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hey can everyone post up pictures of 80 series utes
am thinkin of doin it

Have posted a pic of this one somewhere else before...

Very

http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k11/k ... op%20pics/

is that your car jimbo or do u know the guy who owns it, it's frigin awsome that style side looks shit hot.

kinglakekustoms wrote:http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k11/k ... op%20pics/

Hey do you have anymore pics of that yellow 80 that is mad!!!!

Caleb

The yellow one can be found at Slee Offroad. Also good for any Toyota info.

Cheers
Corry

http://www.sleeoffroad.com/index.html

CruiserCruising yeah like hardcore said there is a full build up their of two chopped 80`s
plenty of pics too

the yellow 1 http://www.sleeoffroad.com/technical/wa ... ortbus.htm

and another one
http://www.sleeoffroad.com/technical/vl ... k_main.htm

Mine

known 2 wrote:is that your car jimbo or do u know the guy who owns it, it's frigin awsome that style side looks shit hot.

no its not my truck I wish but once I cave in my roof in the bush my 80 will look like this to

those 80's look pretty swheet but myself owning a hungy .....check the dual cab conversion in that above link (kinglakecustoms) tailgate cut aroundthe spare ....part of an exo it seems aswell .......very kewl ....




mmm sorry back to the 80's


Dan

hey guys thankz they r all very nice!
RV:"
how much did it cost for u to cut it or did u do it ure self?
could you pplz post how much either way and a list of the stuff u had to do as im thinkin of doin this!
cheerz
brentz

The 1st pic is Wallys. (80UTE on here) The best Ive seen by a mile. Awesome rig. Would love to do mine too, one day...

Check out:

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/PHP_Modul ... hp?t=13466

Cheers

Jeff

kinglakekustoms wrote:CruiserCruising yeah like hardcore said there is a full build up their of two chopped 80`s
plenty of pics too

the yellow 1 http://www.sleeoffroad.com/technical/wa ... ortbus.htm

and another one
http://www.sleeoffroad.com/technical/vl ... k_main.htm

Thanks for that yeh if i ever rolled my 80 and had the cash that would be my model to base wat id like my car to be

yeah if i had an 80`s thats what i would do to it.... they look tuff as.

does anyone on here have the contact details of the owner of that green ute.

would like some info on how he did the chop and style side

known 2 wrote:does anyone on here have the contact details of the owner of that green ute.

would like some info on how he did the chop and style side

was featured in 4wd monthy a while back not sure which issue tho
maybe someone could help with which issue


evan...

its a mean looking truck would like to get the articale (spelling?) on it to

yeh it kinda looks like a small f150

as soon as i sell my 75's i can start on a 80 ute a v8 one ohh the anticipation

this one was at denny one the weekend, i recon its tops, the blokes in vic but didnt see him to have a chat about it

looking good

nice pics dere
hey duck did u get that off ebay cause i saw it advertised a while bak on ebay im preetyy sure?
pesky pete: hey can u give me some more info on ure's? ie. how much did the converison cost? did u do it ureself or get someone to do it? and if u did it ureself wats involved in it besides the basic stuff that meets the eye???
and do u have nemore pics on dat white 1?

brentz wrote:nice pics dere
hey duck did u get that off ebay cause i saw it advertised a while bak on ebay im preetyy sure?
pesky pete: hey can u give me some more info on ure's? ie. how much did the converison cost? did u do it ureself or get someone to do it? and if u did it ureself wats involved in it besides the basic stuff that meets the eye???
and do u have nemore pics on dat white 1?

not mine mate, just saw it at denny ute muster on the weekend dont know whos it is

The white and yellow ones of Pesky Pete are the same car. Pete done the chop himself.. I basically watched mine get chopped... I couldnt tell you how much mine cost to do really as i never kept tabs on it... But at a guess maybe 2k... I had about $1500 in my chop fund and it blew out real quick... Its the little stuff that stings your wallet... Like half a dozen tubes of sikaflex is almost 200 bucks... What ever you think it will cost to do yourself, almost double that figure... By doing it yourself the end result will be that you get what you wanted not what someone else wants to do...

Yeah did mine myself with a few mates. Actually did 2 at the same time. Never really kept tabs on mine but I reakon it cost under 1k to do, but a lot of the stuff I didnt need to by.

I wanted enough room behind the seats to fit a fridge, a few clothes and enough camping gear for a weekend away, so I went for an extra cab. It was pretty simple to chop, and here is the basics on what we did

1. Remove the rear quater glass from the rear doors. Flip the glass, left to right right to left. We then cut the rear door frame out and pushed it up to the glass to make a frame for the rear cab window. Then chopped out the C Pilar of the wagon and moved it up to form the rear pilar of the cab. This gave us the line to chop the rear of the wagon off

2. Marked the cab where we needed to cut. Then took to the doors and roof with a 9" grinder. Did the floor with a 5" grinder so that we missed everything we could hit with the 9". Also remember that the insulation inside the hood lining is flamable, so remove as much as you can before cutting

3. Once the rear of the cab was removed, we braced up the inside of the cab to ensure it was true and straight. Easy with the roll cage still in as I could just wedge body around the cage.

4. We then set about reinforcing the old C Pillar to make the edges of the cab straight. We used a body Jig, but you could trace around the body and cut the rear wall out allowing about 40mm to fold over and place inside the cut cab. Once the rear wall is in place we tacked it from the outside going from one side to the other so that the wall did not distort. Once tacked outside we ran around the inside in 50mm runs to keep the distortion to a minimum. Once the inside was welded we welded up the outside. At this stage the rear wall was very straight with hardly any distortion.

5. once the rear wall was welded we put bracing in the inside of the cab. This is where we went wrong, as when we welded up the bracing it distroted the rear wall. We should have tacked the bracing in then welded the rear wall to avoid distortion.

6. Next we cut out the window hole. We just cut out what looked right and got custom glass cut to fit. A lot of other people have used 75 series or other models glass but it is much easier to make a piece of glass fit a hole, than make the wall fit the glass.

7. Next we Ground it, bogged it all up and painted it. Really a very simple exercise. Check out the slee off road site linked above and that will give you more pointers on how to do it.

All I can say is that if you are planning to do it, give yourself heaps of time to do it. It cost me a lot less than I thought, but took about 20 gazillion times longer than I planned. Its all the little fiddly bits that take the time. the actual chop to bog stage only took me two days, but the other bits took forever.

thankz guys uve's have been a real help!!!!
how did u guys go about getin it all engineered? did u also speak to one and show him the car at different stages about it to make sure he was happy?
cheerz
brentz

I spoke with the engineer before doing the job and told him what was planned. He then made a few suggestions and told me what he was looking for and what to do. Once the chop was complete, he looked at it before I did any finishing work, then approved it once all finished.

kool
how much did the engineers cost?