Crusier Body swaps?

[krazynutta]

Hey ya all, just wondering if any one has put a 70seris mwb body onto a 80seris chassis with all the standard 1hdt left in it?

[You Get That]

It would take a fair bit of work to do check out http://www.ih8mud.com they have lots of info on cruisers.

[Fakey]

I havent done it but it has been done with hilux an surf bodies. Anythings possible, Only real issue is how much of the work you can do yourself .
It would require modified body mounts, steering column mods etc (enter big list here) but if youve got time and money its do-able an would be pretty cool when finished:wink:

Oh an youd have to take into account the huge difference in chassis length between the 70 an 80

[MNC]

I've was thinking about something similar (except not a 70 series body) .

Was considering for an offroad only vehicle and was going to leave the original 80 series firewall and front drivers and passengers floor pan (cut down to match).

[williamhamilton]

try this.. http://forum.ih8mud.com/hardcore-corner/264922-fzj40.html

love to see a few of these in NZ

W

[Fakey]

try this.. http://forum.ih8mud.com/hardcore-corner/264922-fzj40.html

love to see a few of these in NZ

W

Dammit now im goin to spend hours reading through that whole build thread, lucky I got everything I needed to do done already

[williamhamilton]

try this.. http://forum.ih8mud.com/hardcore-corner/264922-fzj40.html

love to see a few of these in NZ

W

Dammit now im goin to spend hours reading through that whole build thread, lucky I got everything I needed to do done already

Worthwhile read, it is freaky what some of the ih8mud folk get up to

W

[krazynutta]

cheers gyes. year i would like to measure the differences up, i want to convert my 70 mwb into coil all round but would be good to way up the work load between putting my body on a vx chassis 1st, my m8te bought a 1990 manual vx last year with run bearing and we had it fixed for under a grand , and at under 4000 for the vx he bought with factory lockers would hav been a good donor, hey recon the vtnz would get ya if bj74 codes were stitched into a deregs vx and take it in for a suspension conversion cert

[Big]

Currently doing this conversion now..
Stage i'm at is mounting the body to chassis..
I've cut the back off it too to make it a 2 door
with the lexus, it should go bloody awesome.
Oh also have cut 340mm off the back chassis rail..
It should be interesting..

[You Get That]

Currently doing this conversion now..
Stage i'm at is mounting the body to chassis..
I've cut the back off it too to make it a 2 door
with the lexus, it should go bloody awesome.
Oh also have cut 340mm off the back chassis rail..
It should be interesting..

With a 70 series??????
Pics Pics Pics!!!!!!

[Big]

in due coarse.. it'll be posted when it's just about complete so people are not waiting for pics..!!! lol
I hope to have it completed in a couple months or so..