Corax's 4runner

[corax]

I built my '88 more as an expedition rig, trying to make it good at a bit of everything
Aug '08 Big Bear, CA (Dishpan Springs)

Sept '08 Yosemite CA

Oct '08 Trinidad, North Cali - amongst the BIG trees

Oct '08 Crater Lake, OR

Jan '09 TTORA @ Rausch Creek Offroad Park, PA

June '09 TTORA EC4RJ @ Rausch Creek


1988 4Runner

-3.0L 7MGE Supra engine swap (200 hp stock, inline 6)
-Port & Polish on the cyl head with ARP head studs
-MSD 6A Ignition, MSD Blaster 2 coil  and MSD 8mm wires
-2.5" mandrel bent exhaust through a stainless Flowmaster Delta 50 muffler
-OME Dakar rear leafs, Marlin Crawler U-Bolt flip kit, Bilstein 5150 remote reservoir (177/60 or soft valving), urethane bumpstops
-T-100 caliper / rotor brake upgrade, T-100 1 1/16" Master Cylinder, removed LSPV and installed Wilwood manual proportioning valve
-home-fab front bumper, rear bumper with receiver, lower control arm brace, idler arm brace
-Toyota LSD front differential swap from an '83 Celica Supra
-4.56:1 V6 center sections front and rear w/ 32x11.5x15 BFG A/T KO tires on alloy's (soon 4.88s w/ elocker rear + 33x10.5 KM2s)
-Marlin HD W56 trans
-Hannemann front fenders
-Ford T-Bird Turbo Coupe hood vents
-110,000 candlepower driving lights (aircraft spot beams)
-rear driving lights
-SR5 gauge cluster (tach, oil press, voltage), added engine vacuum gauge
-Cherokee CM-10+ CB peaked (10w), tuned, and able to transmit on 10M, 11M, 12M bands (CB is 26.965 MHz -> 27.405 MHz, I have 23.815 MHz -> 30.555 MHz)
-Yaesu FT-2800 2meter 65W Ham radio (135MHz - 173MHz)
'-89 Celica All-Trac Turbo seats
-NWMP 14 gal aux tank w/ electric transfer pump (no gravity feed through the drain plug)

My Garage Thread

My cross country trip thread <- the wife drove the 'runner pulling a 3,500 lb trailer 4,000 miles, I was driving the RV

[starrunner]

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sweet rig

[PA_taco_13]

    for a sweet rig.   You come to PA often?

[corax]

    for a sweet rig.   You come to PA often?

I'm hoping that's a Yuengling Yep, I'm living in eastern PA for the moment (born and raised, except for the last few years), might be relocating to Wild and Wonderful WV sometime in the next year or so

[Yota-Freak]

hey sick rig man  welcome to marlin. i noticed you had hood vents? do those things really work for cooling the engine? i heard that they can cool it by 45 degrees...im thinkin of getting some cuz i run really hot for some reason...just wanted to know if they actually work. thanks.


Sean

[corax]

hey sick rig man  welcome to marlin. i noticed you had hood vents? do those things really work for cooling the engine? i heard that they can cool it by 45 degrees...im thinkin of getting some cuz i run really hot for some reason...just wanted to know if they actually work. thanks.


Sean

I wouldn't believe any claims for a specific temp reduction because it's all very dependant on where the vents are, how fast you're traveling, ambient temps, etc.  From what I can tell, they work.  In the winter, the spot above the vents are the first to melt through and last winter when I popped my radiator hose I got early warning via coolant spray on the windshield   Never actually measured the underhood temps though to verify how effective they are.

The vents I used are from a Ford T-bird turbo coupe, got them in a junkyard for < $10.  Take a walk through your local bone yard, there are usually plenty of late 80s/early 90s t-birds in there.  If you face them rearwards, they pull air out of the engine bay which should help pull air through the radiator.

[Yota-Freak]

yeah thats a good idea....i dont want em for looks...my truck just runs really hot...specially being black bedliner which sucks in heat and keeps it in the engine bay....and its like 100plus here daily...anywho thanks for the input dude. should help my engine out quite well

[Tallchevy]

2  land

[4RunnerChevy]

Glad you finally made it over here Keith from Santa Cruz

[corax]

Glad you finally made it over here Keith from Santa Cruz

Hi Kev!  I'd been lurking for long enough, now I'm trying to find out some info so I can get my elocker regeared, built and installed

[luvyota]

  sweet rig do you have any pics of the engine i would like to see how you got it to fit

[corax]

sweet rig do you have any pics of the engine i would like to see how you got it to fit

everything was bolt-on except for the radiator (although I have heard of people running a Toyota V6 radiator and making it work, not sure if they used the 5MGE engine mount brackets though or welded their own)

7MGE swap notes and pics

final radiator install <- this was years after the initial engine swap

[bigarms23]

welcome from truckee glad you found marlins board

[46&2]

 

Very nice rig I am digging the 7MGE swap. 

[NoPower]

Very nice runner. Love the engine swap. Got any pics of the engine swap? Was it a pain in the ass to swap the engine? I have an 87 turbo auto 4runner but I'm thinking about swapping it out for some thing else

[yjay]

That seems like an ideal motor to swap in. Any idea on the mileage?
Nice clean ride 

[corax]

Very nice runner. Love the engine swap. Got any pics of the engine swap? Was it a pain in the ass to swap the engine? I have an 87 turbo auto 4runner but I'm thinking about swapping it out for some thing else

7MGE swap notes and pics

final radiator install <- this was years after the initial engine swap

That seems like an ideal motor to swap in. Any idea on the mileage?
Nice clean ride 

I get 19.5 mpg on road no matter how I drive it - highway, stop/go in town doesn't matter, and I'm not generally light on the throttle.   Coming cross country pulling the 5x8 enclosed trailer (~3500 lbs) we got 17 mpg. The only time I ever measured offroad mileage was in Big Bear, CA and it got 15 mpg crawling around and idling

[Rocksurfer]

  to the board, looks like a capable rig you're building there.

[luvyota]

everything was bolt-on except for the radiator (although I have heard of people running a Toyota V6 radiator and making it work, not sure if they used the 5MGE engine mount brackets though or welded their own)

7MGE swap notes and pics

final radiator install <- this was years after the initial engine swap

looks good man i like the radiator

[jeff94runner]

  from Arkansas

[axled89]

nice platform ,we like 4runners.

[PA_taco_13]

hey man how do those 4.56's treat you on the back mountain roads of PA? i have been thinking of re-gearing my truck and have been stuck between 4.56's or 4.88's   but i'm only gonna run 33's   soooo whats yer       thanks in advance      

edit:   just saw you wanted to change to 4.88's  whats the down fall of the 4.56's   you wanna go bigger  tires 

[axled89]

bigger is better!

[corax]

hey man how do those 4.56's treat you on the back mountain roads of PA? i have been thinking of re-gearing my truck and have been stuck between 4.56's or 4.88's   but i'm only gonna run 33's   soooo whats yer       thanks in advance       

edit:   just saw you wanted to change to 4.88's  whats the down fall of the 4.56's   you wanna go bigger  tires 

hehehe - just got 33x10.5 KM2's and I'm gonna test them out next weekend at Rausch Creek (supposed to be raining, so the muck factor should be pretty good)

with my 32's the 4.56 gears were perfect - speedo was even correct.  Now with the 33's, it's just a bit slower than I want + I do tow with this, so I'm thinking 4.88's will put me right back where I want to be.  Just got my 4.88 front diff (need to swap the LSD over), next is a  set of Yukon gears for the back and a solid pinion spacer - still not sure if I want to set these up myself or not.

[PA_taco_13]

  thank you very much for the input     thats leading me to think i'm going to like the 4.88's better.   have fun at rausch creek next weekend, with this week ends rain and if its going to rain next weekend the MUCK factor will be way up   


   i hope to see you on the trail one of these days i would love to have a look at the runner and share some stories 

[axled89]

nice pic.

[corax]

thank you very much for the input     thats leading me to think i'm going to like the 4.88's better.

Yeah, you won't regret 4.88's - much more fun with "smaller" tires + it'll give you a bit of room to grow in tire size

[MR.FULL-FORCE]

welcome to the site...nice runner...

[corax]

. . . . so I'm thinking 4.88's will put me right back where I want to be.  Just got my 4.88 front diff (need to swap the LSD over), next is a  set of Yukon gears for the back and a solid pinion spacer - still not sure if I want to set these up myself or not . . . .

Just ordered for my e-locker 3rd and I'm gonna have the guy that sets up the rears in my friend's small block modified help me set these up.

I towed my 3k lb towable backhoe down to WV and back last weekend and didn't notice any power loss with the 4.56s and 33s, but my old front and rear diffs will be up for sale in a few weeks anyway

[4RunnerChevy]

When you gonna solid axle that thing ?