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Who Are you and what do you do I’m Justin Smith, an IT consultant by day, Professional Redneck and destroyer of truck parts by night. History of cars leading up your present 4x4 Boy, too many to list! My absolute favourite was a Mk2 Golf 8V that was slammed, stripped and caged. It was thrashed daily, both on and off the track, and bulletproof. I also had a Mk1 Land Rover Freelander, it was the worst of the lot though. Present 4x4 A V8 swapped Mitsubishi K74 L200 Animal. Modifications done It’s been an ongoing project for the last 6 years, and I’ve got a full list of modifications somewhere, but it’s about 5 pages long. The main bits are obviously the rebuilt 4.0 Lexus 1UZ-FE V8 Engine, and Pajero Super Select manual gearbox and Transfer box. Horsepower currently sits around the 280300 mark and we rebuilt the engine with a few basic power mods before we dropped it in. Other than that it has all the normal 4x4 mods, winch bumper, bodywork protection, 2x Spare wheels, re-trimmed interior and an uprated radiator and cooling setup. Then there’s a 2” body lift, 2” suspension lift, 33” Khumo tires wrapped around 16” offset steel modular wheels, braded brake lines and EBC yellow stuff Pads. Favourite modifications I love the wheels. I’ve always had a thing for deep dished wheels so being able to get steel modular, with a deep outer dish, is great. Modifications to do We are building a supercharger kit at the moment using an Eaton M112 Supercharger off a Jag. It’s quite a big job as we have to ditch the Factory ECU and Spark setup for an aftermarket ECU and Spark over plug setup. We have made the ECU ourselves and have almost all the parts together. Just need to build a throttle body assembly and sort the wiring which are the hard bits.
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