Then, if that isn’t enough, Toyota even made a far smaller batch of 22R-TE engines that were turbocharged. Really! From ’86 to ’88, Toyota sold 4Runners with turbo gas four-cylinders.

Even though you have to rev the piss out of your rig just to get it rolling, there is an appreciation for the reliability of the Toyota ... 22R from a mild 120hp smog-legal motor to a 340hp race ...

Yet, if we go back a couple of decades to a simpler time, Toyota had already set their reliability standard so high with what is their most famous four-cylinder engine ever made: the 22R-E.

The small-block Chevrolet V-8 is one, as proved by the engine-swap kings of the IROC Maiden Camaro team. The Toyota R is another; while the 20R or 22R can haul 25 AK-brandishing mujahideen up the ...

These 16-valve engines have better cylinder-head flow rates than the 22RE, are small enough to fit in the early Toyota engine bays, and have bellhousings that bolt right up to a G or W Toyota ...