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

What size you running? What you run the psi at? I'm running 285 ko2's.

 

I have been eyeballing the STTs quite a bit, actually, so my decision isn't entirely made yet. The MTRs are always a contender. I've heard good and bad about all tires. The KO2s just seemed appealing given their use across the board. I'll be going with steel 17's, just trying to determine what I need for backspacing at the moment. My rig isn't daily driven.

 

I'm goin with like a lot lol I've put a 35x12.5 on my truck up front on a 15 with 3.75 and I could barely turn lol! But I think a 17" 35 is only like 12" wide correct?

 

They are 35x12.5x17. I'm looking at these wheels specifically: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/pcw-98-7983s3-5/overview/
Not a huge fan of Summit due to past ordering issues, but they are the only place I could find 17x9s with 3.5 backspacing. I have spacers right now that I can use if the frame rub is that bad.

 

I'm running 265/75/16, BTW with metric sizes you really need all the numbers to identify the sizes. All 285 tells me is that it is 285mm wide. I run the front at 34psi and the rear at 32psi. How do you like em?

 

Yeah, if it isn't daily driven I think there are much better tire choices out there. Mine is a DD, if it wasn't I'd be thinking STTs or MTR, really want MTRs when I jump up to 33 or 34.

 

I still cant decide if I want to stick with 16in wheels or move to 15in wheels. If I decide to stay with 16in then I will surely do the tundra.

 

Perhaps I will go this route for the time being until I decide whether or not to stick with 16in wheels. Thanks for you input.

 

KO2s are still in consideration. I'll post up once I decide on a tire. I need to figure out a gawt damn wheel first!

 

My bad, they are 285/75/16. Guess most of the first gen guys I talk to running these is the 285/75/16. I really like them so far. I live in the mountains so they see a lot of snow and have performed well. Think I'm going to try them at 34-35 psi. Why do run the rear lower?

 

Really thats surprising. Just to get my 33s to fit i had to trim the seam welds and beat the inner to hell to stop rubbing at full stuff/ and full lock.

 

The front has more weight and they squish down a bit more I run lower pressure to get the same contact patch in the rear, just keeping even wear.

 

I think you'll rub but not too horribly bad!

 

Hopefully wheel bs and spacers can take care of it! And tubbing, of course

 

Yeah but tubbing will probably suck balls lol! How do you tub the wheel wells anyway? BFH lol

 

You don't have to tub the front so much as remove parts of firewall/footwell and sliders to make enough room, there's no way to go further up. The back is as simple as cutting the arch a bit.

 

Cut out what you need to clear the tire, weld in a new piece of metal to fill the hole. BFH was good for 285s, but I'll need more room for the 35s now.

 

Cut a lot and weld

 

Sounds terrible unless you have a plasma cutter and good welder I guess lol

 

I have no plans to do that haha. I'll stick with 285's when the time comes!