Question 4 V8 TROOPIE

Go the smokey detroit!!!!Nice southerly coastal fishing trip someday.
Chris

Brighty, you want to know the performance difference? After the troopy suddenly has twice the horse power?? Surely you can figure that one out!
While I'm not into burnouts I do surprise many by the way she takes off at traffic lights changing now :-) Even if she hesitates for a half second if one plants the foot too quickly before things start to roar and whirr. Anybody knows the cure for that lag? There's no turbo ( don't need one now) and she has a 75mm round intake pipe from the snorkel, 62mm exhaust pipe from the V8. Tried the standard Toyota paper air filter and the ARB finer filter, makes no difference. I still think its a momentary lack of air until the suction starts moving the air through the pipes but how to fix it?

Not towing, once out of town you change into fifth gear and leave it there. Climbs hills in fifth and has no problems overtaking that smoking Patrol in the slow lane - I'm ducking for cover now :-)
Unless towing, I never take off in first gear now, even up my steep driveway - the troopy jumps too much then. In rocky hills with all that extra torque she needs a gentle touch on the pedal to avoid wheel spin, plenty of grunt for that climb.

Go and twist Brad's arm a bit, mind you, the price I quoted was paid nearly 3 years ago. Their charges would go up like anybody else's I'd think. I would not try to install the V8 myself, kit or no kit, they do it all the time and know the job backwards. I doubt there are any savings in the long run by doing one's own conversion.
Klaus