can any one give me advise on how to make my 22re a bit more power full. i have pacetter headers,knn performance air filter. and now i just need to get my lc enginering cam in. i have 488 gears and runing 34 inch ltb swampers. i just need to get a little more power to go up some hills in colorado cause it struggles. any suggestions will help. o am almost thinking of turbo charging it. and now im getting a roll cage in it so that is going to make it alot heavier.

 

without a turbo or super charger I think you have as much as you are going to get.

 

what size exhaust are you running?

 

inch and a half

 

Go to 2.25" exhaust and ugrade the throttle body and plenum if it is the old style.
What year 22-re are you running?

 

my truck is a 91 pick up DLX

 

Then you already have the new style plenum and throttle body.

 

maybe upgrade your gears also.

 

ya, 5.29s would give you some more low-end

 

i just re geared it lasy may. and that was lot of money that took me a long time to save. but now i am thinkig of going to a 33 inch tire insted of a 34

 

dual cases, throw that baby in low low and crawl, youll have more than enought power to turn those 34's

 

the 34" ltbs are basically a 33" tall tire. they're one of the few swampers that runs small.

how many miles on your engine? the difference between a fresh rebuild and something with 200k on it is phenominal.

 

You have done just about all you can except forced induction. I would adivse you against getting overly optimistic about a cam. I put a TRD Stage II in my 95 22RE and all it really did was drop my fuel mileage, and gave me a lope at idle that sounded like a SB chev.

IMO, header and exhaust are best. 2.25" will help with low and high rpm. 2.5 is for high rpm only. Intake helps a little. Gears are huge, but you wont notice enough going from 4.88's to 5.29s to justify it.


Switching back to a radial tire would be the best thing you could do. I went from 33 TSL Bias to 35 BFG mud and it felt like I got 50hp...

 

When I swapped in my engbldr cam it was like night and day. Hills I used to creep in 4th I pull strong in 5th. I am very happy with the cam.

 

Really, maybe a TRD Stage II is more than the ECU can handle, despite what toyota says.

What type of mileage do you get with that? How is the bottom end.

 

I get 20-21 mpg and thats around town in the hills of MD and PA. When I go out to the shore I can baby it to around 25 mpg. And she's got pull all the way up the rev range. WAY more than stock.
I did a dyno run just prior to the cam swap. I need to get back to the shop to do a post run, then I'll be able to post numbers for improvement.

 

Very interested in seeing those curves and numbers...

 

fierohink, I am waiting with anxiousness....lets see the dyno