Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Alex.... + intercooler + piping + injector pump aneroid modification + (if watercooled) water piping + labour to move powersteering radiator around + removal of the aircon fan + modification to the exhaust...... not hugely expensive.... but not just a matter of fitting a turbo on the exhaust manifold either.

BUT when its done..... yeeeeeehaaaaaa.... she gonna pull like a freight train !!

The labour in such a conversion is really allot. Having seen the amount of work required to fit a front mount cooler I can say for sure that I will not do this again.....for anyone. If I had to charge the amount of hours that it took it will not be worth it for the cliant.

Also the prices Tinus talked about excludes labour

Ja ek dink Tinus skuld jou 'n tank of twee diesel vir al jou moeiete.

Lets just get it in prospective
Engineeering 21k
New head 12k
Pump and injectors aneroid mod 10k
Pistons gaskets bearings viscus coupling 16k
Intercooler and pipes 5.5k
Madman and boost gauge 6k
Oils and smalls 3k
That comes to 73.5 k......
Thats without labour
But so far i love it .....
Gonna give some more feul later and see my egts are very low around 360 on highway at 120

Ek kan darrem maar baie ekstra liters petrol gooi vir daardie geld en hoef niks dop te hou nie, hoef ook nie toolbox saam te ry nie.

Ja ja erens is n turbo herbou vir 3.5k en n manifold gekoop nog 3.5k

ricster wrote:Alex.... + intercooler + piping + injector pump aneroid modification + (if watercooled) water piping + labour to move powersteering radiator around + removal of the aircon fan + modification to the exhaust...... not hugely expensive.... but not just a matter of fitting a turbo on the exhaust manifold either.
BUT when its done..... yeeeeeehaaaaaa.... she gonna pull like a freight train !!

Michael wrote:The labour in such a conversion is really allot. Having seen the amount of work required to fit a front mount cooler I can say for sure that I will not do this again.....for anyone. If I had to charge the amount of hours that it took it will not be worth it for the client. Also the prices Tinus talked about excludes labour

Tinus lotz wrote:Lets just get it in prospective
Engineeering 21k
New head 12k
Pump and injectors aneroid mod 10k
Pistons gaskets bearings viscus coupling 16k
Intercooler and pipes 5.5k
Madman and boost gauge 6k
Oils and smalls 3k
That comes to 73.5 k......
Thats without labour
But so far i love it .....
Gonna give some more feul later and see my egts are very low around 360 on highway at 120

Sheez, you guys make my V8 conversion sound like a tea party.

Also keep one thing in mind, Tinus picked this Patrol up for a steal so even with all the expenses made it is still cheaper than any TD42 turbo bakkie for sale. They all sell for 170k+ if you can manage to find one.

Plus this one makes decent power

In all fairness started with a broken engine so minus 25k for ingeneering 12k for new head less 3.5k for manifold and 3.5k for turbo rebuild ....
That comes out like 45k less ....i was serpose to started with a other 4.2 that was in better nick

We turned the feul up a wee bit....egt looks ok but going around the corner in second gear makes smoke now