Beautiful rig! I have always loved the huge flares and the giant tires. Someday i will build one for no other reason but to daily in the winter.

 

It is now painted!
I have to go over the paint and buff.it here and there.
painting the wheels for the 44 "tires and put under.

 

call me dumb for asking but why do all the snow vehicles have running boards? Just to keep rust off the rockers and doors? Great looking machine btw and I'm really impressed that they can hold up to the cold temps and harsh conditions like they do. I have always thought that the cold is hard on vehicles.

 

Nice! do you paint for a living? That's what I do here in Montana.

 

hey where did you het those fender flares, might be good after a full width conversion to cover my tires so i dont get a ticket

 

The running boards are just part of the whole thing. Iooks stupid without them.
It doesnt get so cold here that the trucks cant handle..

nope i am not
Thanks

here


http://www.brettakantar.is/?tunga=en

http://www.samtak.is...emid=79&lang=en

http://formverk.is/brettakantar.htm

More pics.
Painted the 17"wide wheels today
Grey colour.





Lowerd The truck about 2"






And put the 17" wide wheels and 44" Dick Cepek Fun Country
Tires back under

 

Well more pics to show the whole rig

 

38-44's must be crazy expensive to get to Iceland
looks like you have a couple of sets to choose from...

 

2000-5000$..:O

38" for summer (trail driving )
44" for winter (Glacer and snow driving )

 

ouch!!!
i am still saving for 37's. My wife probably will not understand why i want to hang on to my 35's..she almost understands having the junk 31's sitting around for rollers.

You guys have some awesome wheeling in Iceland. I was stationed in Alaska for 4 years and really miss winter wheeling

 

Has somen swaped a inline 6cyl engine into 1990 Hilux/4runner ?
Will it fit?
I can have a inline 6cyl nissan patrol 2.8 TDI engine for good price.
I think it is a good engineswap to get rid of the thursty v6.

 

do it. a supra motor fits with a little tweaking. i would do it for just the mechanical diesel part and thats a great motor

 

I got the engine today.. looks good.

 

Some measurements i did

Engine
bellhousing -> front of the timebelt cover 70 cm / 27.6 in
bellhousing -> front of the Engine Dampers / Pulleys 75 cm / 29.5 in
bellhousing -> front of the fan 82 cm / 32.3 in

Truck
Firewall -> "Radiator support " 84 cm / 33.1 in

I think i need to delete the stock fan and add one or two electronic fans in front of the radiator to push air throo..

If i do that i get 9.1 cm / 3.6 in to play with..
And some HP as the stock fan steals some..

 

byebye V6

 

V6 junk gone


Patrol gearbox is 9cm longer than Toyota



Gear leaver is in the same place


Then the build begins

 

Sweet!

Fink

 

wow awesome build. best part is all the pictures. love the pictures. i need to move to a more snow city lol. its so much fun playing in the snow.

 

This is officially a diesel Truck
There's plenty of room!

Here are more pics of this project

http://s1225.photobucket.com/albums/...ing/?start=all

 

That's sweeeeeeet