1st Gen Mini Truck. "Lowrunner"

Lowrunner86

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Hey there, name is Levi, just seeing if anyone out there has a slammed 1st gen. Im in the Seattle, WA area. Also, gonna be posting the continuing project.

1986 4runner 2wd :banana:
22re block with 20r head
Full Flowmaster
Fuel injected
EGR Delete
Full emissions delete
8gal fuel cell
Indy short shifter
Dropped on 3" blocks and torsion bars
Ultra shocks
Tubbed
Welded Diff
Misc interior add ons
Rolled Fenders
 

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Very nice looking truck, but a sorta different culture here lol. Most of us tend to send our t4r's 3" in the other direction. However I belive there is much we could learn from you, especially how you got those wheels to tuck so far! Can you say ultimate long travel? And do go into more detail on your engine mods! Very nice!
 
22RE block, or early 22R block? There's a difference, and if you put a 20R head on a 22RE block I'd love to see the details.
 
Welcome to the T4R forums, and i haven't seen a slammed 4runner B4 i think it looks really cool and post a hole bunch of pics please.
 
Slammed Hi-Lux and Tacomas are fairly commonplace in SoCal. But I've yet to see a lowered 4Rnr. Cool. Did u remove the front axle or swap frames or ..?
 
Would love to see more pics!

I was under the impression that 2ed 4runners, were still on 4wd frames. Does look like a runner body on a 2wd truck frame.

Whats the point of welding the diff for street use? Drifty drift?
 
Part of me will always love mini trucks; unfortunately, the scene ended way before I started driving. I remember being in middle school and helping out the highschool and college kids with their trucks. Was really nice having those guys around, especially when I was 11-12 years old and just moved to a new neighborhood.

Kinda curious about the welded diff.
 
Okay okay yall caught me its a 4runner a 2wd truck frame! :) ill have more pictures up very soon to show everything about her! I also have another vehicle 3" in the other direction but it is not a 4runner, altho it does have 4 doors and is built for the trails!!

The Lowrunner is my daily and the welded diff is for those drifty situations! We have a couple tracks near the Seattle area. I formed a mini truck group called Seattles Mini Trucks. The welded diff isnt noticeable unless im maxed out turning..............or dumping the clutch :driving:

Made this thread in case anyone searched for a lowered 4runner or body swapped 4 runner and i can assist them a much as i can and just show off a fun project!
 
This is why I love this site. Totally different style than the norm for this site and people are still cool with it. I like it man. Different and to your own taste. Can't wait to see more pictures and write ups of mods done. Cheers
 
I can dig it. I've had my share of mini-trucks back in the day. Matter of fact my first truck was an '85 standard cab shortbed toy that had some 13"knock-offs and a Pro-Hopper hydro setup. Man how times have changed. There are a quite a bunch of slammed 4runner pics in a thread floating around here. I believe it's called like "ugliest 4runners" or something to that nature. Can't wait to see where this build goes.
 
I believe it's called like "ugliest 4runners" or something to that nature.

Haha, yup. There are definitely a fair number of slammed runners in that thread.

To be fair, most of them are hack jobs with some bolt-on chrome and paint, and utterly worthless at anything but being ugly. The OP has a job for his truck to do and his mods are chosen to make it do that job better, so I'm much more ok with it. If his only goal was to see how useless he could make the truck, I'd have a much different response. ;)

I still wanna know more about the 20R head on the 22RE block?
 
Now I'm not saying these trucks are ugly it just happens to be where some people around here thinks pics of those trucks belong. I couldn't agree more with the idea of it's your truck and if you like what you're doing with it then rock on. But I imagine it's just a matter of time before some douchebag will stumble across this thread, copy your pic and put it in that thread. Anyways keep on keepin on and I'd also love to hear more about this head swap
 
Oh man, this is the thread I made a profile for! To ask...did you use a standard cab short bed 2wd frame? This is the only build thread I can find, anywhere...I saw the info on it before (the 1st gen 2wd frame conversion), but I can't remember which frame.

just to be a creeper:kiss:
 
Ok so speaking on lowered 1st gen 4runners, I'll start off with this. Back in early 1993 I had an 89' Toyota SR5 extra cab pick-up(Helux), with a standard sized bed with a Snug-Top Shell Slammed on 14×7 reverse set deep dish KMC Quazars on Fulda 40 series tires. I had been through the Mini truck phase with tilt beds, bed dancing, carpeted bed knits with big sub woofer box, S-10's lowered on Chrome I-Roc Z rims, etc.... and I was wanting something different and I had seen a truck that had been cut out in the center making it a walk through truck. So I did that to my SR5, I had a sub box with 2 15's & 2 12's against the tailgate, a luv seat infront of it, i had a soft top sunroof almost the size of the whole shell in it, one like you would find on a VW Bug or Bus. Loved it but alot of work reinforcing the frame and cab and cutting out the whole center walls. But in 1995 I ended up feeling so dumb when a buddies cousin came down from Washington to vist. We planned on cruising that evening and had a show the next day. So they come over my buddy says come look at his truck. What di you know. A 1st gen 89' 4Runner slammed, same rims, way bigger custom sub box, he's left the shell at my buddies and had thrown on the soft top and frame and rolled up the back window. There it was a Toyota made walk through 2wd Mini truck. I spent 6 months customizing my SR5, my buddies cousin spent a few hours with some friends switching lifted suspension with 2wd pick-up suspension then lowered it from there and another few hours building a custom sub box. Look so custom yet it wasn't. Since I never had thought about slamming a 4Runner, or that they come in 2wd, I had always looked at the tacky black shells as stupid, never wanted a 4Runner so it never occurred to me that I could paint it the same color as the rest of the truck. I felt real dumb at that moment. Since then I look at every vehicle like it has the potential to be slammed. That 89' 4Runner was so nice looking I will probably end up building one for my son now.
 
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