1946 Ford/Willys Jeep Rod, Toyota 1UZ-FE turbo engine, Soarer IFS & IRS
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Good afternoon all,
just found this forum and decided to join up and show off what I'm currently building, as I've just got it to (pretty much) a rolling chassis this past weekend.
It's a bit of a mongrel but basically it's an original 1946 Ford Deluxe Ute chassis with all the mechanicals from a 1991 Toyota Soarer (or Lexus SC400 if you prefer) grafted on, including the front and rear subframes, steering, brakes, engine, gearbox, diff, steering, etc.
The body will be a (rough) copy of a 1942 CJ2A Willys Jeep in aluminium over the steel frame.
I'm planning on fitting twin Mitsubishi Evo TD05HRA turbochargers to the 4L 1UZ-ZFE to give it some more poke.
The main reason for going with the original chassis is it will simplify registration here in Australia over using a fabricated chassis, and the reason for the CJ2A body is it's the simplest pre-1949 body I could think of to fabricate from sheet metal - it's almost all flat panels!
Anyway, just thought I'd poke my head it and say g'day.
just found this forum and decided to join up and show off what I'm currently building, as I've just got it to (pretty much) a rolling chassis this past weekend.
It's a bit of a mongrel but basically it's an original 1946 Ford Deluxe Ute chassis with all the mechanicals from a 1991 Toyota Soarer (or Lexus SC400 if you prefer) grafted on, including the front and rear subframes, steering, brakes, engine, gearbox, diff, steering, etc.
The body will be a (rough) copy of a 1942 CJ2A Willys Jeep in aluminium over the steel frame.
I'm planning on fitting twin Mitsubishi Evo TD05HRA turbochargers to the 4L 1UZ-ZFE to give it some more poke.
The main reason for going with the original chassis is it will simplify registration here in Australia over using a fabricated chassis, and the reason for the CJ2A body is it's the simplest pre-1949 body I could think of to fabricate from sheet metal - it's almost all flat panels!
Anyway, just thought I'd poke my head it and say g'day.
