i got a 95 yota 22re and im really wantn to put 3inches of lift and 33's. but everyone says i want be able to run 65 with 33's. i have a friend that has 94 yota that he flipped and i bought the bed off of him and he told me he would sell me his motor for $500. its a v6 with 160,000 miles on it. it still fires right up. i was thinkiin about getting it but i got to readin on here and well noone has anything good to say about the v6 so i need some opions. should i get the lift, 33's and swapin th v6, or just lift it, 33s, and get a couple mods and keep my 4banger?

 

every one keeps knocking the 3.0, my rig has 255k+ miles, the heads were redone at 70k, and I havent had any problems with the motor yet(other than the dreaded knock sensor circuit), and my truck has been to hell and back several times, and then driven 3-400 miles the next day. Imo.. the 3.0 is every bit as good a motor as the 22re,22r..etc.. Yes its true, when it comes time to work on it for the first time... its a p.i.t.a, but the second time is easier, and no its not a power house, and was never designed to be, it was designed to run, and if you change the oil regularly, and DONT floor it regularly, it will prob run fine, maybe you will get the head gasket prob, maybe not, but the other toyota motors are also prone to issues, and its still a toyota they are much more reliable than any motor I have ever owned!!

 

just regear your axles to 488s and keep the 22re with the gears you should have no problem going over 65mph

 

re gear w/locker and start adding a few power mods it's just never going to be that fast

 

I think everyone knocks it cause the blow the HG and dont get the head resurfaced.
ive never owned a 3.0
so i couldnt tell you the good and the bad
but i have owned a couple 22re's and i love em
I believe if you regear, take the engine and port the heads and bore it out a bit, put a new cam in it and some fuel mods with exhaust mods
youll wake it up quite a bit.

just my couple of pennys and some lint

 

Well ask yourself these questions. When swapping a 3.0, you must also swap the 3.0 tranny right? Wiring, and everything gets complicated.

You should just keep your engine. Maybe get 30'' tires. I have 31''s and I mean they fit nicely, but the gas and power strugge. My tires I can top out about 85-90...

Tires don't mean squat, when compared to other offroad gear like lockers, and solid axles...

 

haha
yet
90 feels so fast in these things

 

i already got 31 10.50s and i can run bout 90 to 95 tops on flat and bout 75-80 uphill if i get a good run and go to the floor haha so my motors in pretty good shape..... i htink im gonn ago with 32 11.50s and call it a day... im gonna order the k&n FIPK kit its supposed to give u 10-15 extra ponies so hopefully itll be alright

 

I have a 3.0 and I love it I have factory 4.56 gears and 33s and it does good for me Im not gonna win any races but I get good gas mileage and she gets me around

 

honestly i would believe all the hype about those k&n

 

HAHAHA! Yeah right! Waste of cash IMO just fab up a cold air intake with some of the ricer crap at autozone and some pvc pipe.. you might get 15 horses if you did that, an exhaust, an electric fan, and a cam..

 

What he said ^^^

 

the fipk is exposed to ad 10-15% not actul hp

 

Back in my MOPAR days, I had a 98 Dakota with a 318 (Don't pound on me, I wised up and bought a Toyota), with that engine I was considering adding the K&N kit to it, but after looking at it closely all I saw was a piece of molded ABS pipe and a couple of brackets. After a trip to the local big box hardware store's (they both sponsor a NASCAR team) I was able to fab one up using plumbing pipe and parts, some random aluminium parts, and a cone style filter sourced from the Internet. I believe that it performed as good or better than the K&N kit, and it sounded like it was going to suck in small animals when I opened the throttle.

I considered building one as soon as I bought the Toyota, but after looking at the AFM decided not to as the whole point is to get rid of obstructions to air flow, and stock, the AFM seems to be the most obstructive part.
Others on this forum have relocated the assembly by swapping it and the battery creating an overall shorter path of airflow, and others still have swapped in a Supra AFM for increased airflow with better filters and larger pipe, but as I have not done either I will let theme comment on the results.

 

i'd gear it, keep the 22re, add a k&n filter and exhaust system, and cam. you'll be more than happy with the outcome of that. plenty of highway speed and more power to boot. that would be much easier on your wallet than the v6 swap. thats a pretty major operation from what i understand. thats just my 2 cents worth, but don't ask for any change back. ha ha

 

^^^ he means gear it after the lift... dont you? just making sure...

 

It took you almost a year to figure that out? Way to bring back the dead! Any chance Steve Irwin is anywhere around? Kurt Cobain? John Belushi?

 

x2.. wtf...

 

hey walkdog, i'd re-gear either way, with or without lift. can't never go wrong with gears. but yes i meant after the lift and tires.

 

I vote regear it in 4.88's or 5.29 if you go to 35" tires or bigger.40 mm Weber carb and a header do wounders same with a cam.
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