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Best model hilux to modify as of road 4by

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:41 pm
by bruiser
As above. always had landcruisers and dont know much about hiluxs, what is the best in the older solid axle type for straight offroad toy?

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:57 pm
by RockyF75
Might find this site helpful too http://www.4lux.net/ . Just for hilux's

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:29 pm
by basketcase
Any solid axle. They went up to 97, there are some ifs between 89 and 97 though. They all had crap steering, so X over is a must on all of them. The rest depends on engine. Pretty sure there are no EFI options, started post 97 with the 2.7 3rzfe. The best petrol of the bunch is 22r 89-97, easy to adapt EFI from corona. Don't know much about the diesels but I would think the 89-97 2.8 considering its bigger.

I like the gen 2's 84-88 but the gen 3's 89-97 have better engines. So they might be the go. But then if your going to put a bigger engine in it does not matter.

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:27 pm
by MissDrew
gen 3 like beebee`s and mine are the best ones.

vented front rotors
bigger breaks
full trusted front diff housings
bigger motors
5 speeds
power steering on all but 89 (and maybe 90) model ones as standard

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:02 pm
by 4sum4
85 look the best but 3rd Gen the go

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:40 pm
by ditch
Power steering is for pussies :finger:

Gen....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:59 am
by AIstyle
I will say Gen 2 because I have one and its easy and cheap for parts and not to hard to mod up.

Re: Gen....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:53 am
by Aza
AIstyle wrote:I will say Gen 2 because I have one and its easy and cheap for parts and not to hard to mod up.
i can say the same thing about mine, i have a gen 1, cheap as to mod and cheap to repair, even panels are pretty cheap ;) and personally i think they look the best done up they look tuffer :lol:

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o and to buy that one at first didnt cost too much at all, cheap base car ;)

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:04 pm
by -Richo-
i will say mine, because its for sale :D

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:58 pm
by Gribble
Drop Bear wrote:i will say mine, because its for sale :D
And goes hard! :armsup: Yay for Gen3! :D

Gen3 are the shit, but also expensive. If its just for a basher id go an older one.