TOYOTA TO CHEVOTA

Good Luck with Brunswicks :-(

We had one (6.2L I think?) put in our Troopy back in 2003. Only teething issue was that the power steering pump went, but they sent one out to us straight away.

Had to sell that car & couldn't afford or have time to switch the engine out (yeah big mistake) so some years later after we purchased the 80 series we had a Brunswicks 6.5L installed in it, got it done up in Townsville but engine was shipped from Brunswicks. When we moved to WA they checked it over and changed a few things (wiring / hoses or something) that hadn't been done the right way or the way they liked.

In both cases hubby had the diff ratios changed too, or whatever mechanical stuff they dot here.

We did have some issue with the 2nd engine - I think from day dot, it was a bit rattly on startup but we thought that was normal, now I'm not into engines but it was something costly and if nothing had been done about it then it would have been detrimental down the track (about $1200 I think). We traded that car in earlier this year.

With the 80 series it was pretty heavy, bordering on overweigh, so the fuel economy was impressive with the chev if taking that into account - from memory it was around 8k's a L

So we're more than happy with Brunswick's service, and Hubby now has a TD Cruiser Ute (not the V8 thing) but I reckon if he had $20k to spare he would jump at the opportunity to put a Chev in it. Nothing beats the power of the Chev, from a wife's perspective though a normal TD engine is much quieter on the noise front. Long trips in the chev 80 (we did cross Aus a few times) would drive me nuts! Mind you I would still listen to some engine noise rather than tire noise like you get in the small cars, that drives me more bannanas!