Hi There,
New here, but thought I'd get a start on a build thread for my ute.
Its a 1991 Triton/MightyMax 5 speed 2.6 tray top.
I am a Design and Tech High school teacher and I take the ute in to work on fridays and work on it with some of my students during our club time every friday arvo.
Started life as a government vehicle for a rural hospital so it didn't see much use and was well cared for. How many people owned it from there I don't know, but at least 2.
The previous owner who did some of the initial work to the ute was a bit sloppy and most of the work I've done so far is just redoing his wiring etc.
Work done by the previous owner:
the wheels and tires
tray top swap for towing dirtbikes
"sports" exhaust aka muffler delete and high flow rear muffler
4-2-1 headers
shaved and recon head for higher compression
LPG duel fuel set up
retrimmed bench seat in black leather
sports steering wheel (Made driving the manual steering painful)
new stereo and speakers
I have since:
rewired the stereo
actually cleaned the car (the last owner bought it as described above and couldn't drive it with the little wheel so it sat for a year before I bought it from him)
new air filter
instrument cluster swap for tacho
"modified" junkyard tray sides because it had none
power steering install
removal of the worlds most janky killswitch
3D printed gauge cluster that fits in stereo location
and likely a bunch of other small things I forget
Next on the list is fixing more things done by the previous owners, lowering, handling, dedicated LPG setup and an oversized supercharger!! yay
Maybe bigger wheels, the current ones seem like they are a bit smaller than stock (205/65r15)
So here she is, more photos to come, its been raining a heap recently so I have not been able to do much work.
One of my students wanted to learn how to fit a catch can, so I bought a cheap one and he designed and made a bracket to bolt on where the power steering reservoir normally goes
Gauge cluster CAD files and prototypes
I've been working on a dedicated LPG intake that can be removed and reinstalled easily (and eliminates the Mikuni piece of shit) for mocking up etc with the supercharger install. I am hoping to keep this on the road the whole time through the build as I use it often and the kids love it when I bring it to school.
I am using a throttle body off of a dedicated LPG commodore v6 which I believe for you USA folks is referred to as the buick 3800 v6. This might also give a hint to the way too big supercharger I hope to install, but more on that later
bottom half of an adapter plate to mount to the original intake manifold, made on the CNC at work
Top Half modeled in CAD
Here is a sneak peek at the supercharger drive pulley test fit on the crank, poor photo as it is what I used to see the bolts with the radiator still installed
Thats it for now, more to come as I find time to get work done
Cheers
Alec.
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