Hi, Guys. Long time lurker, first time poster...just wanted to introduce myself. First cruiser was an original paint, super clean Fj62, owned it for a bit and like a dummy sold it for some decent profit in the hopes of finding a nice 60. Here is the 62...fully stock except for the 32's and aftermarket radio. It was almost "too nice" for me.
Well, you know the story...life happens and time flew by, almost 8 years without anything in the garage. This past October my pops and I road tripped up to Indiana and picked up the copper 84 and all is right in the universe again! Its your basic modded ride, as you can see...has a few issues but is a solid start.
The wife, dogs and I love to camp, and the 60 is going to need to be able to pull our 1950's 16' Yellowstone around, so more power is going to be a requirement....here is our camper, completely redone inside, and left with all its charecter outside. ...I pulled all of the wood out and the skins off and built a full aluminum inner frame, put in a shower, toilet, hidden a/c, sink and fridge. Its tiny, but works perfect for us. I will get around to finishing the exterior trim and scotch brite-ing the outside this upcoming fall. We have been using it for the past 3 years as is...just mainly going to the beach and short drives. I pulled it with my 2006 honda element, while not ideal, the trailer only ways ~1600# before packing it full of my wifes "stuff", lol.
Our two GSD's, Addie (9) and Luna (2), both are from the same family, just a few generations apart..they go everywhere with us daily.
For the power side of things, I was pretty set on the typical LS swap, but being the guy that never wants to take the typical easy path I started searching for Toyota options. Researched the 1FZ-FE's for a while and got a little bit discouraged because of the "unknowns", but after a complete engine, trans and case out of a 94 popped up for sale right in my backyard I decided that I was going to tackle the swap. A quick trip to Cullman Al and I got to meet @Dlathem and picked up the future heart for the project. Without going into full detail, the current plan pull the head and have it gone through, fit studs and a good gasket and get the engine ready for its metamorphosis to an economical, reliable and efficient power maker
. It will probably test my last bit of patience, but we will get it done!
The required poser shot of the adventure...lol.
A little background on me, this is my 21st year in the high performance turbocharger business, and before that I worked in the 4wd industry with my father. I have high hopes that we can come up with a solid solution for power and durability out of this platform....I think it is almost a perfect storm for this to happen. Time will tell! I created an instagram account, @wookie_fj60 just for this project, if you are interested in following! As the parts collection builds and the project gets underway I will post up the content here on Mud.
Thanks for looking and sorry for the long rambling post, just a little bit excited to get this all going!
...now back to lurking, lol
Reed
Well, you know the story...life happens and time flew by, almost 8 years without anything in the garage. This past October my pops and I road tripped up to Indiana and picked up the copper 84 and all is right in the universe again! Its your basic modded ride, as you can see...has a few issues but is a solid start.
The wife, dogs and I love to camp, and the 60 is going to need to be able to pull our 1950's 16' Yellowstone around, so more power is going to be a requirement....here is our camper, completely redone inside, and left with all its charecter outside. ...I pulled all of the wood out and the skins off and built a full aluminum inner frame, put in a shower, toilet, hidden a/c, sink and fridge. Its tiny, but works perfect for us. I will get around to finishing the exterior trim and scotch brite-ing the outside this upcoming fall. We have been using it for the past 3 years as is...just mainly going to the beach and short drives. I pulled it with my 2006 honda element, while not ideal, the trailer only ways ~1600# before packing it full of my wifes "stuff", lol.
Our two GSD's, Addie (9) and Luna (2), both are from the same family, just a few generations apart..they go everywhere with us daily.
For the power side of things, I was pretty set on the typical LS swap, but being the guy that never wants to take the typical easy path I started searching for Toyota options. Researched the 1FZ-FE's for a while and got a little bit discouraged because of the "unknowns", but after a complete engine, trans and case out of a 94 popped up for sale right in my backyard I decided that I was going to tackle the swap. A quick trip to Cullman Al and I got to meet @Dlathem and picked up the future heart for the project. Without going into full detail, the current plan pull the head and have it gone through, fit studs and a good gasket and get the engine ready for its metamorphosis to an economical, reliable and efficient power maker
. It will probably test my last bit of patience, but we will get it done!The required poser shot of the adventure...lol.
A little background on me, this is my 21st year in the high performance turbocharger business, and before that I worked in the 4wd industry with my father. I have high hopes that we can come up with a solid solution for power and durability out of this platform....I think it is almost a perfect storm for this to happen. Time will tell! I created an instagram account, @wookie_fj60 just for this project, if you are interested in following! As the parts collection builds and the project gets underway I will post up the content here on Mud.
Thanks for looking and sorry for the long rambling post, just a little bit excited to get this all going!
...now back to lurking, lol
Reed
