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Tore the body apart and found some disturbing news. The floors are gone. It must have happened just this year.
I want to find a rust free or less rusty body to modify.
So the hunt is on for a nicer first gen. Wish me luck as I will be waiting to install the TDI until I get the body situation figured out.
I'm willing to trade a spare straight axle frame for a solid body if anyone has one?


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That blows

The worst part is Malone just contacted me and said my ECU is done and it's on its way.


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So turbos, I said when I go bigger that I will make a custom intake. What's the size I can do without having low rpm lag? Or can I do like a t3 feeding a big t60?
I have done feeder turbo set up before but never on diesel.


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I highly recommend staying VNT first of all. You could certainly do compound or sequential. However, it's worth pointing out that the VNT15 that comes stock on the ALH is 1st gen VNT technology. And the tech has really changed a lot since it was released. In fact, 4th gen VNTs are smaller than ever, while pumping out more power with less lag.

So, if you don't want to get crazy complicated by going twins, I recommend 3rd or 4th gen VNT. The turbo I plan on running is the GTC1549VZ. It comes stock on the 177 hp Cuda, and will easily support 240 hp. Which is very difficult to obtain with the ALH. Users running this turbo report almost zero lag, and full boost at just off idle. Pretty obscene compared to the VNT15. You'll want to be careful, as the ALH doesn't like to be lugged with gobs of power below 1,600 or so rpms.

Keeping an eye on this thread as a friend of mine just had a TDI swapped into a 1961 Ford F100. Has some turbo'ing to do with it but I was very impressed. I have been wondering about this swap from V6 to TDI as I know the V6 is not good on gas. Keep up the posts and hopefully you find a decent solid axle Runner.

Started building motor mounts today.
I'm going to pick up a pickup cab sometime this week just to get the project back moving then when I get time this summer I'll go looking for a rust free 4 runner body and swap that onto it.
Got the frame it's going to be on ready. 5" all spring lift with the back chopped for a fuel cell. Should work with a flatbed until I can find a rust free 4runner or maybe do another full diesel swap and keep the pickup for a beat up trail rig.





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Sounds like it'll look something like this:




Which just so happens to be my favorite vehicle on the internetz

So I picked up a pickup cab so I can have something to play with until I can find a rust free first gen.

Then after some work today I got this sucker on my 4runner frame.



I did have to fab up some body mounts for the rear cab because the 4runner frame has body mounts closer to the front then the pickup frames.


So all said and done it has 5" skyjacker softride lift.
2" body lift.
Sitting on 33" tires now didn't get a picture after I swapped the tires because I was tired!



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I ran into some clearance issues so going to build a custom crossmember and scoot the engine forward about 2"
I'll have a updated video shortly on the wiring and custom harness.




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I know that axles might not be on the front burner but if you want to widen a front axle here is the way to do it. and with our equipment you should have no problem.

Great build.
Widening a front axle the right way. - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum

Already planning it out for later upgrades lol thanks though



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So what is your plan for coating the frame? My son's FLA 4 Runner will need something this Summer. There's a product called Chassis Saver (?) that supposedly works.