Time to start work.
The plan is basically as follows:
1. Strip 45
2. Transfer tub to 80 series chassis
Fab new body mounts
3. Transfer engine/trans to 80 chassis
Mount h150 to the 1uz
Fab custom bell housing
Fab new engine...
Carrying on the story.
Backtracking a couple of months. A friend contacted me and after seeing my 45 build, he asks me to do his build for him, a BJ40 body on an 80 chassis with a 1HDT.
At the time I didn't have much work on so was only too...
Hwzt all. This will be a build thread, but like most, it's starts with a story....
Around 2022, I got my hands on a Lexus LS400. I loved that car, that absurdly heavy, beautifully comfortable, quietly powerful and deeply impractical, rust...
Many many years ago, my dad and I had an opportunity to tour the ICON shop. They knew upfront that there was no way that we were going to be customers but they were still really cool and spent quite a bit of time with us showing us various rigs...