We Love Scats

[dobbo]

Spent the day looking at various 4wd's for a mate to replace his 4BD1 County. We searched high and low from modded Zooks, shorty Mavericks to Cruisers to Paj's to bloody to many cars to mention, then we saw the ad for a Daihatsu Scat, drove out in the middle of bloody nowhere to discover it, took it for a run, it goes like a rocket, so he bought it.

Anyone had any experience with them before? It's like a series but smaller and quicker, even has the vent.

[long stroke]

Ask roothy off 4wdaction:D

[Slunnie]

Oooh yeah. The BBM Scat driven and trashed by Roothy rocked.... and rolled.

Scat, V6 auto, Hilux diffs???, big fat swampers and Roothy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpajbliBao

[isuzutoo-eh]

Spent the day looking at various 4wd's for a mate to replace his 4BD1 County.

You mean they can be replaced? Whats wrong with it and how much does he want for it?

[dobbo]

You mean they can be replaced? Whats wrong with it and how much does he want for it?



Too late tis gone to a good home.

[Wortho]

Hey Medowie's not the middle of nowhere, it's just to the left.:D

[2stroke]

My mate has a Scat,he,s had it for about 20 years,he comes out wheeling all the time.It has a welded rear and Detriot front,2.8 diesel and muddies.Another mate (who used to own the "Mogrover")and I have LJ50's with Lockrights front and rear.We all have other 4x4s but have a lot of fun in these.No way an LJ50 could replace my 130 though! The Scat has ample power with 2.8 Diesel and reasonable economy, offroad performance is decent (no match for a 110 in standard trim though) fairly robust driveline but very hard to get lockers for.
P.S if you saw the dodgy suspension geometry on the one Roothy drove last year at TuffTruck it'd be no surprise it did what it did,the passenger rear wheel just drove right under the truck The rear housing was severely bent before that as well.

[rangieman]

Oh dobbo i was worried about opening this thread ,as your always so close to the boundry i didnt want to open it , But it got the better of me and thank god it was about a daihatsu scat (car):cool:
Yep great car great motor;)

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

Spent the day looking at various 4wd's for a mate to replace his 4BD1 County. We searched high and low from modded Zooks, shorty Mavericks to Cruisers to Paj's to bloody to many cars to mention, then we saw the ad for a Daihatsu Scat, drove out in the middle of bloody nowhere to discover it, took it for a run, it goes like a rocket, so he bought it.

Anyone had any experience with them before? It's like a series but smaller and quicker, even has the vent.

Diahatsu being part of Toyota, share a few things. Some parts can be hard to get but they are a fairly straight forward machine. You could describe them as a either a "premature 40 series cruiser" or a Suzuki in Sumo training :D

[worraps]

not to sure on the scat myself but always love seeing myself pop up in video's on the net lol i am the guy in red and black shirt near the tree



worraps

[Slunnie]

My mate has a Scat,he,s had it for about 20 years,he comes out wheeling all the time.It has a welded rear and Detriot front,2.8 diesel and muddies.Another mate (who used to own the "Mogrover")and I have LJ50's with Lockrights front and rear.We all have other 4x4s but have a lot of fun in these.No way an LJ50 could replace my 130 though! The Scat has ample power with 2.8 Diesel and reasonable economy, offroad performance is decent (no match for a 110 in standard trim though) fairly robust driveline but very hard to get lockers for.
P.S if you saw the dodgy suspension geometry on the one Roothy drove last year at TuffTruck it'd be no surprise it did what it did,the passenger rear wheel just drove right under the truck The rear housing was severely bent before that as well.
True. it was one of the most unbalanced trucks I've ever seen and with so much flex in the rear it was bound to happen. IIRC myself and many others pointed this out to Rick but I think they pressed on with what time they didn't have in the build.

[Ricey]

Damn tough cars from Daihatsu in that era. I had an F10 (possibly F20, it was a very long time ago!) that I took around australia & treated it like crap. It ended up roofless while living in Alice. Mine had a small petrol but I believe the 2.8 diesel was the same as what went in earlier hilux's.

[Bassifier]

There is a wonderful example of a scat for sale in cronulla at the moment, tray back version.

[foxmcscrooge]

You don't happen to know if that Scat is still for sale do you Bassifier (and where it is)? My old man and I built one up when I was a kid. I've been thinking about getting hold of one to tinker with.

[PAT303]

I made mine into a shooting rig and towed it behind my defender.It pitched forward and back annoyingly,rode very hard,didn't do anything my series three didn't do easier so got cut up. Pat

[LoveMyV8County]

When I saw "scat" in the title I immediately thought of the Scatman...

YouTube - Scatman John: Scatman music video (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=mpHLEm9-0bg)

Worth a look if you haven't seen or heard it before. he managed to make a virtue out of his stuttering problem.

[Phred]

In the early 80's I worked in western QLD in the oil industry I drove a N 12 Volvo with 2 trailers with water tanks. The truck had hardly any working electrics, it's starter motor was a scat ute that had 2 44 gallon drums of diesel plus the service gear for the grader- just pump up the air hook on the chain tow start 80 tons no worries.

Peter