351 Clevo Into 80 Series Cruiser

[nitro xr6 turbo]

hey, not sure if this is in the right section or not, but I thought it might be interesting for a few of you.

so I did this all in the long weekend a few weeks ago. it would of been fun if I wasnt stressing out because it had to be done in such a short time so it could be out of the workshop before the boss came back from holidays.

bought a 351 clevo rebuilt 50k ago with cam (he sold it as a 51 windsor, not sure if this was a win or loss for me...)

landcruiser 4spd auto (just as a spare because it was cheap)

a part time transfer box (for mud donuts)

bellhousing adaptor

and shiped from adelade to perth all for $2k

only major PITA was the sump (already custom to make it hug the bottem end) was not clearing the brace for the panhard rod, so the brace had to be cut and modifyed.

its all in and running, all I need now is the exhaust. its got XA factory log exhaust manifolds which have a wired flange on the back. NOBOBY sells this flange, anywhere!!! cant run extractors because they wont fit. so I guess I need to make them or find a exhaust shop who will atleast try.

[JETURBO]

Hard yards there mate but well done

[nitro xr6 turbo]

cheers mate. not to bad for 5 days work, 2 of which were spent verry hungover haha. if only I could be motivated to work that fast all the time.

[xhxrsix]

Nice work. Lots of effort involved in an engine conversion.. although no efi would be way easier.

How does it go now? How did you go with the engine mounts?

[nitro xr6 turbo]

yeah its running on straight gas, so the fueling system took about 20mins to sort haha. dellow conversions do a universal clevo mount kit which also made life easyer.

have only taken it round the block and its not running right because either lack of backpressure or gas carby needs tuned. cant do anything untill I sort out this bloody exhaust flanges. cant wait till its all working. should sound awesome thrashing up sand hills.

[FPV TRANNY]

Great work....Is There any reason you didnt run with a windsor block?I thought they were norrower block..

[Dagabond]

Had an 80's model Hilux with a 308 in it...back in the 90's...one of the best and scariest cars I have ever owned.

308 came out of a Torana I totalled, 750dp Holley hanging off Yella Terra heads.

...just had to get that off my chest.

Are you going for rego?

Do you still have to get them engineered?

[nitro xr6 turbo]

the guy advertised it as a 51 windsor, I thought it looked to big when it arrived so I checked the engine number and its a 1972 351 clevo.im not sure which is better really, dont know much about the oldschool fords.

yeah mate, just got the forms back (probably should of waited for that before I did the engine swap lol) saying that its ok to put that motor in the landy, although it has to be straight gas and have a CAT. now I just need the engineer to give the thumbs up and it will be all good.

after I put the 33" tyres on (31" is standard) the old 3F-E, 4L straight 6 with about 100hp at the flywheel new, many many years ago, just wouldnt pull it anymore. sitting at 110 on the fwy was about 3/4 throttle and useing 110L or $75 of lpg in 260kms lol.

other thing I noticed was stroker kits for the clevos are getting quite cheap, $1500 for a 409ci kit.

kinda wish someone would make a bellhousing adaptor for the barra to fit.

[johno]

Dont Dellow do a Barra housing? I thought someone did. Maybe CRS now it has new owners. I looked at doing a Barra into a GQ Nissan Patrol a few years ago. Would be an awesome conversion.

Down our way, the LS1 is the go for Landcruiser 80 conversions.

[nitro xr6 turbo]

yeah if I had the money I would of done a gen3, as aparently they can run underwater. but this whole conversion cost me under $4k.

I never really looked into a barra conversion, I just assumed they didnt exist as this is the first iv ever heard of it.