Here are a few pics of the new motor. The sump has been replaced and the altenator has been relocated.

BEAUTIFUL!!

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The motor is now in and awaiting the little jobs to begin

One more

Also went and bought some factory 17" alloys to chuck on when it goes over the pits

Edited August 1, 201213 yr by Russ81

Very NOICE!!

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A bit more detail on what is being done.

The car has been fitted with a marks bell housing adapter kit and is running an exceedy clutch and flywheel.

The clutch master and slave have been replaced to get a bit more throw. The gauges are cam bus driven and ran off the Nissan computer, with that now gone the gauges need to come out and be rebuilt to suit the the new setup ( this isn't required for a pre CRD conversion)

The exhaust is going to consist of custom extractors plumbed into the existing 3" exhaust.

Air con and power steering lines are all being custom made to suit and a custom ally radiator is being fabbed to help keep things cool. The wiring harness is now on its way back and should be here early next week.

Edited August 3, 201213 yr by Russ81

Again, very NOICE!!

Looking forward to seeing VIDEO. Pics are cool, but this IS 2012 not 2009!!

;-) ;-) ;-)

Looking good!! Also looking forward to seeing fuel economy figures to compare with 4.8 P figures.

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Don't worry bigbluemav I will get vids once it's running and hopefully on the dyno.

Edited August 4, 201213 yr by Russ81

Very cool! Looking forward to it!

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The wiring harness and radiator have arrived and the exhaust has been finished. It draws ever closer to being back on the rd

I have now sold the 33" claws and have bought a second set of 17" factory alloys. The plan being to run 6 rims with tyres for touring and the remaining 4 running 35-37" muddies for playing.

Picked up and fitted the factory alloys today ready for the pits

I've decided to get a set of KM2s but I am waiting to test fit a 35 onto the factory rim to see if the offset gives enough clearance.

Jeez, did you win a lotto or something??

Nice rig mate, I just brought myself 08 CRD in white and I'll see how it goes!

Keep up the good work!

Cheers

Lol wish I had of won lotto, then I would have put a duramax in. Nah just money I've been putting aside each week over the years.

Fair enough mate. Good luck with it

KM2s were ordered today and the rims dropped off at Tyrepower, should be ready for pick up on mon

Just found out for those interested, the harness was done by sideshow performance in QLD.

Just picked up the new tyres and couldn't be happier with the service I received

The front bash plate arrived today. 5mm thick doesn't look like anything could hurt it.

Added a few coats of black and clear

I have ordered some diff armour and will be doing the wiring this weekend. Here are a few pics from along the way.

Edited August 31, 201213 yr by Russ81

The weekend saw the patrol a few steps closer to completion.

On Saturday I removed the lift and took off the light bar and rear work lights ready for the pits, I also fitted the front bash plate.

I also took some more pics of the exhaust, seeing as I didnt get any during fabrication.

Sunday saw the fitting of the wiring harnesses and wiring up 99% of the car. The fuel tank was dropped and the new sender and pump fitted and the extra wiring ran. The computer was fitted after a custom mount was fabbed and the wiring for the trailer brakes was ran.

During the day the Heater hoses, and intake mountings were test fitted.

Last night was a magical night, the car was fired up for the first time, just waiting to get the security removed from the ECU so we can kick it over using the key lol

Edited September 13, 201213 yr by Russ81

Where did you source that front bash plate, looks sweet, I wouldn't mind replacing that useless plastic on mine.

Cheers