CalebCruisers
SILVER Star
Oh man.. I have been looking for a "Poverty Pack" 80 series for over 4 years now. The biggest thing I wanted was no sunroof and no opportunity for leaks or rust as much as possible. I finally found for a 1991 FJ80 without a sunroof. It also was factory flawless which is nice. Interesting enough it has a roof rack, I want to assume it was dealer installed but who knows. As you can see in the pictures it is the tan/brown interior and 4K1 beige. It came from Eastern Oregon and has 0 rust. Engine is rough running and if anyone needs it for cheap let me know!
NOW LETS GET ONTO WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS, THE BUILD!
I have a L9H 6.2 aluminum block from a 2009 GMC Yukon Denali (GEN4 LS) and a GEN3 4L80 2wd that is freshly rebuilt. I want it to be stock body highlighting the poverty pack aspects with tall skinny tires and roughly 2.5 inch lift. Unsure on tire size as I have not looked into what will look nice without having flares as I don't want it to stick out really any. The person I got it from needed it for the fenders and hood and front end essentially so I will likely buy another 91-94 hopefully of the same color to put it together as one. I would love to find one with a grey interior from either a 91-92 or a 93-94 cloth as this has brown (if anyone wants to fully swap interiors let me know!)
As far as the engine goes likely leaving it stock MAYBE slapping a cam kit in it for fun or looking into an LSA supercharger for memes. I will be using a Holley Terminator to talk between GEN4 Engine and GEN3 Trans.
As far as body I eventually will get it painted as the clear is faded and will potentially color change it to white as I feel that is the definition of Poverty Pack color having no clear. I will be swapping it to solid third windows next time the Toyota dealers run a 20-25% off sale again. Heard there was a vinyl style carpet option overseas and will look further into that as it would be simple as well as potentially even hand crank windows. Also if I can't find an interior or a rig to buy/swap with I plan on looking at just importing an entire interior from Japan or similar so its still all OEM but has the added cool factor. Plan on this being a forever rig as a daily driver along with my FJ62 build that's in my signature. If anyone has any advice or recommendations or more info on poverty pack and related I'm wanting to learn more as info for them is hard to nail down for USDM 80 ones.
NOW LETS GET ONTO WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS, THE BUILD!
I have a L9H 6.2 aluminum block from a 2009 GMC Yukon Denali (GEN4 LS) and a GEN3 4L80 2wd that is freshly rebuilt. I want it to be stock body highlighting the poverty pack aspects with tall skinny tires and roughly 2.5 inch lift. Unsure on tire size as I have not looked into what will look nice without having flares as I don't want it to stick out really any. The person I got it from needed it for the fenders and hood and front end essentially so I will likely buy another 91-94 hopefully of the same color to put it together as one. I would love to find one with a grey interior from either a 91-92 or a 93-94 cloth as this has brown (if anyone wants to fully swap interiors let me know!)
As far as the engine goes likely leaving it stock MAYBE slapping a cam kit in it for fun or looking into an LSA supercharger for memes. I will be using a Holley Terminator to talk between GEN4 Engine and GEN3 Trans.
As far as body I eventually will get it painted as the clear is faded and will potentially color change it to white as I feel that is the definition of Poverty Pack color having no clear. I will be swapping it to solid third windows next time the Toyota dealers run a 20-25% off sale again. Heard there was a vinyl style carpet option overseas and will look further into that as it would be simple as well as potentially even hand crank windows. Also if I can't find an interior or a rig to buy/swap with I plan on looking at just importing an entire interior from Japan or similar so its still all OEM but has the added cool factor. Plan on this being a forever rig as a daily driver along with my FJ62 build that's in my signature. If anyone has any advice or recommendations or more info on poverty pack and related I'm wanting to learn more as info for them is hard to nail down for USDM 80 ones.
) and work full-time as an engineer so I will have to stay on the ball schedule-wise to get any progress on both this and the 62.. but finally being able to add the poverty pack to my little collection (currently at 5 cruisers 
) has rekindled the wanting to work in the shop.. Along with realizing I can swap axles and run 15's on my 62AND get better axles on this poverty pack has been huge for my mental gymnastics of needing to run 15's on the 62.
