Recent content by Noot

Hi All, It's been a very long time since I've posted. Sorry about that. Not a lot has happened since I last posted but I figure I would keep you all up to date on what has happened. I finally got a good bullbar! As much as I loved the bumperless look, there's no way the front end would...

At this point, it just looks like I'm doing a full teardown on the red bus. In order to get more clearance at the firewall for the engine and bellhousing, I'm going to have to do a bit of cutting. This means that I'm going to have to remove the heater assembly which is behind there and...

A lot of progress was made this past weekend. Very excited with how far it's all come thus far. Of course before anything important, we had to do a flex test with the standard suspension - albeit with no motor. Definitely a lot to be improved on, looks like the shocks ran out of travel...

Sorry for being so inactive, in truth not much has happened since removing the engine. I'll fill you in on what has gone down. The engine bay has been cleaned to a point where I'm happy with it and confident I shouldn't get too dirty from 40 years of God-knows-what. The existing wiring is...

I'm eager to see what your 60 will look like with the Volks mounted up with tyres. Would love a set of my own one day!

Correct, Holden started using the LS motors from 1999-onward. As mentioned before, standalone engine just aren't as cheap here as what they are in the States because they're not as widespread. We only got them in the Holden Commodore - Chevy SS or Pontiac GTO/G8 depending on the year.

The Barra is a great motor for sure, it will be a huge improvement over the 2H, although a decently paced jog would beat a 2H uphill :rofl: Personally, I wouldn't bother doing this swap in the US when you guys have LS engines so readily available, the Barra is just the Aussie equivalent: readily...

Thanks for the kind words, I really hope it works out well! Progress is slower than I would like but I can't work on this every day. In an ideal world..!

Alright, this is where things start to get interesting! It all starts with a package I received on Tuesday (Monday for the American readers, Western Australia is quite a bit ahead in terms of time zones). I bought a bellhousing kit from Dellows Conversions for my H55 transmission to mount to the...

I have gotten confirmation that my custom bellhousing from Dellows is on the way! Should be getting delivered to work next Tuesday! All starting to come together now.

I forgot to mention that I have sorted out new headlights for the 60 as well! They are from BushDoof, a small company in Western Australia, the founder Nick Mitic owns a modified Nissan GQ Patrol and is undertaking a Barra engine conversion also! I have had these for a while but never got around...

Hello all, I’ll start by apologising about my inactivity. Working full-time and living 45 minutes from where the 60 is being stored makes it a little tricky to spend a lot of time on it but I’m making do with what I have. I’ve managed to mostly disconnect the accelerator pedal assembly from...

5th of September The teardown has started! Didn’t take any progress photos and didn’t get a hell of a lot of photo-worthy stuff done anyway. Sorry. 12th of September This was after the second day of disassembly, I had my dad down at the shed to come help. Kind of a milestone moment for us...

I’m sure a lot of people are confused as to why I’m not putting a Toyota engine back into my HJ60. There are a lot of reasons, here they are summarised. - Value for money/overall cost; - Parts availability; - Performance. Value for Money/General Cost When I purchased the vehicle, my original...

While this is a build thread of my Land Cruiser, I figured that because this is my first Mud thread I would give myself a little introduction too. I’ve always been into cars from a very young age. While I never had the facilities to work on cars myself (and I still don’t), I was always...