bought a 2a 88

**COFFEY76** · 25th August 2010, 11:04 AM

That looks great! how much did it set you back?

New exhaust made a difference with me as well. Although i miss the old 'rat rod' red motor sound.

**series3** · 25th August 2010, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by COFFEY76

That looks great! how much did it set you back?

Thanks mate. Can people hazard a guess as to how much they think it would cost? I'm not sure if the price was reasonable or not.

I was charged to fit headers (they supplied hi-temp paint and gasket), new resonator and Walker Muffler, used a fair few bends to follow a protected line along the line of the original exhaust, and used new brackets. The exhaust itself is quite a thick gauge.

What do people think something like that would cost on a SWB 2.25?

**isuzutoo-eh** · 25th August 2010, 11:10 PM

G'day mate,
Nice shiny bits! So now you have the torque monster engine with superpower exhaust, try not to drag race the ricers now...

**series3** · 26th August 2010, 12:00 PM

...not to mention the best engine/gearbox combo LR have ever done..

**COFFEY76** · 26th August 2010, 12:51 PM

The exhaust i got was just a 2 1/2" with a single muffler on my 109 it set me back $230. Im happy with it. Sounds like a sick kingswood though...

**Dmmos** · 26th August 2010, 04:20 PM

I'm surely just embarrassing myself, but how about $250-$350? Don't use me as a metric to judge what you paid though

Looks good!

**series3** · 26th August 2010, 08:43 PM

Cheers guys. I was thinking around the 300 mark, but it was actually $570..

But i couldn't fault it in any way either. Some people have said it's reasonable for a good job

**peterg1001** · 27th August 2010, 04:55 PM

I paid $600 for a full stainless system, from the manifold to the back, including the flanges and muffler.

Mick the Muffler had to get the flanges fabricated, so I think I've got a bargain.

I thought I had some pictures, but I haven't, so I'll take some tomorrow.

Peter

**series3** · 22nd September 2011, 06:45 PM

There has been a long time between updates, so I thought I would throw something up to keep the thread rolling. But, no news is also good news, right?

Apart from a master cylinder that started bypassing while I was camping up the north coast, the landy has provided plain sailing.

I replaced the reservoir with two separate plastic ones, a kit available from lrseries.com: 504105 RESERVOIR TANK KIT | shop | www.lrseries.com | L. R. Series

The bracket required filing to fit the cylinder housing, which was very annoying. So I have an original metal reservoir and housing up for grabs if anyone wants it. PM me.

Bigger news is I am fitting a Toro Overdrive soon. Marshall at Zenith Engineering was able to machine a new clutch sleeve, and I should be getting it in a couple of days. Here is a link to the thread:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...rbishment.html

Using a dodgy jerry can for fuel gave me reason to open up and clean the carburettor. It all looks clean and new in there, making me very happy.

Also, my starter motor has been on the blink for sometime. I pulled it out today, and I am attempting to rebuild it.

Petrol series starter motor refurbishment

Cheers,

Sam

**series3** · 13th November 2012, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by series3

Bigger news is I am fitting a Toro Overdrive soon.

I make myself laugh sometimes. OD is still sitting patiently as I angrily scream around at 95km/h in 4th... Oh well. All in good time.

The landy has changed a bit in the last couple of months. After cruising about without the roof for a few weeks (which, aside from feeling a little silly, is bloody awesome) I decided to cut the middle ground and replace the full hardtop with a ute cab. So, I whipped out the one that had been festooning on the tinny in the shed for about two years and throw it on. It was the wrong colour, so a quick chat with a very helpful young fellow at the Raymond Terrace paint shop saw me walk out with a pressure pack of grey-tinged limestone to paint the cab. Wait for a nice sunny afternoon, spend about two hours masking, a few seconds painting and it was done.

One $30 tin was just enough to do the ute cab. Just.

The Sime Frontiers that were on the car when I got it were also just hanging in there. abused valiantly for god knows how long, full of cracks, bubbles and not much tread, they finally hung up the hat with a big whoosh when a big stake disembowelled one of them.

Certainly the funnest tyre change I have done. Cheers Tangus!

After much, much, much deliberation on what choice of tyre and researching ad nauseum, I finally decided on Maxxis Bighorn 762's in 235 85 16. There was a few contenders, but the combination of good reports and good price saw the Maxxis take the crown. I fitted these to Disco 1 steel rims I painted in matte black.

There isn't a whole heap of difference in height between the new 235's and the old 7.50 16's, so my worries of lost up-travel are mostly assuaged. And rubbing on full lock seems okay too, maybe thanks to the different offset perhaps. The tyres seem to be really good. I am far from being thoroughly experienced offroad, but I think they perform pretty well. I do like that they bag out pretty nicely with 12-15psi in them. On road, for what it's worth, is really good too.

Happy Seriesing!

Sam

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