MY 85 TURBO TRUCK

[Skinny_Pedal]

well i got me that fancy 85 4x4 turbo truck. has a 5speed. originally it was supposed to just have a blown head gasket. well i wish that was the case, its needs a new motor. prismo is being very helpful bye letting me keep it has his place while we work in it. he also has a turbo motor and were going to check the compression on it and i hope to god it has enough to swap in this truck.

[Skinny_Pedal]

i think you can see prismo's head

[Skinny_Pedal]

tarp shops are sweet

[Skinny_Pedal]

wonder why its not starting

[Prismo]

You have to lose that "Discovery" bumper unless you plan on starting a snow plowing business

[WHITE_TRASH]

I like the winch, Ill bet it'll be a lot better once its mounted with the front facing out....

[oddball]

looks like a good score   disco bumper is god awful though 

[BigMike]

Wow that's cool man. So is it a custom 85 Turbo (converted) or is it like a 11/85 or 12/85 model? I bet that's one of the first 1000 Turbo trucks or something as you know they started as a 86 model, so thats pretty cool

[KYOTA]

nice truck, please tell me you're not going to paint the wheels powder puff blue

[mudaddict]

nice score skinny! i was woundering the same thing as bigmike. how did you find that by the way?

[Skinny_Pedal]

im not sure. prismo believes it is an original 85. it has a wide housing out back though. its been wrecked and has washington vin plates on it now, so no dates from toyota. but i looked at the title and its titaled as an 86. so im guessing that it is factory, just made in december of 85.

im pretty sure the wheels are going to get my now famous blue paint job.

i was selling my datsun pickup. some kid called me and asked if i was up for any trades besides a car. i said im looking for a toyota pickup. he told me about this, so i went and looked at it thinking it was an ifs truck and i was gonna pimp out my 83 with turbo goodies. well i saw the truck and fell in love . he liked  my datsun so this is how i aquired it. so if i remeber right i got that datsun for free. so it lookes like this is a free truck as well

[mudaddict]

LUCKY bastid!!! thats a sweet deal!

[BigMike]

Hey but wait, it's got a live axle in the front! What does the frame look like in between the front spring mounts? Is it flat like an IFS frame or is it hooped like a live axle frame?

I'm gonna say that's an 85 frame and someone moved everything over from a 86 Turbo truck, body and all.

[Prismo]

From everything I see it is an original 85 turbo truck. Nothing has been hacked, everything looks original. Looks as though it has been totalled & then re- registered. I will try to run the vin off of the dash tonight. It is an 85 frame

[WHITE_TRASH]

A buddy of mine bought a 85 short box that was turbo'd it had the turbo rear 3rd and the wide housing in the back.  Im pretty sure its origional from the looks of it.  I ran it on carfax for him and it shower a bunch of info on it but nothing about wrecks etc at all.

[BigMike]

Wow, this is all very interesting.....

[Skinny_Pedal]

if prismo and i can get it running by thursday ill be a very happy man

[oddball]

Have you figured out whats wrong with the motor besides the obvious?

[Hyena]

Nice find!  My truck is an 84 extra cab model, but it was built and sold in 83.  So technically it is an 83 extra cab.  

[Skinny_Pedal]

Have you figured out whats wrong with the motor besides the obvious?

we could put a new head gasket on it and have it run for a day or to. as already stated prismo has a complete turbo motor, i just keep hoping it has good compression  

hey bigmike, you raced a turbo truck yet

[BigMike]

hey bigmike, you raced a turbo truck yet

Yes sirre! I talked about it in my project thread like on page 31 or somewhere..

I've raced a freshly built stock 22R-TE using stock boost (6 psi) in a '83 long bed frame and a Marlin-built TEC Hybrid Turbo 22R-TE in a '86 Turbo shortbed truck with a NA cylinder head with about 20k miles and only 5 psi boost (controller equipped).

The stock rig I raced belongs to TURBO and at the time he had on bald 31s, stock gearing, and no bed. And with my 35s and 5.29s, we were dead even. I consistently out launched him by a good truck length, but then he would stay with me all the way up to 70 mph three times in a row. I couldn't pull on him and he couldn't pull on me.

And as for my friend Brandon who has the 86 shortbed, he's running 33s with stock 4.11 gearing. My truck was the same as above, 35s and 5.29s. I could out launch him by about 1/2 truck length, but by 3rd gear he would catch me and thats all we did. Im sure he would take me up to 70, he's definitely got more power than me and even he's only running 5 psi boost. But if we were just street racing, he would have to work really hard to catch me between the lights because I can out launch him easily.

So that's two turbo trucks.
The stock one on 31s was equal to my truck on 35s. Survey says: I Kicked his butt! If he had 35s and a bed on his rig, he would have no chance.
My friends 86 with the TEC turbo is a sweet ride. Im not sure if he would be any faster with 35s because right now on the 33s with stock gearing, his gears are really ridiculously long. Im already into 4th when he's just getting into 3rd-- which is perfect for a broad torque banded engine like a Turbo. So I think if he had 35s, and maybe 4.88s, he would be quick, but not as quick as he is now. So I should put on some 33s and race him and then we'll   see what's what

But its all gonna change this summer around July.. I see boost in my near future *hint* *hint*   

[Skinny_Pedal]

well prismo's turbo motor is no good. 3 cylinders at 50 and 1 at 140....why couldnt they all be like that. so im hoping my parents can give me a small loan and hook me up with the stroker motor we have sitting. it would make a nice addition to the turbo truck. if not ill have to trailer it home from prismo's and sell it i would suspect. anyway thats whats new with this truck

[b_ripper8]

Wow, I was under the impression that you couldn't get an axle with a factory turbo charged engine. Learn something new everyday.

[BigMike]

Wow, I was under the impression that you couldn't get an axle with a factory turbo charged engine. Learn something new everyday.

Before you learn that, I would wait to see what the tags say about it.

I talked to Marlin about this yast night and he said that he has seen a genuine 1985 Turbo truck, but it was a 2WD model, so of course it had IFS in the front. Marlin said it was a June/85. Amazing. So I asked him about a 4WD Turbo pre-86 truck, and he said no, but one time he got a call from someone who was selling an 85 Turbo 4WD. So Marlin was courious and went over to check it out. He said everything was there, just like yours: The Turbo third, wide rear axle, AC, Turbo cab, Turbo bucket seats, turbo inst. cluster, turbo radiator, everything. But then he checked the vin tag on the firewall, and it said: Axle Code: W56. So someone had taken a 85 SR5 frame and moved the Turbo cab and all the goodies over to it, but kept the 85 vin for registration? I guess..

I'm still interested to see what the vin on the frame has to say about it

Hey that stroker kit should go into that Turbo motor! That is what TURBO (Tim) want's to do, build a stroked 2.7 22R-TE!

[Prismo]

This ends up being a little confusing since it has been totalled at one time & re-badged with a Washington State vin. We were able to pull the original vin off of the dash vin plate where they had stripped it off. They replace the door plate with their plate, so it is gone. Skinny is going to run a Carfax on it to see what we come up with. Will the stamped number on the frame yeild any information towards indentification of the truck? Isn't it actually the same as the vin?

[BigMike]

I think it is the same as the vin, but if so, then that's gonna be a 85-something frame and a 86-87 turbo cab. So just check if the vins match, I'm betting they are different

[Prismo]

I will look tommorow, I had forgotten about the frame #. If this is a swap someone went to great lengths to keep it stock looking. I have been wrong before. 

[Skinny_Pedal]

got the carfax report back. didnt tell me much. the truck is not a lemon supposidly and never been wrecked. it came out as a 86 turbo std can and bed. the truck is a long bed though. the cabs original color was red and the beds was brown. i need to get a vin check on the frame and go from there.


good news is this truck is getting the lcengineering 2.6stroker motor with the turbo goodies. prismo and i will be swapping that in next month sometime after i graduate.

[BigMike]

Nice.

[sloyota]

sound's like you got a nice truck! good luck cant wait to see the foto's