What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

how does it make math hard?

 

Got retrofit yesterday! Gonna start in the next couple of days

 

it isn't so much as making math hard, it is that people think the math required to account for ratio changes is hard and is usually criticized as being done wrong and accusations are made regarding the invalidity of the mpg's some people claim.

I, however, firmly believe that mistakes in computing mpg has nothing to do with math being hard but instead that NM has shitty gas and AZ and CO have awesome gas. I get approximately 17mpg at home but when I go on out-of-state road trips it pops back up into the 19-20mpg range.

My last point does not actually follow, logically. I put it out there as a non-sequitur in an attempt to obfuscate and confuse.

 

Actually, the LED bolts were used for the license plate lights. I used a pair of 3/4" amber LEDs that pressed into a 3/4" hole in the front bumper for turn signals. I really didn't like them and were considered a stop-gap until I could do the relocation. While they are legal in NM (visible at 100ft in daylight) I always felt with some motorists' reactions that they weren't obvious.

To this day, I still don't understand why Toyota didn't put the turn signals in the corner lights from the get-go.

 

Took the mudflaps off to see if I liked it. I left them off

 

Stock 4.10 gears or lower?

 

Not in winter.

CO has shitty gas.

 

One does not simply rebuild oem cvs

 

Pound it down first, then, magically, the snap ring will appear.

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/259729-tomtoms-03-trd-xtra-cab-31.html#post7954202

 

lol I averaged about 19mpg in new mexico mostly highway.

I got about 17mpg this winter in ohio 90% highway but it's jumped up to 19mpg now that they switched to summer fuel. I guess ohio and NM have bad gas.

Best I've seen was in Oklahoma, they have tons of ethanol free stations so I got about 21 mpg with that stuff 100% highway.

 

Well, you're better off than NM still. We seem to have shitty gas year round.

 

There are a couple stations in ABQ that serve ethanol free up. They are too out of my way to be useful though.

 

Put the cap back on.

 

Really? Never knew that. I always cringed putting that ethanol crap in my KTM.

 

http://pure-gas.org/?stateprov=NM

 

Flexed its legs almost to the max

 

Stock 4.10s

 

Looking great

 

Well, whatever they were I really liked them. I stumbled across your build AFTER I ordered my Elite and always had the "why didn't I think of that" feeling. I liked how clean, simplistic and elegant they looked...yes elegant. It's not something you see often where I'm at. The corner lights, I agree, should have been toyotas spot from the beginning but it seems they were shying away from the "Norm" with them low and built in the bumper. I can respect the design forethought in that approach.

 

Thank you, kind sir. I always shoot for simple and elegant, part of my mathematics education. I'll have to get pictures done up of how I filled the holes after relocating the blinkers. Almost can't tell that they existed.