1980 toyota need motor info
 

i bought a 80 toyota 4x4 it has the 20r and it started knocking i need to know what motors i can put in it and what motors wouldn't take much mods to do so...

i was thinking about putting the 22r in the truck but then i was thinking about maybe putting the v6 out the newer toyota in there. any ideals ?

my dad said some thing about a stright 6 i belive its the 4me motor would that work?

would the 20r tranny mount to the 4me?

no it will not with out an adapter bellhousing. i sure the heck would not run a 4cyl tranny with anything with that much power. tons of options out there for motors. the 22r (or re) will bolt up to the original 4 speed that came with the 80 or you could upgrade to a 5 speed from a 22r (81-83) that would be the same length so you would be able to keep the factory tranny cross member location.
do some searches you can put a BUNCH of different motors in there with the right combination of motor/tranny/bellhousing conversions. (ex ford/chevy v8s, vw diesels, chevy/buick v6, and this list goes on ........
not 100% but i think the r150 tranny has the same bellhousing pattern as the supra I6 motors.

perfect oppertunity to build a hi-brid engine .. use the 22r block(81-84) and put your 20r head on it .. EVERYTHING will bolt up and you can keep the double roller T/chain .. cam and header ... works very well with this .

I did this years ago .. and was a great engine ..

i'm building a Trekker now , and for this one , I wanted much more HP .. so I went with a 5V-zfe with a supercharger .. it's all custom and lots of work to get it in there , but well worth it in my opinion ..

check out the link in my sig.


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i got the truck and the guy said some thing about it has a 87 5 speed in it.and i found a bottem end a 20r so im just going to rebuild this one for now but i want more power.. some thing more the like 90 thats why i was thinging about the 22r but i also thinging about the v6 out of the 4runner. how much work would it cost to put a v8 or some thing what would i have to do to put it in there?

i have a balanced 20r that will eventually be a 20R-TE with an 83 celica EFI head. lol. my truck was a 22r and 4 spd (all stock for 81) and now it's a 20r with a 5 sp. everything "r" series will have the same bellhousing and mounts (8r, 18r, 18rg, 19r, 20r, 21r, 22r, 22re, 22rec, 22rte, etc.....) and supra turbo trannies are R154's. ;)

if it has an '87 5 speed in the truck it will have had the crossmember modified in some way as the L-series transmissions in the 1st Gens are only 21.25" long, the W-series found in the '87's are 25.5" long or so.

If you go with a Toy V-6, don't even bother with a 3.0, go straight to the 3.4, check out slacker's trekker build thread. It is gonna be a lot of work.