This may look like any other 40 Series Toyota Land Cruiser ute, but it is hiding a gigantic 10.4L Caterpillar diesel V8!
Built by Reaper Performance Diesel in West Australia this regular-sized monster truck rides on a 100 Series Land Cruiser chassis. But we can only imagine the work required to fit the ginormous #3208 Caterpillar 10.4-litre engine!
Formerly housed in a Ford Louisville water tanker, there is no word on how much power the 636ci turbo-diesel makes but it would make so much torque that really doesn't matter!
Iain Kelly is the revhead behind The Creators Online.
Is this the craziest Land Cruiser engine swap? Let us know in the comments.
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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.
For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.
Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions.
Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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