1984 Toyota 4Runner SR5

[c0z]

Bought in this condition, with approx 175K, a bad starter, and no compression in one cyl due to a shitty exhaust valve. Still had a lot of fun in the snow though. I was very excited to find a a good deal on a '84 (solid front axle). Has a lot of potential when I can throw some real money at it someday.

Brought it home like this.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/1%20(Medium).JPG

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/2%20(Medium).JPG

It has the pimp SR5 interior, with the off roading gauges, and comfy as hell seats... a shitty pic of it dirty right when I bought it.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/3%20(Medium).JPG


Time to begin upgrades:


http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/4%20(Medium).JPG

The stock fenders and quarter panels were all rusted out and very shitty looking...

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/5%20(Medium).JPG

So I busted out the handy sawzall and created my own new ones.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/6%20(Medium).JPG

I messed around with it quite a bit on the old tired 22r, but [edit: brando] found a deal I couldn't pass up on a '87 with almost 300K on it, and a EFI 22RE with a somewhat recent headgasket/timing chain job that I decided I needed to have for parts. The body looks decent in this pic, but the rear half was full of shitty bondo work and it has the ghey IFS front end. It did have a shitton of parts I kept though including rustfree front fenders, spare doors to make half-doors out of, spare top to cut up and make a soft top out it, spare rear end to weld up into a homemade locker, and it ran absolutely perfect.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/7%20(Medium).JPG

Teh winnar.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/8%20(Medium).JPG

Get outta there biiaaatch

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/10%20(Medium).JPG

Temporary resting place.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/11%20(Medium).JPG

Haggard as **** working conditions in the near dark while striping the rear end/loading it up to take to the scrap metal yard. Started in the daylight, but took a LOT longer than planned as usual...

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/12%20(Medium).JPG

It was definately shitty, and funny as hell at the same time.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/13%20(Medium).JPG

Hoh...

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/15%20(Medium).JPG

Goodbye.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/14%20(Medium).JPG

**** CARBS...the old pos

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/16%20(Medium).JPG

Get outta there biiaaatch....how whody rolls.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/17%20(Medium).JPG

Yeah the RX-7 has been sitting for waaay too long.... :lol:

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/18%20(Medium).JPG

The quality EFI in sitting in it's final resting place.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/19%20(Medium).JPG

Now the real fun begins.... figuring out the haggard wiring situation. Toyota had wiring running the engine come through 3 separate harnesses.... ecu to engine harness, drivers side body harness for the afm/other bs, and passenger side body harness for the engine bay fuse block/power/other bs that runs behind the whole dash and all over. It was a holy ****, and about 50 ft of wiring after all of it was striped...no picture though sorry.


http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/21%20(Medium).JPG

Yes, working conditions continued to decline. Yes that's a lunch cooler that oil was drained into :lol:
Also had to swap out gas tanks/lines, which was a ton of fun.

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/22%20(Medium).JPG

Yay, all done. Ended up just wiring up a standard relay for the fuel pump, so I didn't have to deal with the stock circuit opening relay triggered by the afm which can sometimes be troublesome.... and rewired everything that was in the body harnesses like the afm from scratch so I didn't have to deal with em. Also relocated the ECU to the glovebox, so water rushing in someday doesn't fry it immediately...

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/23%20(Medium).JPG

Quick shitty shot of the bedliner paint job I did. It only has one coat on it thus far, and I really love it. Am going to put at least one more coat on to increase the thickness/durability/texture, as it's the cheap stuff and went on fairly thin.
http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/24%20(Medium).JPG

As it sits now finally topless for the summer.....

http://www.whodyautomotive.com/4Runner/25%20(Large).JPG

[c0z]

Toyota > *

[Kelvin]

thats ****ing awesome

[c0z]

lets ****

[Kelvin]

rofl i just noticed that

[Hibs]

thats ****ing awesome

agreed!

[BOORAH]

HOLY AWESOME.
Im jealous.

[brando1985]

Not gonna lie, i was slightly impressed on how quickly each event of domination led to a clear victory. Looks good, drives good, feels like yer in a rap video when you ride in the back, especially w/ the sub. :lol:

[Yngvar]

thats ****ing awesome

x2

[STOK5OH]

Looks like a bag of ass,I love it.

[SHIFTER]

Sick ass truck...

[matt]

BADASS

[cole]

Sick ass truck...

[Nickels]

bad ****ing ass!! You dont happen to have any solid front axles laying around do you?

[Chevelle7D2]

It is fairly gangster. Whody makes **** happen.:lol:

[Kelvin]

i wanna ride in it

[Kelvin]

after we ride eachother, of course

[Nickels]

Wanna go off-roading sometime? I need new tires, but if its not too muddy out, lets do it!

[82355]

Nice.

Martin

[ali]

Nice.

Martin

[c0z]

Wanna go off-roading sometime? I need new tires, but if its not too muddy out, lets do it!

Yes plz. I need to make some new wheel wells yet before any serious mudding, but i'm down. No spare front axles sorry!

[C.J.]

I hate you

but i love your choices because Toyota is clearly the best 4wd ever.

[Mr. Jeff]

Toyota is clearly the best 4wd ever.

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[Nickels]

Fo sho!!

If i go mudding, i will probably come REALLY close to getting stuck due to my tires being almost bald. But if you ever wanna go climb some hills or some ****, im down.

[Kelvin]

can you climb a wall

[c0z]

no lockers or gears yet so probably not, but i'll most likely try anyway

[Nickels]

If i can get my front tires on it, i can probably climb it. I have bent the bumper, and broke like 3 foglights trying to climb walls, lol.

[C.J.]

mudding is not offroading IMO

its something to do if you want rust.

[Nickels]

Yea, i dont care too much for mudding.

[C.J.]

its fun, but trails and climbing stuff is the best

[c0z]

meh, rock crawling is gay, boring and tedious IMO. I'd much rather be having fun on a trail and bogging through mud.

[Nickels]

I like to go through the mud every now and then, but i like trails and ****

[c0z]

Yeah I like both, I just have never got into strictly rock crawling... I'm all for building a somewhat dedicated trail ride thats still dd'able, but i'd much rather have a fast car before going all out on a rock buggy or something.

[MadmaX]

good work log.:bow1:

[Cotnerdude]

This **** is sweet

[Nickels]

Saw it yesterday.. ****ING SWEET!!!

[Mr. Jeff]

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