RB head on L-Gata

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Needs slamming on airbags and a 6BT sticking in it , instead of the Bentley Turbo V8 that's fitted now though.

brill. I love odd trucks.

I want a unimog with a twin cab and crane rear.

 

[tyroguru]

That’s fantastic! Love it.

 

[Mark N]

I quite like the cab over engine trucks, it would make a nice transporter.

 

[atomman]

what are you going to do with it Gary? when you've done that engine swap and lowering that is!

Plan is to build a AirStream ally type camper on the back , been an idea for many years in my head just had to find the COE for the right price

 

[atomman]

The plastic cam cover turned up. it clears pretty good , but does need some work.

I will 3d scan it and then will be able to tweak it in CAD to make some ting that works

 

[Bazzateer]

Cool!

 

[jonbills]

Any progress here Gary @atomman ?
I was just looking at this famous pic:

And then I checked up on the Ka24 and it looks quite similar to an L engine:

And the bore spacing is the same as the L engine, so I thought it might be possible to chop up two KA heads to make a 6 cylinder one that'll fit an L bottom end.
And then I remembered your project.
So, any progress ?

 

[Albrecht]

so I thought it might be possible to chop up two KA heads to make a 6 cylinder one that'll fit an L bottom end.

Bryan Blake of Blake Machine/BandMzcars did the siamesed KA24 heads on L6 block thing a few years back, documented on the HybridZ forum.

A couple of thread links, but I think most of the photo links don't work anymore:

https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/54...-thread/page/24/?tab=comments#comment-1009805

https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/116579-l28dohc-still-running-strong/?tab=comments#comment-1092885

 

[atomman]

Any progress here Gary @atomman ?

So, any progress ?

I have been throwing some ideas around in my head, but that's it really,

Been super busy trying to finish off my Mothers house so she can move in for Christmas,

I have brought a TiG though ! So will get it back to my garage from my workshop over Christmas break , So I can tinker some more with it ,

oh I have bent a load of stainless tube to cut up for the headers to if i did mention it

 

[atomman]

Bryan Blake of Blake Machine/BandMzcars did the siamesed KA24 heads on L6 block thing a few years back, documented on the HybridZ forum.

A couple of thread links, but I think most of the photo links don't work anymore:

https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/54...-thread/page/24/?tab=comments#comment-1009805

https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/116579-l28dohc-still-running-strong/?tab=comments#comment-1092885

interesting, thanks Alan, will have a read of that later

 

[jonbills]

Bryan Blake of Blake Machine/BandMzcars did the siamesed KA24 heads on L6 block thing a few years back, documented on the HybridZ forum.

A couple of thread links, but I think most of the photo links don't work anymore:

https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/54...-thread/page/24/?tab=comments#comment-1009805

https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/116579-l28dohc-still-running-strong/?tab=comments#comment-1092885

It's a real shame those photos are all lost. But his youtube videos are still there:

https://www.youtube.com/user/onefastsilverz/videos

 

[jonbills]

@atomman hey Gary, any update for this thread?

 

[atomman]

@atomman hey Gary, any update for this thread?

Sorry Jon but not really, I will get back to it but I'm in the middle of building my truck at the moment.

funnily I've had a few pm's about them lately to

 

[jonbills]

Sorry Jon but not really, I will get back to it but I'm in the middle of building my truck at the moment.

funnily I've had a few pm's about them lately to

How about an update on your truck then?

 

[atomman]

How about an update on your truck then?

Well it goes up and down now

I've designed and built all the custom suspension, So now I'm on to building the rear bed

there's a thread over on RetroRides here if your bored - https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/214835/ford-coe-600-truck?page=10