Hey I am looking for a little advise. My friend gave me an 88 22re 2wd yota that has a blown motor with efi. I kinda hate butchering it just for the efi but it would be great to have the fuel injection on my truck for offroad purposes. Plus I don't know that'd I'd ever be able to get a title for it. Has anyone here swapped it in. If so, is it that hard to do? Or, should I just throw a Webber on my 4wd and try to get the 2wd on the road. Would a shimmed Webber be almost "stall" proof, or should I just do the EFI????

 

weber is always a good upgrade. however, you can't beat the efi on inclines

the efi setup will take a bit of work and you'll need all the necessary sensors and the ecu. the weber will make things a lot simpler, and probably get you about the same amount of power as a stock efi setup

 

Arnold did an EFI swap, I think he had a Weber before. Might be worth asking him.

 

I have ran every system possable, and the weber, is the biggest pile oc crap (spent big bucks on both 32/23, 38/38 40/40) with a C series offy intake, best thing I ever did was toss the whole crap pile(even after making mods to the carbs and running adj. fuel pressure regualtor)... Yes, if you have a gen 2 body, its a peice of cake...

 

Yup, I did the swap and having a complete donor vehicle will make it an easy swap. Ditto to what crash said. I tried just about everything to get my Weber to run right off road and it still SUCKED.

 

well, sorry you feel that way, i've never had a problem with mine

 

Come follow me around, I will show you the light...

 

 

Ya, the Mike's-got-more-than-4-cylinders light...

 

Heck, I will even be nice and pull a couple spark plug wires....

 

i wanna build a hybrid fuel injection setup for my 20R. i'm thinking about ripping the guts out of an old cavalier or some other gm heap with a 2.0 or 2.2 TBI motor, and mating it to my intake manifold

to control it, i'd build a megasquirt injection system(check google, it's a standalone EFI computer you build yourself). i'm just trying to figure out what i'd need to rip at the junk yard

 

I don't mean to be rude dude, but why waiste any $$$ on that motor? Its junk....

 

not the 20R itself, but a 20R/22R hybrid(i have a 20R head sitting around and a friend will give me an early 22R block). i'm not totally dead set on it yet, i could always wire up a 22RE if i hit a brick wall with this idea

 

I always schooled that 20R's were subrate to a 22R, especially the head. I recall some high school budies putting 22R heads on 20R blocks.

Does this still stand true? Or am I pissing up the wrong tree again?

 

it's the other way around. a 20R head will raise compression and flows better at higher rpms, due to its hemi combustion chambers

 

Thanks Kyle for the correction.

It's not age that hampers my mind, its the abuse. .

 

and i don't know what would be exactly expensive about finding guts out of an older tbi setup in a junkyard/rolled car. i'd say 150 max on all the necessary sensors, throttle body, wiring, and another 150 on parts to build the computer

still, if i can find a 22RE setup for dirt cheap in the future, i'd go for it. nothing better than all toyota

 

I've got a complete late model 22RE EFI intake setup electrical and all sitting around taking up space, not willing to let it go for that little though. How much would you be willing to pay?

 

no money right now...just in the planning stages

for all those 22RE guts, i'd probably be looking in the 500$ market eventually. still, i don't have any cash to do anything yet, it sucks being a broke college student with no job

 

i'm getting interested in the idea of weber fuel injection. apparently they're coming out with a generic kit soon, that will bolt up in the place of a carburetor and will be completely programmable:



if that performs as well on inclines as my weber carb does offroad, i'd be sold on it, provided that it's not too insanely expensive