My daily/tow car... 85 F100

[Touge Boy]

This is my Daily/tow rig... 1985 Ford F100 LWB.

It's an arizona import, bought into australia around 1990. It was originally 351 Cleveland, top loader 4 speed and a 3.55 geared 9 inch. was converted to auto when it was converted to RHD.

I bought it of some old guy who was using it just to tow his fishing boat around once a week for the princely sum of $5000. As it Has factory power steering, power assisted brakes, Air-con and a tacho dash (full XLT options) it was a hell of a bargain. It also came with every single receipt for every single dollar he'd spent on it, even full regency paperwork for compliance, the engine change and LPG conversion

It's no drag car, but it's comfy, has some grunt, tow the 86 without breaking a sweat, and I can mod it but not get hassled by the 5-0. And it's column shift so pretty thug haha.

here's what it has

Body
Full LMC chrome front end, all new lights and indicators
Custom tonneau cover

Interior
Momo "Retro" Wheel
Autometer Tacho, water temp/oil pressure/oil temp/trans temp/LPG gauge

Audio
Alpine IVA-D105E Multimedia centre headunit with reversing camera
DLS X-program 6.5 inch 3 way splits
DLS OA10 10 inch dual voice coil sub in custom box
DLS CA31 3 channel amp
Optima Yellow-top battery
All DLS RCA's, cabling and fusing

Engine / driveline
Rebuilt 351 cleveland, 302 Cleveland heads for higher compression
Stainless stem seals, Alloy water pump, Gilmer drive
Impco LPG system with 2 x 80ltr tanks
Modified IMPCO 425 LPG carby and IMPCO Type-E Convertor
Edelbrock Performer RPM Air-Gap high-Rise manifold
Crane Cams Camshaft, 276/286 duration with .509 lift,
Crane wolverine anti-pump up lifters
Manley hardened pushrods
Rollmaster double-row true-roller timing chain
Genie headers with twin 2.5 inch exhaust, Hooker aero-chamber mufflers
Full Pertronix ignition with Billet distributor, CDI Unit, High-Output digital coil and 10mm custom leads
C6 auto w/Stage 2 shift kit and B+M trans cooler
9 inch diff rebuilt by Boss Differentials, shimmed LSD, 4.11 gears (OEM "city" diff... "Highway/country" diff had 3.55's and no LSD)
Powermaster 100amp alternator, Optima Battery
Custom 4 core radiator with 2 x 12 inch thermofans

Wheel and Tyres
20 x 8.5 and 22 x 9.5 Speedy Addiction wheels in chrome
245/45 R20 and 265/35 R22 Achilles tyres

Suspension setup - FRONT
DJM 3 inch drop beams
DJM Calmax drop shocks

Suspension setup - REAR
DJM 5 inch Flip kit
DJM Calmax drop shocks
DJM 3 inch C Notch

Mods to come -
Rear Rollpan, 1995 tailgate, Modified fenders, Flushed and smoothed front bumper
Shaved Tailgate handle, side indicators, door locks, fuel flap, badges, tub hooks, tonneau cover hooks and Arial hole.
20% Window tint
Respray in 2010 hilux white (Same colour as my 86)
Will be getting front springs reset 1 inch lower (4 inch total drop) and rear leafs reset 2 inches lower (7 inch rear drop total) Sounds odd but it'll even the truck right out (Previous owner had rear leafs raised for towing his big assed boat)
Will Also be switching to 245/35 front tyres
Install New carpets, Dash/Armrests/Seats/door trims/roof lining which have been retrimmed in grey vinyl/cloth, also laying dynamat throughout the cabin


So yeah, thats it... nothing super exciting, not to everyone's tastes... but i love my truck.

[focus_7]

My uncle has one very similar to this, also on gas.

What capacity tanks do you have and how far will they take you?

[Touge Boy]

I have 2 x 80 ltr tanks in there now, and the petrol tank is about 50 ltrs. When i switch to dedicated LPG im going to a single 200 ltr tank, and removing the petrol tank.

Mileage is totally dependant on my right foot. Havent really bothered to actually calculate it.

[benzo]

Yeah this truck is very cool

Will be sweet once lowered

[R&D Mechanical]

fixed

[Jdm-Mcc]

lol this thing is like the opposite of my ute.....MASSIVE haha looks good man

[steroidchickens]

good fix

[Touge Boy]

I HATE Raised effies....... I want mine dumped on it's ass. It's my daily and my tow car, I dont drive it off road at all. Cheers for the props though.

[Hazzard]

I like the truck but i dont really like the rims. but very very nice effie

[Touge Boy]

Yeah, ive though about changing them, but there's a pretty limited range for the F100, as the only other cars with the same stud pattern are the suzuki vitara, or the 1980's series of Dodge pickup's. And even then it's super hard to find the right offset.

unless I want to pay $6500 for a set of custom billets from the states.

Im looking at a set of 15 x 8 and 15 x 10 Centreline convo-pro's for a pro-street look, but I wont be able to tow legally with them. And if anything happens Ill fuck my insurance (the speedy's are 100% legit and engineered and legal on my insurance)

So they'll be staying put for the time being.


On a side note... i picked up a 2nd hand set of Pacemaker headers for the F100, and a new pair of Hooker aero-chamber mufflers... all i need is an exhaust made for them. Will be a simple twin 2.5 inch twin system in mild steel, single muffler per pipe. So not TOO loud, but still sound pretty good.

And my Old man has bought me a Impco 425 Gas carby with Holley throttle body, in exchange for my current Holley 600, which will be going on his HZ One-tonner ute. So She'll be running on straight LPG shortly.

I havent gotten around to putting the lowering kit in, im waiting for a new set of balljoints and radius arm bushes to arrive from the states. I couldnt have picked a worse time to order them haha.

The audio system has been in and running for a while now, and sounds stupidly good, thanks to a mate who works in an audio shop who came and tuned it all for me. Only thing I want to do is lay down a little more dynamat.

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