05+ Tacoma engine swap?

Just curious to see if anyone has ever swapped there 2.7 for another engine and if so what did you replace it with? I recently saw a 95 lifted Tacoma that the owner swapped the 4cyl for a turbo diesel I think from a VW? Anyone seen or herd of this?

 

many people have swapped older truck motots. i have yet to see anyone swap a second gen motor to something else. I have a third gen 4 runner with a 383 v8 i drive on the street and seen some diesel tacos that are older. I know awsumdc is planning on putting the toyota V8 in his SAS second gen code name "The Beast"

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-builds/23170-building-beast.html

 

holy shit batman...... thats badass!!!!

 

I cant believe i forgot about diesel toys... jees and i knew about that regular cab but left it alone cause it was a factory tacoma engine.

 

Thanks for the info. Diesel would be great but very pricey from diesel toys. I know any swap is costly. I had a wrangler that my dad and I put a ls1 in a few years ago and ended up spending about 3800$ more than I had planed. I just wanted to see what others had done in terms of swaps. I was thinking of another GM Ls swap or the 4.7 Toyota v8, however as much as I love my reg cab Tacoma I thinking I may want to get atleast an AC Tacoma for more room as I take lots of road,camping, hunting, fishing trips and have put 140k on my truck in 3.5 years. To many options in my head!

 

LS1 sounds like fun. If it wasnt a complete pain in the ass in my state to smog it i would probably put that in my tacoma

 

4.7 V8.

 

I saw a magazine article a couple years ago with a reg cab prerunner with a ls motor and I believe it had a t56 too.

 

Toyota put a 5.7 v8 in an x runner