FI is a possibility with an even easier donor: an injected b2200.
I get over 40mpg highway in the turbo MX6. I can't imagine getting less than 30 with an f2t powered b2200.
The carb is gonna make it hard though.
That said, if you're worried about it, i'd just wait it out for a fuel injected truck. This truck is best suited for a project, not as a fuel efficient driver.
Frame rust bugs me. I wouldn't expect getting much over 20 mpg even with EFI.
Just found this while cruising CL.....
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/4523793928.html
$200 '87 b2200 w/ a 5sp tranny
Does Jeff Bezos own one of those?
In reply to mrwillie:
Ohh, it has the coveted manuel transmission!
anyone notice the bizzare shift pattern on the manuel transmission? 1-4-2-5-3-6? WTF mate? or do you have to shift across the top three, then across the bottom?
/troll
-J0N
In reply to EastCoastMojo:
Si Si, Senorita!!
In reply to jmthunderbirdturbo:
Eh, its not far off form some things I've seen. Old and or heavy equipment often use nonstandard patterns e.g M35A2 cargo trucks have 4th and 5th swapped around, on a dogleg 1st pattern.
Some old Ferraris have it mirrored, i.e. 4 speed with the 1/2 gate on the RIGHT.
In a Trabant its a 4 speed on the column, upside down, with Reverse full forward past detent and down, 1st is forward and down.
I kind of have a sick desire to find one with the R2 in it, add boost and run ALLOFIT with it lowered and running milder hyper miler aero just for kicks. It looks like they're a piece of berkeleying cake to lower.
Leafy wrote: I kind of have a sick desire to find one with the R2 in it, add boost and run ALLOFIT with it lowered and running milder hyper miler aero just for kicks. It looks like they're a piece of berkeleying cake to lower.
They are.
To make things better, you can even pretty much bolt on Toyota front suspension stuff for bigger brakes, better suspension choices, and as half of the conversion to a more common bolt pattern. There's no reason for a truck this small to have 6-bolt hubs.
Well, I'm gonna take a chance on this thing. Gonna be picking it up Friday.. let the fun begin.
My dad has an '87 B2200 extended cab since '96 and it has been a phenomenal truck, zero problems, ever. Starts every time, has decent low end torque with the 5 speed, it rides smooth, and has withstood two new drivers and a thousand dump runs. I would buy one in a heartbeat. We have had no rust on it. Fantastic little pickup!
Bump from the dead; How do we feel about rust on these? Is visible rusty and automatic sign of rusted frames? I like the 1993 B2600i below, even if it feels about $1000 overpriced.
https://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/cto/d/hamtramck-mazda-pick-up-for-sale/7700621162.html#
Wow, blast from the past. Funny to see my comment, I don't remember making it. But 10 years later, my dad still has the B2200 and it's still true what I said. Great truck.
I can't comment on rust, as that truck has been in Idaho its whole life.
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