The Svenmate R&D Corona ute

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This thread is picture heavy so I shall let them do most of the talking.

I bought it as a standard st141 with the intention of making it a mint daily. So I lowered it an inch or so, put some 14x7s on it and then, sadly, it got defected 3 days after for 'too low'.

Defect. Bummer. So I made it low low (because I could) and drove it as shown below for a few days until the defect ran out.









I was uncertain of it's future and tried to sell it, but didn't want to get rid of it. It was then that one of my best mates offered to give it a home on his farm, just an hour from where we live.

I couldn't pass it up



It resided on the farm for a few weeks until we had holidays and time to play. During which, we decided to do something different with it, something that not many people do, something that would be fun, something that would be cool on many levels. Like.. make it a ute?

So we did.

With the help of Kieran (Squish_m8), My brother - Carl (Tbone) and myself, we began work..




Kieran hard at work



We began by removing the interior and boot









Was a lot of interior to remove




All done



Next, we drew the straightest line in the world.




Dun dun dun dun dun dun BZZZZ




And so the fun began




Bzz




Not sure who this is but damn is he sexy.

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Convertable




Mwa ahaha




And then a bit of touching up..




And.. its getting there




Since the rear had no vertical support a cage was in order..




Nah, just kidding. We found some steel lying around.




With a comfy couch..




and a rear brace..




Featuring my quality welding..






And then we took it for a burn




Isn't it beautiful?




Plenty of room, comfortable and great airconditioning.

[svenmate]

Oh yeah, this is Carl chilling in the back bench..

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It was a beautiful track.




It started to overheat so we took it back to the shed and did some cooling mods.




'Why a ute' I hear you say... well, being on a farm and doing skids.. it makes sense to me











Slapped some tyre barriers and ended the day on a good note






So yeah, obviously it's not complete and I will do a heap more work on it next week. I have cressida control arms, ra40 tierods, higher springs, a locker and monroe shocks to chuck in. Oh and a lot more steel tubing!

Thanks for reading. Please leave a comment if you wish.

Sven

[squish_m8]

win much

[sam2306]

looks heaps cool man, best basher ever....... will definately have to come and have a sus of it

[keimeier]

looks like fun dude

[TOHMEZ]

man i work for woolies and own a rona cs 86 model there brutal as, and the first few pics looked phat

[Pidgey]

Your welding.
I love it.

[Konakid]

Hahahahahah awesome. Locker?

[svenmate]

Thanks guys. Yeah, its pretty dodgy - but that's my style. It survived so much trench dropping so I presume my welding has been ok.

[svenmate]

I pulled the centre out yesterday and am very confused. It has a pinion wheel but the actual centre looks like a pizza wood oven. Borgwarner ftl

Will open it tomorrow and have a sus.