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this is why i chopped it up...



was not much damage but good enough excuse

69mud wrote:
was not much damage but good enough excuse

Yummy , mine has more damage in the rear than yours did and I'm still waiting, I am definately getting it done and from looking at yours an extra cab is the way to go, the cab looks really good and I'm a fan of the simple tray and chunky barwork and also the fact it isn't verticle at the rear of the cab. Did you do it yourself or was it a paid job? What was used for the rear of the cab? How long did it take? What does it ride like now and did you have to change the rear suspension or anything else that may have been affected? Oh one more - Is it quicker on the road now with less weight ? Very nice!

yeah i dont like the straight up and down back wall looks cheap so i wanted to keep the factory look of the 80 ... was done by good mate of mine .. tray took a bit of stuffing around to get it to look right with the cab... just made up panel below window ..goes much better with less weight a little bit of suspension tuning to do as has made it a little rough from the back but havent tryed it with fuel in rear tank ,spare wheel and water tank full yet,i think it will be better then..

Mad, will keep my eye out for the 60 GXL window, it seems to give pretty good visability from what I can see in the photos. I'm also curious to see how they tow after the conversion? Regardless I think my chop-o-meter just hit the limiter... again.

Just do it em

bump

Hey Reece if want to ute it bring it round to my place i'm going to do mine i may as well practice on your s#!t box

Coighty wrote:Hey Reece if want to ute it bring it round to my place i'm going to do mine i may as well practice on your s#!t box

Im like you paul I also have a spare body to cut up first
Good luck with your POS

Reece

69mud wrote:my 80 extra cab not finished yet bet getting closer

I'm thinking of seting my 100 up a tourer and choping my 80 to use for comp's and more hard core stuff I like the ass end with the angles on your chop who did the chop?

jimbo

Nice Chops

That Blue 80 From Car Sales is my Favourite.

But they all rule

Dan

its my old mans 80 ute.

whaldo wrote:

its my old mans 80 ute.

niiiiiiiiiiiiiice, I really like this

whaldo wrote:

its my old mans 80 ute.

Awesome job. Who did the chop and tray work?

Is anyone keen to share how much approximately it cost from start to finish including tray? Engineering? & How much work did you do on it? Either dual or extra cab.

ferog wrote:Is anyone keen to share how much approximately it cost from start to finish including tray? Engineering? & How much work did you do on it? Either dual or extra cab.

Em
I did mine myself with a few mates and I dont think it cost more than $1500 all up

what are you using for the b-piller window?

The window used for the B pillar is the fixed window in the rear of the back door. Thats what it looks like to me, cause thats what i'm doing to mine right now, and it looks like that.

can also get perspex cut as it is not beside ocupents (aparently)....that is what i was going to say if asked but no body asked any questions

69mud wrote:this is why i chopped it up...



was not much damage but good enough excuse

thats not damaged at all, just a few scratches

yeah i know but insurance company thought it was enoungh to write it off..

thats because its a yota


seriously did they write the car off from that? was there any other damage on it?

Coighty wrote:The window used for the B pillar is the fixed window in the rear of the back door. Thats what it looks like to me, cause thats what i'm doing to mine right now, and it looks like that.

Thats correct but i think Pete swapped them left to right...

At a guess i spent around 2g doing mine inc qld transport approval....
And maybe 2 and a bit months, mainly weekends...

How much of a mess around with qld transport was it or was if easy

69mud wrote:
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Very nice, (drool) that is a very tidy conversion 69mud. Some horney looking 80 single and duel cab chops, they all look nice but yours looks

yeh must say it does look
even if its a yota

Coighty wrote:The window used for the B pillar is the fixed window in the rear of the back door. Thats what it looks like to me, cause thats what i'm doing to mine right now, and it looks like that.

Yep thats exactly what I did. And as RV80 said, swapped left to right

Hey Pete don't why you would bother swapping left to right as the windows are the same. I've got mine out now and thought about swapping left to right, even tried it, it looked the same angle so i put the windows on top of each other and they are the same?

Hmmmmm
I could have sworn mine were slightly different. I think from memory the top and sides lined up the same, but the bottom was different angles and swapping them over worked out better. When I chopped mine, I used the front 1/3rd of the rear doors and moved the C Pillar forward to form the rear of the cab. So the angle on the back of my cab is a little different to most I have seen.

hey out of curiosity those who performed there dual cab conversion did you provide a technical drawing of the proposed modification?

In the NT they ask for you to provide a technical drawing with measurements of the proposed modification. As i have about as much drawing skills as a person who cant see, can anyone help me out. they say it doesn't have to be accurate but provide enough information as possible to support your application.

Has anyone kept there drawings or know of someone that could help me out with suggestions of how to make my own set.

cheers all in advance