Isuzu pickup race truck build.

[Isuzupickup]

Thanks guys. Good news! My motor comes out next week! I found someone to sell my old swap to and a buddy of mine is helping me with the swap in his storage. He's wrapping up a KA Datsun actually. So the next few days is the motor reassembly and then just waiting.

[PunkboySL2]

your truck is fantastic, well done

[DeeAOne]

Hahaha!

This picture made me smile. Love your truck.

[loekaaz]

love these trucks. Those wheel arches make them perfect for stancing. Yours is out of the book. nice!

[TheCrabMaster]

Saw your truck at SC4, looks good man. A ka will deff wake the truck up haha

[Isuzupickup]

Well good news is two more checks and this swap is going down. The custom driveshaft/possible custom oil pan are the last little components of this shit!

[cobrawannabe]

I love this truck. Grew up with an '87 in the family, have never not wanted one since.

[brsteinbach]

Gah! I love your truck man, I want to see more updates!

[LethalEthan]

Btw fwiw anything from the z series and g series engines are all interchangeable and that goes from 1.6L all the way to 2.6's

[LethalEthan]

It is a little bit. Any aftermarket at all is in AUS. There's manifolds and forged rods on ebay.aus. I think I've seen the space cab your talking about. It's white and black? Check out ozgemini.com. It's mostly opels and stuff but they all use isuzu 2.3's and 2.6's

[Isuzupickup]

It just seemed like a pain. No real aftermarket support. Custom turbo manifold, standalone, things like that. I've seen a build where a guy did it in a spacecab and it came out really awesome! Just looked pricey.

[LethalEthan]

shouldve boosted a 2.6 . That's what my plan was before selling mine.

[Isuzupickup]

2.3 4ZD1 stock.

[LethalEthan]

was it a 2.3 or 2.6 stock?

[Isuzupickup]

It's late but I got motivated to update this thread. The motor I originally bought was a little too much to rebuild. It had 3 bent rods, this one being the worst.




So I said...




And bought a broken timing chain KA for 100, only cylinder 3 had two slight piston to valve contacts, so I'm just going to smooth them out, they're minor. So I'm left with a lot of KA parts (excuse the mess, it just got in the garage yesterday)




I also got allll the parts I need, such as the slave/hardline, driveshaft, cluster, fuel pump, and the redone head.

Walbro255 inline (shit picture)




Mmmmm.



And just 'cause I had a run in with a rodeo:




Sooo ultimately this should go down next month, I just need the oil pan and driveshaft custom made and I should be in there like swimwear.