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

[troopie]

Multiple threads it is then!

Cheers.

[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.

[colinr]

Whereabouts iz ya. I'm based in Melbourne and have a transplant for my HZ troopy snail slowly happening. I read with much envy how in US it's just hit ebay or craigslist to get a part where as we just get gouged severely. Drop me a line, Colin. 0425 785 014

[troopie]

UR game putting your number on the web I think that deserves a call! Though I reserve the right to block your number.

[troopie]

@mods Maybe this awesome site needs PM enabled?

[trbankii]

PM is enabled. You might need a minimum number of posts to use it, though.

[troopie]

Oh, fair enough. Cheers.

I shoulda picked up on the hilux number, I had an old 1989 two wheel drive diesel ute a while back. Was hard to kill! I had 'cruiser on the brain from your avatar.

This might whet your interest:

http://www.marks4wd.com/engine-conve...ilux-surf.html

What about a tag axle for the rollux?

[trbankii]

The 6x6 is one of Peter Young’s old vehicles: www.alltrac4wd.com.au

I think I’d do a drive splitter like MDT’s 6x6 setup:






Multidrive Technology Australia

I’ve tried contacting them to see if they’d ship just a drive splitter over here, but haven’t had any luck in getting them to reply.

[troopie]

Wow!

Please excuse my silly 'tag' axle remark . Bogie drive it shall be!

Are you actually gunna do this? Will you have the weight in the back to make it grab?

By having less weight on each tyre are you increasing the odds of losing traction? Will LSD's prevent this?

If it's practical the flotation would be superb on soft ground. Would you want to move the rear, ahh, front axle forward to take some weight off the steer axle for maximum effect?

Having driven one or two prime movers in my time I can say that it can be a right royal pain in the arse when you're trying to cross a slight gap followed by an incline (such as a sloping driveway/kerb/gutter crossover). It's kinda embarrassing when you're backing in off the road and you've gotta stop and engage your difflocks to get over a 1 foot kerb!

Maybe full-time four wheel drive would be a solution but even then the centre diff is open. Not really an easy option for your old 'lux either I 'spose.

Hope you can make it work! It'd be a very unique wagon, especially in the US!

Again, as per my post on the 6.5 thread, maybe I can help with correspondence?

Maybe I need to start an export company?

[troopie]

Whereabouts iz ya. I'm based in Melbourne and have a transplant for my HZ troopy snail slowly happening. I read with much envy how in US it's just hit ebay or craigslist to get a part where as we just get gouged severely. Drop me a line, Colin.

Thanks for the chat mate, best of luck with your build.