The more you look at this Rocky, the more that jumps out at you. Mitch puts the 20 percent power increase down to the RA Rodeo turbo hanging off the side, as well as re-gearing the diffs to as close to factory spec overall gearing as possible to maintain drivability. That may not sound like much, but considering the Rocky left the factory on 27-inch tyres and is now rolling on 35’s, that’s very respectable.
The factory turbo motor has been rebuilt a second time since, and now pushes out a whopping 74kW and 300Nm at the wheels.
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Being an ’89 model, it’s running the DL52T 4 cylinder 2.8-litre which isn’t a common engine, so he bought a workshop manual and got stuck into a rebuild. The first thing Mitch did when he picked up his farm spec Rocky from out past Goondiwindi was address the copious amounts of smoke it was blowing by ripping the motor out when he got it back home. Graham knew he had to get one for himself as soon as Mick found his and started the build. That’s right Mitch’s Dad Graham also has a Daihatsu Rocky. Mitch reminisced about the trip, “Just the experience, the people and the places you see were incredible… to do it in two fully custom Daihatsu’s was even better and we can’t wait to go back again.” Together with his father, they ticked a long-awaited location off their bucket lists with a father and son Cape York adventure earlier this year. Once his Dad introduced him to camping, Mitch found himself on a slippery slope and now spends more time than ever preparing the Rocky and planning trips to the next destination.
Getting home from swinging spanners and honing hydraulic cylinders for Hitachi in the afternoons, Mitch switches to working on his pride and joy. That’s lucky because this build has been a journey of mechanical ingenuity and determination. The ownerĪ fitter machinist by trade, Mitch has always been mechanically minded. Yes, that’s a Daihatsu Rocky that’s lifted, locked and ready to rock. You would be forgiven for doing a double-take at that first image.
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