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Featured Member February 09 |
"Corax"
Hover over the image for navigation controls to appear. Born and raised in Eastern Pennsylvania, relocated to SE Virginia, moved to Arizona for a few months, then on to several different locales in So Cal Keith has had a chance to sample many different types of offroading in the last few years. During high school Keith spent most weekends on his friend’s pit crew and helping prep the race car. After high school Keith earned an Associates in Automotive Technology and quickly went to work in various dealers, garages and speed shops. Originally a go-fast Honda fan, he got his first ‘Yota after putting his del Sol on its roof and deciding to take a different angle on the question of transportation. The original ’88 pick-up got a full performance build at his hands, including high compression forged aluminum pistons, port and polished head, polished connecting rods, balance/blueprinted engine, 4.88 gears, NWOR rear leafs, 25mm torsion bars, diamond plated flatbed etc. That first ‘Yota got sold for the increased interior room of an ’88 4runner (had to be able to take the puppy with, and the standard cab wouldn’t let that happen), but he knew from previous experience it would have to go fast on road as well as being capable off road. Before it could even be driven, it needed extensive work including a transmission and many other repairs. Within 3 months it was already re-geared. Within 6 months, even though the 250k+ mile 22RE was still running strong, he had collected all the parts necessary to swap in a JDM 7MGE from a Supra.
Keith is now (recently) back in Eastern PA, married for 2 years, and looking to purchase a house with a heated garage.
1988 4Runner
- 3.0L 7MGE Supra engine swap
- recent Port & Polish on the cyl head with ARP head studs used on reassembly
- MSD 6A Ignition and MSD 8mm wires
- 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust
- stainless Flowmaster Delta 50 muffler
- home-fab front bumper
- home-fab rear bumper with receiver
- home-fab lower control arm brace
- home-fab extended rear shackles
- home-fab idler arm brace
- Toyota LSD front differential swap from an '83 Celica Supra
- 4.56:1 V6 center sections front and rear w/ 32x11.5x15 BFG A/T KO tires on alloy rims
- Marlin HD W56 trans
- Hannemann front fenders
- "Turbo Coupe" hood vents
- 110,000 candlepower driving lights
- rear driving lights wired for use as reverse lights
- SR5 gauge cluster (tach, oil press, voltage), added engine vacuum gauge
- Cherokee CM-10+ CB peaked, tuned, and able to transmit on 10M, 11M, 12M bands (CB is 26.965 MHz -> 27.405 MHz, I have 23.815 MHz -> 30.555 MHz)
- Yaesu FT-2800 2meter 65W Ham radio
- '89 Celica All-Trac Turbo seats
- built stout to be able to drive to the trail make it home every time
Garage Thread - *near future mods
- just got a set of OME Dakar rear leafs with a Marlin Crawler U-Bolt flip kit - need shock mounts to weld on the axle yet
- T-100 caliper and rotor brake upgrade (have the calipers, waiting on rotors and pads till I get a 1" MC)
- upgraded headlight harness (already built with dual relays, but not installed yet)
- *not so near future mods (> 3 months)
- modify rear bumper for fold down tire carrier
- NWMP 14 gallon aux fuel tank[/url] (already have the tank, but need to move the spare first)
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