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Hey im newby to the furom. I got this forum from one of your users who just put headers and exhuast on his luv truck. I was just wondering wat power you guys are geting from your G200 and g180 powerd luv's.

Im getting 172Hp from my g200.


cheers dave

Ps i can help with minor details regarding parts for the engines.

172??????
wow


welcome to the board!

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YEAP 172 neddies runs 14.78s down the 1/4 mile. In australia we got the luv aswell - i dont have one but i want one becuase they look hell of alot better than a isuzu KB rodeo.

Also regarding engine info if you go to http://www.hotgemini.com we are more than willing to help

here is my dyno graph too.

what kind of mods do you have ? thats a little hard to believe over the stock 85

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1980 luv sport 4x4 Just a memory now
Frame rusted from the inside. Truck stripped and now looking for a new donor in southern ohio

wow... Welcome

that was me

their is a lot of guys over in australia gettin the horsepower out of these lil 4 bangers

i heard someone gettting 400 hp out of one too he was running high compression though like 14:1 i think

welcome fish

i think their lil gemini cars come with 5 speeds too

I do believe your right

Some of those high HP numbers for G200s are the W version, dual overhead cam. There are motors we've never seen here in the US that make some significant power right out of the box. I just spent some time reading through posts at hotgemini though and they do some extreme stuff with any motor. In the states we give up on the 4 banger at some point and just go bigger motor, these guys don't stop building power into 4 cyls until the exhaust starts to provide jet thrust from so much air/fuel going through the motor.

I believe it

400 hp???? Damn....

800xl is right, we stop fooling around with 4 bangers after a certain horsepower figure. No replacement for displacement!

nevermind me fish,
i did a couple searches on your site. thats some crazy shit man i wish i could pop my hood and say it's stock with 172

what kind of transmission are you running ? you got a 5 speed in there ?

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1980 luv sport 4x4 Just a memory now
Frame rusted from the inside. Truck stripped and now looking for a new donor in southern ohio

When you get tired of reading it in the forums there, hit the gallery links for some pics of the stuff. I must say it is strange looking at a blower pushing through a Weber carb and still seeing that Isuzu valve cover behind it all.

http://www.hotgemini.com/cgi-bin/galler ... =1243&os=0

BTW, the more I read, the more I am learning that most of these are done with SOHC 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0L motors. Fun stuff indeed.

yeap mine is a g180z but has been bored to g200Z spec. a SOHC engine. it runs valves from a ford telstar has 11:1 comp high lift cam head flows nearly 210Hp at 500 thou lift. also has twin 44 idf carby's. im still running a fourspeed.

hey I am new here too. One of your posters came to hotgemini and i got the link from that. I also have a chev luv and a piazza/impulse. Its amazing what you guys do to your utes. There is only 3 chev luvs in australia that i know of that have v8's in them. I will look around some more hope to get some insparation from here.
thanks

now i want one like that

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1980 luv sport 4x4 Just a memory now
Frame rusted from the inside. Truck stripped and now looking for a new donor in southern ohio

Yea me too that would be great to have

Australians are an awesome bunch- they have no great love for big ol' V8s! They take their 4 & 6 bangers and wring enuff power out of them to whoop a bunch of 8s. The small Ford 6 is one popular engine over there, as are the Mopar 6's. IIRC, they had Hemi heads on some of them- factory!

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Proves the point that the stock G series block is capable of some serious horsepower, but at what cost? We americans overlook the 4 bangers only due to cost and reliability, (and probably availability?) not that they are not capable, theres a line there. Do any of the aussies know what one of them motors cost to build? that is the question on my mind.

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well i havnet dyno pulled my LUV but i have people tell me to expect in the nieghborhood of 200 BHP. I can definelty believe there are lots better Isuzu 4bangers out there. The European spec non turbo Impulses (Piaza) make 130hp whith a DOHC 2.0L, then whith the turbo they come up to 160hp i think.

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