new 1uz gen1 project

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Nobber
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Rolled the surf i built and now got a new project and started frm scratch apart from motor and wheels, done cross over steer, rears up front, front and rear u bolt flip, braided extended brake lines got 12inch bilstein shocks for front and rear and done ifs hub swap and bigger calipers lsd diff in front and welded diff in back so far and going to try get done for rallywoods on queens bday weekend
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you need to lift your shed, your door isn't big enough
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Nice truck.

I have a 4.8hi pinion front and standard rear if you are keen
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Haha i know reece bigger shed with a hoist is on the list 2 be done in the next year or 2
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Will keep tht in mind mattman have another 2 or 3 spare 4.8s at home in another few hiluxs i have and 4.8lsd and 4.3lsd and 4.1 open on shed floor aswell
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Those 30 and 40 series Hilux's are such good looking trucks.
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Yea always wanted 1 had many other hiluxs in the past but love the round headlight gen1 have 2 square headlight gen1s aswell going to cut the minimal rust out of cab on 1 i have and paint inside and out then put on this chassis when its all painted
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Busy weekend moving trucks around and doing some work to get motor ready to go in got manifolds heat wraped and draining trans to mount transfer box bought a copper safari radiator to mount on back and have a runva competition winch on its way
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Had good condition bumper on it but took off and going to build winch bar with winch in where radiator used to be bought a new runva competition winch
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Shock towers all mounted jst got to paint thm then put motor in
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Motor in and shocks in and motor almost finished being wired up
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1400cca battery mounted and new fuel pick up made and wrx seats mounted just exhaust driveshafts radiator pipes and bar work left now really
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Truck done for now ready for rallywoods just need to lower front bumpstops a bit more
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Very cool.. now all ya need is a blower 8) :twisted:
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Thats the plan m90 supercharger and exo cage and other little things before rallywoods next year hopefully
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Looking good!
Nobber wrote:Thats the plan m90 supercharger and exo cage and other little things before rallywoods next year hopefully
I hope the 'other little things' includes bigger axles :lol: A blown lexus + big tyres + hilux axles don't play well together from what I've seen :?

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Exo got put on hold and rust fixed an all painted inside and out now time 2 do exo b4 it goes out and gets thrashed agen
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Looking good, but you need the grill and headlight surrounds thats part of the character of the gen 1
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Bought new headlight surounds since i smashed last ones at gwavas just havnt had time to put them on yet and have grill aswell
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looks awesome mate.
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X3 That looks great! Neat to see an old Hilux getting some love - less & less of that shape around now.

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Rear winch done and few other bits and pieces and few more sets of wheels and tires and exo cage started almost ready for rallywoods agen
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Exo cage finished just few little bits left before its back out getting thrashed agen
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Cool build mate, love it!
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