Funny you say that, check out my Tacoma build, it’s a first of its kind and I completed it in a month or two My engine swapped 3rd Gen build thread - https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/my-engine-swapped-3rd-gen-build-thread.790151/#post-28286102
Yea I reached out to the guy that bought it from me and put it on BAT and he said it didn’t sell and he still had it so I’m guessing he put it back up, he was a dealership so I can see why
Realized I haven’t posted many finished product pictures lately, I’ve been driving this thing working the bugs out for a little while and I can say it was all worth it, it’s way quicker, gets into 8th around 50mph and doesn’t hunt for gears, interstate cruising is worlds different then stock, I...
In my opinion which I could be wrong but GM engines and electronics are easier to mess with, HPtuners make swapping GM engines easier, I’m not to familiar with the Toyotas ECMs to make them stand alone
Fuel system is done, I should have taken more pictures but i forgot, I mounted a Aeromotive 340 in a Second Gen bucket, 3rd gen Tacomas have a awesome PWM brushless fuel pump but it’s returnless and hard to control, so I went with a 2nd bucket that has provisions for a fuel return. I then went...
Intercooler heat exchanger reservoir mounted and plumbed and everything flows nicely, the CTSV sport has a sealed system from the factory and that was the number one complaint was, air in the system and how much it sucked to bleed it. So I went with a open system and plugged the bleeder port...
That’s were it sits as of now, my plan is to have this driving before Christmas which is 15 days away, I’m going to be running it 2wd until my custom transfer case from Atlas comes in, it says it has about a 20 week wait to come in so I’ll just have it up and running 2 wheel drive until then...
Next I went with a ZZP intake for a Cadillac ATSV and it fit perfect in the Tacoma, I’m going to relocated the battery to the passenger side since I won’t be using the stock intake anymore
Also from ZZP i picked up one of their heat exchangers and high volume water pump that I mounted behind...
Next was transmission shifting,
My duramax swap in my 80series I used a Lokar shifter and I always had a problem getting out of Park and it drove me nuts so I told myself I wasn’t going to do that again
So I went with PCS electric shifter
I had a buddy of mine with a laser cutter cut me out a...
Next I tackled the transmission cooling, back in the day I use to use the radiator transmission coolers until I decided it’s so much easier to just run remote coolers
So I adapted the stock Cadillac transmission cooler lines to 6an and mounted a cooler with fan under the truck
Next hurdle...