Thread: V8 diesel conversion on Perentie

Originally Posted by DirtyDog

Plenty of low km ones around i wont be getting one with more than 30'000 miles, should be able to get it shipped here for around $500 it's one pallet in a container... That's say $5000 all up for a 30,000 mile engine landed in Australia, which is a lot better than 10-14k...

$500 for a pallet? only if you know someone who freights, better know how to lie to avoid the duty and GST aswell plus I'd like an Allison on the back and not be an LB7

And if you can get LBZ's with Allison and low kays here for 5k, I'd suggest quitting your job and doing that, cause they happily fetch 15k here

I chucked another $500 in there for duty (which is only 5%) and GST. Have imported a number of engines for customers cars, can pretty much put value at whatever you like. Its not hard to find someone with some spare space in a container, my corvette only cost $3000 to ship over here for a whole car... Yeah they are LBZ's not sure who's buying used ones for 15k when a Brand new engine from GM only cost 14-15k. If i was paying 15k i'd want something like this which only cost 18k and has two massive turbos a supercharger and lots of other fruit, producing crazy numbers...

damn, when I have imported stuff over $1k, I have always been stung approx 18% (10% gst + 5% duty + fees)

Isuzu with compound turbos should be good for over 200kw and well over 800nm.

What would it cost put a compound turbo setup on a Isuzu $6000 Roundabouts, I can spend $10,000 on a 2jz and get 1200hp this doesn't mean it's the best way to do the job...

Originally Posted by DirtyDog

I chucked another $500 in there for duty (which is only 5%) and GST. Have imported a number of engines for customers cars, can pretty much put value at whatever you like. Its not hard to find someone with some spare space in a container, my corvette only cost $3000 to ship over here for a whole car... Yeah they are LBZ's not sure who's buying used ones for 15k when a Brand new engine from GM only cost 14-15k.

I'll be calling you if I can convince the missus the next project after the 101 needs to be Duramax powered! And obviously my vote is for the duramax if you end up ripping the Isuzu out.

Originally Posted by DirtyDog

What would it cost put a compound turbo setup on a Isuzu $6000 Roundabouts, I can spend $10,000 on a 2jz and get 1200hp this doesn't mean it's the best way to do the job...

Nahh $2500ish I would have said, depending on how good you are with your layout and what you choose to compound it with...

you would of course want to start out with the 4bd1-t for the uprated rods, crank, and oil squiters.

Originally Posted by DirtyDog

I chucked another $500 in there for duty (which is only 5%) and GST. Have imported a number of engines for customers cars, can pretty much put value at whatever you like. Its not hard to find someone with some spare space in a container, my corvette only cost $3000 to ship over here for a whole car... Yeah they are LBZ's not sure who's buying used ones for 15k when a Brand new engine from GM only cost 14-15k. If i was paying 15k i'd want something like this which only cost 18k and has two massive turbos a supercharger and lots of other fruit, producing crazy numbers...

2 blowers 4 turbos this is only a 12 but you can go 16 cyl if you are hungry just keep bolting them together.Might need some major body and suspension work tho no GB needed