I finally found one!

[C6H12O6]

Well, I finally found a Cruiser!! I am the very proud owner of a 1995 FZJ80. I've chipped in on a few posts here and there over the last few months, but this is my first real Cruiser post, so allow me to give you all a preemptive

My new Cruiser is set up pretty nicely with an ARB front bumper, OME 2.5" lift, Borla exhaust, factory lockers, super-sweet carbon fiber in place of the wood , a K&N filter (that might get pulled come tune-up time), and the sweetest of all mods... the Tornado! I almost passed, but when I find out about the Tornado, well, it was a done deal.

I had Landcruisers NW check it out before I bought it and they promptly told me to BUY IT. Everything checked out great and they said it was one of the best 80s they have seen in a while. Must have been the Tornado.

Nice to meet y'all and thanks for all the advice via lurking!
Steve

 

[reffug]

Man wish my truck had a blow dryer.

 

[stayalert]

oW! Nothing stings like a pre-emptive

This guy sounds dangerous....but tornados don'r sneak around too well....

 

[OZCAL]

Well done . Do you mean it has carbon fibre instead of wood trim in the dash/doors?

David

 

[Cruiserhead05]

Steve,

How bout some engine pics....I'm just dieing to see your tornado.

Can you honestly really anything diffferent with the trucks overall power?

-Brandon

 

[RavenTai]

Congratulations good looking rig, one of the first things I did on my truck was replace the K&N with OEM paper.

Take out that tornado wile you are at it or better yet remove/install it at every fill up and get an average mileage with and without, would be best to have someone install and remove it for you and not let you know when it is there but that would not be practical.

 

[aamiggia]

one of the first things I did on my truck was replace the K&N with OEM paper.

Not to Hi-Jack this thread, but why am I hearing bad things about K&N filters in 80's? Do they inject more dirt than the paper OEM filters?

 

[CreeperSleeper]

See, now aren't you glad you didn't buy the one I bought!

Congrats! I'm going wheeling sunday if you would like to join me.

 

[LX_TREME]

and the sweetest of all mods... the Tornado! I almost passed, but when I find out about the Tornado, well, it was a done deal.
Everything checked out great and they said it was one of the best 80s they have seen in a while. Must have been the Tornado.
Steve

Got Tornado??? Whoa https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=45769

Also not to hi-jack thread but K&N and OEM paper? HELL NO !!!!
Sponge filter for me and much better than those two

Oh fawk almost forgot WELCOME to the 80s forum and congrats on the'95

 

[C6H12O6]

Do you mean it has carbon fibre instead of wood trim in the dash/doors?

Yeah, not sure I'm in love with it, but looks ok and a damn site better than delaminating faux wood. It appears to be some kinda carbon fiber mat covered in plastic and cut/formed to fit all the right places. Definitely commercially made and not a total hack job. Sorta nice, but a little too high-tech for the overall feel of the truck. I'll keep it until it starts to fall off then see what the interior looks like sans trim.

 

[Cookiemonster]

Great looking truck.

How much for the initial purchase not what you'll invest in it, that's a given.

Reference the tornado, send me 20.00 and I'll ship you the following, guarantee it will increase performance...........just like I guarantee I love heeps.

 

[RavenTai]

Not to Hi-Jack this thread, but why am I hearing bad things about K&N filters in 80's? Do they inject more dirt than the paper OEM filters?

Too late consider it now Hi-jacked,

yes K&N air filters do let more dirt past than paper filters,

first I ran into this was on a good friends Tacoma, he trailed it almost weekly , the local "dirt" here is fine clay, a group of trucks makes a cloud of dust. he was interested in a cleanable reusable filter as he was going through paper ones regularly, put in a K&N and regularly cleaned out the silt and re-oiled it, after a short period he started to notice a considerable build of dust in the box after the filter and in the inlet tube , if you can see build up how much made it into the combustion chamber? how much blown past the rings? He spent more time in a dusty environment than I would or most of us would so call him the canary in the mine.

Some users report an increase in Silicon in their oil analysis when using K&N some see no change, I have not seen anyone report a decrease with using a K&N. IMO this shows than K&N’s are not as good at filtering dirt.

There is also the possibility of oil fouling the MAF sensor as mentioned above ,

Since then I have run into this test witch only reinforced my opinion of K&N Air filters
http://home.usadatanet.net/~jbplock/ISO5011/SPICER.htm

And the discussion about K&N's here @ Ih8mud:
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And at
BobIsTheOilGuy.com


Shots under a microscope of a paper towel, K&N and Paper filter, gives a visual for why this is happening.

http://theoildrop.server101.com/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=000338
you can actually see these holes with the naked eye.

If you want more search the air filter section at BITOG, lots of debate between pro and anti K&N users some of it with backing evidence.

I did not and have not heard of anyone finding visible dirt in the intake tube of an 80 when using a K&N, I think this is because the centrifugal pre cleaner in the air box does a good job of getting the denser particles, it would have less effect on lofty stuff that weighs little compared to its surface area. also in my case the PO was a socker mom and never left the road,

If you drive exclusively on the street in a low dust environment, Seattle? Coastal FL? and never off road then a K&N will probably be OK but why bother? You are not going to get any more power out of a 1FZ from an air filter, the OEM filter has a large amount of surface area and as the above photo shows much more than the K&N. Even though paper is more restrictive than the cotton gauze of the K&N there is much more of it in the OEM filter that they may be even in performance,

K&N's were originally designed for carbureted American V8 hot robs used on street/track that had outgrown their stock air filters, a stock off road engine that is also expected to live for hundreds of thousands of mile is not the right application.

 

[helocat]

Outstanding! Bring that baby buy a Cascade Cruisers meeting some time! Better yet come out to the club summer BBQ comming up next month. BBQ - family - Tech & Cruisers!

I am looking at a 95' this weekend, hope its what I am looking for. Gota keep working on the set. Have a 93 and 94 right now as Metal-tech shop trucks, wife needs one now.

Mark

 

[Mace]

Outstanding! Bring that baby buy a Cascade Cruisers meeting some time! Better yet come out to the club summer BBQ comming up next month. BBQ - family - Tech & Cruisers!

I am looking at a 95' this weekend, hope its what I am looking for. Gota keep working on the set. Have a 93 and 94 right now as Metal-tech shop trucks, wife needs one now.

Mark

You suck

 

[concretejungle]

Could you be so kind as to take another pic of the carbon fiber dash?

I think if someone made a brushed aluminum looking dash kit it would be pretty hot.

 

[NorCalDoug]

I've seen one of those "carbon fiber" dash kits. I kinda liked the look, but it's definitly a personal preference thing.

I'd think it would hold up quite well to aging -- better than the OEM crap they put into the LCs. I don't know why they didn't use the same trim in all 80s as they did in the LX 450s. LX "wood" doesn't delaminate

 

[speyrod]

Is that the one that was in Raleigh Hills? I can't tell the color? How much?

 

[C6H12O6]

Is that the one that was in Raleigh Hills? I can't tell the color? How much?

Hey Andre,
Yeah, I think it was the one from Raleigh Hills. I thought I remembered seeing it on AutoTrader or something else local, but couldn't find the ad when I looked for it. I got it at Wentworth Chevrolet after the guy supposedly traded it in on a new Subaru.

If you (or anybody else) knows who it belonged to, I would love to know a bit more about the rig. Mostly, I'd like to know who to send the Tornado back to.


Wentworth listed it for $14K, I offered $9.5K and we ended up at $12K. A little more than I wanted to spend, but it checked out so well and was pretty much set up with most of the mods I wanted. I told my wife it had _all_ the options I would want, but I thought of a few more after I bought it :whoops: I'm pretty pleased with it so far. Hopefully I'll be able to get out this weekend and play a little.

As to more pictures of the dash, I'll have to wait until the wife gets back into town with the digital camera.

Steve

 

[landtoy80]

Raven, if the Taco air cleraner is the same as the HiLux, it was not the filter that let in the dirt.
In my HiLux 22RE the KN filter was longer and not as wide as the OEM filter.
You would had to push the filter in the air box and there was a gap where air and crap got past it. The only way I knew there was a problem was that the filter made a strang noise under hard throttle.

I have the TRD oilded filter. My Silicon is 6. 9 is the universal average.

 

[Romer]

Welcome Steve. Did you buy a Factory Service Manual yet?