Tacos in St. Louis area

Ye olde Titan swap. Could also straight swap the 5.6L V8.

Would be very cool if the Tundra stuff bolted on to the Tacos..... Hmmm.....

 

In theory the frames should be exactly the same. Mounting points though? Those could be different. Won't know till it's here.

 

@TacomaDad18 you better hurry up. This guy already got his swap done

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/my-engine-swapped-3rd-gen-build-thread.790151/

 

Hurry, nah. I’m in no rush. What would I be in a rush for lol

But that is very nice, and clean. I like it.

 

its almost spring!

 

Calm down son, we haven’t even had second or third winter yet.

 

Spring of 23. It started in late 2021. What’s it matter now lol

 

Folks at the shakedown think you chickened out and gave up

 

Lol. Welp.

It’ll get done. When I receive the parts I’m waiting on.

 

Guy knows what he's doing. Looks like it went pretty straightforward. Said he duramax swapped an 80 series too so, it wasn't his first rodeo.

 

Dude is definitely well put together

 

Don't see a lot of duramax swaps in stuff

 

I could say there are better diesels to choose from out there....

 

Nice to see something different for once though. Every engine swapped wheeler either has a Cummins or a TDI

 

Cummins have their own issues. I do like the R2.8, but that little banger is heavy..nowhere near as heavy as a 4BT though.

 

I just wish we could get some new performance options instead of rehashing the same engines over and over. Toyota...make a successor to the 2JZ already! Chevy...make a better engine than the LS platform. Ford at least came out with the coyote later than both of them! Dodge at least came out with the hemi and hellcat powerplants. I feel like tech gets better but we just rehash the same underpowered engines across the boards. Why isn't anyone pushing the envelope with Power AND MPG. Where's the ambition? Maybe I'm just looking at all these hybrids and turbo'd l4s and wondering why we don't design something better. Instead they make vehicles wider/longer/taller/etc to keep pushing the same MPG numbers under cafe law and never innovate. Our EPA is dumb too with choking the industry as well. Why can you get badass diesel options overseas with way better MPG than anything in the states but somehow they think burning less fuel means more emissions in the long run....

 

I mean the hemi designs came out in the '70s and are nothing exciting. Also you're wanting more power and miles per gallon... Then you complain about the turbo 4s which are exactly what you're asking for, more power and fuel economy so...

Also with Toyota rehashing engines like the 2GR for decades, that thing's been through quite a few iterations and it's one of the most reliable platforms ever built.