Wonderin? what engines people have put in their rigs... I have a 2.7 4 cyl. and I am lookin? to put in a engine with more displacement and power... There's no replacement for displacement!!!!! Lookin? for engines that are easy to put in and will give me a little more power since there is not too much you can do to the 2.7 to give you more power.

 

3.4 Swap is common, pretty easy to do. Also seen swapped 350 chevy V8's, 4.3L chevy V6's, and other stuff.

Easiest is swapping in a 4.3L chevy or the yota 3.4L.

 

Yeah those are the ones that i have heard of...

 

you have a 5spd ?

 

Yeah i have a '97 taco with a 2.7 and a 5-speed

 

I would go yota 3.4...

You can draw power out of that thing and it is all yota still...

I was at a junk yard...
and man if i had 1K
I would have had a Taco with a blown 22-RE
(was thinking project truck...)

 

Yeah i got a great deal on mine and i would never go back i had a '92 Runner, but i wanted to switch it up and start over on buildin a rig.

 

what size tires are you running ?

 

If i could have talked the guy down to $500 for it I would have taken it...
It had a manual trans and a t-case that seemd pretty good and all it needed was a motor...
The previous owner already had the bed hurculines and the rear of the rear quatres of the bed on the outside hurnculined, so he did do some off-raoding...

It would have been my project truck, something for the 4Runner to tow around to places of off-roading when it was time (or another reat DD)

I believe that 3.4L engines are easy to find in decent size junkyards

 

right now i am runnin 31x10.5 parnelli jones, but i am lookin to put 33's on it sometime soon

 

what about a diesel swap

 

ooooo drools.... that would be nice!!!

 

What about a 1uz Swap--read a little about it on the 1uz site--> but they dont have very much information on the whats and hows. But none the less

That would be swell!!!!

 

Has anyone done that to a Tacoma before?
Man that would be alot of power for a little truck...

 

the 2.7l motor makes over 1000hp in rado's old celica, toss a turbo on it

 

Ever heard of Lc Engineering they have all sorts of hi-po stuff for 2rz-3rz

 

yeah i have looked at l c engineering, they have some pretty nice mods yet you have to pay the price for them, as for the diesel swap, one they are tough to find and wondering how easy/hard it would be to put it in..

 

http://www.customtacos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79478

On low boost 250rwhp is easily obtainable from a 3rz (6-8psi) and all you have to do internally is swap in a metal head gasket. 3rz's and 5vz's are awesome turbo motors... boost is the displacement replacement...

 

There is a guy named Smitherz on uzswap.com who is performing a 1UZ swap into a 99 taco.


I personally suggest either the 1UZ, 7MG-TE, or 2JZ-TE swaps. Probably not the easiest, but they all produce a crapload of power and are all toyota :-)

 

I will have to go check that out...
Man all that power ina Tacoma...
I can't wait to see that...