Friday, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:00
Trentski,
I have had the vehicle for two weeks now, but due to work, christmas, and an impending wedding in another two weeks, I haven't been able to get off road yet. Onroad the car is great. I travel around 60kms a day to and from work, which is mainly the
Monash freeway on
Melbourne. This varies between 100kmh to 0kmh traffic. Economy has improved slightly, with the last tank full being only work/running around the city, and no highway travel. I believe that it will probably be 11-12 per 100km on highway, and upto 14 per 100km during my normal work running.
If purchasing again, I would have a carry boy canopy. They are up to 1K dearer, but match the height of the roof, and fit better.
Mine in a Flexiglass. It sticks up slightly higher than the roof, which may affect economy also, but main makes a fair bit of wind noise.
The V6, hmm, reasonable power, but not sure on toyota motives with the exhaust. It has the crapiest manifold I have ever seen, and because of limited room between the engine and firewall, a crushed bend (not mandrel bend) on the passenger side cylinders. I will be looking into a decent set of extractors, and bigger exhaust, as I believe the power a decent power increase would be possible. Also, it seems that revving the engine is quite pointless after 3500 rpm, as it pulls better below that rpm. The best rpm range is from aroung 1500rpm to 3500 rpm. The engine get quite noisy above 3500rpm also. This is also opposite to what one of the 4x4 mags said in their review.
The vehicle I bought is a V6 Hilux SR5 in gun metal
grey, I only got he SR5 as the dealer gave me a good deal, only about $3K more than the standard hilux, with the same extras on both vehicles.
If you have any more questions, please ask away.
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