Land Cruiser Walk around: '94 FZJ80 LQ4 budget LS-swap

Lauren of Red Dog Overland LS-swapped her '94 80 in 3 months for $2200!
Here's the build thread:
forum.ih8mud.c...

[@DougQuance]

Lauren is way impressive! I'm blown away!

[@sparkadaus]

Why does he keep interrupting her?

[@TheGreenNewSteal2025]

And here I am all proud of myself for prying my disc brake cover out to release a little rock that was caught and squealing lol. I need to up my game.

[@LTZ_Z71]

Someone needs to marry this one!

[@wade-lc463]

Wow, I really enjoyed the video I think I watched the video 2 or 3 times (a lot of detail in there). It's always nice to see such great creativity! I would love to swap out my 1fzfe one day - kinda slow over the mountain passes :). I really liked the custom swing-out for the 4x4labs rear bumper - Thank you Larry for making the video and thank you Lauren for inspiring a lot of people to be more creative with their projects!

[@larrysbaddecisions49]

I forgot to ask Lauren about the exhaust system. Summit racing headers is all I remember. Also forgot to mention the hub studs. She’s drilled and tapped the hubs for ARB studs, fixing a common 80 weak point.

[@TOPOM42]

Would be great if post a follow up of her own, I am always craving more info on an LS swap since youtube is mechanic lesson outlet.

[@cordcd7]

Awesome! I budget 6 speed swapped my old WRX in a similar fashion. Now my next project will be an LS swap in my 94.

[@tannpants9532]

Very cool Land Cruiser. I suggest letting people finish their sentences without talking over them in your future videos.

[@mellowdave143]

THAT is a great truck. After all that, I want to know about the "Drop in mountain bike" slide out she mentioned right at the end. 2200.00 is a lot less than even a minor rebuild on an old 1FZ, and with MUCH better parts availability post swap. Nice interview man.

[@VainakhQuranites]

Yeah, but reliability goes out the window.

[@carsnstuff6413]

@@VainakhQuranitesHow do you figure that? 6.0 chevy engines are moving plenty of trucks 100’s of thousands of miles every year…..

[@mtallguy]

Wow, she could make a million doing budget switches like that.

[@ElChipper]

You had my interest at “budget”

[@TOPOM42]

You could double her install cost and I'd still say that's cheap. I need friends like hers!

[@jooooohn401]

Saw someone being quoted $7k to replace a blown head gasket on the stock engine. Pretty easy choice to just go LS good lord lol.

[@luiszaragoza3443]

This guy is a horrible interviewer, constantly interrupting and walking away while the person is talking horrible

[@ChaunceyBronson]

This is a great video. Great build. That’s rad.

[@RTLEE1]

Give her chance to respond smh

[@qdusen]

Nice budget build, but I have to call BS on the $2200 swap. The Mark's adapter alone is over $3000. Maybe $2200 for the motor, trans, and such, but it can't include the t-case adapter which should be included when quoting the swap costs.

[@davidhumber4227]

WOW ! Great job !

[@steelesaldutti]

Probably should learn to not constantly interrupt guests as they answer your questions….

[@kenkirkland1762]

is gas miles improved with ls swap?

[@quick906]

Dude let her finish her sentence for the love of God

[@cruisermatt]

😀

[@sparkadaus]

Urr-ray. Not Or-ay

[@jorgecardenas1128]

Ls swap really that simple.

[@marshallborges9606]

Annoying "did you write a check.." questions, man! What are you trying to imply?

[@lwclark]

That she’s a badass and an inspiration. I hope that came across. I can’t remember if this was the first or second time I’d ever done this, so I’m not surprised if some of it was annoying.