by Kitika »

You'll have about 90mm extra width on your axles I believe. I have a couple of sets of w/t diffs but can't be bothered fitting them on to the drover because the narrow track makes it stay out of ruts easier. Strength wise I beleive they are the same but the drover has slightly better diff ratios (3.9 compared to 3.7) but they can be fitted to the w/t diffs to if you wanted.
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