What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (48 Viewers)

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Kamzee said:
Almost the weekend. New wheels and tires. These wheels have been sitting in boxes since black friday and it has been killing me. But the time finally arrived.
Method bead grip 702 17x8.5 4.75 back spacing
Method Center cap extensions CP-EXT107s (minor mod to clear the rear)
Spider trax 1.5in wheel spacers
Falken Wildpeak R/t01 35x12.5 r17
Apex RPV (delates 35s from 35 to 18 psi in 5 seconds)

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That’s a big claim on the tire deflate 😳
5 seconds ?
 
Speedytech7 said:
Just the plan in the works for this Land Cruiser, it was my daily for the longest time, then it became a reluctant tow pig, now it is settling into a life of being an impractical classic toy (I mean who buys a 24year old, at the time, SUV to daily drive anyway). My buddy and I run a small shop building and tuning mostly boosted Toyota trucks and decided this would be a fun shop project and a great excuse to give the 80 some love it has been needing anyway. I've got a spare 1FZ stacked in the basement of the shop, a spare trans now, a couple extra engine and transmission wiring harnesses, spare Haltech ECUs from previous projects, and a desperate need to replace my aged exhaust system.

It got a Haltech Elite 2000 to replace the busted ass 93-94 engine controls and eliminate all the need for fragile and expensive maintenance items like the nearly NLA NTK O2 sensors, VAFM, IAC (actually using this still but if it fails I'll put in a conventional rotary solenoid style one), distributor and single coil, resonant style knock sensors. Modernizing makes a huge difference in feel and efficiency for old rigs like this especially when you use the new ECU for trans control too and can now alter shift points and add features like manual mode (paddles). But all that prior work makes it super simple to add forced induction, it's already set up for it and tuning is what we do. So naturally we were looking at the old girl and thought, lets get some schedule bends and TIG up some manifolds for twins.

Plan right now is two PSR GT2871 .72AR Gen2 Ball bearing turbos because they offer housings with both the inlet and outlet as a v-band. Thankfully for packaging sake they come with internal wastegates since it will be hard enough to get the downpipes in place and out of the engine bay without looking like a mess. Have a fairly large water to air intercooler already from another project and a spare heat exchanger as well. It's nothing ground breaking for a 1FZ build really, just a few hundred extra ponies to the wheels and some fun spool noises. But really nothing extravagant unless the hood is open, still want it to appear as a stock looking 93 Land Cruiser outside.
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I am sure you already know but that transmission isn't well known for supporting a boosted 1FZ they have a lot of issues with it in AUS on the Turbo 1FZ Facebook page. I know the engine can handle the boost I would just hate to see you put all that effort into a transmission that cant. The A343 for whatever reason actually seems to take the power a little better....

I just noticed your location, where in Spokane are you? What is your shop? You can shoot me a message if you want.

Ryan.
 
A few things…

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Ecliff5 said:
Replaced my driver side rear door lock actuator with a new aisin unit, cleaned and lubed the moving parts and installed a new vapor barrier with fresh butyl tape. Tested the lock before putting the door back together and it checked out so I put the door back together, closed it. Locked it and unlocked it and the door didn’t open… I forgot to hook up the arm and clip for the outside door handle. Son of a gun! Had to pull the whole door apart again, managed to razor blade the fresh butyl tape and avoided ripping the fresh vapor barrier. Got her all put back together and she works like a charm. Hopefully the passenger side goes smoother.
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Very nice! I need to do the same thing to the same door, had it all apart a few months ago for the window motor and now the lock is sticking in colder weather. Rockauto for the actuator?
 
Speedytech7 said:
I've never seen a 3F block in good condition but most Toyota blocks before they went to aluminum came with the world s***tiest thin coat of black.
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Sounds about right… been wire brushing all the grime and grease off the block and it appears you’re correct about “the thinnest layer of black paint”. lol. I will likely paint the block some rediculous color to stand out in the engine bay. I’m weird that way. Thanks for the info!
 
kangjinsoo said:
Sounds about right… been wire brushing all the grime and grease off the block and it appears you’re correct about “the thinnest layer of black paint”. lol. I will likely paint the block some rediculous color to stand out in the engine bay. I’m weird that way. Thanks for the info!
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No prob, I usually go for something easy to spot leaks on. Last 2RZ we built we did a coat of Battleship grey and it looked super nice. But I've also done purple because why the hell not.
 
TomH said:
Police recovered my Land Cruiser early this morning and now it is back in my possession. A little damage but doesn't appear too bad. Homeless were living in it so I'll need to gut the interior for a deep clean before I put it back into use. Needs a new ignition switch and bracket, one of the flares is scraped up and the exhaust is a lot louder then before. So far that is all I've noticed so I may recover from this one.
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I am so happy for you!! The same thing happened to mine
 
Finished new speaker installation after headunit upgrade

Swapped these poor guys (left) for a set of Focal Flax Evos

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Made some brackets to mount the crossovers inside the standard speaker door opening
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Used these Aussie made door speaker pods from Stealthtech, really nice quality and leather matches up perfectly with the door cards. Also added the factory courtesy lights to them

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Used the tweeter mounts from Solvefunction, cool product with good fitment both for the tweeter and install / cable routing

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Door with the new pods /speakers finally assembled

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Really amazed how nice the system sounds already with them just running off the headunit, want to add an amplifier later if I can find the right sized amp for a good hidden installation somewhere behind the dashboard.
 
HDJ80L said:
Finished new speaker installation after headunit upgrade

Swapped these poor guys (left) for a set of Focal Flax Evos

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Made some brackets to mount the crossovers inside the standard speaker door opening
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Used these Aussie made door speaker pods from Stealthtech, really nice quality and leather matches up perfectly with the door cards. Also added the factory courtesy lights to them

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Used the tweeter mounts from Solvefunction, cool product with good fitment both for the tweeter and install / cable routing

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Door with the new pods /speakers finally assembled

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Really amazed how nice the system sounds already with them just running off the headunit, want to add an amplifier later if I can find the right sized amp for a good hidden installation somewhere behind the dashboard.
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Wow, those speaker pods looking really clean! Easy install?
 
Waiting on parts to get the throttle body functioning properly again.

Desmogged the engine last summer. Truck ran great. But, it developed a rough cold idle and some hesitation on take-off.

Started tracking vacuum leaks and couldn’t find anything at all. So, started going through the FSM and decided to begin at the throttle body to diagnose the rough running.

As soon as I pulled it… found this… crappy caps already cracked…

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Then tested the tps and idle control valve. Both were out of spec… FSM says… “replace”, so new parts and o-ring ordered.

Replacing the tps with oem and the idle control with Aisan.


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I used my Harbor Freight Titanium Portable Paint Booth to paint my wheels flat black with Rustoleum Professional. I know that this paint will fade but I don't have the budget for SteelIt at the moment. I also painted my hubs the same flat black.

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I also installed @Outsane Solvefunction shaky mirror fix brackets and added a set of his No Lost Valve Caps. I've lost so many valve caps over the years that I stopped installing them.

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