Boy this is hilarious.. I just found this truck in my garage from a previously registered account here on CarDomain.. Six years old this is, and oh boy how my priorities have changed. I added some new pics of the truck since it has changed considerably since then (yes i still have it). It has since had different wheels put on it. It has been lifted (big surprise I know). The motor has been pulled and completely gone through... And last but not least I finally realized the importance of leg room as opposed to a bullshit sound system, so that has all been removed as well. This is actually kinda cool since I have happened to find a whole bunch of old pictures that will timeline the HARD life of this yota, from the original pictures 22,000 miles to the probably 160,000 miles it has on it now. The truck currently runs, but we'll get into my severe fuck up here later on in the sequence.

SIX YEARS AGO:

Here is my 94' Toyota 4x4 regular cab pickup. My system is nothing really special but I think it is good considering the fact that I did the install myself, custom built my own boxes, and amp rack, and above all fit two tens and an amp rack behind the seat of a regular cab Toyota pickup. It is great because it was my first install, and all car audio shops said fiberglass was the only way to do it and even if I did that I would only be able to fit one sub!! I am an 18 year old male, nickname: EasyE , currently in the process of getting MECP certified for full service Car Audio installation. As of right now I have my own personal installation business. Business is GOOD!!
 My system is made up of primarely two 10" Autotek Mean Machine DVC subs, One Autotek Street Machine 800 watt, two channel amp. My boxes are custom made by yours truely using 3/4" MDF, and the amp rack is of some scrap pine flooring. Under my seat is an Xtant 121m amp powering two Polk audio 5 1/4" midrange/high. Bridged with the Polk's are two Clarion 1" dome tweeters, flush mounted to my kick panels. My floor, firewall, door panels, and rear wall are all fully equipped with Dyna-mat. My deck is nothing but a run of the mill $229 Pioneer.
Outside Pic in the rain.
Here is a picture of one of my 2 10" subwoofers. The grill protects the sub from getting destroyed due to the tight fit of the seat.
Here is the other sub. If you can tell I had to take these pics from over the seat, and the room really is very limited!
Here is the pic where you can see the stock location where I stuffed two Polk Audio 5" coaxials. You can see the 1" Clarion dome tweeter surface mounted on my kickboard...
This is a view of the dashboard. The deck is really kinda unnoticable if you take a quick glance. You can also see the cellular Motorola mounted in also.
Here is the amp rack that I built. It is connected to the sub boxes using steel angles, and has a 1/4" thick bathroom style plexiglass on it for a different look. You can not see it from this picture, but there is also a neon light in there on a relay.
That is a very general overview of my system. Please if any body has any comments feel free to email me at eZe59@hotmail.com <<---(NO LONGER IN SERVICE) Thanks

SHORTLY THERE AFTER:

Here the yota has gotten kind of a makeover... After of course the front end was smashed from sliding into a Ford Ranger in the middle of a snow storm.. I wasn't going to pay someone to fix it, and at this point she probably had 60,000 to 70,000 miles on her, so collision insurance was now a thing of the past.. I replaced the front bumper, the lower valence, both fenders, grill, head lights, corner lights... I removed the stripes down the sides, and threw on a nice fake LUND Scoop on the hood... I had the entire truck painted so that everything would match, and threw on a brush guard.

A while later, after much abuse of course.... I snapped both of the rear leaf springs.. So what am I going to do??? I surely cannot replace them with stock springs so that I can break them again.. SO the rear end got lifted.. Not the front of course like any other sane person, just the rear... All that a college kid could afford.. The front did end up getting lifted a few months later, all suspension from
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All was hunky dorey there for several years... Years of HARD abuse and commuting had finally taken its toll..
The Head Gasket decided to head south...

After pulling the motor apart for the first time to change the head gasket, I figured, well.. While I'm at it, I might as well replace a few things that are probably also on their way out at this point, 145,000 miles... So I replaced the timing cover, and did a timing chain kit, replaced all the gaskets, and changed the water pump... cleaned it all up so it looked pretty, and here's what we had.

For the next 15,000 miles or so, I continued beating on it.. Ended up removing the brush guard (after kissing a tree in the woods) and removed the lower valence for better approach angles..

Well all was well for that 15,000 or so miles, until she started pouring smoke like crazy, and lost all power... I was able to limp it home (about 5 miles) but it didn't like it.. This time I knew it was screwed.... soooo I pulled the motor out completely, and towed it (with a Ford Ranger) up to my buddies shop.. I brought the motor home, threw it on a motor stand, and began disassembly.. The oil pan was full of metal.. Did I throw a rod you ask? NO, even better, I ended up blowing a hole the size of a half dollar right through the side of the #2 piston.... The Culprit you ask? Well when I replaced all the front end motor parts and head gasket there was one key component that I overlooked... The oil pump... Apparently the oil pump was shot, and no oil pressure was avail.. The little Yota that could made it 15,000 miles with little to no oil pressure, and then enough was enough... so yes it is true, YOU CAN KILL A TOYOTA!!! I know from experience... Now the truck is 11 years old and motor is SHOT... Do I scrap it? OF COURSE NOT... The block was sent to the machine shop.. it was decked, and bored .40 over... Every single component of the engine was replaced, from the bearings, to the pistons, rings, Water pump, and timing kit (again), OIL PUMP, fuel injectors, and even a shiny new ported / polished race head with oversize stainless steel valves, and a hi-lift cam... this was all looking to good to be true... So it was time to transport the engine to my buddies shop and place it back in the old girl...

After about a day of work, my efforts were starting to take shape...

The motor went in very smoothly considering the fact that now a good 8 months had passed and I really didn't remember how it went back together!! The only stock components left in the little 22re were the block,crank, and rods...... It started up great, and everything was looking good...

Now to our current state of dis-array.... The motor runs great and has loads of power, BUT.... My dumb-ass was in such a rush when the motor started going back together, that I failed to plasti-gauge for the oil clearances, so now it has a god awful KNOCK.. I should of known better, but you live and you learn.. So the truck is currently sitting out in back of my newly built house awaiting the garage to be done so that I can once again replace two components that I should have replaced the first time, The Crank, and the rods...........

Hope you all enjoyed the timeline... I'll keep things updated as the project comes along!!