Thread: Converting a 130

Originally Posted by rijidij

It should be a pretty straight forward job as I suspect the chassis will have all the body mounts to suit both single or dual cabs. There would be no modifications needed, just bolt off bolt on. I think the most difficult part would be sourcing the dual cab body at a reasonable price, although it would be quite possible to find one at a wreckers. Obviously you would only need to purchase from the firewall back and you can re-use your front doors to keep the cost down.
I suspect the white one would have firewall damage, but you could even re-use your firewall and windscreen.
They are out there. These two are at TRS.




Cheers

OK, TRS want $4500 for all the bits I need, not including the tray. And then I'd have to get it all here. They want $1500 just for a pair of rear doors. Also I had a quote from the manufacturer of my tray of $1500 to cut it down and respray. On that basis it's not looking too viable. But it's just a start. I'll keep looking.

So you have 2 options : $6500 + labour and all the little bits to get it together so say 6 months of playing in the garage on the weekends,or
Have a look around for a 130 DC that you can trade yours for around $6-10k change over, depening upon how much you value your weekend.
The other thing you may need to look at is insurance, wether they will insure it, how much and if there is a difference between a factory dc and a conversion.

Add around $500? for engineer's ticket -seating / body shape change (legality).
My thought's were it's cheaper to buy complete vehicle than parts (over 5k from wreckers), swap body then onsell donor, but I'm looking for 110 wagon & a 200tdi will fit as well ( but a 300 will give me lotsa spares) All bit's and pieces there then, but is double the work + 2x engineers tickets & rego to onsell donor, still reckon may be best way to go for me (just need to convince other half we need another land rover laying around, the 109's might have to go)

Brett

110 300tdi

As long as the donor vehicle is still registered or a repairable write-off, that is ok but you gotta be carful as if it's a total write off the chassis etc will not be allowed to be re-regoed.

Originally Posted by bcj

Add around $500? for engineer's ticket -seating / body shape change (legality).
My thought's were it's cheaper to buy complete vehicle than parts (over 5k from wreckers), swap body then onsell donor, but I'm looking for 110 wagon & a 200tdi will fit as well ( but a 300 will give me lotsa spares) All bit's and pieces there then, but is double the work + 2x engineers tickets & rego to onsell donor, still reckon may be best way to go for me (just need to convince other half we need another land rover laying around, the 109's might have to go)

Brett

110 300tdi

Here in QLD we're a bit more fortunate with engineering for bolt on conversions like this - it will just require a Mod plate. The last one I got for a change of body type on a 110 cost $50 (5 door wagon to single cab ute) and took about 15 minutes to get approved.