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The engine is almost ready to be dropped in.. just need a hole drilled in the flywheel for the pilot bearing and we're set

And it's going into this..

very cool. mini tub and four link that shit. then itll hook

Sounds good but expensive... I'm happy just with skids

This was taken with my phone so crap quality



Fuel system is next, once i sort out the starter problem!!

Looks nice-great job. Pls explain the thermostat housing location, does this solve the fire wall problem?

I have basically just relocated it to the front as you can see in the pic, the pipe goes from the back of the head, under the intake to the thermostat just infront of the throttle. plenty of clearance for the firewall, just get busy with a hammer to make room for the CAS

Here's a pic of the back

What did you use for your O2 housing, I'm at the point where I need to start on the housing.

- David

dtl1218 wrote:What did you use for your O2 housing, I'm at the point where I need to start on the housing.

- David

I had some flanges cut in 12mm mild steel, then just weld it up where it fits with some 3" pipe

nice.. that is going to be one sick truck.

I like your thermostat setup. I'll probably copy it so I can get this racecar running. hehe.

I like the idea where did you get that from?http://www.cardomain.com/ride/321988. its good Great minds think alike.

Does it take a long time to warm up on a cold day?

I havn't fired mine up yet, still got that starter/flywheel problem...

Thats a nice truck Blue! is it yours?

Yeah thats mine, it was my divorce project and now it seems that the girls come second. its up for sale soon as the new wheels go on it, i am doing a 99 model triton dual cab with a 4G64/63 head hybrid. Mod list: 94 4g64 block line honed,arp studs,polished and shotpeened crank, eagle rods. wiseco pistons, cometic head gasket, arp head studs, 1mm oversize stainless valves, flow benched ported VR4 head, crower springs and tit' retainers, HKS 262 cams, HX35 holset turbo with bullseye housing, tubular headers, walbro 255hp fuel pump, 1600cc bosch inj', water to air intercooler, water/alcohol inj', Wolfems version 4 ECU, and a fully operational modified Cyclone manifold. there is a lot more in the build and i will send a build CD of to DJ powerhaus to get him to put them on somewhere (because i cant work out how to get a pic' on here. Motor is nearly ready to bolt in, i am just getting it to handle and stop a bit better first. i have 345 mm front disc's with four spot calipers on now and it stops great, truck has been dropped 3 1/2 " with rest springs so its handling is ok now, Goal is 600 whp and a mid 11sec quarter mile. wish me luck!

Sounds awesome! its funny I was thinking about that last week when i saw one with a factory 4G64 in it. (the older models never had 2.4 in New Zealand) I wonder how strong the new gearbox's are?

How is clearance in the newer engine bay? i might make this my next project

The 99 model MK has shitloads more room around the engine bay. The gearbox is the basic starion front case with hyd clutch with the triton ext' housing. Just waiting for the eagle rods to come back had to get the 7 bolt rods rebushed to the .821 pin size, i already had the wiseco's they were 64/1g ones but for a six bolt rod and the crank in the 94 model up is 7 bolt. [/img]

EvoUtion wrote:

dtl1218 wrote:What did you use for your O2 housing, I'm at the point where I need to start on the housing.

- David

I had some flanges cut in 12mm mild steel, then just weld it up where it fits with some 3" pipe

I think I might go with this setup for the 02 housing. I'll come from the flange with two 90 degree tubes pointing down along the firewall, then weld another set of 90 degree bends point so they face the rear. On the lower set of 90 degree bends, I'll cut them so they come together as a Y pipe, and make the combined section to be 3" round which will flow into a 3" flex pipe section and onto the rest of the exhaust.

If anyone else has pictures of their 02 housings, I wouldn't mind seeing them before I start making the part.

- David

Check out the thread "Ugly" under General for pics of my attempt.

tjc wrote:Check out the thread "Ugly" under General for pics of my attempt.

That looks pretty good, I read over your welding troubles, but at least you do have a welder. For any part of this project that I've had to join metal, I've had to use my little MAPP gas and oxygen brazing kit. I think I'll tack everything together with the brazing kit, then take it to a welding shop to have them finish everything because I don't know how long the housing would hold together being just brazed.

- David

Hey EvolUtion, what inlet manifold is that? and are you still running your heater?

Looks like an Evo 4+ twin scroll manifold and turbo. Not sure if they vary between Evo 4 and 9. I see a water hose running out of the thermotstat housing at the front of the engine over the intake manifold and back to the firewall. I'm guessing that's for the heater core.

blue1 wrote:Hey EvolUtion, what inlet manifold is that? and are you still running your heater?

Evo5 in with modified flange to fit vr4 ports... E4 ex and turbo

yeah i'm gonna try and keep the heater (cold NZ winters!)