gday fella's
this is my 1200ute build,
the history of the ute is it was purchased in dubbo in 1978 by a one owner all original, it had 76xxxkm when i pick it up, its been to parkes afew times, but mostly around dubbo area,
the body is in pretty good condition, theres very little rust the tailgate has had a little bangup but thats nothing

the plans are witch have been in progress for the last year or two is:
fitted a CA18det manual, skyline R31 diff(3.89),
all the underbelly been is hit with stoneguard in black,
all suspension parts & diff have been powdercoated, the calipers have been cut'n'polished plus chromed bits aswell....
every nut'n'bolt has been zincplated also,

have also fitted maddat's fuel & brake booster system, it saves alot of guess work and headache's,...thanks guy's!!

most of the work has been done my self...
pics will come in time (sorry bout the size's)

looks like a good base to start from

yeah the build about 16mths old now....no rush
un-picked the rear 1/4's pretty easy job,
all striped down and off to the blasters








back from the blasters much better, make the job on hand easyer to see what needs doing.....save's all that rubbing back!





on the rotisserie....up side down miss jane
make life so much easyer to work underneath

impressive!

This standard skyline r31 diff is getting ready to cut off the hanger's and to be shorten plus make way for the leaf spring seat....

cut'n'out the manual tunnel to fab in a 1200 auto tunnel so the CA box has plenty clearence,
by using the auto tunnel im able to keep the heater unit for rego reasons....when fully welding it in it must be 20mm over laping each other on both side's







manual is lot smaller than the auto tunnel

front suspension near complete, x-member needs powdercoating once i finish with engine mounts, everything like new but better :)
1978 120y struts & brakes, DBR drilled'n'slotted disc's

A slight fab to fit in the cooler behind the grill looks 100% than sitt'n out front...











The grill sits back in nice...

That's awesome Rod. What strut and brake setup you running there ?.

Thanks mate.. there off a 1978 120y, i used a linisher to cut down all the factory slag off the caliper's then buffed them, came up pretty good...

hows your wagon coming along!!