Hey all, been a while. Took the GQ off the road end of last year with a topend rattle. Holding out for the right deal on a turbo conversion. That arrived this week, so mission on. Will keep you updated. In other news, anyone want a GQ roller, 88 I think, HD diff, leaf springs? $1500
Its a VL turbo motor. Will dump the OEM turbo for something modern and put a Link on it.
EDIT: No it's not. It's just a VL motor that someone has put a turbo on. Now that I know a bit more about the whole thing. Still good
Link idea is out the window, weeks away on back order, so Haltech Elite 750 incoming instead. Now just deciding on a turbo. Not chasing big power at all, rather driveability and some semblance of economy. Thinking an ebay T3/T04e or similar.
Coolant galleries flushed and new welch plugs installed. Lick of paint, new plugs and leads. All looking good so far. Just finished work for the week, and have a bunch of parts arriving tomorrow, so looking forward to spending the day getting stuck into it.
Happy wee discovery this morning when I pulled the rocker cover off my new motor. Be interesting to know what's been done inside it. Will crack it open one day.
Turbo arrived today. In true eBay form it's not as expected. Somewhat bigger on the compressor side. Not to worry. It just fits. Will go nicely with my plan for destructive testing on the new motor.
Looks good mate! How did you go with the engine mount clearance with the turbo? If I turbo mine I think I’d like a Haltech but the plug and play link looks good
Looks good mate! How did you go with the engine mount clearance with the turbo? If I turbo mine I think I’d like a Haltech but the plug and play link looks good
I hacked it up. Used another engine mount to double-skin the front flange, and redrilled the hole for the mount stud. Will fit a silicon bend cut in the right place, although I'm leaning towards making a solid piece with v-band flange. In which case I'll just ball-pein panelbeat the pipe as necessary to just clear the front side of the mount.
I'm kindof wishing now that I had gone the extra $800 or so to get a 2500. With drive-by-wire, and a pre-made engine harness. As far as I understand it's possible to map a pedal and throttle motor with the 750, but it sounds like a complete muckaround, so I'm likely to just leave it cable throttle.
Thermo fans arrived today, eBay specials. Been seeing some people shroud them, and some not. To me a flat shroud seems counter-productive, as it just blocks off part of the core to flow that would otherwise have been carried along with the fans. I'm inclined to mount them oriented as pictured, probably on some 20x20 alloy angle, with no extra shroud. I think they'll work well.
Did you want to go dbw? That would have added a bit more cost. Are you making your own loom up? I fitted a vl engine loom to mine but these looms are getting a bit old which makes a Pre made loom sound really good.
Yea kinda did want to go DBW. Actually thought from the video about it on Haltech's site that all of the Elite range had it. Not too stressed though.
Yep making my own loom from their "premium harness" kit, just going to do a new separate engine loom, with a firewall penetration on the passenger side. Can't see any real benefit to mucking around wrapping it into the Patrol loom.
New shiny pipe for the truck today. Pretty nice work, I'm rapt. One step closer. Same guy is going to do the intercooler piping. Reasonable pricing and 1000% better than anything I'd do.
Fitted up the intercooler today. Took to the grill a little with a flap disk. Felt like one of those things I shouldn't be doing, but all's well that ends well.
Here's my build thread with a few pics and a bit of info. She's nothing special on the outside (just tidy the way I like it) but special to me on the inside. Here's the old girl in all her glory, now 20 years old*, owned since new. Prettiest grenade in my area.
I'm not after the most horsepower...
A few people have asked about this build which is on a private forum, I figured this was as good a place as any to post it, and probably better than most...
I have basically ripped this wholesale from my build thread on oldschool.co.nz, cleaned up the bad language and added some extra info in...
G'day all,
I’ve been a member here for a while but so far have only made a few posts. As an infrequent poster I wouldn't normally take up so much space with a new thread but I've been asked by a few members to post a build thread on my vehicle, so here it is!
I’m currently in the process of...
due to popular demand...something about a duramax?!
i will start a bit of a build thread. will see how i go with time.
she started out as a standard 05 3.0l ST with nissan bar snorkel and driving lights.
i bought her at 2 years of ages with 24000km.
stopped off at ARB and had winch side steps...
This is my GU!! Ive had it for only 10 days. Got a few plans for it but all good things take time....Here are some pics!! When these pics were taken I had only had it 3 days...
