Who's completed swapping an 84-89 1st Gen Body onto to a 96-02 4Runner chassis? I love the running gear of that generation Tacoma / 4Runner but don't love the 4-door enclosed steel shell of the 3rd Gen 4 Runner.
With how lazy Toyota is with making changes to their trucks, I can't image it's that hard to swap one over. Heck, I saw an episode of hot rod garage where Lucky and Tony swapped an F100 body onto a Crown Vic chassis (yeah, that one was not *easy*). If they can do that swap, somebody's got to have done a 1st to 3rd gen body to frame swap.
I found a post about a shop / person called Irbis doing a swap back around 2008, but the website is down that links to it and there is no other info I can find. Surprised this swap is so rare.
Pictures and links please.
With how lazy Toyota is with making changes to their trucks, I can't image it's that hard to swap one over. Heck, I saw an episode of hot rod garage where Lucky and Tony swapped an F100 body onto a Crown Vic chassis (yeah, that one was not *easy*). If they can do that swap, somebody's got to have done a 1st to 3rd gen body to frame swap.
I found a post about a shop / person called Irbis doing a swap back around 2008, but the website is down that links to it and there is no other info I can find. Surprised this swap is so rare.
Pictures and links please.
, plus all the wear parts are a decade+ newer. There's nothing wrong with Rack and Pinion that I know of and coil suspension is superior to torsion bar (all modern vehicles use coil based suspension, none that I know use torsion bar).
