Yep...some good reading and ideas to get an inline six up towards 200HP while maintaining great torque. If only...Google, performance inline 6 and look at some of those engines
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If only...you couldn’t get the same horsepower and 250 lbs less weight with a stock SBC. For less time and less money. There’s a reason that’s been the go-to upgrade for about 50 years, ever since I bought my first FJ40 brand new.
Well yes a SBC and especially all the after market parts available to rev it up are cheaper and more readily available, but I try to ignore that reality and pursue an all Toyota vision. Might not make sense I realize.
bobm
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Understand the idea, but not a Chebby fan at all.. 
I'm not knocking anybody's way of thinking, but this never made sense to me. I understand a guy wanting to keep his ride TOTALLY stock the way it came from the factory, but when you change something it falls apart for me. Three speed to four speed, shoes to discs, carb to sniper, etc. If you're willing to change tire size and make why not a motor brand? I guess I lack brand loyalty to that extreme.
bobm
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All boils down to each his own! Nothing wrong with any of it wether totally stock or modified! We all know that its personal preference! Thats what makes this group so expressive with its individuality! Also the reason for all the Great ideas around here
I'm with you Bob, but who would put a Ford motor in a 55. 
I agree that we all have our own vision and all of them are right. I also reserve the right to change my vision. Ha! I guess what put me in the keep it mostly stock especially the engine is the two years I spent looking for my pig. Probably just coincidence but all of the in-line six motor pigs I looked at started right up and the two that had small block chevy engines barely ran without monkeying around to get them going. Not a statistical sample by any means but it set me on my path of staying with the six. Of course I have only driven my pig maybe 250 miles since owning it while working on the thing so this why I reserve the right to change...especially since I haven’t been able to get it to go faster than 51 mph so far.
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200 hp isn’t hard to achieve, it’s 300 hp and up that starts costing a lot. That’s talking about the 2F about 15 years ago. Now pistons have to be custom made. I’m not even entirely sure anymore what you do about a cam if you’re wanting more lift and duration, probably take a stock piece to someone extremely specific for welding and re-grinding.
Realistically, and I’ve had many conversations with people who know more than I, the F series inline 6 engines were built for longevity over performance, in a stock OEM platform. They’ll continue to “work” far past that in exchange for sacrifices. Several guys here are running them in modified rigs and love them. The ones that come to mind are all running one form or another of fuel injection, from a completely stock resto to one of the biggest and most extensively ‘wheeled rigs on this forum. I ran mine for 18 years with mixed feelings. For this build, more than ready to make the jump to V8 power.
As for Ford - there hasn’t been a day in recent memory where I haven’t wished I could get my hands on the head engineer and quality control manager and beat their f*cking a$$es with my 1/2” drive Snap-On ratchet. My list of grievances is several pages long and gets added to every time I have to work on one. I used to be a fan of Ford. Now the only thing they’ve produced that I actually like are the “bumpsides” (‘67 - ‘72) and FE engines. Jon Kaase has developed some incredible hardware for the 400M and the 429/460 big blocks, but it’s unobtainium for a man of my means. Still wouldn’t put any of it in a Cruiser, just wouldn’t seem right. Toyota borrowed heavily from Jeep (for the body) and GM (for the engine) back in the day, has only ever seemed natural that if you weren’t gonna run a Toyota engine you’d run a GM engine. And now, for many reasons, the LS series makes more sense than going with an LT, especially since there’s (yaaay!!) NO DISTRIBUTOR!!
Amen brother.bobm
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There's 1 for sale on web has 302 with the rack of ribs intake! Appropriate for aI'm with you Bob, but who would put a Ford motor in a 55.
bobm
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Guy I worked with had a 40 with a 351 in it! Kept blowing out axle shafts? He was a Crazy MoFo 
liked to jump it
liked to jump it bobm
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400 hundred in F250 . 428fe in Cruiser
. 428fe in Cruiser
I'm just messing with ya, Bob. I have no brand loyalty what so ever except when it comes to beer. The only Ford motor I've dealt with is a 300 six and I beat on it for years. Now that would be a good alternative for the Toyota six.
Stan at Hardline Fabrication Services (HFS) in Chesnee, SC just recently pulled the good running 2F out of this absolutely stunning '79 pig for an LS swap. Stan does LS swaps into cruisers for a living, and even he flinched a little when the owner showed up with this fine pig wanting to swap it. The owner insisted,"LS power or I'm selling it." LS it is. I would have kept it Toyota, but in all honesty, a well done LS swap doesn't seem to hurt the resale these days. Swapped pigs and 60 series trucks are fetching big numbers on BaT...and they have got to be so much fun to drive as well.
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When in Rome!
I'd love to crawl around that LS wagon, just to see how he routed his exhaust beside the PTO driveshaft, etc. It gets very tight right there. Stan does some nice work.
He hasn't done the swap yet. This truck is in queue. I bought the transfer case out of it. I believe Stan will be swapping in a GM auto trans and a Toyota split case. He's going to have to figure out the PTO gear for the split case as well as routing the shaft around all the new stuff that is going in. He says he likes a challenge, so this one may fit the bill. I'm sure he will post a lot of pics (he usually does). It will be a thing of beauty when he's finished with it.
Yeah, it's a different PTO box made for the split case, which we didn't have here in the states. I believe mine came from Japan. I like to follow along his 60 builds.
