"lonestranger" (lonestranger)
03/11/2014 at 01:00 • Filed to: Archer, land cruiser, jeep
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"lonestranger" (lonestranger)
03/11/2014 at 01:00 • Filed to: Archer, land cruiser, jeep | 2
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No spoilers inside, unless you have absolutely no idea what ISIS has been up to this season, and even then, it's minor.
So, a Toyota J40 Land Cruiser, right? Archer himself even called it a Land Cruiser in the episode, so don't give me any guff. With a Warn XD900oi winch, mud tires that look really familiar to me (can anyone identify them?)...
However, under the hood is a Jeep 4.0 inline six, with the stamped steel valve cover common to later engines (~ '96 or '97+) that replaced the earlier cast aluminum ones. No hoses, either. Probably to make room for all that coke.
Anyway, it's no biggie, and the show still rocks. The fact that the engine (not to mention the vehicle) is recognizable at all is still an impressive amount of detail for an animated show. And it's not as big of an error as !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
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Rainbow
> lonestranger
03/11/2014 at 01:07 |
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Honestly doesn't seem like an implausible swap at all. And is this engine at all smaller than the standard one? If that's the case, I give them MAJOR props for the implication that there was an entire engine swap done just to hold a bit more drugs.
GhostZ
> Rainbow
03/11/2014 at 02:19 |
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FJ40
1997 Wrangler
It's tight either way, but I'd say the wrangler engine takes up more space.
Mattbob
> GhostZ
03/11/2014 at 07:40 |
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I'd say if you got rid of that crazy plumbing, the wrangler might have more space. I've never seen under the hood of a wrangler, but its got way more going on than my XJ.
GRawesome
> lonestranger
03/11/2014 at 12:39 |
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There is a surprisingly large amount of room in the engine bay of an FJ40, I had room for an extra battery. And if you replace that huge air filter with something smaller you could fit a lot of contraband. Not that I know...
But yeah, that is definitely the 4.0 I6 from a Jeep, I'd recognize that valve cover anywhere after looking at one for 13 years.
