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Im wanting to do a v8 conversion on my safari but hw do I deal with the 24v electrical system considering the engine I wana use is 12v what has everyone else done to overcome it everything else to do with the conversion ive got it sorted between myself or mates apart from the wiring side

Use 24 volt starter alt etc from a gmc pickup. ????

Oh man thats a good idea didnt even think of that here i was thinking of having to use converters and stuff this would be way better cheers

tafftunk wrote:Oh man thats a good idea didnt even think of that here i was thinking of having to use converters and stuff this would be way better cheers

Your welcome

Just make sure you ran a transformer to the dissy. An old setup that i bought had the dissy running off one battery. It killed the battery in approx 1 month and ended up replacing booth batteries after around 4 months. Once i installed the boltage inverter just to ran the dissy it was awesome started good and battery voltage between them was equal

You can buy 24volt distributors for these engines through summit racing in the states but pricey.

But yes ballast resistors should do the trick.

Which 350 are you fitting? I've got an adapter kit to a td42 manual and starter which may fit out of the one I parted out last year if your interested.

We ran a sparkshop even charger to take care of the computer and starter. Kept everything else 24v. Still have that to sell too

Hi,

What is wrong with your TD42T and are you interested in selling it?

Hello thanks for all the replies been away for work nothinng is wrong with the diesel at all compared to a lot of tds around the bay it runs mint brand new diesel pump done by the team at dsl automotive and runs like a dream i just have always wanted a v8 4wd is all i only ever get to use my truck when im home for the weekend which isnt very often so a v8 fourby will make it more fun when im home lol

Would you be interested in selling it?

Unless you are spending big coin on the old small block chev, I think you will be disappointed with the power in a big heavy whale like a Safari. A grand or two on the TD42 and you could have a bit of a weapon. A similar amount of cash will go into a V8 swap and it will probably sound cool but use twice the fuel and have half the torque.

yeah would use twice the fuel easily but wouldn't have 1/2 the torque 300 Nm isn't hard to beat

try and go for a later tbi or even later tpi injected engine complete with ecu they are around and often not that dear if you keep your eyes open and wait for a bargin

enough nerds will crash their SS commies for a LS V8 to come around for a repower

coxsy wrote:enough nerds will crash their SS commies for a LS V8 to come around for a repower

True. But a good ls engine will still fetch atleast 5 grand with the nats and ignition. On the other hand a spirit bellhousing and a rebuilt rb30det with cert will give more performance then an old 350 but once again they are getting rare too. May pay to look at a vh41 or 45 or just chuck more money at the td42 to get it lifting wheels off the intersection.