Changing out 3 lturbo diesel engine in patrol

Trendsetters

I cannot sit by and read this reply by Sir Bonza-a-Lot without commenting.

Firstly, just so that your aware, our relationship to each other is such that I let him borrow/lend some of my extra special 4X4 'stuff' on the odd occasion, why, I don't know know, because he is always losing, breaking, things or damaging himself with said items.

Secondly, the only thing he has been taunted with/by in his whole life, is his guardian angel,l carer SWMBO.

Thirdly, Bonz is always drinking one too many 'butterbeers'.

Fourthly, I know (because he told me) that he was talking to Ex member Roachie a week or two ago re Roachie thinking about disposing of his GU with the V8 Chev motor.

I do believe that all of this has led to Bonz having an Episode, Vision, Hallucination, Dream re V8 engines in GU's after imbibing on one 'butterbeer' too many and submitting the above reply.

DD

Oh my goodness gracious me,.....

I just checked in here (ie: to this forum) for the first time in about a month, and what do I see but the same old vitriol from the same old ("old" being the operative word) protagonists...hahaha

FWIW, The Chev 6.5V8 diesel and the strength of the Nissan GU drivetrain is a marriage made in heaven (IMHO).

I've owned my Chev V8 since November 2006 and am about to part with it. I'm not selling it because there is anything wrong with it....rather that I have not been using it as much as I would like these days due to changing family circumstances.... IE: we have not been going away camping anywhere near as often as we used to.

BUT.... the Chev is not going to suit everybody's tastes. It is an old-fashioned, agricultural type of engine. Not a computer chip within cooee. It will pull like a 14y/o school boy all day long. It has oodles of torque right off idle (mine is a naturally aspirated model).

On the downside, it tends to be not quite as quiet as the lovely modern crop of 3 litre whiz-bang jiggers. Without a turbo or supercharger, you will need to stir the long shifter a couple of times going up steepish hills if she is loaded up with gear and/or towing anything.

Cheers blokes......

Roachie

Tsk Tsk DD, the said friend was one just north of you, a guy with a real shed, and we were discussing the might V8 Toyota turbo diesel currently fitted to the 200 series. Said expert reckoned it would fit and me being the drive till it breaks man is still contemplating.... but imagine that 600 killer wasps in a Patrol

Yes! he does have penchant for swapping junk drive trains for decent state of the art V8 ones.

However! I just sooooooo! want to be present when you tell her in doors that you are going to do it. Maybe I could help you persuade her that it is the right thing to do. (ROFLMAO).

600 'killerwasps' is music to your ears, however as your put the pedal to the metal and the DTT's kick in with you sinking into the seat from the G forces generated, it all goes very quite.

Hey Roachie

Is that you? It cant be! The last I heard is that you vaporised while doing a red liner up Big Red. By geez they must make them tough in SA, nearly as tough as they make them in Yass.

You probably dont recall mate, but when I picked up the new 200 cruiser in August 2008 from SA I was gunna drop in and give you a drive but when you heard how many relos I had with me, you done a runner and went out for the day.

Anyway mate, if you are selling that one, someone is going to get a good rig, you have done a lot of work on it. Perhaps you should contemplate a 200 twin turbo, you'd like that.

Cheers Roachie

Regards

The Major

G'day Major,
I'm working my way up to a 200!!! I'm half way there now that I have bought a 100 series.
I know a bloke in Melbourne who has a 200 and I reckon that by the time he's ready to sell it, I might be ready to buy it off him!!! hahaha
Good old Yass, eh?
Cheers mate
Roachie