Hey guys, Could anyone suggest a good Toyota performance board? You can flame me if you want but i just picked a nice 1991 2wd Toyota pickup with a 22re engine that i want to do some performance mods on. I have no expirence with this type of project and am looking for a little guidence. I'm not putting a NOS sticker, ground effect or a fart can on this thing. I just want to make it a little faster and corner a little quicker. Its going to be my commuter mobile. Thanks for the help! Gregg
http://www.toyota3tc.com/forum/index.php These guys will know where to send you, they are mostly a lil HEMI group but are knowledgable with most Toyotas.
Used to race Celica's with R-series motors, there's lots of cheap stuff you can do. The '91 will be the low-deck block so you can't use a 20R head on it and even if you could it's a real pain to modify the 20R head to take the 22R-E EFI manifolds. The best way to wake up a 22R is an RV camshaft and a set of 3-2-1 headers. Thorley used to make the best ones but they're gone now. You can find a lot of the stuff on eBay. You can shave the head to bump up the compression but you'll need to run an adjustable cam sprocket to correct the change in the cam timing, it will retard the cam as you remove material. Order an oil pump for a 22R-TE turbocharged motor, came in the trucks in 1985 it will give you a high-volume pump and bolt in place of the stocker. Use an AC oil filter from a chevy for added oil capacity (It's the extra-tall smallblock filter) 22R engines take the same filter as SBC. On the EFI motors, find your coolant temp and intake air temperature sending units (not for the temp gauge, for the EFI) and splice a 2K ohm linear potentiometer into the line (installed in your dash would be best here), start with each pot set at zero and adjust while driving for peak power output. This is a ghetto way of making your EFI adjustable but it works well for almost no money. If you really want to have some fun, here's the recipie: 1981 22R carbureted block 1976 20R head Offenhauser dual-port intake Weber 38/38 DGES carburetor RV Camshaft Tri-Y headers 22R-TE oil pump 22R aluminum rockers 20R double-roller timing chain You should get about 150 hp out of this setup depending on how much you put into it. A set of Weber sidedraughts will bump it up more. That truck should still have torsion bars so you can lower it easily, just back the adjusters off. Put some 2" blocks in the back, Koni shocks and you're done. Good luck. Shawn
The Jalopy Journal
