{"id":10055,"date":"2016-05-09T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T21:38:36","slug":"custom-land-cruiser-with-a-1uz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=10055","title":{"rendered":"Custom Land Cruiser with a 1UZ V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andre Allers built this custom 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser at his company Allers Rods and Customs<\/a> in Gauteng, South Africa. It took Andre 1,400 man-hours to turn pieces of a FJ45 body into a very wild classic. The body sits on a custom chassis and rides on a custom suspension. Under the hood sits a 4.0 L 1UZ-FE V8 that produces 300 horsepower and is connected to a Toyota A650E five-speed automatic transmission. The engine and transmission are controlled via the factory ECU and wiring harness. Power goes to the rear wheels through a Land Rover Discovery rear end with 3.75 gears. Andre modified the rear end from an offset differential location to a centered location. The only thing Andre didn’t work on himself was the driveshaft and window glass.<\/p>\n

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Source: Allers Rods and Customs<\/a> (build album) and N1 4×4<\/a> via Crossbred Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andre Allers built this custom 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser at his company Allers Rods and Customs in Gauteng, South Africa. It took Andre 1,400 man-hours to turn pieces of a FJ45 body into a very wild classic. The body sits on a custom chassis and rides on a custom suspension. Under the hood sits a… Read More »Custom Land Cruiser with a 1UZ V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land-cruiser"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107820,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=107820","url_meta":{"origin":10055,"position":0},"title":"Land Cruiser with a 1UZ-FE V8 Update","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Retropower completed work on their \"Project Sant Joan\" Land Cruiser. 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