I missed this thread, crazy good effort and ideas color combo makes is look like a perfect full sized toy
Funny here in Japan the 4g63 in any form now is fetching 3.5k usd and up for bare engines but the FJ20ET are still
peanuts from a couple of hundred to 1k max complete.

Always thought Mitsu copied nissan FJ20 very similar specs apart from belt vs chain drive and 4g63 has balance shaft,
FJ has thicker castings as 4g63T is listed at 350lbs and fj20e 364lbs. FJ24 likely inspired 2.4L 4g64 as well.

She might be getting stroked to 2.4L but not sure atm... has plenty of grunt as is... really nice and driveable.

No trophies for me mate, I take it out maybe once every few months. Really need to drive her more.

The pic was up loaded off my phone so didnt have heaps of option on size of pic...

Looks fantastic! What are your plans now? Gather trophies or drive it?

You should be able to get a 1024x768 photo posted here, save it with 60% compression

Hi all,

For those interested... all finished !

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Yeah I saw there yesterday and it looks amazing! There's so much work that goes into this! I just thought that since that photo was uploaded March last year he might be able to upload a more recent one if he's progressed further into the conversion?

He's been busy

Here it is on his ute



Here is the same bonnet on another ute

It's an old thread but can you upload a picture of it with the new bonnet on it? It looks amazing but in the last photo the bonnet is on your table (It would look much better on the car).

Next was cutting the oil filler neck off the rocker cover and dropping it 30mm as the bonnet was flexing and hitting it !

With that done it was off to mates place to get painted !

First back where the rear flares...

Headlight surrounds and front guards next...

Bonnet Last of all..

all of this work was done in me driveway !!!

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The next issue was the front guards. As you can see the Eye Brow height ( centre of the wheel to the Bottom of the Flare ) was way off. Mine needs to be 290mm to match my engineers report. So i had to cut and re-glass the flares to make them 290mm from the centre of my wheel, matching the rears.

Once all the fibreglass and bog work was done they were flow coated and rubbed back, Primed, guid coat and rubbed back again.

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Once the rears where done i could start looking at the front..

The first step was to set up the Headlights, Which included a big hole saw !!

With those holes done i could fit all the panels up. Straight away there was a major issue with the bonnet because the 4G63 is so tall the rover cover hit the bonnet so a lot of it needed to be cut out and re-glassed !! major pain...

One tip i can give when using Polyester resin is to take it back and get vinyl ester resin. The polyester resin pulled back way to much even if i backed off the catalyst. Making a few spots in the bonnet that needed to be fixed, Lesson learnt!!

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