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This glorious evening a few of us (alex myself and another mate) where cruising through northbridge when we saw THORS!!!!! OMFG WHAT A MACHINE!!!

MEGGA LIFT!!!!
Boasts 6 Stud landcruiser wheels,
EA81 motor
Lift like ive never seen before

ot has also got to be the cleanest brumby ive ever seen!!!!

Good stuff guys... would definately be interested in how the heck he has done that.

Hope you guys left the web site details on his window.

Dave

very very custom..there was quite a lot of suspension lift in this car... no bits hanging down

front controll arms looked very custom to me, could not work out what he did to gain the 6 stud....in fact it looked extremely bog standard. ie: very well done

dave

very very surprised to see it still had the ea81 under there! Probably abit of weber action!

alex

stalkers! :P

cant believe you didnt take any pics of the lift it - the only bit that matters!

wow,
but don't those exhaust pipes look skinny in that vast Vista!!

whoa looks awesome!
Altho I suspect it isn't a 6" body lift....i bet the blocks aren't 6inch otherwise as Dave says, there would be heaps more hanging down....looks like alot of the height comes from the big wheel/tyre combo which is most likely just the hubs redrilled to 6 stud - u can see the original little ventilated front discs there I think. The rear looks to be even more jacked up prolly with the good old wound-up torsion bar and gas shockies combo.

**dont know if that made any sense, oh my god im so tired

edit - he still needs a bash plate!

EA81 !!!! I am a little disappointed, but impressed by the rest of the job.
However in reality it has no advantage off road due to being overgeared to buggery with the tyre size - street cruiser/offroad image ??. I know how much this happens when 27" tyres are fitted, cant imagine how that feels with those tyres and rims??
Would be interested if there is more to come in project wise, but most start with the engine approach (EJ conv), then build the car around it to suit.

wats wrng with a ea81 mine pulls ok with 30inch tyres and thats in 4x4 its ok the 6 stud tyres are easy its on the usmb site or somethin like that

90brumby wrote:wats wrng with a ea81 mine pulls ok with 30inch tyres and thats in 4x4 its ok the 6 stud tyres are easy its on the usmb site or somethin like that

I dropped my tyre size back 1" to 26" tyres before I sold it and was amazed by the slight difference of torque gained, made it more driveable in the boggy sand and let it get the revs up. My old MY had Weber and elec ignition etc and went very well, in my personal opinion 27" was getting a little too overgeared and the EA81 just didnt go as hard as the EJ engine it needed!

90 brumby - what size are those tyres (in metric)? they sure dont look like 30". 28's tops.

an EA81 would be a pig to drive with those big tyres, be honest. My EJ22 is overgeared with 27's and I have a ton more power than you

as you found subanator, 26's (dunlop adventurers for example) are a good max size for EA's in my opinion

vincentvega wrote:90 brumby - what size are those tyres (in metric)? they sure dont look like 30". 28's tops.

wat picture r u lookin at ????????

i was lead to believe that they are 30 there 225 70 15s

they are 29" tyres

they are 2" visibly bigger then the 27" tyres that all the wa boys ar running around in...i know thisa caus we put one up against the otehr and the tyres where MUCH much bigger

dave

225/70R15 = 27.4"

my 205/75R15 (27.1") are noticeably bigger than the "27" inch nankangs all the guys run up here

http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

I thought that sounded a bit odd so i got on the google machine.

Used these 2 independant web sites.
http://www.s-series.org/htm/calc/tiresizeconv.htm
http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/tools/units/tyres.php

Sorry to say 225/70/15 = 27.4 inches

Did u compare them when the both tyres were off the cars and both with equal tread wear? Unlikely

Dave

LOL... looks like we were both thinking the same thing there.

Dave

yep. the reason i asked is i run the same rims, and I know what 30's would look like on em. (HUGE )

i had bald and i mean BALD tyres on those rims and put them nedxt to matts 27"'s which where about halfway through their tread and mine where still minimum 2" bigger