Check out what I got for $1000 *huge grin*

1991 Toyota 4x4, 2inch body lift, and a 5vzfe CRATE motor that is most of the way installed and never ran!!!!!!!

 

Nice!

 

wow!!

 

I really don't think it's a never ran crate motor. The junk yard tag on the cover leads me to believe it's a junk yard used motor

 

i thought the same vital, maybe its a crate mot0r with junkyard parts??? either way its a steal out a 1000 bucks!!! lol good luck on the build man

 

Yeah highly unlikely it's a "crate" motor since the 5VZFE longblock ordered from Toyota is around $7k alone. More likely a donor from something else.

But congrats regardeless... it's a great deal.

 

It's a killer deal regaurdless. I just wouldn't believe anything any one says when they are selling something. Pull the plugs and valve cover. That will tell you if if it's " never been ran".

 

What I meant by "crate motor" is it's a low mile motor probably from Japan. Around here we have engine importers.

To clarify, I meant "never ran" in this truck before. Yes it's a used motor, I'm positive on that. More than likely it's a 50k imported from Japan where the smog laws are very strict

Thanks guys

The truck needs a lot of attention and I'm missing quite a few parts including the manifolds and exhaust crossover (I'm considering getting headers and running duel exhaust)

it was missing the MAF and all intake piping.. I got a used Injen cold air intake with MAF on ebay for $50 (the MAF alone costs that much or more)

Interior is in pieces and missing some parts

back window is shattered

tail light and corner light broken

missing drivers side fender

needs new tires too

But overall.. for $1000 I'm quite happy with it Especially since I had just sold my '89 standard cab 22RE 4x4 for $2000 and got what I wanted! (actually I wanted a '99 tacoma.. but this at least has a '99 tacoma motor in it lol)

 

more pics

 

Couple of updates

I got a MAF and a Ingen cold air intake system (my truck was missing all of that, so I went ahead and did the upgrade to the Ingen system)

Got my missing fender at pull and save

Still debating on what to do about the exhaust.. most people who do this swap have the manifolds from both the 5VZ and the 3VZ and can customize them both to work.. I have neither system since the truck didn't come with them.

I'd like the rig up a duel exhaust but I figure that might be a problem since the cat has two O2 sensors on it on the one side.. So I think I might just do a single and either use the stock 5vz exhaust on the passenger side (3vz is on the drivers side) and either cross it over under the truck to the drivers side or maybe re route the whole exhaust on the passenger side. I might be able to find a donor tacoma and just do the entire exhaust the tacoma type. Might be the easiest and cheapest rather than trying to swap sides? Any ideas?