Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Peter, really impressive fuel consumption for a river trip! Its still early days on your conversion and we will iron out all the small things to get your temps closer to where they should be. Your exhaust valve/streight pipe mod thing will be a very good test to see what influence the smaller exhaus...

Me as well, not going to make it for this year....... again.
Maar julle manne moet geniet!

Daai lyk cool!!

Presies wat Tijmen daar se, dis een van die min negatiewe punte.
But I think the positive points outnumber the negitive ones

Thanks Cedric

If I could make a guess I would say it feels like about 10% power going down the drain when moving from 33" to 35".
I have felt this on my Patrol as well as others so think in general the TD42's dont mind the bigger tyres.

Pics of the 35's

hugejp wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2019 19:58

What lift do you have Michael??

Yes 2" lift with no body lift

Well just some findings on my side. I have had 35" tyres on 2 sets of rims and the only time I had the tyres touching somewhere was when the offset was too much and the tyres was sticking out past the fender flaires. As soon as I moved the offset back and the tyres are flush with the flairs (or not ...

Thats a 3.0 for sure. I see a oil catch can and seems like a thicker/upgraded radiator. Im guessing it has a front mount cooler installed

Some pics of the new engine.....