petefj40's build/mods

Bolo · Post by **Bolo** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:17 am

Yea we are intersted , post up the sounds of this bad boy now :twisted:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:28 pm

I thought i had an excessive amout of lights on my truck. Till I saw this thing yesterday. 8 on top and 4 up front. WOW :shock:

cool__bananas · Post by **cool__bananas** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:57 am

haha and i bet that thing has never been offroad in its whole life

take the 40 out onto your bros skid pad

i wana hear it :lol:

Taz · Post by **Taz** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:46 am

Pretty sure a young sparky owns that. If not, he has a clone version.

swampa · Post by **swampa** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:57 am

would be a good touring wagon, take the family camping sort of thing

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:37 pm

This is the new location of the pipes.

Bolo · Post by **Bolo** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:50 pm

It looks heeps better already , can we have a backshot straight on like the last one :wink:

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:53 pm

i spy with my little eye... something beginning with.......

R....

:mrgreen:

why wouldnt ya want the pipes straight out the back pete? these will be prone to accidental damage surely?

Andrew1706 · Post by **Andrew1706** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:48 pm

I had 12 lights on my 80 series at one time, 4 on the roof, 4 spots on the front bar and the 4 factory lights.

People knew who was coming :twisted:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:57 pm

niblik wrote:

i spy with my little eye... something beginning with.......

R....

why wouldnt ya want the pipes straight out the back pete? these will be prone to accidental damage surely?

Yeah it's got a little cancer nibs but nothing to serious.

Where they were before I had them moved (out the back) was a worse place nibs. Not only could you smell the fumes easier but the pipes would of got hit real easy (in the supermarket car parks) :roll:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:07 pm

Bolo wrote:It looks heeps better already , can we have a backshot straight on like the last one

Sure. I should get it back tomorrow.

I preferred the look straight out the back really. But with the soft top off and your foot right up it you can smell the fumes where you never did going out the sides. And like I said to nibs. Though the pic doesn't really show it properly. The last ones out the back where to prone to hitting. As it is the back bump stops used to plough banks when you go down them. :evil:

I've had bars put on the front and sides of the truck but I've done nothing to the rear end for protection.
So next year I'm planning on getting that nailed.

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:12 pm

Andrew1706 wrote:I had 12 lights on my 80 series at one time, 4 on the roof, 4 spots on the front bar and the 4 factory lights.

People knew who was coming

When you've got shit loads of lights going on when you're moving, though people can see you coming, your lights are that bright that you can't see any other lights but your own. So when you see someone it's like, WTF where did you come from!!! :shock:

curly12 · Post by **curly12** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:24 pm

skid wrote:
petefj40 wrote:
No future plans.
Nothing to see here.

Now move along.

do you drink Tui , Pete

Guess it will be your shout if you ever come up this way Pete :mrgreen:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:34 pm

curly12 wrote:
skid wrote:
petefj40 wrote:
No future plans.
Nothing to see here.

Now move along.

do you drink Tui , Pete

Guess it will be your shout if you ever come up this way Pete

MNC · Post by **MNC** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:17 pm

niblik wrote:

i spy with my little eye... something beginning with.......

R....ooted indicator

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:41 pm

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:07 pm

Bolo wrote:It looks heeps better already , can we have a backshot straight on like the last one

Sure.

I took this pic on the left side to hide the rust n rooted lens.

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:50 pm

Bolo wrote:Yea we are intersted , post up the sounds of this bad boy now

I'll get round to it. :wink:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:52 pm

cool__bananas wrote:haha and i bet that thing has never been offroad in its whole life

take the 40 out onto your bros skid pad i wana hear it

Yeah i wanna hear it to.
Me Wrangler road tyres are getting down a bit.
I think I'll be smoking them up this year for sure.

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:20 am

Threw the cover on the motor the other day.

Only reason I hadn't bothered before is I thought it might trap the heat. So I'll see how it goes.
Looks a little more finished with it on. Just need to paint the inside of the engine bay. (and everything else yellow :roll:

) One day wen the motor comes out for what ever reason.

Hope everyone's having a great labour weekend.

gary_in_nz · Post by **gary_in_nz** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:19 pm

hey pete, i heard that the engine covers actually help out the cooling of the ls motors some how with circulation, dont ask me how but something i heard a while back

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:53 pm

gary_in_nz wrote:hey pete, i heard that the engine covers actually help out the cooling of the ls motors some how with circulation, dont ask me how but something i heard a while back

Ok. Well that's good news. I've had no problems so far.

Got my truck back from the Cert fella earlier today.

He failed me on a wof. I asked him to do one with the Cert knowing he couldn't put it on till the cert badge was on. Anyway, it failed only due to a broken indicator len but it flew through the cert. (rear brakes/beadlocks/hub spacers/exhaust pipe noise)

I'm stoked!!
I'll be more happy once the Cert plate is riveted on and the wof on the windscreen. :mrgreen:

NJV6 · Post by **NJV6** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:23 pm

Very Cool Pic :mrgreen:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:29 pm

cheers.

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:20 pm

This might show a couple of people.
Thought I'd get off my ass and do some work on the thing myself. :roll:

Throwing in a new steering idler kit today.
Waiting on the kit to arrive at Butlers. Hope to have it back together before the weather craps itself. :twisted:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:16 pm

Me bro's gettin new bars made up for the front of his 40.
This view shows em lower than they will be once finished.
Still the loops to mount yet. So it's early days.

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:20 pm

Finally got my Cert plate on for the extra mods since the last lot.
There isn't a lot of room left for anymore mods on that plate n ow. :roll:

They did a typo. So a new one has to replace this one.
Just a change from 4sp to 5spd.
Then it's complete. :mrgreen:

Wayne Martin doing the deed. :wink:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:27 am

I'm thinking of modifying me exhaust headers just for a little extra grunt when I'm going through the dirty puddles in the supermarket car parks. :roll:

I've spoken with the cert fella. He says the ones pictured below are legal. (well when they're closed) But there's no problem having them on the truck. So that's cool.

But on the sly. What I would like is either air, cable or electric operated ones from in the cab.

But I know that's not allowed.

What do you fellas recon?
Any ideas?

I got the pix from the following website.
http://www.headerdumps.com/

curly12 · Post by **curly12** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:42 am

I used to use them on my HQ that had a tunnel rammed 350. They were cable operated from in the cab. I liked them, especially when opened up at about 7500rpm.............

Got an extra few ponies on the dyno but it was more for the sound factor :oops:

petefj40 · Post by **petefj40** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:57 am

Tunnel rammed 350 huh. NICE!
I would of loved to have heard that on song. :mrgreen:

If you have any pix of setup, feel free to throw em up here curly.

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