yeah they are a nice engine when not in a 1300kg commodore

the only work that its likely to see is a friendly supercharger hanging off the side

Maybe a little off-topic, but there used to be a guy down the street from us, that had a Ford 3.0 V6 Essex engine built into a 1200 Toyota UTE. Rememer those tiny ones, about the size of the Datto UTE's.

It was a sight to see, firewall modded, strut towers modded, the works, but from the outside it still looked stock. He also had it roadworthied, which I guess is the same as your engineer's certificate.

That looks well ,I was going to do the same and found it wont be registerable in QLD so ive opted to find an early hilux ,My brother has done a v6 commo engine into a hilux and had easily obtained a engineers report in VIC ,You will find you will need a pulley with a tensioner to replace the power steering pulley these are available from castlemaine rod shop they sell a kit premade for this application cheers geoff .......

nah i think ill just leave the powersteering pump on there and it can just spin freely

i had a toyota hiace with one of thease motors in it it still had the power steering pump but i keped burning them out because i could not keep the fluid in them

couldnt the lines that would go to the rack just be joined together, making the fliud still circulate

thats wat i did but i didnt have a resavour tank that might have helped

haha might have had something to do with it, still go to get off my arse and go get the donor car

maybe over the weekend

Ahhhhhhhhh

Your raping that 1200.

my SR takes up more room than that

Yes, funny but it doesn't look as big as a CA18 or SR20.

It looks very similar to the GM 3800 V6.

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i know its a shame to put one of these in a datsun, but if i didnt it would just rust away doing nothing
so putting this in has inspired myself and some mates to make it into a weapon

and yes it is a small engine, once i have a tunnel to suit it will only really be a matter of getting the exhaust to fit, nothing else really hard about it
i had doubts of it fitting past the steering box, but once i sat it in there.....too easy

bro u said it would just rust away, it already has !!!!!
itll go good but trust me my mates boss has a commo 6 in a van it hauls skids when ur trying to drive normal

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thats a holden v6 with a 1ggte blower i think

thanks tyrie

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

itll be mad, scary but fun

btw DO IT

what is it ???????

3.8 litres of madness. Will be a awesome skid machine.

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i thought it may have been to help keep the ute at the bottom of the dam

Wow i thought a V6 would take up more room than that its a nice fit.

Commo 6s are really compact but. 90degree. Really price wise they are a great conversion if only legal. Sure there heavy but you can buy complete VNs for $500. Cant beat cheap horsepower

just de-stroke it to 2000ccc an get rid of the engine number an tell em you built it your self

a guy i know just put one into a corolla....

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read it or..

commo 6
supra 5 spd
standard diff

WOW...

what do u have to change to put that in

yeah its a series 2 vp v6, it was sitting around and is about to go into a vp ute, but did well for fitting

in the next week i will be getting a mostly complete series 1 auto vn wagon, so ill use the motor and box out of it and see how long it runs for, also using the vn trans tunnel

plan is to be mainly a burnout car, cant see it having to much trouble spinning in top gear which with the right ratios will be near 200kph, but for now ill guess 150 with the 3.7 diff

still gotta sort out the IRS and make the rest of the chassis and roll cage so the car has some strength to it again

and yes i remembered that the yellow ute had one of these engines a bit after i had the idea to put it in