Purely hypothetical (babe would you like a glass of wine? 
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I think this looks absolutely awesome and I want one. Patrols are tough cars so can take a bit of a beating and are fairly cheap to buy. Thing is, all the ones for sale are dagdags, so it'd more than likely involve an engine swap. An engine would cost about £1.5k, but this is where my engine knowledge is going to be exposed. What sort of turbo would I be looking at, and what sort of ancillaries? Would a standard RB25DET's internals handle 600bhp-ish? Obviously I don't know very much about this kind of thing but I suppose I have to learn somehow and what better project to learn on than an off-road hooning machine on a relatively low budget?
This is my inspiration:
(I genuinely would like to build something like this, not for a while but in the future more than likely).
)I think this looks absolutely awesome and I want one. Patrols are tough cars so can take a bit of a beating and are fairly cheap to buy. Thing is, all the ones for sale are dagdags, so it'd more than likely involve an engine swap. An engine would cost about £1.5k, but this is where my engine knowledge is going to be exposed. What sort of turbo would I be looking at, and what sort of ancillaries? Would a standard RB25DET's internals handle 600bhp-ish? Obviously I don't know very much about this kind of thing but I suppose I have to learn somehow and what better project to learn on than an off-road hooning machine on a relatively low budget?
This is my inspiration:
(I genuinely would like to build something like this, not for a while but in the future more than likely).