How often does that happen? In my book, never, so I'm celebrating.<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

Moving to Arizona I expected to have a year or two of downtime, no 4x4 action, no big builds, lots of time building back a good guy network since all my car friends got left back in the midwest. Im sure you guys know what I'm talking about since most/all (i havent met you all) of you in this section of the board are part of a really solid group of local people.

First Toasty put me into the mix with a great deal on RunningBird's old raider through Monte3, a little work and the truck went from left for dead to daily driven, then adam again found a deal down in tucson, a buy-one get-one gen-1 mighty max deal. Scored a 2wd Diesel and a 4x4 with great patina.

I had plans for the Raider (v6, locker, 35's) and was going to give Adam the Patina, but he scored a great truck so the raider will get a good buff and some detail restoration work, then live it's life as a light trail duty vehicle and daily driver with air conditioning for the girlfriend.

Before:


After:




The patina on the other hand now gets the name "The Hyena" a rough looking little monster feeding off the scraps of the desert.



1984 Power Ram



Looks a bit like a rust bucket, but it's only the top and sides of the body, the underbody is clean as can be.

So far I've accumulated the following parts for the build;

6G74 SOHC engine in need of some valves
V6 AW2 Trans
NP231 T-case
8 Inch front diff with welded spiders

I'm still going to need the following:
-3.5 SOHC ECU and Harness
-Montero Sport locking rear axle (leaf sprung) or SR axle and I'll make it work
-15 inch 35's
-driveshafts

I'm sure there's other stuff I'm missing. Mostly the little [censored], brakes, shocks, radiator etc.

By the way, for any of you with a 2.6 powered truck rocking a body lift, you can get a 3 row aluminum radiator for a 280z on ebay for $133 shipped.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/14147804364...49&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I put one in my diesel, since there's no body lift i had to clearance the front frame cross member, but any montero/raider/d50 with a 1.5-2" body lift will accept this radiator for massive cooling capability!

Hopefully adam will post a build thread for his new toy "Rainbow Brite" <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />