Hello, This is my first post so bare with me. I got an 89 toyota pickup a few years back. I figured its time to start a build thread on it because i realized im never getting rid of this truck and there's still so many things that I still have planned.

Just to Bring everyone up to speed, I got the truck totaled. After that I bought all new body parts, replaced the body, then did all the body work and painted it. Next i cut all the stock suspension off the vehicle and put 63's in the rear then used the trail gear 4" SAS kit. The next big upgrade was the 2jzge out of an 01 is300. The next plan is to turbo the 2jz and plan to document that whole process on here as i go through the steps.

I will post pictures of the truck as it went through its process from when i got it until now, then update the thread again with my turbo parts list and instillation of that.

 

Here are most of the pics to bring you guys update to date. If there's any questions feel free to ask, I know I covered a lot of ground just through pictures, it's just too long of a time frame.

Edit: I apologize for the bad quality pictures, and for the fact that most of them are sideways?

 

Great build!

 

Finally got around to changing the timing belt and water pump on the 2jz engine. The engine is so tight in there that I had to pull the radiator, and cut the crossmember I order to get at the engine. After all that was out I pulled the crankshaft pulley bolt out. This was literally the tightest bolt I've ever had, bump starting the engine was not cutting it, neither was my air impact. I ended up having to wrap the serpentine belt around its self to keep engine from spinning and use an extremely long pipe. After breaking two breaker bars I finally got it loose.

After it it was all torn down, I just replaced water pump then began reinstalling the timing belt. When I loosened the tensioner it pulled the cams off of TDC so I had to realign it all then went a head and installed the new timing belt. After that I put it all back together, welded in crossmember, filled radiator up then started it. It runs better than before, which surprised me. It took me 30 min and 3 different cycles to get the coolant all the way through the block and have it run at normal operating temperature.

After the the project was done and put back together I had to pull the radiator back out to replace serpantine belt and A pulley bearing because it made a horrible squeaking noise.

Also so moved my o2 sensor from bank 1 sensor 2, to bank 1 sensor 1 in hopes that I don't run so rich all the time.

 

I LOVE this truck! Nice work.

 

Did some more work on the truck this weekend. Pulled the bed off, pulled the tank out, then began heating the frame in preparation for bending the frame back and plating it. I then lifted the back of the truck up with some high-lifts to put some tension of the frame. After i welded the new plates on
the frame I changed out my stock fuel pump for a walbro 255 pump. The next thing I did was install a fuel pressure regulator with a boost reference line to raise fuel pressure under boost. I spliced the hard line underneath my cab, flared the ends of the pipe then slipped the steel braided line over it and put two hose clamps on each end to ensure it wouldn't leak. Then ran some fuel line from the FPR to the tank for the return line. After that was installed I ran the truck to ensure that it wasn't gonna leak, and it worked great. Now I just have to set the fuel pressure after some test runs, then adjust it again when I boost it.

I also installed a water temp sensor in the upper radiator hose.

The last thinf that I was able to do was hook up my GTE ecu to make sure that the engine ran with it. The engine would start up only with the MAF sensor unplugged. I think this is because the maf pin outs changed in 2000, so I'll have to move the pins around on my maf to make it run with the gte maf and not be in limp mode.

The turbo kit will be here Tuesday so after that I hope to jump on installing that!

 

I also test fit my pillar gauges, thought it looked pretty cool and was worth sharing.

 

quite the project! Did you have any issue with overall motor length? Did you just completely swap out the harness, or did you have a donor?

What tranny do you have?

 

Im using cx racing motor mounts so it put the engine in the perfect location, it is a tight fit but everything fits, just barely. Haha. And yeah, I completely swapped the Lexus harness and ignition system into my truck because there was no way around the immobilizer. I might change it back to the Toyota key when I swap the gte ecu in but I'm not sure yet.
Also, I'm using an r150 transmission, it was behind a 3.0 so it's the shorter input Shaffer version, then I got a custom bellhousimg off eBay for running the short shaft r150 behind a jz engine. Then I got a stock is300 flywheel and clutch kit and it all works really well together. Not sure how much power the is300 clutch will hold, but I guess we'll see.

 

Made a lot of progress on the build this weekend. Got the turbo on, oil lines ran, down pipe in place, vacuum lines for fuel pressure regulator, wastegate lines. The oil return line kinda sucked because I had to take the lower oil pan off and drill my pan. The line also sits directly on the manifold so I had to wrap the hose in some heat reflecting material so the tube doesn't melt. I also had to drill and tap my compressor housing for the boost reference on the wastegate. I also got all my gauges hooked up and ready to go. Still have to install intercooler and piping and blow off Valve but hopefully I can get all that done next weekend. I also have to relocate my battery to the bed, so that will be kind of interesting. Here's some pics of the progress.

 

Update. Truck runs good. Pulls about as hard as a stock wrx. Toasted the stock cluth so I had to install a ACT clutch, it's rated for 500 ft lbs of torque so I should be good for awhile. Still stalls at idle due to a super rich air fuel ratio. Hope to get that figured out soon.

 

I appreciate the updates

 

Cool! Quick question, what made you go with the NA IS300 motor? Instead of getting a turbo 2J and going from there? Price?

 

The reason I went with the is300 motor is because I got a rolled is300 for free and decided I was going to use the engine out of it for something productive, haha.

 

That makes complete sense, how long did you wheel/drive it when it was NA? Were you happy with it compared to stock? I'm thinking of an NA 2J for simplicity in my 85

 

It was way better than the 22re. I had it like this for probably 6 months. It went great in most places, although still not a lot of low end torque, but totally still worth it