The Bogan

All the pro shops will be blown away by the build quality.

Less than 500km. Removed due to excessive noise with full catless exhaust. WARINING WILL ROBINSON If you have a full catless exhaust this Tomei UEL header will make your exhaust as loud as balls. $600. Everything except the box and the gasket for the overpipe. PICKUP ONLY from Holsworthy, 2173

Funny story, I'm pushing a massive 145kwatw in a NA 86. The only other car that was this much fun on the street was my MX5. This includes my old 1995 380kwatw R33 GTST, my 2015 215kwatw WRX STI, and a plethora of V8 Holdens and Fords, oh, and and a Mazda RX2 bridgeport . I looked into boosting my 86, both turbo and supercharged, the issue was, to have any form of reliability over 200kwatw, I would need to build the engine, get a stronger gearbox, axles, temp control for the oil, and then, to be legal, engineering cert, insurance...... well that was another story. You really don't want to crash a heavily modified car without it being insured, for the mods, the insurance company will laugh at you, even if it's not your fault, because your car is "unroadworthy" in the eyes of the law, and rightly so. My hasty calcs had me at around $50k to boost the 86 the right way, it really adds up if you want to do things right. So, the 86 ended up with suspension and some breathing mods and a tune. Good thing is I can thrash its guts out every day and it doesn't break, it handles like a go kart and costs nothing to run, it is a perfect daily driver street car for a old hoon, and all within the speed limits. Disclaimer: I do want to build something stupid again though, but something special, steel bumper, something with a stupid motor, yes it will be a waste of money, and yes it will spend 99% of its time in the garage. Finding a cheap clean base is the fun bit. Keeping it hidden from the Mrs is the hard bit. I keep looking at 1970's Toyota Crowns, and wondering how a boosted Barra would fit in the engine bay, now that would be stupid, stupid fun. TL;DR. If you are going to the trouble of building something, build something unique.

Get some 22 gauge aluminium. Get some cardboard, a beer carton works best, so buy beer. Make a template out of cardboard. Make another better one. Leave it a week and make a better one, you will definitely need more cardboard from beer cartons, so buy more beer. Do some googling on folding sheet steel, nutserts are boss for sheet steel, self tapping screws work, pop rivets are easy but painfull to remove. Make the body and lid off your version ?? template. Paint in black VHT wrinkle plus. Use some edge push on "stuff". You can insulate the insides of the box if you want, I never have, the important bit is to try and fit it as tight as possible to stop the majority of engine bay heat getting to the air filter. Profit Stolen picks of cover and "edge stuff" from the googles Finally, you would have used all the cardboard for templates, so you will need to buy another carton of beer, for the cardboard of course. Winner winner chicken dinner

Award built one after the car ate the original, with that oil mod thingie award does. After that one was eaten they built another, that lasted a month or so, then after a run down the stip, that one started to whine. Award said the OEM gears just weren't up to the level of torque. I found the torque rating for the box ages ago but I cannot recall what it was exactly, it was nowhere near 700nm though. They recommened some brand of gears which were well out of my price range at the time, IIRC it was going to be $20k or something all up. I sold the car at that point, it was to expensive to keep thrashing, one of the next owners put in that dog box. It's a auto now though, doing roll racing at Eastern Creek.

Put a Barra in and spend the rest on bogan hookers and ice.......or not...

Maybe, at the end of the year, if it turns into a mint 1970's Toyota Crown, I reckon a Crown with a old 2J would be sweet. Or a Barra in it, to keep my inner bogan happy.

Um, ok. The first paragraph was to the OP IRT doing it the easy and cost effective way, and ending up with some form of reliability, but, written in a confusing and disjointed manner, as per a previous post. Gt to Gtt = buy a Gtt or get a halfcut or wrecked car. I've known some people who have knocked together a kit to turbo a NA 34. After the dust had cleared they stated that it would have been better to: A. Sell GT and buy GTT Or B. Sell GT and buy GTT Resale will also take a hit, personally I wouldn't touch a NA to a turbo swap, registration and insurance could also be problematic. The last bit was a quote out of your post which I though was the most confusing statement in the whole thread. In the end I don't care what people do, hell, I constantly do stupid shit, but, as I get older, wasting money on stupid shit has lost its luster. I concider turbocharging a NA 34 as wasting money on stupid shit. The outlay to do the job right, will have you at GTT money anyway. What's a GT worth? $10-15k, GTT,s go for what, $15-35k? So, sell GT for $10k ish, add $15-20k ish and buy GTT. How much is it going to cost to turbo a GT, register it, and have some form of reliability. Me, I would buy a R32 and drop a RB25 in it, see, now where is the logic in that......and here's me, with all my experience in wasting money on stupid shit.

Bin the front diff, I had 380ish RWD, that was pretty fun.....while it lasted.......

Excellent, That's excellent. We knew you'd agree... the companies will be very pleased

My views of not buying a turbo car, and then putting a turbo on a non-turbo'd car, but also not using a half cut, from the same model of car of your non-turbo'd car, that came with a turbo, is like "I can only tell you what i did not tell you what or where you wanna buy." That should clear things up nicely.......

That is NOT something I would like. More like a old steel bumper Datsun or Toyota, with a modern engine, maybe.....or maybe a R32 GTST with a RB25, or a 30 or 31 or.... a Crown, or a, a, a.... frack knows

Had a play. Punched out cat in front pipe. Tomei UEL header showed no gains over the punched out OEM header. Hell, the punched out OEM cats with the 2.25" OEM stuff showed typical performance to the Tomei UEL with 2.5" catless exhaust. There is only so much NA powers you can wring from a 2.0 ltr boxer POS. I will be reinstalling the punched out header and selling the Tomei. Making more noise for no extra performance is pointless. Yes I'm getting old... I'm keeping this little puppy though, but, I have a itch that needs to be scatched. Some cheap old POS might end up in the yard, the plant yard to be specific....at work.......hidden......from "her"

Who does legal?

Needs more stickers....

Toyota are old tech and expensive for what you get, Isuzu look and feel cheap, we have them at work. Me, if I needed a Ute a BT-50 or Triton, maybe, with a canopy for sure. It also depends on how hard you are going of road, do you need comfort, kids in the back?, friends or relatives in the back? Then there's all the SUV 7 seaters, or the Landcruiser series. Petrol? Diesel? Towing? Nm? Support? Fuel economy? My Mrs keeps pointing at them, sensible cars she calls them. Picking one is so far the hardest pick of my life. If I did get one it would need to be able to tow a loaded up car trailer with ease. I do like the Ford Raptor, well it looks the business anyway, I would never really need all that capabilty though. Then there is always Ram 2500 if you want to go bigger

I wouldn't really touch the current engine, unless it is to service. The most I would do is OEM header back exhaust, I wouldn't even bother tuning it. I would do brakes, suspension, bushings and major servicing. Refurbish the OEM rims, get some good rubber. There are a heap of modifed old Skylines, not so many clean un-munted ones though. I wish I still had my old mint stock 31 wagon.

In the late 90's I had VS S ute, 5ltr manual with chasers and Yokamaha Y352 (yeap, white lettering out), lowered on King springs, Hurricane headers and a straight 3" exhaust, it was all that was bogan. Slow as fark, but sounded good and done good skids, ahhh, memories....... I'll shut up now

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Yeah nah, I had a 33, no interest in dropping cash on another. A 5.0 Mustang would fit the bill, maybe, but Ford, and I would feel like a maaaaad bogan, but, a clean low km one for $50k, then $17k for drive in drive out supercharger which gives 500 engine killerwasps, which should do good skids. $67 well spent? Who cares, maaaad skidz. I would of course need to buy a flanno and ugg boots.

Mmmmmm, looks like a dirty girl that likes it rough......can I touch her?......on her tail pipe?.....when she's hot?.....has she made any movies?..... WTF is wrong with me.........??????

Rural people who shoot foxes, dogs and other ferals to protect their land I have no issues with, they usually have a few different types of weapons for different occasions, I have no issues with that. It's the yobbos with multiple weapons that cause the issues. It's like they are compensating for their massive insecurity. They talk about hunting but never hunt, they talk about self defence, but they end up shooting members of their family, their kids shoot themselves, or, the weapons are stolen. Yeah, I hate guns in the hands of the average Joe bogan racist idiot......I'll stop spraying now

It really is a sad state of affairs.

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