RMP&O's v8 80-series
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RMP&O
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Nicely done! Your car looks uniqueI like it but not the FJ-style white roof ^_^.
The Vortec 5.7L, what its hp and lb-ft? Checked wikipedia and found many varieties. What car model was it taken from?
Ya I would not have done the white roof if it wasn't for bad paint up there. Easier and cheaper to just go white then do a color match. Plus I figured with the white accent stripe it would look decent. It has grown on me a bit these last 2 or 3 weeks.
The 5.7L is from a 97 Chevy, my guess is 1500 pickup but it could have been a Suburban. 255hp and and if I recall right about 325ftlbs. It is a bit of an out dated motor but does the trick and runs very well. I found out recently you can put all the 6L Chevy stuff on the 5.7, heads, fuel injection, coil packs and more. Could also easily build the bottom end of the 5.7L and super charge it. Or just dump it someday and drop in a 5.3L.
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RMP&O
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Wheels are Mickey Thompson Classics. 15x8 (or was it 8.5!?) with a 3.65" b/s. You can't run a 15" wheel on FZJ axles without grinding down the rear calipers. Which I have done. They are alloy wheels painted black. Best of all, only cost me $125 a wheel with free shipping! Tires are Cooper STT's in 35x12.5, touch loud (and heavy) but so far I am happy with them. Hard to beat them at $185/each! I will say I am contemplating some 17" Walker Evans wheels and moving these MT 15" wheel and tire combo over to another truck I have.
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Shanfari
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You can always modify without burning your wallet with a chevy engine
. 255hp / 325 lb-ft is more than enough, just focus on fuel economy .White roof makes it at least unique ^_^.
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jim65wagon
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The Cruiser looks awsome!
Shanfari
DhofarX.com
RMP&O
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So I picked up a Slee Short Bus front bumper, Warn 9.5XP-s and a Ridged Industries 14" LED bar. I bought all this from Slee. On their website it shows these items being all used together. However, they are not plug and play, Slee didn't say anything about having to do some custom work either. I was hoping it was all plug and play but that is not the case.
First up, The Slee bumper is sweet, I always liked the looks of them. While not the strongest bumper I have seen it is fairly light weight which I like. It fits like a glove, very nice fitment on the frame rails. My only real complaint is that the recovery points are a bit light duty.
The Warn 9.5 fits great into the Slee bumper, however there is one major issue. To run the LED bar the winch control box has to be relocated. I searched on the internet and the only guy I could find with this combo is a dude who goes by "Treeroot" on forums. His truck is also the one pictured on Slee's site with this combo. He relocated the control box to behind the winch between it and the radiator, down low. I decided I didn't like that location so came up with my own method. I relocated the control box to my engine bay. To do this I had to make my own wire leads. So I went about soldering up some new #2 wire leads that are 5ft. long. I then made a mounting bracket to hold the control box, using stock mounting bolt locations in the engine bay. It worked out well but took some time and thought. I just bought the wireless upgrade/option from Warn as I plan to go that route with this winch. I honestly don't like the control box mounted on top of the winch anyways, it is just a preference thing as far as looks go.
Next, the Slee mounting brackets for the LED bar are no good, at least not for me. I screwed around with trying to use them for at least 2hrs and could not get them to work at all. So I gave up and just made my own mounting brackets, which all up took me about an hour to make.
Here is pictures......
The beginnings of my relocation bracket in the engine bay for the control box.
Control box relocated and mounted. Like I say, I am going wireless so this location will work out well for me.
Mounting tabs I made for the LED bar.
And the finished set up.....
All in all I am stoked on the new set up. I had thought about going in cab winch controls and almost bought the stuff to do that. But with the wireless option no need for that at all. Plus wireless means less wires to deal with and no switches mounted on the dash. I got pretty frustrated with the Slee mounting tabs for the LED bar. I am not sure if they sent me the wrong ones (look exactly like the ones on their website) or what but I could not figure out how to use them at all. They do not line up in any way shape or form that I could figure out. I could have saved a lot of time by simply making my own brackets from the start. I was also pretty disappointed Slee gave me no warning that I would have to relocated the control box to run this set up. That would not have changed my mind on this purchase but I would have been more prepared instead of having to run to the auto parts store 3x's on a Saturday. I will probably upgrade the hook on the end of my winch to something much better. I don't care to much for the Warn fairlead, it is kind of bulky but for now I will just run it.
All I have left to do today is wire up the light, otherwise it is a done deal!
Cheers
First up, The Slee bumper is sweet, I always liked the looks of them. While not the strongest bumper I have seen it is fairly light weight which I like. It fits like a glove, very nice fitment on the frame rails. My only real complaint is that the recovery points are a bit light duty.
The Warn 9.5 fits great into the Slee bumper, however there is one major issue. To run the LED bar the winch control box has to be relocated. I searched on the internet and the only guy I could find with this combo is a dude who goes by "Treeroot" on forums. His truck is also the one pictured on Slee's site with this combo. He relocated the control box to behind the winch between it and the radiator, down low. I decided I didn't like that location so came up with my own method. I relocated the control box to my engine bay. To do this I had to make my own wire leads. So I went about soldering up some new #2 wire leads that are 5ft. long. I then made a mounting bracket to hold the control box, using stock mounting bolt locations in the engine bay. It worked out well but took some time and thought. I just bought the wireless upgrade/option from Warn as I plan to go that route with this winch. I honestly don't like the control box mounted on top of the winch anyways, it is just a preference thing as far as looks go.
Next, the Slee mounting brackets for the LED bar are no good, at least not for me. I screwed around with trying to use them for at least 2hrs and could not get them to work at all. So I gave up and just made my own mounting brackets, which all up took me about an hour to make.
Here is pictures......
The beginnings of my relocation bracket in the engine bay for the control box.
Control box relocated and mounted. Like I say, I am going wireless so this location will work out well for me.
Mounting tabs I made for the LED bar.
And the finished set up.....
All in all I am stoked on the new set up. I had thought about going in cab winch controls and almost bought the stuff to do that. But with the wireless option no need for that at all. Plus wireless means less wires to deal with and no switches mounted on the dash. I got pretty frustrated with the Slee mounting tabs for the LED bar. I am not sure if they sent me the wrong ones (look exactly like the ones on their website) or what but I could not figure out how to use them at all. They do not line up in any way shape or form that I could figure out. I could have saved a lot of time by simply making my own brackets from the start. I was also pretty disappointed Slee gave me no warning that I would have to relocated the control box to run this set up. That would not have changed my mind on this purchase but I would have been more prepared instead of having to run to the auto parts store 3x's on a Saturday. I will probably upgrade the hook on the end of my winch to something much better. I don't care to much for the Warn fairlead, it is kind of bulky but for now I will just run it.
All I have left to do today is wire up the light, otherwise it is a done deal!
Cheers
RMP&O
Expedition Leader
Yep, saw you a couple of times. Gave you the nod in town.
Nice Cruiser! Couldn't tell it was a TD in passing, even nicer!
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