Yup noob to the forum been tinkering with toyota's for going on 15 years now. Had lots of fun doing it and now I'm just starting to get serious about things.


I have a 80 toyota wheeling rig all big and stupid along with a 78 long box street truck that I've been tinkering with for awhile. I just picked up a 89 x cab 4x for my wife. As of tonight she has the engine out of my crawler and into her truck and the wiring will be finished tomorrow. What can I say, I found a good one.


So anyway came here looking for idea's and maybe some parts for my projects. I've been lurking this site for about a year or so and I must say there are some sweeeeet trucks here.

 

Welcome to TM! Nice, some more 4x's! Any pics of these trucks? We here ToyotaMinis are a bunch of pic junkies, we can't get enough of 'em!

 

I love big an stupid pics plz welcome to TM

 

The 80 started life as a 90 2x x cab.




It lived life happily for a few years with all yota drivetrain and ended up on 42's.





Then after a rather major rollover/rebuild/horsetrading extravaganza it emerged with an 80 long box body, 1 ton axles, 44's hybrid jeep/toyota auto with a 231 crawl box hooked to an atlasII transfer case.







The 78 is the new project for me. It came to me with a 20r and the worst cooked clutch I've ever seen. The pressure plate and hub of the disc were BLUED from the hear and the flywheel was shattered from all the heat cracks. The kid simply adjusted the clutch as the master leaked the fluid out onto the carpet...

I did some more extreme horsetrading and ended up with a W55 out of an 83 supra and a 20/22r hybrid with a 45DCOE side draft weber and a 4 into 1 header. It just lunched itself last weekend so I've already started amassing parts to resurrect it dumber than before with a MUCH hotter cam, more compression and better internals. It should be fun. D:

The truck as I saw it in a cell picture. I agreed on the $100 purchase price on that pic alone and I haven't been disappointed on bit.





The truck as it sits now with 3 coils cut and 3" blocks out back. It is getting a sever suspension makeover in the very near future.




The heart of the beast.






And finally a family portrait of the big truck, the race truck and the tow pig.

 

Hey someone who knows what a Crawler is instead of a stock 4x4 on big knob tires yea. Love the way it looks next to the daily MASSIVE!

 

welcome.... and your 78 looks really nice

 

Yea the toyota family prtrait will be pretty sweet when I get them all done.

The 78 is in phenominal shape. One dent in the passenger fender, some tweakage on the roof and a bit on the hood most likely from a brat bastard child playing on it. Other that that it just has a lot of surface rust. I'm thinking of either going semi gloss black on the sides and repainting the factory pinstripe in silver and green or just shooting the whole thing the factory green but with glitter and candy clear. I'll tint the windows when it starts to get warm out too.

 

Look sik. If your evere this way hit me up and we will go wheelin.

 

love the toys. So you going to dd the little truck haul the crawler with the tow rig or is the little truck going to be garaged and kept pretty while the tow rig gets beat up?

 

The race truck as we call it is my DD. It gets a lot of miles put on it for the amount of time I'm home. It's got about 3k put on it since right before Christmas. Once the new engine is done it'll go on about an 800 miles one day road trip to visit some friends for a bit so it's all nice and broke in so I can start beating on it.

The tow rig is the loaner/back up rig. It sits most of the time but once my wife is done with her 89 yota and starts driving it so I can have my 95 2x ranger back it'll see more driving duty. The range is getting torn apart for a full performance rebuild on it's 2.3 and I've been sitting on a full desert long travel suspension kit for about 2 years so it'll be going in too.

 

Welcome Brotha

Glad to see your sneeking over to the Dark side, we need some Offroaders that Like to Drag it..

 

Howdy dogfather, how are those doors treating ya? Go figure I gave them to ya then in the last 4 months I'm on my second "0" gen that could have used parts out of them.

 

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when she rolls out of the Shop I'll be rubbing the bottom of those doors....

The regulators in the doors were bad had to replace them...

But Hey Thanks a tons, the skins were in 90% better shape than what I had..

 

is that a manual fule pump on yer 20R I see there?

 

Yup manual pump so far. The new engine will probably be a bit more thirsty so I'll have to upgrade.


I doubt I'll be dropped enough for rubbing the doors but I am planning on a 1" body drop and a Z'd front clip off a 3rd gen to match a back half with ladder bars. I mainly plan on autocross and 1/4 mile drags and being obscenely low isn't helpful.

 

I wounder if it still has the in tank pump?

autocross? Where you gonna do that at? in the 78? Wholly Crap dude?

Why do a Body drop then?

 

I'm pretty sure it does still have the in tank pump beings the original engine didn't have a mechanical pump on it.

They do autocross all around here all summer long. I figure with a body drop I can still have it really low and not have terrible a arm geometry. The 3rd gen suspension is far more upgradeable and has actual aftermarket support. I fully plan on some decent sized disc brakes and completely upgraded master/booster.stainless lines as well. I am not building this truck to be super flashy and look fast, I want a sleeper.

 

so are you building the 20R or a 22R

 

Simple answer is yes.


20r head and 22r bottom end. The old engine had a good lower and mid range but not much up top which is completely wrong for such an engine due to the cam selection of the kid that owned the engine before me. I'm putting in a rather silly cam with matching valve springs and new rockers. I'm also going to do a good amount of head work so it'll have a decent amount of poop.

 

So like your doing all this head work or having the machine shop do it?

I just happen to have a 22R and 2 20R's? Hummmm. Youve struck a courious bone... so what you think this head work is gonna cost ya?

See I struggle over buying a header for my 20R cause I don't believe the doller value vs the extra output is worth the money spent?

What you think?