well its been a few years since I built myself a Wheeler, my last one for myself was the 87 blue wagon I trimmed all the weight off and added a roll bar cage and a 3" lift, fun car not winter weather friendly, the car before that 3 years ago was the bobbed goldish 91 legacy wagon dual range 8" lift, and Toyota rear axle, well now I'm ready to go a few more steps forward thinking of Toyota IFS 7.5" up front add a second transfer case and run either a yota 8" outback or a second yota IFS outback , 31" pizza cutters , bout 8-9" lift 4 door with a sedan trunk, all weather wheeler , not sure on body a EJ body's nice as it will already have the EJ engine which I want, I found a 96 Legacy sedan last year with slight frontend damage for $400 if I can find another similar deal that would be a good start, I wont need to find a car just yet unless one shows up as Ill spend most the fab time on setting up the suspension and drive components, I want to go with stock Toyota IFS parts make my own a-arms and center the diff , maybe even go Subaru strut up top and modify the Toyota knuckle to except the lower strut 2 bolt mount, so when its done it will have a center frame mounted diff, equal length lengthened CV axles with Toyota locking hubs on all 4 wheels , all components stronger then stock Subaru stuff and many Aftermarket Lockers available with rear unlocking hubs and a second Transfer case to lower gears and raise or leave the engine in its stock location, right now this is just in the idea stage I like to think about and plan for a project before I start buying parts and filling the shop up with stuff, I can also see bobbing and narrowing the body front and rear tell me what you think I want Critique

My brat build is to see the limits of the subaru ifs,if that doesn't work I might try using toyota IFS front and rear with center diffs.So I fully support this idea.At least with toyota ifs it will be strong.

If you made a kit to adapt toyota IFS to a subaru front end I would buy it! 

Found a car a 92 legacy wagon, should pickup this week it's a automatic, still not sure direction will be going with a devorced transfer case , I have a samurai and a 720 Nissan case to choose from not sure the best, I know the Sammy has a lot of aftermarket gears parts available ,

Seeing as sidekicks use macpherson front struts and you can adapt the Toyota ifs axles to those might be a better place to start. Also the t100 axles are 3"s longer then regular pickup or 4Runner axles.

Thinking back to when I was looking this up the other combo that I was wondering if it would work was the newer Subaru front knuckles with bolt in unit bearings, as the sidekick spindle bolts on, if the spindle could be adapted, then struts trailing arms and tie rods could all be reused. Ussuming custom axle shafts where made for Toyota cvs.

 

A lot of good info in this thread.

http://www.yotatech.com/f199/ccraviottos-1987-4runner-long-travel-build-up-thread-223750/index6.html

Thinking back to when I was looking this up the other combo that I was wondering if it would work was the newer Subaru front knuckles with bolt in unit bearings, as the sidekick spindle bolts on, if the spindle could be adapted, then struts trailing arms and tie rods could all be reused. Ussuming custom axle shafts where made for Toyota cvs.

A lot of good info in this thread.

http://www.yotatech.com/f199/ccraviottos-1987-4runner-long-travel-build-up-thread-223750/index6.html

Thanks I looked over that yota tread good stuff,

 

I might do this In stages, I'm pickin up the car this week, it's a automatic, think ill do a quick 8-9" lift figure out the t-case mount get it drivable then look at swapping the axles out, that way I'll have a drivable car instead or a long drawn out project takin up room

Makes sense, can't wait to see what you come up with on that one.

got the car, whats the best way to lock the center diff as Ill be getting the power out the rear shaft ?

With an automatic, Mudrat tried years ago with his Subarubicon rig to just do the Duty C trick, and it was not strong enough to supply all the power out the back.

 

He ended up pulling it apart and welding the clutch packs solid.

heres the car

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and it Begins

 

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Any progress? Seen tons of these builds but never understand exactly how it works since all of the pictures are usually gone!

Any progress? Seen tons of these builds but never understand exactly how it works since all of the pictures are usually gone!

Picked up some parts but haven't begun