Hey guys,
Here's a quick write-up on my '86 mini. I know a lot of yall have some serious mods...bobbed beds, SAS's, ARBs, etc...well this rig is mostly stock as far as serious mods go, so please bear with me
For a little background, the truck was purchased by my neighbor that works for a Toyota dealership who, at the time, restored pickups as a hobby in his spare time. He picked up this truck and did a pretty good job of bringing it back to mint, box-stock condition, and then sold it to my father. He, in turn, give me the truck for my 15th birthday. I then spent my entire first year with it learning how to drive a stick (and drive period) in this truck. It had 157,000 miles on it when we first picked it up, and after 11 years the odometer is about to roll over 300,000. I love this truck, and plan on being it's final owner...she's not going anywhere
Most of what I have done is a lot of restoration, engine performance work, and some awesome body armor. Though my mods may seem subtle to most, I hope some of yall will find interest in the old girl. Here goes...
EXTERIOR / BODY:
-Fresh bodywork and paint, December 2009
-Sixditch Rockcrawling front and rear bumpers, rock sliders, angled bed-mount spare tire carrier
-5000lb receiver hitch built low profile into crawler rear bumper
-Warn M8000 winch; solenoid pack mounted under hood; wireless controller
-Toolbox w/ high-lift jack mounted to back of box
-Line-X spray-in bedliner
-Custom diff breathers (front under hood, rear under toolbox)
-Window tint 20% on door windows; 5% on all others
-Clear corner markers
-Wilson Trucker 2000 CB antenna
-All the tools, chains, straps, or anything else needed for recovery or repair kept in toolbox
POWERTRAIN:
-Cold Air Intake
-Electric Radiator Fan
-22reperformance.com Head:
-Ported / polished / blend work to intake / exhaust pockets
-Ported / polished intake and exhaust journals
-280 duration / .440 lift camshaft
-Titanium Valvespring retainers
-Ferrea 1mm oversize stainless steel valves
-Matched / flowed 200cc injectors
-New high-oil capacity rocker assemblies
-HD OEM timing chain kit w/ steel guides
-New OEM oil and water pump, fuel filter
-New OEM cap / plugs / wires
-All new OEM vacuum and water hoses
-Sandblasted / Powdercoated:
-Valve Cover
-Plenum
-Intake Manifold
-Fuel rails / runners
-Hand cleaned / painted:
-Throttle Body / Water Pump
-Pulleys / Brackets
-Distributor / MAF box
-All other miscellaneous motor accessories
-Rebuilt Power Steering Gearbox; Oil Pan cleaned / resealed
DRIVETRAIN / SUSPENSION:
-33"x10.50 BFG MT KM's on 15"x8" Pacer Soft 8 wheels (soon to be replaced by 33" KM2's)
-4.56 3rd Members; rear V6 3rd
-Trans / T-case from 1993 W56
-Heavy duty front torsion bars, cranked slightly
-Add-a-leafs w/ 2" blocks to level lower rear wheel wells with front
INTERIOR / ELECTRICAL
-Auxiliary reverse lights triggered to reverse lamps and stand-alone switch
-6 Rock / Trail lights underbody
-Seats from 95 SR5 4runner
-Console from '86 4runner; pad reupholstered
-Garmin 260w, hard-mounted to windshield; power cord extended and ran through upholstery to hide wire
-Alpine 200w head unit, iPod cable hardwired and routed to center console
-Alpine 4.5" 3-way speakers in dash
-Alpine 420w, 4ch amp pushing boston acoustic component speakers
-Alpine 400w mono-block pushing JL 10w3V3 subwoofer in box custom built into home-made bench
-Woofer box built into custom bench, fires sideways towards passenger side
-Peaked 20w Cobra 25LTD classic
-Inclinometer from 1988 4Runner
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
-Whelen remote-mount siren, controls installed on center console
-Star mini-phantom red LED lights in windshield (3 units)
-Whelen 180w 8-strobe head control module (2 in front corners, 4 in tail lights)
Pictures don't really show off the strobes that well. I have a video (among many others) on youtube here that does a pretty good job of it...sorry for the song, it was one of my first videos and didn't know I could put in non-WMG-approved songs
I have a few wheeling trips worth of pictures that I need to get uploaded onto here, and will be put up soon...just wanted to get the spec sheet and clean pics up before the new year.
Updates will be made as things get finished with the rig. Let me know what yall think!!
Here's a quick write-up on my '86 mini. I know a lot of yall have some serious mods...bobbed beds, SAS's, ARBs, etc...well this rig is mostly stock as far as serious mods go, so please bear with me
For a little background, the truck was purchased by my neighbor that works for a Toyota dealership who, at the time, restored pickups as a hobby in his spare time. He picked up this truck and did a pretty good job of bringing it back to mint, box-stock condition, and then sold it to my father. He, in turn, give me the truck for my 15th birthday. I then spent my entire first year with it learning how to drive a stick (and drive period) in this truck. It had 157,000 miles on it when we first picked it up, and after 11 years the odometer is about to roll over 300,000. I love this truck, and plan on being it's final owner...she's not going anywhere
Most of what I have done is a lot of restoration, engine performance work, and some awesome body armor. Though my mods may seem subtle to most, I hope some of yall will find interest in the old girl. Here goes...
EXTERIOR / BODY:
-Fresh bodywork and paint, December 2009
-Sixditch Rockcrawling front and rear bumpers, rock sliders, angled bed-mount spare tire carrier
-5000lb receiver hitch built low profile into crawler rear bumper
-Warn M8000 winch; solenoid pack mounted under hood; wireless controller
-Toolbox w/ high-lift jack mounted to back of box
-Line-X spray-in bedliner
-Custom diff breathers (front under hood, rear under toolbox)
-Window tint 20% on door windows; 5% on all others
-Clear corner markers
-Wilson Trucker 2000 CB antenna
-All the tools, chains, straps, or anything else needed for recovery or repair kept in toolbox
POWERTRAIN:
-Cold Air Intake
-Electric Radiator Fan
-22reperformance.com Head:
-Ported / polished / blend work to intake / exhaust pockets
-Ported / polished intake and exhaust journals
-280 duration / .440 lift camshaft
-Titanium Valvespring retainers
-Ferrea 1mm oversize stainless steel valves
-Matched / flowed 200cc injectors
-New high-oil capacity rocker assemblies
-HD OEM timing chain kit w/ steel guides
-New OEM oil and water pump, fuel filter
-New OEM cap / plugs / wires
-All new OEM vacuum and water hoses
-Sandblasted / Powdercoated:
-Valve Cover
-Plenum
-Intake Manifold
-Fuel rails / runners
-Hand cleaned / painted:
-Throttle Body / Water Pump
-Pulleys / Brackets
-Distributor / MAF box
-All other miscellaneous motor accessories
-Rebuilt Power Steering Gearbox; Oil Pan cleaned / resealed
DRIVETRAIN / SUSPENSION:
-33"x10.50 BFG MT KM's on 15"x8" Pacer Soft 8 wheels (soon to be replaced by 33" KM2's)
-4.56 3rd Members; rear V6 3rd
-Trans / T-case from 1993 W56
-Heavy duty front torsion bars, cranked slightly
-Add-a-leafs w/ 2" blocks to level lower rear wheel wells with front
INTERIOR / ELECTRICAL
-Auxiliary reverse lights triggered to reverse lamps and stand-alone switch
-6 Rock / Trail lights underbody
-Seats from 95 SR5 4runner
-Console from '86 4runner; pad reupholstered
-Garmin 260w, hard-mounted to windshield; power cord extended and ran through upholstery to hide wire
-Alpine 200w head unit, iPod cable hardwired and routed to center console
-Alpine 4.5" 3-way speakers in dash
-Alpine 420w, 4ch amp pushing boston acoustic component speakers
-Alpine 400w mono-block pushing JL 10w3V3 subwoofer in box custom built into home-made bench
-Woofer box built into custom bench, fires sideways towards passenger side
-Peaked 20w Cobra 25LTD classic
-Inclinometer from 1988 4Runner
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
-Whelen remote-mount siren, controls installed on center console
-Star mini-phantom red LED lights in windshield (3 units)
-Whelen 180w 8-strobe head control module (2 in front corners, 4 in tail lights)
Pictures don't really show off the strobes that well. I have a video (among many others) on youtube here that does a pretty good job of it...sorry for the song, it was one of my first videos and didn't know I could put in non-WMG-approved songs
I have a few wheeling trips worth of pictures that I need to get uploaded onto here, and will be put up soon...just wanted to get the spec sheet and clean pics up before the new year.
Updates will be made as things get finished with the rig. Let me know what yall think!!
's on me.
