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70 series bonnet onto 75 series
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:22 pm
by doe
has anyone tried to graft a 70series bonnet onto a 75 yet or does any one no how close they are thinking of putting a skin on 75 frame
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:50 pm
by Z()LTAN
eleventy thousand percent not possible...
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:05 pm
by GO79
Get two new hilux or shittrol bonnet scoops
ive seen a 75series cruiser with one on each high point of the bonnet looks good
I think the nissan ones are $160 ea unpainted
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:10 pm
by doe
gee zoltan you that sure
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:13 pm
by Z()LTAN
haha yep!
the bonnet wont fit its wayyyy different, it will be like trying to fit a hummer bonnet on a barina.
U want the bonnet or just the scoops?
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:17 pm
by doe
allready got pootroll scoop want toyota shaped bonnet
would look cool
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:42 pm
by Ice
bj70 bonnet fits fine on my 75
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:43 pm
by Z()LTAN
haha smart ass
V8 70 series bonnet
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:45 am
by pork hunt
Re: V8 70 series bonnet
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:12 pm
by crazy eyes
[quote="pork hunt"]It has been done. Available from FRP ( Fibreglass Replacement Panels) Qld 07 3883 1301 .Made a Fibreglass Mould & grafted it into my75 series bonnet .Have made a mould off that & now producing 70 series bonnets for 75 series.Can email pics if you want. I can make the bonnet but I cant upload pics on this website. I'm a glassman not a puter nerd Mick
[/quote]
what are they worth?
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:31 pm
by pork hunt
Complete bonnet, Scoop insert & mesh $770 inc gst Mick
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:36 pm
by Z()LTAN
i dont understand but ok
Id like to see some pics..
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:03 pm
by pork hunt
Z()LTAN wrote:i dont understand but ok
Id like to see some pics..
What dont you understand? the genuine 70 series bonnet comes as a bonnet plus the insert for the scoop ( this is the trim for around the scoop hole) as 2 separate items . I moulded the complete bonnet then made a section out of that mould including the scoop. This was moulded into a 75 series bonnet & I made another mould off that. I also made a mould for the scoop trim or insert separately because it would never come out of a mould if it was moulded all in one
Send me an email
sales@frp.com.au & I will send pics. Mick
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:35 pm
by krooza85
Can someone get hold of these pics and post em up would be kewl too see this
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:11 pm
by Z()LTAN
email sent
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:21 pm
by Z()LTAN
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:30 pm
by cruzinnboozn
FARK YEAH....look the goods.....
So you gonna get one, now you have your "secret" weapon under your bonnet Zoltan.......
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:56 pm
by Z()LTAN
cruzinnboozn wrote:
So you gonna get one, now you have your "secret" weapon under your bonnet Zoltan.......
Who knows, it may be exactly what i need
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:02 pm
by Z()LTAN
Oh and for any of you 40 series owners.... LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!!
How ridiculously horn is that?
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:42 pm
by doe
thanks for that pork hunt thought someone would have done it buy now
just dont like the idea of fiberglass
heard too many stories of glass panels cracking all the time
plus im a steel man
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:53 pm
by jessie928
Z()LTAN wrote:Oh and for any of you 40 series owners.... LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!!
How ridiculously horn is that?
not horn, it looks SHIT.
i would bash myself with a tyre iron before i bolt that monstrosity onto a 40 series.
its NEARLY as bad as the GT bonnet's they make for them.
but i digress, each to their own
Jes
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:08 am
by Z()LTAN
haha thats ok not everyone sucks ass like you do
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:51 am
by GO79
Ice wrote:bj70 bonnet fits fine on my 75
Haha true true... best comment everr
one day people who have a v8 turbo 79 series ute or 78 troopy might realise that their "new 70 series " is still a 79 ute or 78 troopy or 76 wgn not a 70 series turbo v8 and that a 70 series landcruiser model is the short wheel base,
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:33 am
by pork hunt
thanks for the comments fellas (good n bad) There is a lot of stories around about fibreglass,most of which arent true. As you can see by some of my photos ,I put my ute to good use on rough tracks & towing my caravan up the beach at Fraser . I have a couple of cracks in the passengers side door but that might have something to do with a tree falling on it one night .If it had been a steel one it would have been bent beyond repair . We can go around my ute & give all the panels a good kick & watch them bounce back ,then we can go around your steel ones & give them a good kick & watch them dint & stay dinted, they wont bounce back.The only rust in my ute is in the panels that are still steel.I give 100 year guarantee against rust in a fibreglass panel & they are all Transport Dept. approved for road use,(unlike some panels produced by blokes , these are legal)
Sports bonnets are not for everyone! I still sell more standard bonnets than sports bonnets but hey ,if we all had the same good taste then nobody would buy Pootrolls & if nobody ever made improvements to the standard vehicle then Landrover would not have wind up windows today. It is ok to drive a standard vehicle , most people do , its just I dont like mine looking like your average farm truck. Mick
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:19 am
by jessie928
I highly rate your Fibreglass panels they are great! Just the scooped 40 series look That gets under my skin
zultan I bet you could suck a golf ball down a 18 metre garden hose
pork hunt wrote:thanks for the comments fellas (good n bad) There is a lot of stories around about fibreglass,most of which arent true. As you can see by some of my photos ,I put my ute to good use on rough tracks & towing my caravan up the beach at Fraser . I have a couple of cracks in the passengers side door but that might have something to do with a tree falling on it one night .If it had been a steel one it would have been bent beyond repair . We can go around my ute & give all the panels a good kick & watch them bounce back ,then we can go around your steel ones & give them a good kick & watch them dint & stay dinted, they wont bounce back.The only rust in my ute is in the panels that are still steel.I give 100 year guarantee against rust in a fibreglass panel & they are all Transport Dept. approved for road use,(unlike some panels produced by blokes , these are legal)
Sports bonnets are not for everyone! I still sell more standard bonnets than sports bonnets but hey ,if we all had the same good taste then nobody would buy Pootrolls & if nobody ever made improvements to the standard vehicle then Landrover would not have wind up windows today. It is ok to drive a standard vehicle , most people do , its just I dont like mine looking like your average farm truck. Mick
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:31 am
by Z()LTAN
jessie928 wrote:I
zultan I bet you could suck a golf ball down a 18 metre garden hose
LOL last time i heard that one, i laughed so hard i fell off my dinosaur
hehe
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:45 am
by pork hunt
yeah Jessie , the Monaro style bonnet for the 40 series is a Bit Out There , as I say "not for every body". I was a bit tired of the old XB Falcon style, but was still getting enquiries for it occasionally so I thought I would do something a bit different. I did not make the XB one so I thought I would update my old Troopy with something that nobody else had. When the Monaro was released I thought that bonnet was real Horn Material but unfortunately the vehicle was released with only 1 diff & only 1 stick so it ruled out the possibility of heading up the beach with one of them. Any way I couldnt afford a Monaro cause i am only a pork hunt
so I did the next best thing as far as I was concerned & built a bonnet like a Monaro.
As for the bj70 bonnet fitting a 75 series , i am not positive but i was under the impression it is shorter than the 75. Isnt that where they made the swb vehicle shorter (in the guards & bonnet). I know the mwb 73 & 74 are the same as the 75 but i think the bj70 is shorter. Does anyone have a measurement? Mick
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:43 pm
by badger
pork your thinking rj/lj70 series bundys. anything with leafs has a 75 series front end
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:57 pm
by pork hunt
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:26 pm
by badger
the bundys run lux gear box, cruiser transfer, coil lux rear with offset pumpkin, high pinnion front on coils and a lux motor. but look like a cruiser
with a shorter front end
all the rest are the same gear as a 75 pretty much