Hi! Toyota and P400.

[troopie]

G'day folks, Thanks for having me on board. This is the love of my life: (yeah I know, it's a toyota. It's an Aussie thing, I don't expect youse to understand! )



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I love the 'cruisers but the Japs just don't quite get it; she needed some Yankie muscle and a little local ingenuity.

[arveetek]

Awesome!!!

I sure don't see many supercharged 6.2L/6.5L diesels around..... How does she drive?

Casey

[trbankii]

yeah I know, it's a toyota. It's an Aussie thing, I don't expect youse to understand!

Nope! I understand perfectly. Unfortunately, we don’t get the 70 series over here, though.

[Robyn]

Sweeeeeeeet.

Great job mate

Welcome to TDP

[TGVet]

Where did you get that ? How many horse power and torque ? And, how much ? USD

I'm almost ready to buy a new P400 for my 95 Suburban and would certainly like more than 300 HP and 500lbs. torque.

Sweet machine.

[troopie]

Thanks all for the kind comments!

@arveetek She drives pretty sweet though it is still very much a work in progress. I've had trouble getting the drive belt/pulley combinations right and so still have a little too much slack which leads to a little feed back when I'm accelerating slowly.

Now that I've got the timing sorted I've found some extra herbs; now the clutch isn't holding up too well!


@trbankii No 70's? I can't imagine life without 'em! I'm pretty sure they make 'em in left hand drive too; Maybe it's time to start an import business?


@TGVet The whole setup was very expensive (about twice what you'd pay there 'cause we have a terrible import tariff on complete engines for some reason. Most of the cost was for the donk itself; The blower, adapter and snout was about $5000 AUD (exchange rate is very similar at the mo I think).

It was made and supplied by a mob called Bullet Superchargers in Queensland Aus. Although I'm very happy with the product they were extremely difficult to deal with so I would have trouble recommending them.

No dyno yet I've still gotta get tacho, drive belt and clutch sorted.


Anyway, I've got a heap of questions to ask the wise souls around here so I'll move over to the tech thread I suppose.

[troopie]

@Mods

What's the best place for a thread about my rig including my P400 tech questions and others' questions' re my conversion? I'd rather keep it all together.

Most P400 threads seam do be in the 6.5L Turbo Diesel forum which doesn't seem quite right for my blown donk.

If I start one in the Diesel Conversions forum I may not find the specialised engine advice I'm after.

I guess the 6.2/6.5 tech thread?

Any chance we could get a P400 forum?

[trbankii]

@trbankii No 70's? I can't imagine life without 'em! I'm pretty sure they make 'em in left hand drive too; Maybe it's time to start an import business?

There are a very limited number that have made it in. As it was never a model that was sold here, getting them approved is difficult.

[troopie]

getting them approved is difficult

RHD or LHD? What's the issues?


Outta curiosity what's this rig?

’85 Toyota 22R RN60 4x4 Std. Cab Shortbed 178K (Currently retired for rebuild)

I'm not familiar with the numbers? Maybe they use different designations in different countries. Is that the rig in your sig? Looks like a H/FZJ75.

[Robyn]

Issue with import is likely the EPA regs and Toyota did not get that model certified for the States.

Questions can be posted in the 6.5 forum.

The tech forum is usually item specific.

Glad to have ya here.

Robyn

[trbankii]

RHD or LHD? What's the issues?

As Robyn states, it starts with the EPA and emissions and extends to all sorts of nit-picky little things from windshield glass to crash tests to…

To import a vehicle, a manufacturer has to certify that the vehicle meets Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). Without that certification, it can be very difficult to import a vehicle.

Outta curiosity what's this rig? I'm not familiar with the numbers? Maybe they use different designations in different countries. Is that the rig in your sig? Looks like a H/FZJ75.

It’s basically a straight axle Hilux standard cab, short bed 4x4 with the 22R engine. The avatar is actually a picture of an Aussie rig I saw many years ago that I’ve wanted to emulate in the building of my rig.