1981 Toyota pickup hotrod

The 1UZFE EGR Delete Kit is available for sale here.
One option for a strut brace is to take it back to the firewall. Whilst you will be creating a rectangle with a strut brace it can still push out of square. If you go back to the firewall with a central mount it add heaps of bend resistance.

On you dash ends I recently did the same with a Nissan Pulsar (Almera) dash into a Suzuki MightyBoy and it was narrowed 150mm (6").

I used an old Pulsar (Almera) dash and cut new ends for the chopped dash form the old one and welded them together with one of those heated wire gizmos.
 


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