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when you fine gentlemen decide to surf the plain next, the (as it turns out) ever growing eastbourne and surrounding area's contingent would verily much like to come along if poss
If we find mud ..............you'll never make it back.........my
I take you around if you want.......... see you on sunday at the poole meet
in the words of the jackson five, dont blame it on the sunshine dont blame it on the moonlight..................... ...bugger its not that one, i meant to say in the IMMORTAL words of the jackson five I,LL BE THERE
yea i do,but that was meant to be for the house,i was gonna pebble dash the outside wall.just gotta mix in some sand and cement board up all the windows and light up steins rear wheels.
If anyone from eastbourne is going to the plain, then clearly they dont mind getting filthy, I wonder would they have room for a motorcycle rolling chassis....?
i don't mind being not as quick as most, never really in much hurry at the best of times, she'll still do a good 80mph without much sweat, she's sh!t on steep hills though, but thats my only gripe, not really a problem when you live on the flatlands of essex, but when i go to yorkshire and boil me head, thats when it's a problem
If anyone from eastbourne is going to the plain, then clearly they dont mind getting filthy, I wonder would they have room for a motorcycle rolling chassis....?
i can pick up a bike chassis no probs. its when i get it to poole what do i do with it?
The Lexis V8 (1uz-fe) is a cracking engine! Very stong (6 bolt mains), light weight and relaible, currently fairly cheap too, altohugh I have a feeling as more people "discover it" it will rocket up in price. There is a plethora of bolt on superchargers too...
A friend of mine is currently building a Bowler Tom cat based around one, running the standard lexus auto with a transfer box fabbed onto the back, I am also currently helping a good friend of mine fit one to his '85 Celica Supra, mated to a 5 speed manual which should be fun
The wiring should not be that bad.. I have had a brief look at it and plotted out all the wires I need on the wiring diagram, in manual mode at least there are about ten wires that need connecting, -which I should be doing tomorrow so finger crossed!
The biggest issue we have had so far was engine bay width and exhaust headers, but I doubt that will be a problem in a surf! They even made one out the factory with a full time 4wd transmision that was fitted to some Aristos (mad sump with the diff INSIDE it)
Well if anyone needs any info on them feel free to ask!!!
I doubt anyone would want mine as its an fairly rare (read pita to tune) yamaha 2.0 straight 6 tt.. being rare made it fun to tune, and I am subborn like that!
[QUOTE=RodLeach]One thing that hit me last night like a ton of bricks! Is....
What happens to the high and Low ratio? Its part of the surfs trans isnt it?
Will the Hi/Lo be removed? That's what the transfer box sorts out!
When fitting the auto box from the lexus i guess some trim inside needs to be 'modded' to fit the new gear selector etc?
It's only about an inch further forwards than the Surfs gear lever apparently.
the lexus swap is something i really really wanna get sorted on my surf! Keep a lookout on Ebay or your local rag, there's always a few for sale in your neck od the woods.[/QUOTE]
There are also different versions of the engine... I prefer the revision 1, it wasn't as revvy, but had chunkier rods, -it takes foreced induction better, and there is more info floating about the net on wiring, not to mention they are easier to get!
The aussies are big into them and fit them to pretty much everything... there is some good info on them on the toymods forum (www.toymods.net), I'll bet they sell off the shelf conversion kits too for any mounts etc...
They are not nice to change a starter motor on though
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