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redzone
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by redzone » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:19 am
Next door got one of these in for a wheel alignment yesterday, so i had a squiz, as you do..
They have a sohc 16V 4G69 motor, and it's a wideblock..
and the gearbox is a Toyota Hilux copy.. which is a W54..
which is a close relative of the Supra W58!
so, now we have another source for Supra gearbox conversion bellhousings!
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shame they're not narrowblock though! would have been handy for dohc 63 conversions..
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by JD_Stazza_Brendan » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:27 am
Excellent find.
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by OLD FART » Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:20 am
Good find Dave .
This is why this is a great site .The shareing of information by knowledgeable people :beer
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by Lunacy » Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:30 am
Haha Dave i was actually just looking at one of those at my gearbox place the other day. He had one sitting there and compared it to a staz box and the dimensions were very similar. Any idea on the strength of one of those?
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by redzone » Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:38 am
depends how well made the box is compared to a Supra one, although if the great wall one shat itself you'd just replace it with a genuine supra one...
i imagine the bellhousing would be strong enough..
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by Lunacy » Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:56 am
redzone wrote: depends how well made the box is compared to a Supra one, although if the great wall one shat itself you'd just replace it with a genuine supra one...
i imagine the bellhousing would be strong enough..
Ok, the guy wants $800nzd for it which i thought was pretty good as its brand new. Hmmm buy this or run my 2nd hand b2600 box?????
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by Alspos » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:20 am
Wonder what else the chinese have copied...I mean re-engineered along the way. Anyone else thinking 4WD staz?
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Lummy
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by Lummy » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:10 pm
The Chinese-copy W series gearboxes are for sale on E-Bay too. I offered to "test the strength" of one for the guy selling them as he believes they're just as strong as the Toyota boxes. But he reckons they're already in the process of running them in some circuit cars to see what sort of HP they can handle.
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by kiwi_EX » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:51 pm
Lunacy wrote: Ok, the guy wants $800nzd for it which i thought was pretty good as its brand new. Hmmm buy this or run my 2nd hand b2600 box?????
Hey Bryce give it a go, it's worth a shot for that sort of money.
Only thing to consider though is what the ratio's are like?
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by Lunacy » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:26 pm
kiwi_EX wrote: Lunacy wrote: Ok, the guy wants $800nzd for it which i thought was pretty good as its brand new. Hmmm buy this or run my 2nd hand b2600 box?????
Hey Bryce give it a go, it's worth a shot for that sort of money.
Only thing to consider though is what the ratio's are like?
Yeah guy said it was actually from a Triton, so who knows if its chinese or not. Will see how much my cage ends up costing :)
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by iXNAY » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:17 am
well this is now a great and cheap option for anyone with a starion block going twin cam for the gearbox.
i was reading at sigma-galant and there was talk there of a narrow block version but im unsure and maybe someone has just got confused.
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by Lunacy » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:46 am
Il try and drop by my gbox place and do a few more measurements to see what i can find this week if i get the chance.
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