Long Travel BS Thread

Does anyone know if 08 FJ Doug Thorley headers will fit an 08 Tacoma?

 

Yes

http://urdusa.com/Exhaust-&-Headers...-05+-V6,-FJ-07-09-LONG-TUBE/product_info.html

 

Whoopsies! I meant JBA headers

 

Your still good
http://urdusa.com/Exhaust-&-Headers...oma,-07-09-FJ,03-09-4Runner/product_info.html

 

JBA is shit, get Thorley's

 

Ah, how come? I picked up a set of JBA shorties with ceramic coating for stupid cheap.

 

Side by side comparison is shocking. The coating on the DT's is beautiful, I think JBA is just on the outside and not inside. Thorley's have welds that are grinded and smooth, the JBA's I saw looked like they were booger blasted together by a 3rd grader with a flux welder.

Performance wise I'm sure they are fairly similar.

 

Im thinking about selling my truck to a buddy and buying a 1st Gen or earlier Toyota pick-up that will be parked 95% of the time unless I want to go play in the dirt.

I also want to buy one that is done, preferably caged. However, it still needs to pass smog and be street legal. Yes I want to have it all.

Anybody know of any trucks for sale like this for $15k ish? Ive been all over Race Dezert and RDC but havent found "that deal" just yet.

 

amaes except his isn't cab caged but the bed cage was built for a cab cage to tie right into

 

Sweet truck. What is he asking?

 

Last update in his for sale thread is $15k

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/bu...l-long-travel-supercharged-fully-prepped.html

 

Thanks. It is a sweet truck. My only concern is the smog piece.

 

I'm thinking about selling my DMZ built truck and building up my FJ instead. Upgraded the spindles to Trac Performance spindles with D35 and lower and upper uniballs. $14k

DMZ Tacofest 5 Lug Taco by JawKneeFotografie, on Flickr

Taco at night by JawKneeFotografie, on Flickr

 

I think that truck was built by the Pattel brothers. If so it was registered in SoCal a few years ago. I went on a couple desert runs with that rig, it ripped. Very well sorted back then, and looks like it's just been improved. It's hard to find 4wd desert rigs... I don't understand why everyone doesn't build 4wd's for what we do.

 

Yeah, that was Kevin and Son's old truck.
http://youtu.be/Sq6l01TQ7M8

 

I never really took it out for fast stuff. I did once when I first got it and that was about it. I mainly did 4x4 stuff with it and DD every day. All of the times I took it out were documented in my build thread. It does need a little work if someone is going to take it out hard but I did finish a while back replacing a ton of shit on it. During the winter/spring I drove it from PHX to San Diego area twice and from PHX to Zion, UT also. Its been in snow and above 7,500 ft It doesn't really like being that high but it does okay.

I am selling it because I don't use it and want an FJ Cruiser. I'm not into the desert stuff anymore at all. I haven't been to a race in two years and no real desire to do the fast stuff anymore. I just want a clean MT rig I can go camping with and hold more then one other person in. SDHQ built my dad's FJ perfect and that what I want also. To people that don't know about trucks it just looks stock.

 

Just wondering how that thing does in the open desert? Does the rear suspension keep up with the front or does it buck a lot? Can it keep pace close enough to long travel trucks?

 

The rear of it is really responsive. If he had the ICON air bumps it would be pretty awesome. The rear does keep up with the front well.

Short answer no. It can't keep up with LT trucks. It can keep up with a MT taco pretty well. The problem with the FJs and doing desert stuff is that they have a really short wheelbase and center of gravity is higher so they do buck a bit and can feel like you are going to roll it. We have taken that out pretty fast in the dirt but I wouldn't want to go very fast over a section of whoops in a FJ.

 

Anyone know someone selling some used 2.5x8s for 4wd

 

So my buddy backed out of buying my truck and is planning on building up his 07' Tacoma into a full tilt LT 4x4 monster.

Oh well, It will be a fun build up and at least I can co-dawg his truck it and help fix it when it breaks.