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safaripete
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by safaripete » Sat May 07, 2011 1:00 pm
after taking the 80 out on a few trips i figured its too big for most tracks and didnt want to bang it up too much sooo
went down to masterton today with an empty trailor and was followed home by this:
will be a very slow build
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by red-devil » Sat May 07, 2011 1:23 pm
safaripete wrote: :shock: went down to masterton today with an empty trailor and was followed home by this:
all i can see on the trailer is nothing, Oh i cant even see the trailer
need a pic
safaripete
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by safaripete » Sat May 07, 2011 1:31 pm
yea yea was waiting for that haha mrs had the camera pics up now
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by ice4x4 » Sat May 07, 2011 1:37 pm
Nice one
That should keep you busy
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by chevrolux » Sat May 07, 2011 1:59 pm
when you put the commy v6 in i will have the 1600 please =D
safaripete
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by safaripete » Sat May 07, 2011 2:06 pm
chevrolux wrote: when you put the commy v6 in i will have the 1600 please =D
the 1600 is spoken for and dead as a door knob with a nice big hole in the block
sorry
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by monaro427 » Sat May 07, 2011 7:54 pm
if you are after a commie v6 i have one that was going to be put into my hilux but have changed plans, has two looms,2 ecus 2 alternators all for $300
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by redz driver » Sat May 07, 2011 8:30 pm
Haha Is This what your fitting the 40 series cruiser diff into Pete Bloody wicked
Real men drive swb leaf spring trucks
safaripete
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by safaripete » Sat May 07, 2011 8:32 pm
monaro427 wrote: if you are after a commie v6 i have one that was going to be put into my hilux but have changed plans, has two looms,2 ecus 2 alternators all for $300
where are ya? and do ya have a trans aswell??
safaripete
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by safaripete » Sat May 07, 2011 8:33 pm
redz driver wrote: Haha Is This what your fitting the 40 series cruiser diff into Pete Bloody wicked
yeah thats tha plan at this stage
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by lincooln » Sat May 07, 2011 10:23 pm
safaripete wrote: redz driver wrote: Haha Is This what your fitting the 40 series cruiser diff into Pete Bloody wicked
yeah thats tha plan at this stage
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by flyingbrick » Sun May 08, 2011 9:26 am
lincooln wrote: safaripete wrote: redz driver wrote: Haha Is This what your fitting the 40 series cruiser diff into Pete Bloody wicked
yeah thats tha plan at this stage
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monaro427
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by monaro427 » Sun May 08, 2011 9:49 am
no trans, i am in tauranga
turoa
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by turoa » Sun May 08, 2011 1:43 pm
A 40 series rear end in narrower than the standard one
safaripete
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by safaripete » Sun May 08, 2011 8:36 pm
but im not running a 40 rear
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by safaripete » Mon May 09, 2011 8:37 pm
pulled the motor out tonite
gearbox and transfer will come out tomorrow
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by safaripete » Tue May 10, 2011 9:14 pm
gearbox and transfercase is now out
time to start cutting mounts off and preparing for things to come
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by Fakey » Tue May 10, 2011 9:38 pm
Pics or it didnt happen
Didn't barbie drive a jeep??
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by safaripete » Tue May 10, 2011 9:51 pm
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by lincooln » Wed May 11, 2011 2:36 pm
are you selling the gearbox or has it gone already?
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safaripete
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by safaripete » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:50 pm
not alot been happening with this so far been colecting bits an pieces front and rear hilux diffs transfercase from a bighorn have brought a whole vn v6 commodore wagon for the motor and trans an other bits i can use tonight i managed to remove the rear diff from tha zook in preparing the hilux one to go in no pics
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by fj40 » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:53 am
slack
safaripete wrote: not alot been happening with this so far been colecting bits an pieces front and rear hilux diffs transfercase from a bighorn have brought a whole vn v6 commodore wagon for the motor and trans an other bits i can use tonight i managed to remove the rear diff from tha zook in preparing the hilux one to go in no pics
its not how big the 4x4 is its how angry the diver is
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by safaripete » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:12 pm
so today after alot of head scratching with a tape i managed to borrow a couple of 35s off rotordogg
so i had to do a little panel work to get the tryes to fit under haha
also modified the surf rear upper and lower arms lengthing them to the same as the safari arms i have
tomorrow i will make up some chassis mounts and tack things into place might even get some pics for all the pic hogs
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by safaripete » Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:16 pm
grr so the weather is dictating how much i can do on this atm but managed to cut off chassis mounts tonight will head into work tmrw and make up some mounts also thanks to nomis i now have an ifs surf steering box
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by Dace » Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:52 am
good shit Pete, looking forward to some pics
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safaripete
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by safaripete » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:19 pm
made some mounts up
also lengthened to stock surf arms
will tack them into place on the weekend
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by safaripete » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:00 pm
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by badnuz » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:31 pm
should come round and assist some time
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by mudslut » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:46 pm
Lookin mean mate,lookin very mean
safaripete
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by safaripete » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:21 pm
lower and upper rear links are tacked into place need to ut down the spring pearches and make some more shit is anyone actually reading this or should i not worry about updating