Toyota Put The New Tundra's Troubled Twin-turbo V6 Into A 1985 Land Cruiser For Sema

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The Toyota Land Cruiser is an automotive icon that complete nan people of half a period has built a estimation for having legendary off-road capabilities and desert-crossing dependability. The FJ60 Land Cruiser of nan 1980s was powered by a notoriously bulletproof inline-6, but Toyota conscionable swapped retired that motor for a modern Tundra's recall-plagued twin-turbocharged V6 successful nan brand's latest SEMA Show civilization car, dubbed nan Turbo Trail Cruiser. Admittedly though, contempt nan questionable reliability of nan caller engine, nan Turbo Trail Cruiser is an exceptionally well-done restomod that has astir double nan output of nan FJ60's original inline-6, it looks badass, has a awesome name, and it retains that car's mill 5-speed manual transmission.

Beyond nan motor swap, Toyota besides lifted nan FJ60 1.5 inches, fitted chunky 35-inch tires, reversed its beforehand shackles, and fitted a modern JBL stereo pinch a monolithic touchscreen tablet mounted connected nan dashboard successful nan truck's different original interior. One of nan goals of this task was to clasp nan classical looks of nan 1985 FJ60 while giving it modern powerfulness and drivability, and connected those fronts, it looks to beryllium a smashing success. 

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Despite nan reliability concerns surrounding Toyota's caller i-FORCE V6, it's difficult to reason pinch its 389 horsepower and 479 pounds-feet of torque. The fable of nan Land Cruiser doesn't beryllium because nan motortruck was ever peculiarly powerful aliases fast, truthful dropping this powerfully modern motor nether nan classical hood of a 1985 apt gives nan Turbo Trail Cruiser immoderate important shove.

Toyota says it's connected to nan original doorbell lodging of nan Land Cruiser's mill five-speed manual transmission, which didn't moreover require immoderate further cuts into nan car's firewall. It did, however, require civilization centrifugal mounts and a civilization adapter sheet to mate nan caller motor to that original transmission. The twin-turbocharged V6 now breathes done a civilization exhaust which Toyota says provides "an fierce exhaust note," and it's each kept cool acknowledgment to a caller power exchanger that's wired pinch a civilization wiring harness that should guarantee factory-quality drivability.

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Marty Schwerter, Toyota Motorsports Garage head of operations and nan lead builder of nan Turbo Trail Cruiser task said, "the Turbo Trail Cruiser is astir showing what happens erstwhile Toyota's modern capacity exertion is integrated into 1 of our astir iconic classics. It's a hot-rod attack pinch Toyota DNA — power, drivability, and reliability successful a package that still feels existent to nan original Land Cruiser." Overall, nan astir singular point astir this build is really original nan full point looks; location are nary evident outer cues and minimal interior cues that springiness distant nan twin-turbocharged concealed nether nan classical hood of this restomod.