rofl Didnt have alot to spend after selling my wifes honda (she claimed our twin turbo legacy wagon as hers), so bought a 1990 Hilux surf with the wheezy POS 3 litre petrol V6. At least its manual.
As its burgundy the clearcoat on the paint is peeling in places, and theres a few shopping trolley dings but no rust anywhere.
So far ive done the following:
- Cleaned out the 20 yrs of crap from the interior
- Replaced everything steering related (tie rod ends, inners etc)
- Replaced front brakes
- Replaced rear shocks and springs that had 310kms on them
- Fixed the EGR valve so engine idles properly, and put in hard pipe from AFM to throttle body
- Put in a decent sound system
- Put on a nudge bar i bought off trademe for $1 and spotlights i got off a pajero at pick a part for $20
- Replaced stuffed front seats with some wrx buckets i bought off a guy for $40 last week :beer
- Have also got a personalised plate for it
Plans for next 6 months
- Tint all the windows
- Install 5 star alarm
- Buy some new decent size wheels and tyres
- 1UZFE conversion :)
- Cheap paintjob as practice for when i may do the starion :)
Oh yeah and maybe get the starion up and running too :)
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