HAHA! Giving you grief, because I have gone the opposite direction. My 80 sat around for about 6 - 8 months without being driven, and when I got back in it, I remembered just what great trucks they are (albeit, with zero power). I go SO reinvigorated about it, that I AM going to figure out a "reasonable" way to get a 2UZ into it. I've been feeding research to 3 or 4 CottonLanders with those skills, and based on what I've been finding, it IS possible to do a "correct" swap for considerably less that the Slee-level expenditures of the past.I used to drink Merlot too.
Sure, an LS swap is easier, less expensive, provides more power, etc.........and there's noting wrong with them. But, for my truck, a 2UZ will get me the power I want, and the thought of it being all-Toyota is interesting to me.
Stay tuned..........