Hello. Sort of new to this site. Anyway thought I may aswell make a build thread.
I bought a 1200 ute.

Looked smick, a15, straight, nice paint, 120y front end.
So I tried to put 13's on the front (came with 15s) and the wheels wouldn't work because they didn't have big enough back spacing. The hubs were the big bearing type so I got the stanza front end and put it in.

The springs in the stanza struts were quiet low so I had to lower the rear, so I flipped the second leaf to the top, still wasnt low enough so added 2 inch blocks so it sits level now but problem now is that it sits on bump stops so slides well but not so much handle. Now the problem, because I lowered I had to lip the gaurds, no problems got the hammer and starting tapping the lip and the bog started just appering.

So then it turned into a project sadly but awwell. So I brought a gx head, 35/70 cam, nismo head gasket and put them on. Ran great, then one day it wouldn't idle but drove fine. It didn't faze me thought it was just the carbie, then it started pumping blue smoke out the rocker breather and as if the head gasket wasnt between 3 and 4 cyl so I took the engine out and removed the head, everything looked fine. I then called Ernie (bigE) and he was confident that it had shat a ring. Removed the 4th post and it had a cracked 2nd compression ring but all the ring land was shattered so new engine is now happening with a fair bit of work done to it to hopefully not get that problem again. Apparently had more then 12:1 comp so yeah.

So as it sits now. Engine less, gaurd cut out and repairing rust

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